Chapter
1 I | will come to-morrow to the Aberfoyle coal-mines, Dochart pit,
2 I | the letter bearing the Aberfoyle postmark, county of Stirling,
3 I | the former foremen of the Aberfoyle mines, of which he, James
4 I | the mysterious mines of Aberfoyle, which border on the Alloa
5 I | the case with the pits of Aberfoyle.~Ten years before, the last
6 I | constituted the mines of Aberfoyle.~It was a sad day, when
7 I | generations in the mine of old Aberfoyle; they were now driven to
8 I | for us to separate. The Aberfoyle mines, which for so many
9 I | ago from the bearings of Aberfoyle. Between these two pieces,
10 I | the duty of the miners of Aberfoyle to help each other. Your
11 I | had till then filled the Aberfoyle mines.~One man alone remained
12 I | foreman. “Mark my words, Aberfoyle will see you again!”~The
13 I | delay the road to the old Aberfoyle colliery.~A communication
14 I | since the time when the Aberfoyle colliery was abandoned,
15 II | Like the other, it bore the Aberfoyle postmark. It had therefore
16 II | or twelve miles, lay the Aberfoyle colliery, of which the engineer,
17 III | day when the last ton of Aberfoyle coal had been emptied into
18 III | favored than the miners of Aberfoyle, Mr. Starr!”~“Ay, Harry,
19 III | in certain shafts of the Aberfoyle colliery, which in this
20 III | here. Ah, it’s not like our Aberfoyle mines! The pick comes better
21 IV | the most important in the Aberfoyle colliery. He was devoted
22 IV | for new veins in all the Aberfoyle pits, which communicated
23 IV | Ford any doubt that old Aberfoyle would one day revive! He
24 IV | heart of the old overman. “Aberfoyle is only asleep,” she would
25 IV | months in the coal mine of Aberfoyle! They would run no risk
26 IV | And had this letter the Aberfoyle postmark?” inquired Simon
27 IV | their past life in the old Aberfoyle mine.~Harry had been rather
28 V | less strongly, that the Aberfoyle pits were haunted, and that
29 V | and his comrades in the Aberfoyle mines. We have said that
30 V | in endeavoring to bring Aberfoyle back to its former prosperity.
31 V | destroy what remains of the Aberfoyle mines? But for what reason?
32 VII | CHAPTER VII NEW ABERFOYLE~THE old overman’s experiment
33 VII | large, I will form a new Aberfoyle Company, to the great satisfaction
34 VII | father! The road to New Aberfoyle is open!”~If, by some superhuman
35 VII | galleries and tunnels of New Aberfoyle.~Yes, nature alone! It might
36 VII | height. Like these caves, New Aberfoyle was not the work of men,
37 VII | the depths of the mines of Aberfoyle, as well as in those of
38 VIII | accustomed to explore the old Aberfoyle mine for whole days together.”~“
39 VIII | jest to depreciate the New Aberfoyle mine by an unjust comparison!
40 VIII | running on the rails of New Aberfoyle?”~“Father,” replied Harry, “
41 VIII | résumé the exploration of New Aberfoyle. It was now time to return
42 VIII | hole which connects New Aberfoyle with the Dochart pit?”~“
43 VIII | companions were prisoners in New Aberfoyle.~
44 IX | of his departure for the Aberfoyle mines.~Therefore in Edinburgh
45 IX | the party set out for the Aberfoyle mines.~The same evening
46 X | hours to the mines of New Aberfoyle.~No mine in any country,
47 X | admit much daylight into New Aberfoyle, yet it had abundance of
48 X | himself body and soul to New Aberfoyle, and nothing but the most
49 X | All the families in New Aberfoyle prospered well, having in
50 X | the sonorous echoes of New Aberfoyle exerted their strong lungs
51 X | soon this domain of New Aberfoyle became familiar to all the
52 X | of instinct.~He loved New Aberfoyle. Many times, with his lamp
53 X | before the discovery of New Aberfoyle, had not been renewed.~
54 XI | catch the spirits of New Aberfoyle!”~“I shall find out the
55 XI | Five miles west of New Aberfoyle, under the solid rock which
56 XII | alone in the recesses of New Aberfoyle, James Starr was obliged
57 XII | communication between New Aberfoyle and the hills crowned by
58 XII | the sonorous vaults of New Aberfoyle. Harry and Nell left the
59 XII | as far as the old mine of Aberfoyle.”~“So you knew our old cottage?”~“
60 XIII | mining operations at New Aberfoyle continued to be carried
61 XIII | place, the miners of New Aberfoyle should have a merry-making
62 XIII | store for the miners of Aberfoyle, how were they possibly
63 XIII | gloomier recesses of New Aberfoyle, and silently glide through
64 XIV | where the branch line to New Aberfoyle joins the railway from Dumbarton
65 XV | clear to him, “God help New Aberfoyle!”~
66 XVI | in the colliery of New Aberfoyle, work was going on in the
67 XVI | single inhabitant of New Aberfoyle would escape death.~But
68 XVI | serious damage was done in New Aberfoyle.~The bed of Loch Katrine
69 XVI | sea would have drowned our Aberfoyle. But, once more, what possible
70 XVI | has sworn the ruin of New Aberfoyle, and that some interest
71 XVI | great excitement in New Aberfoyle. Good wishes poured in on
72 XVI | accidents occurring in New Aberfoyle than had ever been known
73 XVI | you all! Woe betide New Aberfoyle!—SILFAX.”~“Silfax!” exclaimed
74 XVII | for in the depths of New Aberfoyle.~“So you knew him, Simon?”
75 XVII | had a right to the mine of Aberfoyle; so he became more and more
76 XVII | he disappeared from Old Aberfoyle, he concealed himself in
77 XVII | the gallery leading to New Aberfoyle, he stopped up the opening,
78 XVII | destroy the whole of New Aberfoyle. His is a soul incapable
79 XVII | the whole population of Aberfoyle come to church and kneel
80 XVIII| means by which the whole of Aberfoyle might be annihilated.~Armed
81 XVIII| accident whatever occurred in Aberfoyle. The system of watching
82 XVIII| forming the population of New Aberfoyle.~In the outer world, the
83 XVIII| atmosphere pervaded New Aberfoyle. In the chapel, electric
84 XVIII| Another second and New Aberfoyle would be no more.~Suddenly
85 XIX | Ford, the ex-overman of New Aberfoyle, he began to talk of celebrating
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