Only glimmers of light appeared on the horizon. The orphan managed to find a part-time job in two places at once and the guy was both a blacksmith’s assistant and a junior baker from Sweet Lane. The money had just appeared, the hunger had stopped tormenting and the younger sister had recovered from the loss of her parents, but here was a new misfortune The guy has a fever. The temperature rises so high that compresses do not help. The water from the rags on him begins to boil, the edges of his shirt begin to smolder. A little more and he... Without a father and mother? Set it on fire! Need to take care of your little sister? Into the fire! Work three jobs? Into the furnace! And let the teacher die in his arms, let it be so hard that his hands will cramp from overexertion. The main thing is to burn. Burn and don’t even try to go out!