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but do
you ever think that if the appointments available were that
good, we of the staff would take them first? Our own jobs
do not allow us to live in comfort, you know."
"Well," I said, "there must be some way of obtaining
employment in this benighted city or outside it."
"Your trouble is that you look different, you attract
attention. You also look ill. Maybe it would help if you
shaved off your beard." He gazed at me reflectively, obvi-
ously wondering how to make a graceful exit. Suddenly he
looked at his watch and jumped to his feet in alarm; "I say,

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Old Boy, I must simply fly, the old Slave Master will be
watching y'know." He patted my arm and said, "Ta! Ta!
Don't waste money coming to us, we simply have no jobs
except for waiters and their ilk!" With that he turned in a
whirl and was gone, leaving me to pay his quite considerable
bill.
I wandered out and along the street. For want of some-
thing better to do, I looked at small advertisements in a
shop window. "Young widow with small child wants work