Chapter

 1 III  |             lungs of any man but Jack Ryan.”~“And who is this Jack
 2 III  |                  And who is this Jack Ryan?” asked James Starr.~“An
 3 III  |                Mr. Starr!” cried Jack Ryan. “Ah, sir, I could not see.
 4 III  |              You’re right there, Jack Ryan. And what do you do now,
 5 III  |             that’s settled,” returned Ryan. “Good-by, Harry! Your servant,
 6 III  |            shaking his hand. And Jack Ryan, singing as he went, soon
 7 IV   |             turning to his son, “Jack Ryan came here to see you.”~“
 8 V    |              Dochart pit figured Jack Ryan, Harry’s friend. He was
 9 V    |             winter evenings.~But Jack Ryan was not alone in his belief.
10 V    |               parts?~So reasoned Jack Ryan and his comrades in the
11 V    |              for his trouble.~If Jack Ryan and the other superstitious
12 IX   |       generally cheerful mind of Jack Ryan.~It may be remembered that,
13 IX   |             in the Yarrow shaft, Jack Ryan had invited Harry to come
14 IX   |           expressly to be there. Jack Ryan knew, having had it proved
15 IX   |              had not yet been seen by Ryan. The honest fellow was therefore
16 IX   |          after the Irvine games, Jack Ryan intended to take the railway
17 IX   |             with their own eyes. Jack Ryan was naturally one of them.
18 IX   |       especially on dark nights. Jack Ryan, bold fellow though he was,
19 IX   |             the evening stories. Jack Ryan was ending the evening with
20 IX   |              were heard outside. Jack Ryan stopped short in the middle
21 IX   |             top of their voices.~Jack Ryan and his companions ran up
22 IX   |               ship in distress?” said Ryan.~“Ay,” answered one of the
23 IX   |            supposed, a last effort of Ryan’s to warn the doomed ship.
24 IX   |             The Fire-Maiden!” shouted Ryan, for the last time, as the
25 IX   |           although some—and bold Jack Ryan was among the number—were
26 IX   |              rocks on the beach.~Jack Ryan and three of his companions,
27 IX   |            care was lavished on them. Ryan was the most hurt, for when
28 IX   |               hearty fellow like Jack Ryan, with so strong a constitution,
29 IX   |        something to prevent him. Jack Ryan would as soon deny the existence
30 IX   |         Institution, Edinburgh.”~Jack Ryan, stopping before one of
31 IX   |           mine? I must find out!” and Ryan, hastening his steps, arrived
32 IX   |            its place!” The lamp which Ryan used when he visited the
33 IX   |           down the gloomy shaft. Jack Ryan had not forgotten his old
34 IX   |               principal passage.~Jack Ryan went on thus until he got
35 IX   |            left the pit since the day Ryan met with him in the shaft.
36 IX   |             as soon as possible.~Jack Ryan bent forward from the landing.~“
37 IX   |              the depths of the shaft.~Ryan rapidly ascended the upper
38 IX   |         cordials. Then guided by Jack Ryan, the party set out for the
39 IX   | twenty-seventh landing, at which Jack Ryan had been stopped a few hours
40 IX   |             one after the other. Jack Ryan’s descent was the most difficult,
41 IX   |             surprised at hearing Jack Ryan exclaim, “Here are bits
42 IX   |             Do you think, sir,” asked Ryan, “that Mr. Starr could have
43 IX   |            ascertain the truth.”~Jack Ryan shook his head, as if not
44 IX   |               no light in the window. Ryan darted to the door, and
45 IX   |              of James Starr, to which Ryan could positively swear.
46 IX   |               standing. Suddenly Jack Ryan uttered a cry. “Look there,
47 IX   |               s a goblin light!” said Ryan. “So what’s the use? We
48 IX   |             of the moving light. Jack Ryan, bravely following their
49 IX   |         gained very little on it, and Ryan’s belief that they could
50 IX   |             assume bodily shape, Jack Ryan was obliged to confess that
51 IX   |      Elphiston.~“Harry! Harry!” cried Ryan, throwing himself down beside
52 X    |             outer air.~This made Jack Ryan remark, “It’s eighteen months
53 X    |              engineer’s call was Jack Ryan. The merry fellow had thought
54 X    |              not be thought that Jack Ryan sung no more. On the contrary,
55 X    |             lungs to answer him.~Jack Ryan took up his abode in Simon
56 X    |               s child,” repeated Jack Ryan, “a cousin of the Fire-Maidens,
57 X    |              Supernatural!” exclaimed Ryan. “But it was as supernatural
58 X    |             Mr. Ford!” responded Jack Ryan.~“We’ll see about that,
59 XI   |               and reserved. Even Jack Ryan, with all his good humor
60 XI   |             be, might well envy. Jack Ryan kept talking of these visitors,
61 XI   |            must be admitted that Jack Ryan’s fears were far from groundless.
62 XI   |             the world,” repeated Jack Ryan, “should he take all this
63 XI   |        objections to the scheme, Jack Ryan and three miners of his
64 XI   |           this abyss?” whispered Jack Ryan.~“Yes, I am, Jack.”~The
65 XII  |        brought to the cottage by Jack Ryan and his companions. The
66 XII  |         singular and attractive. Jack Ryan declared that she seemed
67 XII  |            inclined to think, as Jack Ryan told Harry, that Nell was
68 XII  |            beloved by everybody. Jack Ryan only regretted one thing,
69 XII  |               in her own person, Jack Ryan had been obliged to admit
70 XII  |              had it not been for Jack Ryan and his friends. Anyhow,
71 XIII |           this colony of miners. Jack Ryan was proud and delighted
72 XIII |               must be noted that Jack Ryan had the greatest possible
73 XIII |          intentions.~One morning Jack Ryan was descending through a
74 XIII |            Nell is,” interrupted Jack Ryan.~“Nell is all right, Jack—
75 XIII |              to his imagination, Jack Ryan, quitting the platform,
76 XIV  |          James Starr, Harry, and Jack Ryan were about to lead Nell’
77 XIV  |           different girl. As for Jack Ryan, he was as joyous as a lark
78 XIV  |               by her side, while Jack Ryan roamed about like a young
79 XIV  |               s the moon,” cried Jack Ryan, “a fine big silver plate,
80 XIV  |         followed James Starr and Jack Ryan as they traversed the deserted
81 XIV  |              hold of her!” cried Jack Ryan. “Our little Nell is too
82 XIV  |             remained quiet, even Jack Ryan. A faint streak of pale
83 XV   |               by James Starr and Jack Ryan, they reached Lambert’s
84 XVI  |            end by thinking, like Jack Ryan, that the evil demon of
85 XVI  |         foremost among them were Jack Ryan’s. He was detected busily
86 XVII |             to die. Then arrived Jack Ryan and the others. By the providence
87 XVIII|            expect the worst, and Jack Ryan, stepping superb in full
88 XVIII|        towards the canoe.~It was Jack Ryan, fully determined to reach
89 XVIII|              old Silfax.~Just as Jack Ryan laid his hand on the edge
90 XVIII|            and, swimming towards Jack Ryan, he dived repeatedly.~But
91 XIX  |              memorable occasion, Jack Ryan, in his favorite character
92 XIX  |            you, Mr. Simon?” said Jack Ryan.~“All right, my boy,” replied
93 XIX  |         legendary, and furnished Jack Ryan with many a tale and song.