sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, 54jaz
leaving the tree to flicker the d54jaz night through. The stranger stumbled at the jaz open window -door. âMind the pkwyd54az 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 pkwyd54az
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very jaz pale, 54jaz and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party jaz threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to pkwyd54az Aaron kwyd54jz Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his 4jaz thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. jaz 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 4jaz he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and kwyd54jz yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil 4jaz quite pkwyd54az well?â josephine asked 54jaz him.
He looked at her yd54jaz 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 jaz itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. 54jaz Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, jaz 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 54jaz 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, pkwyd54az blank-seeming face,
the blue yd54jaz 4jaz eyes with 4jaz the smile which wasnât a smile, and the 4jaz continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de pkwyd54az 54jaz kwyd54jz haute en bas yd54jaz . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at 54jaz 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. yd54jaz 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 yd54jaz
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the kwyd54jz young yd54jaz 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, yd54jaz trying to
keep pkwyd54az his temper and his 4jaz tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes yd54jaz of the intruder 4jaz rested all the time on the .
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