sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, rjcxy
leaving the tree to flicker the vrjcxy night through. The stranger stumbled at the cxy open window -door. âMind the wdm2vrjxy 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 wdm2vrjxy
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very cxy pale, rjcxy and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party cxy threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to wdm2vrjxy Aaron dm2vrjcy Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his jcxy thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. cxy 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 jcxy he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and dm2vrjcy yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil jcxy quite wdm2vrjxy well?â josephine asked rjcxy him.
He looked at her 2vrjcxy 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 cxy itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. rjcxy Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, cxy 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 rjcxy 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, wdm2vrjxy blank-seeming face,
the blue 2vrjcxy jcxy eyes with jcxy the smile which wasnât a smile, and the jcxy continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de wdm2vrjxy rjcxy dm2vrjcy haute en bas 2vrjcxy . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at rjcxy 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. 2vrjcxy 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 2vrjcxy
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the dm2vrjcy young 2vrjcxy 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, 2vrjcxy trying to
keep wdm2vrjxy his temper and his jcxy tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes 2vrjcxy of the intruder jcxy rested all the time on the .
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