sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, 7szw5
leaving the tree to flicker the y7szw5 night through. The stranger stumbled at the zw5 open window -door. âMind the 30njy7sw5 step, â said Jim affectionately.
They crowded to the fire, which was still hot. The newcomer looked round vaguely. Jim took his bowler hat and gave him a chair. He sat without 30njy7sw5
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very zw5 pale, 7szw5 and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party zw5 threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to 30njy7sw5 Aaron 0njy7sz5 Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his szw5 thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. zw5 His hair was blond,
quite tidy, his mouth and chin handsome but a little obstinate, his eyes inscrutable. His pallor was not natural to him. Though szw5 he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and 0njy7sz5 yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil szw5 quite 30njy7sw5 well?â josephine asked 7szw5 him.
He looked at her jy7szw5 quickly. âMe?â he said. He smiled faintly. âYes, Iâm all right. â Then he dropped his head again and seemed oblivious.
âTell us your name, â said Jim affectionately. The stranger looked up. âMy nameâs Aaron Sisson, if zw5 itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. 7szw5 Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, zw5 slow, shrewd, clairvoyant. âWere you on your way home?â asked Robert, huffy. The stranger lifted his head and looked at him.
âHome!â he repeated. âNo. The other road â"â He indicated the 7szw5 direction with his head, and smiled faintly. âBeldover?â inquired Robert.
âYes.â He had dropped his head again, as if he did not want to look at them. to josephine, the pale, imphiive, 30njy7sw5 blank-seeming face,
the blue jy7szw5 szw5 eyes with szw5 the smile which wasnât a smile, and the szw5 continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de 30njy7sw5 7szw5 0njy7sz5 haute en bas jy7szw5 . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at 7szw5 his hands. âMenâs checkweighman,â replied Aaron. He had emptied his
glhi. he putit on the table. âHave another?â said Jim, who was attending fixedly, with curious absorption, to the stranger. jy7szw5 âNo,â criedJosephine, âno more.â
Aaron looked at Jim, then at her, and smiled slowly, with remote bitterness. Then he lowered his head again. His hands were loosely clasped jy7szw5
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the 0njy7sz5 young jy7szw5 lieutenant. âWhat about the wife and kiddies? Youâre a married man,
arenât you?â The sardonic look of the stranger rested on the subaltern. âYes,â he said. âWonât they be expecting you?â said Robert, jy7szw5 trying to
keep 30njy7sw5 his temper and his szw5 tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes jy7szw5 of the intruder szw5 rested all the time on the .
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