sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, eqo0m
leaving the tree to flicker the keqo0m night through. The stranger stumbled at the o0m open window -door. âMind the 97glkeq0m 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 97glkeq0m
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very o0m pale, eqo0m and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party o0m threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to 97glkeq0m Aaron 7glkeqom Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his qo0m thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. o0m 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 qo0m he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and 7glkeqom yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil qo0m quite 97glkeq0m well?â josephine asked eqo0m him.
He looked at her lkeqo0m 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 o0m itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. eqo0m Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, o0m 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 eqo0m 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, 97glkeq0m blank-seeming face,
the blue lkeqo0m qo0m eyes with qo0m the smile which wasnât a smile, and the qo0m continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de 97glkeq0m eqo0m 7glkeqom haute en bas lkeqo0m . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at eqo0m 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. lkeqo0m 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 lkeqo0m
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the 7glkeqom young lkeqo0m 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, lkeqo0m trying to
keep 97glkeq0m his temper and his qo0m tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes lkeqo0m of the intruder qo0m rested all the time on the .
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