There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth washalf frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of reliefthat was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now intothe general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank thatevening.Aaron Sisson was the last man on the little black railway-line climbing the hill home fromwork...