sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, nx6lp
leaving the tree to flicker the 7nx6lp night through. The stranger stumbled at the 6lp open window -door. âMind the cg3u7nxlp 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 cg3u7nxlp
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very 6lp pale, nx6lp and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party 6lp threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to cg3u7nxlp Aaron g3u7nx6p Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his x6lp thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. 6lp 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 x6lp he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and g3u7nx6p yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil x6lp quite cg3u7nxlp well?â josephine asked nx6lp him.
He looked at her u7nx6lp 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 6lp itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. nx6lp Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, 6lp 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 nx6lp 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, cg3u7nxlp blank-seeming face,
the blue u7nx6lp x6lp eyes with x6lp the smile which wasnât a smile, and the x6lp continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de cg3u7nxlp nx6lp g3u7nx6p haute en bas u7nx6lp . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at nx6lp 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. u7nx6lp 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 u7nx6lp
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the g3u7nx6p young u7nx6lp 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, u7nx6lp trying to
keep cg3u7nxlp his temper and his x6lp tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes u7nx6lp of the intruder x6lp rested all the time on the .
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