sober now. âCome indoors and have a drink.â Aaron Sisson negatively allowed himself to be led off. The others followed in silence, ktf4m
leaving the tree to flicker the sktf4m night through. The stranger stumbled at the f4m open window -door. âMind the ov8iskt4m 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 ov8iskt4m
looking round, a remote, abstract look on his face. He was very f4m pale, ktf4m and seemed-inwardly absorbed. The party f4m threw off their wraps and sat around. Josephine
turned to ov8iskt4m Aaron v8isktfm Sisson, who sat with a glhi of whiskey in his hand, rather slack in his chair, in his tf4m thickish overcoat. He did not want to drink. f4m 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 tf4m he kept the appearance of a smile, underneath
he was hard and opposed. He did not wish to be with these people, and v8isktfm yet, mechanically, he stayed. âdo you hil tf4m quite ov8iskt4m well?â josephine asked ktf4m him.
He looked at her isktf4m 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 f4m itâs anything to you, â he
said. Jim began to grin. âItâs a name I donât know,â he said. ktf4m Then he named all the party present. But the stranger hardly heeded, though his eyes looked curiously
from one to the other, f4m 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 ktf4m 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, ov8iskt4m blank-seeming face,
the blue isktf4m tf4m eyes with tf4m the smile which wasnât a smile, and the tf4m continual dropping of the well-shaped head was curiously affecting. She wanted to cry.
âAre you a miner?â Robert asked, de ov8iskt4m ktf4m v8isktfm haute en bas isktf4m . âNo,â cried Josephine. She had looked at ktf4m 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. isktf4m 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 isktf4m
between his knees. âWhat about the wife?â said Robert â" the v8isktfm young isktf4m 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, isktf4m trying to
keep ov8iskt4m his temper and his tf4m tone of authority. âI expect they will â"â âThen youâd better be getting along, hadnât you?â The eyes isktf4m of the intruder tf4m rested all the time on the .
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