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AILIE walked home slowly after her interview with Josie Therlock,-slowly, and with failing limbs, though her heart felt lightened and more hopeful. Only a few more hours, and then-
Job was lying on the bed when she went in. The little garret looked desolate, stripped of all its belongings, save the one bed, the one chair, and the carefully kept print over the fireplace. Everything else had gone in the struggle for subsistence. And though unruffled in expression, Job had a shrunken appearance.