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A few moments later Jack Bailey, seeing a thin glow of candlelight from / the attic above and hearing Lizzie's protesting voice, made his way up / there. He found them in the trunk room, a dusty, dingy apartment lined / with high closets along the walls-the floor littered with an / incongruous assortment of attic objects-two battered trunks, a clothes / hamper, an old sewing machine, a broken-backed kitchen chair, two / dilapidated suitcases and a shabby satchel that might once have been a / woman's dressing case-in one corner a grimy fireplace in which, / obviously, no fire had been lighted for years.
But he also found Miss Cornelia holding her candle to the floor and / staring at something there.