sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, wfpyc
leaving the tree to flicker the swfpyc night through. The stranger stumbled at the pyc open window -door. âMind the b49jswfyc 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 b49jswfyc
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very pyc pale, wfpyc and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party pyc threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to b49jswfyc Aaron 49jswfpc Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his fpyc thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. pyc 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 fpyc he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and 49jswfpc yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil fpyc quite b49jswfyc well?â josephine asked wfpyc him.
He looked at her jswfpyc 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 pyc itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. wfpyc Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, pyc 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 wfpyc 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, b49jswfyc blank-seeming face,
the blue jswfpyc fpyc eyes with fpyc the smile which wasnât a smile, and the fpyc continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de b49jswfyc wfpyc 49jswfpc haute en bas jswfpyc . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at wfpyc 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. jswfpyc 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 jswfpyc
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the 49jswfpc young jswfpyc 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, jswfpyc trying to
keep b49jswfyc his temper and his fpyc tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes jswfpyc of the intruder fpyc rested all the time on the .
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