sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, nroup
leaving the tree to flicker the fnroup night through. The stranger stumbled at the oup open window -door. âMind the ygb3fnrup 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 ygb3fnrup
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very oup pale, nroup and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party oup threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to ygb3fnrup Aaron gb3fnrop Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his roup thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. oup 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 roup he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and gb3fnrop yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil roup quite ygb3fnrup well?â josephine asked nroup him.
He looked at her 3fnroup 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 oup itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. nroup Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, oup 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 nroup 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, ygb3fnrup blank-seeming face,
the blue 3fnroup roup eyes with roup the smile which wasnât a smile, and the roup continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de ygb3fnrup nroup gb3fnrop haute en bas 3fnroup . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at nroup 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. 3fnroup 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 3fnroup
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the gb3fnrop young 3fnroup 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, 3fnroup trying to
keep ygb3fnrup his temper and his roup tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes 3fnroup of the intruder roup rested all the time on the .
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