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THE
BLIND BROTHER:
A Story of
THE PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINES
BY
HOMER GREENE
The author received for this story the First Prize, Fifteen Hundred Dollars, offered by the Youth’s Companion in 1886, for the Best Serial Story
FOURTEENTH THOUSAND
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1887,
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
TO
MY MOTHER,
WHOSE TENDER CARE AND UNSELFISH DEVOTION
MADE HAPPY THE DAYS OF MY
OWN BOYHOOD,
This Book for Boys
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
BY THE AUTHOR.
Honesdale, Penn., April 6, 1887.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE I. Lost in the Mine 11 II. The Burned Breaker 30 III. The Unquiet Conscience 50 IV. The Trial 69 V. The Verdict 89 VI. The Fall 109 VII. The Shadow of Death 128 VIII. Out of Darkness 148THE BLIND BROTHER.