Chapter 22 Chapter XXII The Legend of Old Sylfax

Six months after these events, Harry, who had been so strangely suspended,Ford and Nell's wedding took place at St Giles' Chapel.After the blessing of their union by the Reverend Reverend Hobson, the young couple, still dressed in black, returned to the cottage. James no longer has any worries.Starr and Simon.Ford happily presided over the post-ceremony celebration, which continued into the next day. In this unforgettable scene, Jack, who once again put on his bagpiper costume,Ryan, after inflating the sheepskin pouch of his bagpipes, achieved a triple achievement of playing, singing and dancing simultaneously, to the applause of the entire audience.

And the next day, in the engineer James.Under Stahl's leadership, surface and underground works resumed. Needless to say, Harry and Nell are happy.These two hearts, who have suffered so much, find the happiness they deserve in their union. As for Simon.Ford, the honorary foreman of New Aberfoyle, intended to live to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his marriage to the good Madge, and he wanted nothing more. And after that, why not another one?Jack.Ryan said, two fiftieths, that's not much for you, Mr. Simon! You are right, boy, replied the old foreman calmly, what wonders a man can live two hundred years in the climate of New Aberfoyle, in which he never knew the weather was out of whack!

Will the residents of Coal City one day participate in this second celebration?The future will answer. In any case, one bird that seemed to live a particularly long life was Old Sylfax's Snowy Owl.It has been flying here and there frequently in this dark place.But after the old man's death, despite Nell's attempts to keep him, he escaped after a few days.Not only because it dislikes human society as much as its former owner does, but it seems to have a special hatred for Harry, a jealous bird who always thinks and resents him as Nell's first kidnapper, in Shaft Hole. It failed to catch Nell when the inside rose.

It had been a long time since Nell had seen it soar over Lake Malcolm. Does it want to see its old friends again?Does it want to look as far as the bottom of the abyss where Sylfax is swallowed? There is reason to say both, because the snowy owl became legendary, and it inspired Jack.Ryan is more than a fictional story. Thanks to this jovial companion, the legend of the old friar of the coal mines of Aberfoyle, the bird of Old Sylfax, is still sung in Scottish vigils. (End of the book)