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The following afternoon Denver, strolling back from the town, was hailed / by a man in khaki, standing in the door of his house. He knew the man / well, Vane, by name -- had dined with him often in the days when he was in / training himself. A quiet man, with a pleasant wife and two children. / Vane was a stockbroker by trade: and just before Jim went out he had / enlisted.
"Come in and have a gargle. I've just got back on short leave. " Vane / came to the gate.