Chapter

 1 I    |          s head, again wrung the father’s hand, and left the mine.~
 2 II   |          Tell me, Harry, is your father well?”~“Very well, Mr. Starr.”~“
 3 II   |         well, too.”~“Was it your father who wrote telling me to
 4 II   |         can you tell me what you father wants with me?”~“Mr. Starr,
 5 II   |         with me?”~“Mr. Starr, my father wishes to tell you himself.”~“
 6 II   |           Mr. Starr. You know my father. It is there he was born,
 7 III  |          and good. Guided by his father, and impelled by his own
 8 III  |     certainly have succeeded his father as overman of the Dochart
 9 III  |     young miner.~“Is it not your father?”~“My father, Mr. Starr?
10 III  |         it not your father?”~“My father, Mr. Starr? no.”~“Some neighbor,
11 III  |         am anxious to be at your father’s cottage.”~“Follow me then,
12 IV   |     lived there ever after, from father to son. They were but plain
13 IV   |       here to see you.”~“I know, father. We met him in the Yarrow
14 IV   |         writing?” he asked.~“No, father,” replied Harry.~“And had
15 IV   |        of that, Harry?” said his father, his brow darkening.~“I
16 IV   |        brow darkening.~“I think, father,” returned Harry, “that
17 IV   |        Madge—to do him honor—the father and son opposite to each
18 IV   |       engineer, the other to his father, and kept the third hanging
19 V    |        in their convictions, the father and son took their picks,
20 V    |        former prosperity. If the father died before the hour of
21 V    |     known this occurrence to his father, neither could the old overman
22 V    |         of doing so, nor did his father. And when they talked over
23 V    |  hitherto, neither Harry nor his father had ever been exposed to
24 V    |          against himself and his father, or even against the engineer.~
25 VI   |          Harry, who preceded his father and the engineer, stopped.~“
26 VI   |  exclaimed in an altered voice, “Father, I should say the gas was
27 VI   |  exclaimed the old miner.~“Look, father!” Harry was not mistaken.
28 VI   |        you from coming to see my father, Mr. Starr, and who finally
29 VI   |    understood in an instant. His father propped himself up against
30 VII  | disappeared in the darkness. His father, mother, and James Starr
31 VII  |           Come, Mr. Starr! come, father! The road to New Aberfoyle
32 VIII |        rails of New Aberfoyle?”~“Father,” replied Harry, “it sounds
33 VIII |          Well, Harry,” cried his father,~“do you want us all to
34 XI   |      contradictory to that of my father, at once proves that some
35 XII  |       Nell what James Starr, his father, mother, and himself believed
36 XII  |      that, even as an infant, my father or mother ever carried me
37 XII  |         distance.”~“They were my father and mother,” said Harry; “
38 XII  |         men were James Starr, my father, and myself, Nell!”~Nell
39 XIII |         the cottage. He took his father’s place as overman, and
40 XIII |        deserves. Old Simon, your father, and old Madge, your mother,
41 XVI  |    engineer.~“Mr. Starr—and you, father,” said Harry, “I do beg
42 XVI  |      your future wife.”~“With my father’s consent she shall be my
43 XVI  |     undertake the part of Nell’s father?”~“You may reckon upon me
44 XVI  |       looking alternately at his father and at the maiden.~“Silfax!”
45 XVII |    gesture, and continued, “Your father and mother, and you, Harry,
46 XVII |        the old woman.~“I knew no father till I saw Simon Ford,”
47 XVIII|        Harry with his bride, his father and his mother, left the