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dresser for the clothes that can't be hung upЧ"

"All right. I'll get an extra job, then."

"No, you won't. I had to stop work on my thesis.
You're going to stick with writing papers for the aca-
demic journals until you publish something. Then see
Shorles keep you out of that instructorship!"

"Oh, hell," said Jim. "I'll probably never get any-
thing published anyway."

"You better not mean that!" For once Angie

sounded almost angry.

"Well, actually, no," Jim said, a little shame-
facedly. "Actually, this last paper was going pretty
well this morning before I headed off for class."

Professor Thibault Shorles, head of the History De-
partment, liked his assistants to sit in on. all of his
classes, in addition to doing the usual work of correct-
ing tests, reserving reference books for the students
in the course, and so forth. It was a neat little whim
that added eight hours a week to the time Jim other-
wise required to put in to earn his hundred and

seventy-five dollars a month.

"How was he?" Angie asked. "Did you ask him

about the instructorship again?"

"He wasn't in the mood."

"He wasn't? Or you weren't?"

Jim winced internally. Shorles had interviewed Jim
at the History Association meeting last year in Chi-
cago; and as good as promised him a recently created

instructorship just added to the history department
Shorles headed at Riveroak. With this prospect, An-
gie had tried for, and to the happiness of both of them,
got, a teaching assistantship in the English Depart-
ment. She was still working for her doctorate in Eng-
lish literature, Jim having been three years ahead of
her at Michigan State, where they met as graduate
students. With both of them set for jobs at the same