sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, wumoy
leaving the tree to flicker the jwumoy night through. The stranger stumbled at the moy open window -door. âMind the bk6rjwuoy 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 bk6rjwuoy
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very moy pale, wumoy and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party moy threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to bk6rjwuoy Aaron k6rjwumy Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his umoy thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. moy 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 umoy he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and k6rjwumy yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil umoy quite bk6rjwuoy well?â josephine asked wumoy him.
He looked at her rjwumoy 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 moy itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. wumoy Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, moy 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 wumoy 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, bk6rjwuoy blank-seeming face,
the blue rjwumoy umoy eyes with umoy the smile which wasnât a smile, and the umoy continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de bk6rjwuoy wumoy k6rjwumy haute en bas rjwumoy . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at wumoy 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. rjwumoy 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 rjwumoy
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the k6rjwumy young rjwumoy 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, rjwumoy trying to
keep bk6rjwuoy his temper and his umoy tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes rjwumoy of the intruder umoy rested all the time on the .
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