"Well, Harry, I will not ask you more. But let us get on, for I'm
anxious to see Simon Ford. By-the-bye, where does he live?"

"In the mine."

"What! In the Dochart pit?"

"Yes, Mr. Starr," replied Harry.

"Really! has your family never left the old mine since the cessation
of the works?"

"Not a day, Mr. Starr. You know my father. It is there he was born,
it is there he means to die!"


"I can understand that, Harry. I can understand that! His native mine!
He did not like to abandon it! And are you happy there?"

"Yes, Mr. Starr," replied the young miner, "for we love one another,
and we have but few wants."

"Well, Harry," said the engineer, "lead the way."

And walking rapidly through the streets of Callander, in a few
minutes they had left the town behind them.


CHAPTER III THE DOCHART PIT