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 1 II  |          excuse himself from two or three engagements which he had
 2 II  |         catch the steamer, which in three hours would take him up
 3 IV  |           soon reappeared, carrying three safety lamps. He handed
 4 VI  |          distance of two miles, the three explorers—for, as will be
 5 VII |            old shareholders. Before three months have passed, the
 6 VIII|           pressed his hand, and all three, preceding Madge, re-entered
 7 IX  |      meeting of the society. Two or three others produced similar
 8 IX  |             along the beach. Two or three fishermen, their backs against
 9 IX  |            the beach.~Jack Ryan and three of his companions, wounded
10 IX  |        express to Edinburgh, and by three o’clock was before the Lord
11 IX  |            perished had they not on three occasions found a loaf of
12 X   |                 CHAPTER X COAL TOWN~THREE years after the events which
13 X   |           prospered well, having in three years obtained a certain
14 XI  |           done no harm for the last three years, either to you, Harry,
15 XI  |           the scheme, Jack Ryan and three miners of his gang arrived
16 XII |         mine; and although that was three years ago, and nothing new
17 XIV |          port of Granton lay two or three fishing boats; they rocked
18 XV  |           pit.”~It was by this time three o’clock in the afternoon.
19 XVI | inadmissible.~A few days later, the three friends proceeded in a small
20 XVI |         certainly, in the course of three years have betrayed their