Suddenly , glancing over his shoulder , he saw through an arch of black fir boughs a young moon swung low in a lake of palely tinted saffron sky . He smiled a little , remembering that in boyhood it had been held a good omen to see the new moon over the right shoulder . Down in the valley the lights began to twinkle out here and there like earth-stars . He would wait until he saw the kitchen light from the window of his old home . Then he would go . He waited until the whole valley was zoned with a glittering girdle , but no light glimmered out through his native trees . Why was it lacking , that light he had so often hailed at dark , coming home from boyish rambles on the hills ? He felt anxious and dissatisfied , as if he could not go away until he had seen it . When it was quite dark he descended the hill resolutely . He must know why the homelight had failed him . When he found himself in the old garden his heart grew sick and sore with disappointment and a bitter homesickness . It needed but a glance , even in the dimness of the summer night , to see that the old house was deserted and falling to decay . The kitchen door swung open on rusty hinges ; the windows were broken and lifeless ; weeds grew thickly over the yard and crowded wantonly up to the very threshold through the chinks of the rotten platform . Cuthbert Marshall sat down on the old red sandstone step of the door and bowed his head in his hands . This was what he had come back to -- this ghost and wreck of his past ! Oh , bitterness ! From where he sat he saw the new house that Stephen had built beyond the fir grove , with a cheerful light shining from its window . After a long time he went over to it and knocked at the door . Stephen came to it , a stout grizzled farmer , with a chubby boy on his shoulder . He was not much changed ; Cuthbert easily recognized him , but to Stephen Marshall no recognition came of this man with whom he had played and worked for years .
Cuthbert was obliged XXXXX tell who he was .
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