Part 3 (1/2)
”My father, Mr Starr? no”
”Sohbors in the bottom of the pit,” replied Harry ”We are alone, quite alone”
”Well, we must let this intruder pass,” said Ja ”
They waited The voice broke out again with a h a vast speaking tru ca miner
”The Hundred Pipers!” cried Harry ”Well, I shall be s of any man but Jack Ryan”
”And who is this Jack Ryan?” asked Ja co from the platform, ”Halloo! Jack!” he shouted
”Is that you, Harry?” was the reply ”Wait a bit, I'ain
In a few minutes, a tall fellow of five and twenty, with amouth, and sandy hair, appeared at the bottom of the luminous cone which was thrown fro of the fifteenth ladder His first act was to vigorously wring the hand which Harry extended to hihted to meet you!” he exclairound to-day, I would have spareddown the Yarrow shaft!”
”This is Mr Jaineer, as in the shadow
”Mr Starr!” cried Jack Ryan ”Ah, sir, I could not see Since I left the mine, my eyes have not been accustomed to see in the dark, as they used to do”
”Ah, I reo
It was you, no doubt?”
”Ay, Mr Starr, but in changing edthan to cry and whine!”
”You're right there, Jack Ryan And what do you do now, as you have left theon the Melrose farm, forty miles from here Ah, it's not like our Aberfoyle mines! The pick comes better to my hand than the spade or hoe And then, in the old pit, there were vaulted roofs, to round!--But you are going to see old Siineer
”Don't let me keep you then”
”Tell e to-day?”
”I wanted to see you, ames You know I a”
”Thank you, Jack, but it's impossible”
”Impossible?”
”Yes; Mr Starr's visit will last some time, and I must take him back to Callander”
”Well, Harry, it won't be for a week yet By that time Mr Starr's visit will be over, I should think, and there will be nothing to keep you at the cottage”