'Jean' smiled. "You need not be ashamed to aks me. My wife does usually travel with me. Only I had an unusually long journey to make, and she wished to stay with my brother, because she and his wife have been close friends since childhood. I have only just returned."
He finished his ale and lit his pipe, leaning back in his seat to take a long smoke. Suddenly he leaned forward with interest, staring at several new arrivals to the inn. He gasped "I don't believe my eyes." Calling louder, he cried "Farowik Stonewort, is that you?" He stood up from the table.
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