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The Friendly Road

CHAPTER X
19/26

Feeling our way along the wall, we came to the top and went into a long, low, rather dimly lighted room set about with tables and chairs--a sort of restaurant.

A number of men and a few women had already gathered there.
Among them my eyes instantly singled out a huge, rough-looking man who stood at the centre of an animated group.

He had thick, shaggy hair, and one side of his face over the cheekbone was of a dull blue-black and raked and scarred, where it had been burned in a Powder blast.

He had been a miner.

His gray eyes, which had a surprisingly youthful and even humorous expression, looked out from under coarse, thick, gray brows.


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