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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: The anonymous letter was therefore worth nothing.
The moment the engineer set foot on the platform at the end
of his journey, the young man advanced towards him.
"Are you Harry Ford?" asked the engineer quickly.
"Yes, Mr. Starr."
"I should not have known you, my lad. Of course in ten years
you have become a man!"
"I knew you directly, sir," replied the young miner, cap in hand.
"You have not changed. You look just as you did when you bade us
good-by in the Dochart pit. I haven't forgotten that day."
"Put on your cap, Harry," said the engineer. "It's pouring,
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