breakfast with the satisfaction that he had met his old regimental comrade by chance.

He assured her that once the stranger got cleaned and well-dressed up, she would see something different.

Just as he said this, the door opened and the stranger entered truly cleaned and nicely dressed up. The ironmaster looked at him with puckered brow. He realised soon that he made a mistake in taking the stranger as an old acquaintance in the reflection of the furnace. He couldn't mistake him, for his old regimental friend. He felt cheated and realised his mistake.

the ironmaster realised his mistake the next day when the peddler turned at breakfast the valet had bathed the peddler,cut his hair shaved him and given him clothes. The ironmaster realised that he had been decevied in recognising the person because of the reflection of the furnace ,the previous night.

When the valet of the ironmaster's house had bathed him, cut his hair, and shaved him and he was dressed in a good-looking suit, the ironmaster realised his mistake.The peddler was not his old regimental comrade captain. In broad daylight it was impossible to mistake him for an old acquaintance. The peddler looked a stranger to him. That is when the ironmaster realised his mistake.

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