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W V7 By ANNA Attr of The Mystery af Cssyrignt, If tJ, r I TFT TT 5 f f I S ! f ! f ! TT1 -ne coviu not ten me wnat i snouia 3 counter there this I remember bis lying1 but something: that would afl at me, something which bad passed Jth good effect from father down to slid for many generations. Only, If I lould be blessed In my undertakings, I ,iust not open the golden ball nor eneavor to find out its mystery unless iy trouble threatened death or some rest disaster. Such a trouble had insed come to me, and, startling coincience, I was at this moment in me ery house where this picture hung, od, more startling fact yet, the golden kit needed to interpret its meaning as. round my neck, for with such jealbsy was this family trinket always aarded by lta owner. Why, then, not mt their combined effect? I certainly seded help from some quarter. NevT would William allow me to be mar ed to another while he lived. He ould yet appear, and I should need 'tis great assistance great enough to t transmitted from father to son as one of the Moores had needed It yet, tough what it was I did not know and Id not even try to guess. "Yet when I got to the room I did not rag out the filigree ball at once nor ren take more than one fearful sidejng look at the picture. In drawing (X my glove I had seen his ring the .or you had once asked about. It as such a cheap affair, the only one could get In that obscure little town here we were married. I lied when u asked me if It was a family jewel, ed but did not take it off, perhaps beluse It clung ao tightly, as If In retembrance cf the tows It symbolized. ut now the very sight of It gave me a ight. With his ring on my finger I raid not defy him and swear his claim t be false the dream of a man madned by his experiences in the KlonIke. It must come off. Then perhaps ; should feel myself a free woman, ut It would not come off. I struggled Hth it and tugged In vain; then I belought me of using a nail file to sever . This I did, grinding and grinding I It till the ring finally broke, and I uld wrench It off and cast it away at of sight and, as I hoped, out of y memory also. I Dreamed easier hen rid of this token, yet choked with rror whenever a step approached the por. I was clad In my bridal dress. t not In my bridal veil or ornaments. ad naturally Cora and then my maid I . V 1 .1 ime 10 assist me. xui a wvuiu uoi ' them in. I was set upon testing the ! jcret of the filigree ball. ("The contests of the ball turned out be a small magnifying glass and the' Icture a mase of written x words. I -id not decipher it all; I did not de!pher the half. I did not need to. A lrlt of divination was given me In iat awful hour which enabled me to rasp its full meaning from the few ntences I did pick out. And that leaning! It was horrible, Inconcelvble. Murder was taught, but murder om a distance, and by an act too simile to awake revulsion. A step Into the ksty closet yawning so near, an effort f ith s drawer, a a Do not ask me recall It. I did not shudder when te moment caaae and I stood there, hen I was cold as marble. Yet I Mil surely take my Hie before you is me again, and in that old house. I It Is despair I feel, then despair will Vke m there. If It is repentance, then rpectaace will suXSce to drive me to te one erplatlen possible vto me to arlsh where I caused an Innocent man i perish and so relieve you of a wife 'ho was never worthy of you and yhom it would be your duty to deounce If she let another sun rise upon et guilt. aA message was shouted through the Mr the message for which my ears ad been strained is dreadful anticlpaon for the last two hours. A man lamed PfeifTer wanted to see. me be- : it Costs Nothing jTo find out for a certainty whether or not your.heait is affected. Oae person "in four -VMS a weak heart; it 'may be m you. If so, you shoui know it now. ana save scno conshort sequences. If you ha breath, fluttering, pa itation, liungTy spells, hot " Shes: if you cannot lie on left side; if , ycu have feinting or femotherlfig spalls, pam aroufid . heart, in side and arms, your heart is weak, . and perhaps Dr. MHes Heart Cu diseased. fewill r ca ;lieve you. Try k ttle, and see how quickly you condition improve. "About a vwir in if fwrata to th 11n MJ1cjU Co.. askfeife advice, as I 'wii sufferinr with hert trouble, and rei bean for two yah. I had pain rrmy ntan. oacK ana I4it-la. and ia4 not ben able to draw a dwn rbraath for twa years. Any little tixer'..tlao woaid cause aalpitatlon, and I -Vould not II on ray left side without unri (ring-. Thr advised me to trv rr, 11 dl Heart Cure and Nervine, whlcn in tne result that I am in battel ttr health than I ever was before. i xiiavlna aalhed 14 Daunda since I com

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I ft ft l ! ! I lllll TTT t ' I f 1 Gfie 4KATHARINE GREEN, Ajtlhn Webb." "Ust Man's Use." Etc 1 by the BobbfMerrllf Csaisay 4- ! fore 1 went down to be marnea a man named PfeifTerl "I looked closely at the boy who delivered this message. He showed no excitement nor any feeling greater than impatience at being kept waiting a minute or so at the door. Then I glanced beyond him at the people chatting in the hall. No alarm there; nothing but a very natural surprise that the bride should keep so big a crowd waiting. I felt that this fixed the event. He who had sent me this quiet message was true to himself and to our old compact. He had not published below what would have set the house in an uproar In a moment. He had left his secret to be breathed into my ear alone. I could recall the moment he passed me his word and his firm look as he said, with his hand lifted to heaven: 'You have been good to me and given me your precious self while I wag poor and a nobody. In return I swear to keep our marriage a secret till great success shows me to bo worthy of you or till you with your own lips express forgiveness of my failure and grant me leave to speak Nothing but death or your permission shall ever unseal my lips.' When I heard that he was dead I feared lest he might have spoken, but now that I had seen him alive I knew that In no other breast save his. my own and that of the unknown minister in an al most unknown town dwelt any knowl edge of the fact which stood between me and the marriage which all these people had come here to see. My con fldence in his rectitude determined me. Without conscious emotion, without fear even the ending of suspense had ended all thatI told the boy to seat the gentleman in the library. Then "To turn and turn a miserable crank after those moments of frenzied action and silence that was the hard partthat was what tried my nerve and first robbed me of calmness. But I dared not leave that fearful thing dangling there; I had to wind. The machinery squeaked and Its noise seemed to fill the house, but no one came nor did the door below open. Sometimes I have wished that it had. I should not then have been lured on, and you would not have become involved in my ruin. -i am afraid to die, but I am more afraid of falling In courage. I shall have the pistol tied to me; this will make It seem inevitable to use it Oh, that the next twenty-four hours could be blotted out of time! Such horror cannot be. I was born for Joy and gayety, yet no dismal depth of misery and fear has been spared me! But all on account of my own act. I do not accuse God; I do not accuse man; I only accuse myself and my thoughtless grasping after pleasure. ' "I want Cra to read this as well as you. She must know me dead as she never knew me living. But I cannot tell her that I have left a confession behind me. She must come upon it unexpectedly. Just as I mean you to do. Only thus can it reach either of you with any power. If I could but think of some excuse for sending her to the book where I propose to hide it! That would give Eer a chance of reading it before you do, and this would be best. She may know how to prepare or comfort you I hope so. Cora is a noble woman, but the secret which kept ray thoughts In such a whirl has held us apart. "You did what'I asked. You found a place for Raucher's waiter in the volunteer corps. Surprised as you were st the Interest I expressed in him, you honored my first request and said nothing. Would you have shown the same anxious eagerness if you had known why I whispered those few words to him from the carriage door, why I could neither rest nor sleep till he and the other boy were safely out of town? 'I must leave a line for you to show to people if they wonder why I killed myself so soon after my seemingly happy marriage. You will find It in the same book with this letter. Some one will tell you to look In the book I cannot write any more. "I cannot help writing. It is all that connects me now with life and with you. But I have nothing more to say except forgive forgive ; 'Do you think that God looks at his wretched ones differently from what men do? That he will have tenderness for one so sorry thst he will even find place But my mother is ther, my father! Oh, that makes it fearful to go to meet but it was my father who led me Into this only he did not know There! I will think only of God. "Goodby goodbr good" That was all. It ended, as it began, without name and without date the final heart throbs of a soul awakened to its own act when it was quite too late, a piteous memorial which daunted each one of us as we read It, and when finished drew us all together in the hall out of the sight and hearing of the two persons most Intimately concerned in it. Fossibly because all had one thought a thrilling one, which the major was the first to give utterance to: "The man she killed was buried under the name of Wallace. How's that If he was her husband, William?" An officer we had not before noted tvas standing near the front door. He came forward at this and placed a second telegram in the superintendent's hand. It was from the same source as the one previously received and appeared to settle this very question. "I have just learned that the man married was not the one who kept store in Owosso, but his brother William, who afterward died in Klondike. It is Wallace whose death you are ln-oatteatinir."

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vrnat snsli Xs herer astea tne major. "I think I understand," I ventured to put in. "Her husband was the one left on the road by the brother who staggered Into camp for aid. He was a weak man the weaker of the two, she said and probably died, while Wallace, after seemingly collapsing, recovered. This last she did not know, having failed to read the whole of the newspaper slip which told about it, and so when she saw some one with the Pfeiffer air and figure and was told later that a Mr. Pfeiffer was waiting to see her she took it for granted that it was her husband, believing positively that Wallace was dead. The latter, moreover, may have changed to look more like his brother in the time that bad elapsed." "A possible explanation which adds greatly to the tragic aspects of the situation. She was probably a widow when she touched the fatal spring. Who will tell the mau Inside there? It will be his crowning blow."

CHAPTER XXVI. 0 N the evening of the day which saw our first recognition of this crime as the work of Veronica Moore the following no tice appeared in the Star and all the other local Journals: "Any person who positively remembers passing through Waverley avenue between N and M streets on the evening of May 11 at or near the hour of a quarter past 7 will confer a favor on the detective force of the District by communicating the same to F. at the police headquarters in C street." I was "F.," and I was soon deep in business. But I was readily able to identify those who came from curios ity, and as the persons who bad really fulfilled the conditions expressed in my advertisement were few an evening and morning's work sufficed to sift the whole matter down to the one man who could tell me just what I wanted to know. With this man I went to the major, and as a result we all met later in the day at Mr. Moore's door. This gentleman looked startled enough when he saw the number and character of his visitors, but his grand air did not forsake him, and his welcome was both dignified and cordial. But I did not like the way his eye rested on me. But the slight venom visible in it at that moment was nothing to what he afterward displayed when at a slight growl from Budge, who stood in an attitude of offense in the doorway beyond, I drew the attention of all to the dog by saying sharply: "There is our witness, sirs. There is the dog who will not cross the street even when his master calls him, but crouches on the edge of the curb and waits with eager eyes but Immovable body till that master comes back. Isn't that so, Mr. Moore? Have I not heard you utter more than one complaint in this regard?" "I cannot deny it, was the stiff reply, "but what" I did not wait for him to finish. "Mr. Currean," I asked, "is this the animal you passed between the hours of 7 and 8 on the evening of May 11, crouching in front of this house with his nose to the curbstone?" "It is; I noted him particularly; he seemed to be watching the opposite house." Instantly I turned upon Mr. Moore. "Is Radge the dog to do that," I asked, "if his master were not there? Twice have I myself seen him in the selfsame place and with the selfsame air of expectant attention, and both times you had crossed to the house which you acknowledge he will ap proach no nearer than the curb on this side of the street." "You have me," with, which Mr. was the short reply Moore gave up the Nr. Carreea ill struggle. - "RudgeV go back to your place. When you are wanted in the courtroom I will let you know." The smile with which he said this was sarcastic enough, but It was sarcasm directed mainly against himself. We were not surprised when, after some sharp persuasion on the part of the major, he launched ' into the fol lowing recital of his secret relation to what he called the last tragedy ever likely to occur in the Moore family. "I never thought it wrong to be curious about the old place; I never thought it wrong to be curious about its mysteries. I only considered it wrong, or at all events ill judged, to annoy Veronica in regard to them, or to trouble her in any way about the means by which I might effect an entrance into its walls. So I took th one that offered and said nothing. "I have visited the old house many times during my sojourn in tnis little cottage. The last time was. as one of your number has so ably discovered, on the most memorable -night in Its history; the one in which Mrs. Jeffrey's remarkable death occurred there. The Interest roused in me by the unexpected recurrence of the old fatality attending the library hearthstone reached its culmination when I perceived one night the glint of a candle burning iu the southwest chamber. I did not know who was responsible for this light, but I strongly suspected it to be Mr. Jeffrey, for who else would dare to light a candle in this disused house without first seeing that all the shutters were fast? "I did not dislike Mr. Jeffrey or question his right to do this. Nevertheless I was very angry. Though allied to a Moore, he was not one himself, and the difference in our privileges affected me strongly; consequently I watched till he came out and upon .positively recognizing his agure vowodln my wratu and jealous indignation to visit the old house myself on the following night and make one final attempt to learn . the secret which would again make me feel myself the equal of this man, if not his superior.

"It was euity wiisn I went; indeed it was not quite dark, but, knowing the gloom of tho.ee old hails and the almost impenetrable nature of the darkness which settles over the library the uommt the twilight sets in, I put in my pocket two or three candies, the candles, sirs, about which you have made such a coil. "Iy errand was twofold I wanted first to see what Mr. Jeffrey had been up to the night before and next to spend an hour over a certain book of old memoirs which in recalling the past might explain the present. You remember a door leading into the library from the rear rooui. It was by tjiia door I entered, bringing with me from the kitchen the chair you afterward found there. "I knew where the volume of memoirs I Ppak t to found you do, too, I Fee for it was my hand which bad placed it in its present concealment. Quite determined to reread such portions of it as I had long before marked as pertinent to the very attempt I had in mind, I brought in the candelabrum from the parlor and drew out a table to held it. But I waited a few moments before taking down the book itself. I wanted first to learn what Mr. Jeffrey had been doing upstairs the night before; so, leaving the light burning in the library, I proceeded to the southwest chamber, holding an unlit caudle in my hand, the light feebly diffused through the halls from some upper windows being sufficient for me to see my way. But in the chamber itself all was dark. "The wind had not yet risen and the shutter which a half hour later moved so restlessly on its creaking hinges hugged the window so tightly that I

imagined Mr. Jeffrey had fastened it the night before. Looking for some re ceptacle in which to set the candle I now lit, I failed to find anything but an empty tumbler, so I made use of that. Then ' glanced about me, but seeing nothing worth my attention Mrs. Jeffrey's wedding fixings did not Interest me, and everything else about the room looking natural except the overturned chair, which struck me as immaterial I hurried downstairs again, leaving the candle burning behind me in case I should wish to return aloft after I had refreshed my mind with what had been written about this old room. "Not a sound disturbed the house as I seated myaelf to my reading in front of the library shelves. I was as much alone under that desolate roof as mortal could be with men anywhere within reach of him. I enjoyed the solitude and was making a very pretty theory for myself on a scrap of paper I tore from another old book when a noise suddenly rote in front, which, slight as it was, juite unmistakable to ears trained to rfszening. Some one was unlocking the front door. "Naturally I thought it to be Mr. Jeffrey returning for a second visit to his wife's house, and, knowing what I might expect if be surprised me on the premises, I restored the book hastily to its place and as hastily blew out the candle. Then, with every intention of flight I backed toward the door by which I had entered. But some impulse stronger than that of escape made me stop just before I reached it. I could see nothing the place was dark as Tophet but I could listen. The personMr. Jeffrey or some other was coming my way, and in perfect darkness. I could hear the faltering steps the fingers dragging along the walls; then a rustle as of skirts, proving the intruder to be a woman a fact which greatly surprised me then a long drawn sigh or gasp. "This last determined me. The situation was too intense for me to leave without first learning who the woman was who in terror and shrinking dared to drag her half resisting feet through these empty halls and into a place cursed with such unwholesome memories.' 1 drd not think f Veronica. No one looks for a butterfly In the depths of a dungeon. Sut I did think of Miss Turtle that woman of resoHite will. Without attempting to imagine the reason for her presence, I stood my ground and harkened till the heavy mahogany door at the other end of the ,Jjm began to swing in by jerks under the faint and tremulous push of a terrified and. Then there came silence a long silence followed by a moan so agonized that I realized that whatever was the cause of this panting woman's presence here, it was due to no mere errand of curiosity. This whetted my purpose. Anything done in this house was in a way done to met so I remarned quiet and watched. But the sounds which now and then came from the remote corner upon which my attention was concentrated were very eloquent. "I heard sighs and bitter groans, with now and .then a murmured prayer, broken by a low wailing, in which I caught the name of Francis. And still, possibly on account of the utterance of this name, I thought the woman near tne to be Miss Tuttle, and even went so far as to imagine the cause of hef suffering if not the nature of her retribution. Words succeeded cries and I caught phrases expressive of fear Oul some sort of agonized hesitation. Once these broken ejaculations were interrupted by a dull sound. Something had dropped to the bare floor. We shall never know what it was, but I have no doubt that it was the pistol, and that the marks of dust to be found on the connecting ribbon- were made by ber own fingers in taking it again in her hand. (You will remember that these same fingers had but a few minutes previous groped tbair way along the walls.) For her voice soon took, a different tone, and such, unintelligible phrases as these could be heard issuing from her partly paralyzed lips: " 'I must! I can never meet his eye again alive. He would despise Brave enough to to another's blood coward when own. Oh, God, forgive! Then another silence, 'durina which I almost made up my mind to interfere, then a loud report and a flash so startling and unexpected that I recoiledf during which the room leaped into suddsn view she, too, Veronics, with baby face drawn and set like a toman's then darkness again and a heavy fall which shoos: the floor, if not my hard' old heart. The flash and that fall enlightened me. I had Just wit?ssd the suicide of the last Moore

saving uijte:. a su:elJe for Wnicli 1 was totally unprepared and one which I do not yet understand. "I did not go o-er to her. She was as dead when she fell as she ever would be. In the flash which lit everything I had seen whore her pistol was pointed. Why disturb her, then? Nor did I return upstairs. I h&d small interest now in anything but my own escape from a situation more or less compromising. Do you blame me for this? I was her heir, and I was where I had no legal right to be. Do you think that I was called upon to publish my shame and tell how I lingered there while my own niece shot herself before my eyes? That shot made me a millionaire. This certainly was excitement enough for one day. Besides. I did not leave her there ceclected. I notified you later after I had got my breath and had found some excuse. That wasn't enough? Ah, I see that you are all models of courage and magnanimity. You would have laid yourselves open to every reproach rather than let a little necessary perjury pass your lips. But I am no model. J am simply an old man who has been too hardly dealt with for seventy long years to possess every virtue. I made a mistake I see It now trusted a dog when I shouldn't but if Rudge had not seen ghosts well, what now?" We had. one and all, with an involuntary impulse turned our .backs upon him. "What are you doing?" he hotly demanded.

"Only what all Washington will do tomorrow and aftornrd th6 rrole world," gravely returned the ms)or. Then, as an ejaculation escaped th astonished millionaire, he impressively added: "A perjury which allows an Innocent man and woman to remain unThe mir daaevaeea Vnele David der the suspicion of murder for five weeks is one which not only the law has a right to punish, but which all society will condemn. Henceforth you will find yourself under a ban, Mr. Moore." Time amply verified thia prophecy. Mr. Moore is living ii great style in the Moore house and (.rives horses which are conspicuous even in Washington, but no one accepts hit invitations, and he is as much of a recluse in his present mansion as he evei was In the humble cottage in which hit days of penury were spent. My story -eads here. The matter never came before the grand jury. Suicide had been proved, and there the atfaii rested. TBI BSD. CENTERVILLE. Centerville, Ind. Dec. 16, (Spl.) Mr. Thomas Clark and family entertained a company of relatives at dinner on last Sunday. Those present were Messrs and Mesdames J. W. Griffin, Lewis Hyde, Alton Evans and family, all of Spiceland, Mr. and Mrs. W. Lu Cory, of Dunreith, Mrs. Elizabeth Sands, Miss Jessie Sands and Mr. Omer Sands all of Richmond. The Centerviljfc Band will give a party at the town hall on New Year's eve. Admission 10 and 15 cents. Earnest Crowe, south of Centerville, was the guest on Friday of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard C. Gaiser. Rolla Savage left on Saturday for Alabama, where he will join a company that are constructing a rail road in that state. Mrs. Lou Morgan residing near Centerville, gave a dinner on Thurs day for Mesdames Emeline Meek, William Herbert, H. P. Bobbins, Jno. W. Morgan and Lindley Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Savage have gone to Indianapolis to reside. Mildred Clevenger of Doddridge visited Ethel Clevenger on Saturday. FOLLOWING THE FLAG. When our soldiers went to Cuba and the Philippines, health was the most important consideration. Willis T. Morgan, retired Commissary Sergeant U. S. A., of Rural Route 1, Concord, N. H., says: "I was two years in Cuba and two years in the Philippines, and being subject to colds, I took Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, which kept me in perfect health. And now, in New Hampshire, we find it the best medicine in the world for coughs, colds, bronchial troubles and all lung diseases." Guaranteed at A. G. . Luken & Co., druggist. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Blaine and an Appropriation. When James G. Blaine was speaker of the bouse he cleverly got through a resolution appropriating $12,000 to the needy widowed daughter of President Zacaary Taylor. This lady got as far as Washington on 'her way to Paris to see a sick daughter and, being destitute of money, appealed to her only friend at the capital, General' Sherman. His purse wss always open to the distressed, but he had not funds at all adequate to relieve her necessities. In this emergency he thought of Blaine. The man from Maine entered Into the spirit of the occasion as soon as he heard General Sherman's statement. He called another to the chair and made a five minutes' speech that fairly electrified the house, which passed the resolution Blaine had penned only a moment before. He took the resolution In person to the senate, where it was also immediately passed, had the president to sign It the next day, and on the following day the beneficiary got the money. General " Sherman always insisted that Blaine would have made the grandest actor that ever lived and in adapting his career to politics he robbed the stage of a born star. Tin Ui Ym Kt kton Zzt

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ale. as in the cape of the maliciously. publi9hed in 1904 in the Ladip' Ilon'ie is greater loaay man ever . i'ri pubtake a Doid step and neither. tlonsAfreakness48 and distressing derangamen. Is Dr. Piene's Favorite PrescrTntioias Is amply attested by thousands of isollcited testimonials contributed bv ful patients who have been rnred l.v f leucorrhea. painful periods, lrremilar. es. prolapsus and other displacement ceration of uterus and kiudred affecs. often alter many other advertised ediclnes nad tailed. Both these world-famed medicines am wholly made up from the glyceric extracts of native, medicinal roots, found in our American forests. The procese4 employed In their manufacture wenl original with Dr. Pierce, ai'd they ar carried on by skilled chemists and pharmacists with the aid of apparatus and appliances specially designed and built for this purpose. Both medicines ar entirely fre from alcohol and all othrt harmful, habit-forming drugs. A full list of their ingredients Is printed on each of their wrappers. They are both mad of such native medicinal roots as havt received the strongest endorsement and praise for their curative virtues from the most prominent writers on Materia Medica in this country. What In Mid of i their power to cure the several disease! for which they are, advised may t easily learned by sending vour nam aud address to Dr. R. V. Pierce. Buffalo N. Y.. for a little booklet which he hni compiled, containing copious extract from numerous standard medical hock which are consulted as authorities by pnysicians of the several schools of pratico for their guidance in prescribing. II Is free to auu A postal card request will brlr.g It. . You don't have to reJy solely upon th manufacturer's say-so as to the power ol Dr. Pierce's medicines to cure, as with other medicines said through druggists. You have the dtIi termed testimony of a host of the leading medical writer and teachers. Send for this ropioui testimony. It can be rrlied upon t be truthful because it ia entirely div interested. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con stipation. Constipation is the cause, of many diseases. Cur the cause and you cure the disease. One "Pellet is a gentle laxative, and two a mild cathar tic. Druggists sell them, and nothina is "Just as good." They are the ortyino Little Liver Pills first put up by old Dr. Pierce over 40 years sgo. Much imitated, but never equaled. They arc tiny sugar-coated granules easy to taica as candr. Christmas gifts? conclusion regarding them, we nothing you cay select for your satisfying durinjrtlhe long evenings an instrument which will bring great Opera And Concert slngerr and VaudevWe artists; in fact, all of the thertre into your home, is say the lest. may. ut this statement is -ill dec it a very great pleasia to ur entire satisfaction it jrtuni e of entertainment, better fraction of the expense of Turkey. home enjoyment problem, r-i ri r-i r"-i ri r--- ,-- -- ---- -- r Ladies free Skates 10c j

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