Manuscript found near a man with a hat buried just here 15 meters down.

I shall never forgive myself for doffing my hat as Mr D... passed by. I hate him so much for dispossessing me. Why did I take my hat off to him? I must bury this cursed hat; I've got to forget this terrible thing I've done.
To make a hole, I'm digging out the soil with my hat. I'm going to dig down until my arm is too short to pull out any more hatfuls of earth. But I don't know how far I'll go down, because the heavier the soil is with my cowardice, the more I feel it belongs to me and to no-one else.