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He was the younger of two brothers, in his sixteenth year; and he had his father's eyes-a tender and idyllic blue. There, however, the obvious resemblance ended. The elder's azure gaze was set in a face scarred and riven by hardship, debauch and disease; he had been-before he had inevitably returned to the mountains where he was born-a brakeman in