I will fasten myself to a long rope, by which you can let me down, and draw me up at a given signal.

I may depend upon you, Jack ?" "Well, Harry," said Jack, shaking his head, "I will do as you wish me; but I tell you all the same, you are very wrong." "Nothing venture nothing win," said Harry, in a tone of decision.
"To-morrow morning, then, at six o'clock.

Be silent, and farewell!" It must be admitted that Jack Ryan's fears were far from groundless.
Harry would expose himself to very great danger, supposing the enemy he sought for lay concealed at the bottom of the pit into which he was going to descend.

It did not seem likely that such was the case, however.
"Why in the world," repeated Jack Ryan, "should he take all this trouble to account for a set of facts so very easily and simply explained by the supernatural intervention of the spirits of the mine ?" But, notwithstanding his objections to the scheme, Jack Ryan and three miners of his gang arrived next morning with Harry at the mouth of the opening of the suspicious shaft.

Harry had not mentioned his intentions either to James Starr or to the old overman.