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TIIK STORY Till'!. I Alt
ttTfitl RKNU'II'K. under aecretnrv of
LLflrltlsh embitditv In Vlnnii nnd the
ITIKI.H .MAKI-tllltA MKAI1I vvnnm
rvt?s. overhenr on June 1. nin. mo
Ry the torv onens, n conversation in
t 'mA pnnVm at Konnntnht lictwpfn
Si ' ,4toe German Knlarr. Von 'limits nnd the
Ja.'ilAHrtrlan Archduke, In which the "destiny
ft , -,'t Kurooe" Is staled. , ....
Tne pact entered mm is nc-ninm in
uumkka th Archduke and til mnmanatli-?-Nlfe.
Sophie Chotek. Important naurt" In
i". '-itrletid of Sophie but when fthe learn-
i-.AWhat l aroot she reaiixen that ner nrst
aimit-r Is to her country and the Austrian
. monarch. Frani Josef While she Is re
10 mm. iienwirK is iiiiiinui.. "i-
triiat ati.l In f it-m Ini- his rhtef
1 means an estraniremcnt between Ileum
Mttrlahkn.
WVIIU H'IMIT. fhlpf nt the Austrian
P.". .'Secret Service. Is placed In.chnrc of that
l-KIcountry'ii affairs, with orders to thwart
stwi ssor pmii-i eu pine in- .uniuui.'- .... ......
Mt,.Jien ordered murdMred In S'.iriii yo.
I. i".', .1 . .. , I.. .... ,1,. IPC 1.1
wuerman E-et-ret ncrvirc - un mr '"" -"
,-J circumvent the proposed assasination
iJ tTtih rtonwllr rnfAnR.H from hl oHlcm
:- duties. Is at Jlsrlshka s service mm n
. "that Oorltl. who has caotur-d Marlshki
Wfrom Wlndt promises to .do all In his
Cower to save the Archduke and booh''
ut not to release his fair prisoner It i
i. Ttlck. meanwhile Is in Wl-dfs pc;ver
: T.lnlr a AniA.I liv Win, II is sonll
taken Into custody hy a tall indMJuai in
black who trails liim to Sarnleo (rorll
and Marlshka dlsuuls. d ns on Austrian
r.t officer ana wne. nrrun m .ii-j--w j.,-.
RfliW too late. When Marishka awiiKens aiu r
zalntlnir at the aicni or ine ns.ii.iiiiiMi-i.
EbM v " 1hl herself prls.iner in a ll.irem ana
Ifi fh sends a note d:. a. one or the elrl-
" ,to ,uenwicK at me i-.uruii.fc ., t,.....p,
.her location. L ,
ft 'Tho Ennllshmnn's raptor, the chauffeur.
nd Henwlck. after a serks of acildinls.
approach Sara Je o. ,
CHAPTER XV (Coniimietn
IN LESS than half an hour they were
again upon their way. rcachlnR thr
hills aboe the Bosnian capital just bc
ore nightfall. Here, for some reason, the
machine again halted with a loud ex
plosion of back-fire and a prodlKlous
amount of smoke. The chauffeur Rot
out. looked Into the hood and utralght
ened, gesticulating wildly, llerr l.tnke
followed, and a conviri-atlon ensued, the
import of which was lo-t upon the liiic
llshman. But when It was finished.
Llnke turned to Renwlok and explained
that the mach.tiery wa Injured beyond
(repair and that the car could K'i no
further. Titu Ttoin.ui policemen who
had appear d m thf road before Un.ni i
now rode up and madi inqulrle
Renwick shtugptd and was about to
walk away wita the Inti nt'.o:, or tlnlsh- '
lng his journey afoot when the rhatif- i
feur came forward and caught him by ,
th arm. shouting oinething in an ev- i
cited and angry voice, appealing to the
men on horseback and pointing alter
nately at the Englishman and at tti i
Injured mac.ime The Bosnians got
down and listi ned while nnc of them.'
who seemed to understand, addressed '
Henwlck In German
"This man says that you engaged to
pay for any breakages to the m.iihine.
and that you hae not paid h.m all that I
you owe "
"He lies. I paid him at I jvldek
Herr Linke here will hear me wlt
nestf " As he turned to address his
'traveling companion, ho paused
in I
azement for without u word, or it
cpund, Hcrr Linko had suddenly an-
ished Into space.
But tho Hungarian was screaming
again, and what he said must hae tin-
pressed the policeman who nan spoKen
' a 1.1m fn In. Ii.rnm I i l?OllVVicU
f SY scratching h's head dubiously, and j
Vf- 1 suggested that the matter lie f urtht r 1
Olscussed before a magistrate in tne
if. .1 city below. Itcnwlck agreeci, gave in--1
I r . ! i. ha1Uav.iiii Kin snfA -it1i I'm cnrfl tint 1
1u4 B would find him at the Kuropa Hotel
',V nd leaving his suitcase in the car as
;, security ror Ills appearance wnen .siim-
. fc. Minnad nan till l-ri rl 1 rlftlVTI the bills
l? i. toward the city The colloquy had oc-
i cuptea some niomenis. uui w ovu ien-is?-
-a wick camo to a straight reach of road
, t which led toward the tobacco factory
hK tulldings he was surprised to find that
J'Herr Link-- was nowhere in sight The
fflpL man was an enigma, a curious mixture
o cesnerado anu nuitonn, uui nis suu-
SlvSC'Oen nlEappearance witnout a word nr
A V'iKanlta ir.lnir nr evnlnnnl loll lruve
' tl itenwlck something to puzzle over as hi
'made his way to tne nnnge. us pos-
slblfl significance escaped him unt'l he
ihad reached the ihvi. when, a thought
. suddenly occurring fi him. li- put his
hahd Into the breast pocket of It's
coat, feeling for the note from Marlhk:t.
Jt was gone' He huntnl feverishly.
one pocket after another, and was on
the point of going biclt fur a . ar-h of
the machine when th" truth suddenly
dawned. Herr Linke hud taken It from
J him last night when !.. slept h-ul
! drugged him that h might pel it with,
out commotion! In an Illuminating
flash he remembered the sharp look In
, the man's eyes yesti rday morning in the
S' train from Budapest when Tti nwiek had
. taken the note from his pocket. Linke '
1 He hurried his footsteps, bewailing his
I own simplicity and wondering what
this new phase of Herr Linke's activi
' ties might signify. Renwick had as
sumed that the Austrian was an agent
of Herr Wlndt. who. uinble to follow
him on to Sarajevo. b'id guessed th"
' train upon which he had left and had
sent this man up from Budapest to in t
Into his carriage. But h s most recent
accomplishment seemed to lcaie this
t presumption open to doubt. If Herr
Linke had stolen the letter In the be
lief that It contained secret information i
' which would be ot value to Austrian ,
secret service officials, the nu re reading '
' of.' it would have convinced him of i's
'.., Innocence In so far n Mari-dika was i
.v'.. 1 4. If n nnn.. ( TAKV.n..
iyjsfff something In the messag- which Hen
sJtJE' -wick had overlooked wiu'd put him upon
k, rat tne track 01 tne ituow 01 tne grtm
'? 5,sllmouslne.
55 He went aloncr the river bank from
Jl. thA tirlrtcre toward the hotel th.. locn-
JkJ s tlon of which was famllar to h'm. hur-
jj' , Tviner hl nc. At nnv ml., thw tioto
ij . "was gone and with it the mvsterious
.o,. Linke. facts which clearly Indicated
bjt -.one purpose.
VT. tl.. T 11a ...na l.ant nnnn Int.FMnl.
fF, iJ.tIfC7 tlU lini. Ul'l. (,, t 1 Ll-p. -
w c'fr Ing: any message which might come to
tne Hotel i;uropa tor tne i.ngusnman
C And given that to be his purpose what
was his Intention with regard to the
Countess Strahnl?
Still puzzling over the mysteries, which
Si rained In eluslveness as he hurried Inlo
,.TIV JTonef tttfAt 1ia ren-herl thrt tiotel.
vft",' -which was near the Carsi'a. and made
ft,-k-.hu.rrled inquiries of the Turkish porter.
; who smiled and professed ignorance but
-cSvsald to the Kxcellency fiat he would
MIei!ll II1IJUIIC, lillllbtllh tvnin IVR
yX.'"Wm that a note hearim? fhe nntna of
.. ,'Herr Renwick bad been left at the hotel
fS' n hour before, but that not twenty
isr, n minutes ago. Herr Renwick had called
'JS5 and claimed It.
fiTP,.. "That is not possible" paid R"nw!c':
f Dotty, "since I am Herr Uemvlck
i H ' mo ruajur.uuiiiu sin uk u iiiii uij.i
'jl Akatnlniiylv It wfi mnt Itnf orl II ntitp
iSS-V he said. hut. of course, as Kxcellency
lt?i poetofllce and could not be held respon
Sp&li sible for the proper delivery of letters
:fer wpen It Knew nuilllUK ui inu nieiiiiiy ui
. those to whom they were addressed.
YfftVf Renwick paused a moment, and then
.l'vStit QUiCKty. io ivnoni was me note
p.. ".3i,VYes, Kxcellency. The person who
: ,'T sId he was Herr Renwick was tall, at-
tfA In Vtlnl r.lotVilnf anil enrrla.l on
ntimbrella."
tai'-'If your Excellency will permit. It
R fKfi. afternoon. It was brought by a woman
i. 4Ji,l' yashmak a Turkish woman. Of
i. iyj?" , -vwi ,ww .w.. ..-., ."-- -"
av Wtoiit wim aterieu cjvo uijuii nie num.
IS'",
Itenwick naused Irresolutely and Elv
f the man a tee, went out oi me noiei
o the street, mingling with the crowds
ion Frans Josef street, where but a
hours before on a noaroy corner tne
hduke and Duchess had met their
ths. Deciding that at all hazards he
t- remain inconspicuou.i wnue ne
ght out a plan, he crotsed the river
went Into a small park, where he
k wearily Into a bench and burled
self in new speculations.
finurlck rosA suddenly and. wltn a
fful glanca about him, made slowly
the Latelmer Bridge, sure at least
t' h had not been followed and con
vinced th-tt he must equalize the haz-
rua between tnis utrman anu ninisru
'J playing tne game Rccoruint, io m-
idaros of mo vviineimHirasst-. ou iie
I nis wayicnreiuny into tne v.arcija.
found a 'stall where he managed
buy a native Bosnian costume fez.
snirt. unori jacit.i. wiuo uuiuns
close below the Knee, sasn
,rOf- Islam, nut sne wouiti nave come
A'-lrom the Turkish quarter of the town
- s'drm beyond the Carsija perhaps. I do
& ffcit know. T can sav no more."
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Renwick watched the uimlov. too.
slippers. His automatic having been
taken by tile prudent Linke. he was
unarmed, but managed to find a revolver
of Ameilcnn make and cartridges which
fitted it With bis newly acquired pur
chases he leturned In the darkness to
the other bank of the river, where he
found a small inn in the Blstrick
quarter.
He concealed ten on hundred kroner
niie in mo lining .u me noil 01 1 no
ITiHI"n, illl.l IU!1CI. 11 Htllll l. Illf
remainder of lil money, a f-w llftv
crown no'es nnd coins, he pu' in his
pockets v tth bis w.iteli and oMier vnlu
nbles. and 1 hinged bis rlothinir When
ho had finished dressing be txamincd
himself in a mirror His f;tc. w.is ijm
ned by exposure, and the duvt ,if the
journey w-hic'i lie ietaln'I ci bmi
soiled nnnearnne sufficient l.v iirlental
He was now Stefan Thoni.isevic. n seller
I of sheep and conts. which he had
brought to th- market. He left his
Kngllsh clothing In a bundle in the care
I nf the innkeeper and advising the man
1 that be would let urn later In the night
t nr a( i,.nt upon the morrow, went forth
1 fi
irros the tlvor ;.p;iln. with a t-pnse
f proater security from tho nbrorvntlnns
of any w Iio tneont mlprhfpf to Tluch I
UenwicU. If he not know what tho
prpon 1lmnus.no rhnn lookpfl Hkp. thf I
limouslnu chap at least could net know i
him. ;
As he Oour'iPil thrnuch the alley of j
the Carsija, reassurpd as to the com-
pJeteneFs of his diFulse. ht smoked a
native cigarette, and asked ninny hups
tlon amoriK th1 kppoerf of the stalls,
pqiiattlntr oross-leRired with them upon
the ground and learning much of all
mnturH sap of the rne with which he
was most concerned.
"I'fw but Moslem people had parsed
i through the Car.-dja upon this day."
tVin c Iil "tnf tlii. tnrrllilu hnnnAiilnrre i .
-.' .'it it, U1 i i.i- ewiiof .u..e..iinP,i
nf Via iitnrnlnn- Vi n il bant llm Aiulrlin
'l HI' IHVII lllllrl HtHI 111)11 1.111.- Jllt.Tll Kin i
T""..- tlI I.. sl...l .. ., , l.l
i
......" "V.l ,' .. " , ..:.:!" i'.."1.,"' "'riwhere he stood, but opposite
lrouhle was .ilwavs wKe to tl-d Its com.
tnnv nmene It" own i, ,V"
(rll elllll .rillll I IIHIII III IIIIIU III
Henwlck task seemed boneless, but
he did not despair, leaving the bazaar at
Inst, nnd I'liml'lntr the bill tn tho old
town b'eynrm the Itasllon
Here lie ;igatn oiietionevl everv
P'i-ser-b . "I'.i'l the KflVndi seen a tall
Excellency dressed In black who carried
.111 umbrell.i? lie Stefnn Thomascvic.
bad 'ild the Km' llency some sheep and
pouts, but tho Kxcellene bad not yet
paid ali of that which he owed. It was
rot a matter about which to laugh If
the l'cellene.v did not soon appear in
the Cars-lit. it was a matter for tho
piUct-"
But no one could help him. Herr
it watt probable that if such a creatuie
had strolled through the Cars'ja. there
would be a dozen Idlers who would haie
observed and noted the fact. Ilenwiek s
chief hopes were crumb lng. And yet.
f l.inke suspecteei that tne note wnicii
had been sent to the Hotel Kuropa was
a halt, he would of e'ourse
act with
great caution, it was nearly midnight
when, weary nnd disappointed, ften
wick returned from the Kastele quarter
in the direction nf the 1 arsija. The
houses were dark .-ave for a glimmer of
light in an upper window here and
there, but the moon had come out, and
Ilenwiek, moving silently along in the
.-hadow of walls and hou-.es. cazed about
him with the eagerness of despair. For
.1 while he stopped In the angle of a
wall, and listened to tho sounds ot the
cit below him. the rush of the river
below the Iiastlon. the motor and bell
of the electiie tram-car. the whistle ot
a freight locomotive at the further end
of the town strident noises brought
from the West to break the drowsy mur
mur of the Orient, but not a sight nor
a sound which could give him a clue
as to the whereabouts of Linke or
Countess Marlshka. The inaction was
maddening. In hi belt the American
levolver bung its futile weight. Had
it not been for Linke, he might have
'-i,t n ehfinee nt least to follow the In
structions of the note of the Hotel
Kuropa to some conclusion whether for
good or 111 it did not matter. If
Marlshka herself had written It ! . . .
.She would be awaiting him now and he
could not come to her. . . . In his
ateml Linke the gigantic, the melliflu
ous. ....
Itenwick turned slowly into a side
.treet. and crouched In the dark angle
of a wall, for a motor car was coming
toward him. Motors In the region of
Franz Josef street and th.- rier were
not uncommon, but as a rule they were
seldom to be seen In the hillv region
near the Bastion. From his dark van-
PERCY AND FERDIERat-Tat-Tat-Tat-BOOM!
i . . -. ., .,.-,-, . --r.. ., ..mr i I I .-n u.i.i n telsni- llncnc. Al R rw MlrF 1 1 RnAT'S REACHED
TM t-. TMF STARBOARDER AMD MISS DILPICHIF. ORVjMMERS HAVE QUIT! P- LET'S APPUf J HERCAPACITY-
F THEY KNEW WE VERE QOiNq OM OHE OF IDWTlmrf olo."
" TH6SE S04 A TRIP EXCORSWM B0AT5 Z3nTte '
Juthor of Sty YcfowOo'o '
Vu It. Jjip.f
A lijlil burned dimly within.
tage pn'nt Renwick saw the car ap
proach and pass blm. quietly coasting,
and stop .1 hort distance below the
nngle of the street from which ho had
emerged. Ho caught a glimpse of the
proflTe of the chauffeur, and noted the
condition of tho car. He ludged that
, It had com
long journey, for Sara
,evo a,1(j tlln
jevo and the part of Bosnia thtough
which lin own machine had traveled
had suffeted much from th" drought.
Thl'i machine was covered with dust,
of course, but it. was also literally
sp.iuoio'l with mud. The lZngllshman
watched the machine for a while, but
the chauffeur, having silenced the en
gine, remain' d lr.otionlf ss. in deep
t'hadow. waiting f course belated
visitors from the Kumpcan section of
the city to th" ICastcle were n possi
bility, but the quietness with which the
chauffiur had approached. and tho
I eager way in which he now leaned for
ward in ins seat watching the meslne
biya windows of n bouse at some dis
tance, excited Renwick's curiosity. Why
wan th'1 man there? Who was be watch
ing in the hiiiM. of the lighted window?
Had this mystery anything in common
with his own
Ilenwiek watched the windows too. A
light burned dimly within, and once he
' thought ii shadow passed. The window
and the chauffeur Interested him. but
he was too far away to distinguish the
house clearly, and so, moving stealthily,
be stole etuietly up the hill to a cross
itreet, nnd turning to the left, in the
shadeiw of n wall, walked rapidly down
1 to a small alley which he took at run-
' tlom, nt the end ot which be paused
I
1 ' " '
observation. The house with the
shrebiya windows was now just below
linn was
.t .i a - .. .. It l J. ..
an auciciu none' wan. aim in us center
I was a blue door. There were trees
"'"". ...r run. ...... ..-.- i.e-u.u mc
found or tailing water. e tounil a
"rk doonvay and crouched silently.
w.iecninK
A cul-de-sac? Perhaps. Plsappoint
ment and chagrin had done their worst
to him. He would wait and see what
was to happen, and if nothing came of
1 the entuie he would
merely have his
, labor tor his pains. lie noted above
t the wall that there were windows of
1 the house winch overlooked the girden
I n one of them, in the loom whih the
I chauffeur had been ob,ei un- the 1 ght
'sun dimly burned, but !. saw no sbad-
1 mvs r cring out from the angle of the
I a lie. -wa. hi
I a eloorw ay 1
he w "-. wat.
t toward the
1 fancied thai
thought he had discovered
eoeiit between the house
1 ng and Ihe one below it
'.irsij.i. .mil in a moment
he cnild distinguish the
I sound of e b
volet b fioin that
direction ; but th sn.ulow of n moseiue
nearby threw lis bhadow upon this part
of the street, and h" c mid see nothing
cleatly If there were m n thevr. they
were keeping tn the shadow of the wall
around the urn of tin stroe-t. beyund the
range of Kenwick's vision, but the night
breeze which carried the sound of the
whispers also wafted the odor of a native
cigarette. The smell of it maele Ren
wick wish to smok". for the suspense and
Inaction were telling upon him. but he
lesisted th impulse sinking lower into
the shadow, and awaiting events.
Minutes pisced hours they seemed to
the waiting Itenwick and tin 11 came the
deep boom of a bell, which echoing down
the silent streets, seemed just at llen
wick's elbow another another until
be counted twelve, of the belfry of the
cathedral announcing midnight.
He waited, thinking deeply The ma
chine which had come a long lourney?
The lighted windows which the chauffeur
watched" Th- whisper of voices from
th ' s'leet below blm? There was
inys'-ry h-re He couched lowt r and
watched the dark shadow ot the aich
j below th
house.
COXTIXL'KD OX KP.IDAY
r.rmt demnnd for the i:vi:NI(i
n'lll.IC I.I.IlfillK may cause oll
to miss an Instullimnt of this -cry
Interesting story. Y0.1 had better,
therefore, telephone t,r write tu the
Circulation. Department nr ask -.our
newsdealer tills unerncon tn leae
the I'vr.MMi rriu.it- ..i:ih;i:k at
jour home.
THE CRACK
A STORY OF POLITICS IN PHILADELPHIA
By Peter Clark Macfarlanc
CHAPTER XLl (Continued)
I 4iT D.Mti: to till J on." Itnlllnsnii went
JL til "Ihut wealth which re-Is tron
social Injustice mid political fmnrltWtu,
not to su.v iipnn eorriipUon, U Insecure.
! Who known liuiv tunny Aiircntsk are
brnndlng their uit.v to nindncss In the cits
of Philadelphia loiln.i ? Who knows hnw
sunn this Mttltude tif inillfipreiice and lr
rcspnilslblllt.l nil behalf of mime holders
f grout wcnllli I say s.omc. lur Phila
delphia has holders of great wealth who
Admit their responsibility 1 say who
knows how soon men like you, Bucking
ham who regard neighborllucss to the
wot Um s as a chimerical dut., will havi
urnid the In ails of liundrcds of thou
sands of lndiistr.nl woikrrs ot foreign
birth within our borders men who hae
little education, little capacity to reason
and little experience nf trio government
and are lacking, therefoic, In that patient
intelligence of tho masses which makes
democracies possible who Knows bow
long before these men sbnll turn into
mobs mid rnge through our streets, ile
strnjlng propert. nliies becniise proper
ly ttilucs luitc been turned ililo u melius
nf extorting from them the price of life,
without returning to tbcin t lie means of
life In any coliifurttililc form."
Wild! wild, sill thoughts!'' ejaculat
ed Biimingnani scornfully.
"But they ale not only my thoughts.
Mr. Buckingham." pecs sted Rolllnson.
his tone gr.ter anil less ek nunc.atory
They sue al.-,o my leais. There aie
scores, do.e ns, biuulicds of p-uplc in
I'hiiailelpni i . Iio are beginning tu think
wildly and beginning to act wildly. Aim
not in rhil.nlelphui only; nor are you
the only lnespnisible trustee ot great
wea'th in Ann r 'a Po you not read the
papeis? Id jou not know that there
exists In this country .in otganlzatlon In
'.imed by uh.it they e'one-elve to be In
dustrial wrongs a ml estlm.itiil to lie as
bigii as L'.Oiiii.iiiiu In iHimbeis L',000 OHO
that Is a number na largi its the
population (if l'hi.,Kh lphin--who all over
t'ns nation are preaching destruction of
property? That nolle. s have been posted
suggesting the burning nf crops, and if
Mainline; timber, the ruining of ina
einneiy, the destruction ot manufactured
goods, and oven the poisoning of live
stock? And lli.it sueli human ghouls
tiled the poor dupes who follow and be
lieve in and bee nne their emissaries of
crime among the Aiuenlskys who have
despaired of ever obtaining justice lrom
society as at present oiganizeel?
"Do sou not know it lie feel Hint as
on'e on whose shoulders there do rest
the nst lldiiclur. rcsintnslhllllles ol which
Jiiu ure so i oncitius, sour llrst mid leire
tuost cflort sin uld he for the wellnre (it
the hum at the bottom upon whose bcud
inir buck all iironcrts Mlluc rest'.'"
llue-kinglniiu u.ntil lis h mils and
tiled lo speak but lol inson cut him on
with this final indictment :
' "1 ask sou, Wlllurd II. Itiickiiighilui,
( to cease tn iiun't of Hie magnitude of
Sour income, to cense to boost of the
sums sou gUe to cliarits and to prute
no more about faithfulness (o fldiiciur.v
responslblllts', so long us In the great
i est rcspmtsililllt.v of all sou hue
, fulled enllrel.v."
1 Outraged and angry beyond words, the
'flnanc.er turned and tried to walk aw ay
I loin Rolllnson. who, to use a reporter's
figure in describing the incident, was stl.l
limiting in;e a Human volcano, but the
crowd lrom without the rail had flowed
, inside, wedging chaiis and desks about
I him so tightly that an exit was for the
i moment Impossible, and the man had to
stand with flushed, wrathful face while
Jtolllnsoii hroko into a llnal burst of
something l.ke eloquence with:
1 "Recently there has been nreranlzed
litre a political movement looking tn the
bettciment of conditions in Philadelphia
.1 cienii iuiu nome young man lias neen
found to lead It hundieds. and Indeed
thousands, of men have given themselves
up with the fervor of a crusade to this
enterprise. You should have been the
first and surest man to help it, because
you have more at stake than any nne
else. Instead, you were at first Indiffer
ent, then 'scornful, then openly opposed
to It. You have made cowards of men
who would have helped In it; ou have
threatened with a blow In the hack the
men who did not withdraw their sup
port lrom tins great cause at your corn-
1 - . ."
I nianii. i ou nave even conspired to nun
I a great manufacturing Institution of
....- .... , .....u , iuiu mc icauvis in
th.s great movement
"That was morally unjust: legally
It wus n crime. Why, .Mr. Itiicklng
Itam, were .von not sn big 11s to be
regarded In th s community as almost
be.vciid the law, I might, nt this mo
ment, be sulnc you under the stntutes
for an Insidious kind of business
pirne.v, that is no mure honorable tlinii
the process of extortion by which
li'M'pli Mahlnito robbed this l:n ITen-.11 e
.lew of bis grocery store. You liuve
(iilb'd this Hutu Aurenlsk.v Insane and
1111 iimm hist. .Mr. Iliicklnglinin, It is
.viiu who arc 1 lie anarchist. It Is tinly
.viuir man, oilier altogether admirable
tlilttlltles as a citizen and 11 business
iniin Unit keep tfie knowledge of this
fail from being reflected in (he face uf
ever, trlend who loalts at jou."
Rolllnson b.id finished. The crowd
senhi d th s instantly and began to fall
h.iek be ton Buckingham, whose red,
healed features and seething anger made
h"i inriieeliate proximity none too pleas
ant a place for any one to linger. As
the banker made his way past the chair
In which Jerry Archer had sat motion
less during the ten minutes of this col
loeiuy, that toward the last had become a
monologue on Victor's part. Bucking
ham's outraged eyes seemed lo pause
and scan the face of the young man
keenly, as if hoping to find there some
sympathetic appreciation of his position
and the wrong that had been done bun.
But Jerry returned his glanco with nn
more than a look of recognition. He
had been greatly disappointed in Buck
ingham this morning.
if only the man had softened, If only
he had been horrified instead of enraged , watching at tho pollf, on the part of re-l-
the discovery of his relationship to i forJn representatives had in times past
mi', i-oiiiiiiion oi in" nouse in wnicn 1 been s-o dangerous that it was now
llitle Isadorc Aurentsky had tiled, If only entitled to rate as a hazardous occupa
he had mustered one word, one' thought , ton. Whenever reform watchers had
or 1 xnret-sion nf consideration for tho .hnu-n n dlsnnsitlon to be morn than
man who had attempted his life But. no,
the man could think today only rf him-
self and of his hurt and offended pride.
Therefore it was but just that Victor
had said to Mr. Buckingham in public
what Jeny had tried to say to him in
private; but Victor, being a trained
speaker, had said it so much better,
more cuttingly, and with so much more
smashing force than Jerry had been
able to i-ay it.
But net even Jerry had suspected that
the reason Victor Rollinson had been
able to speak with such feeling of the
bioader social consequences of a cold,
stubborn indifference like Buckingham's
was that the lawyer was In the t-screts
of the Federal investigators and knew
Hooray for the Fourth!
what the) knew nbout the anarchist
Laxene, knew that he was h direct hsso
date of the leaders of tho I. V. w.
movcmfcnt, knew that Aurntsky was not
dreaming when he h.thbtcd to his daugh
ter of the plot of widespread nets ot
sabotaga In Philadelphia tiiat went even
10 the -taking of human life.
I-.olIlm.un knew, moreover, thnt even In
these days while .leiry's campaign was
pushing to its close, while Aiircnfk.v
was being tried for bis murderous at
tack, the net or tho L'nlted States Gov
ernment Was belmr ilhiu-n closer nnd
c'loser about these plotters of wholesale
destruction, nnd that there was real
anxiety lest the alarm be given nnd the
cr, initials escape or that some sudden
throwing forward of their plans might
make tho wholesale arrests that were In
contemplation come after the series nf
crimes had been perpetrated Instead of
before, as the Federal agents naturally
hoped.
In other words, while Philadelphia
came and went nbout the business of the
day. and while Its citizens were more or
le s Interested In the p.'lltlcnl campaign
of the Ileal Republicans ngninst the
Machine Ilt-publlcans, the city as n whole
was living upon a powder mine. Ttollln
1 on did not permit .lerrv to know this
because he felt thnt anything which
distracted his attention from the cam
paign issues was bad for the campaign
Itself.
Willi Buckingham gone, the crowd
quickly meltee! out of Judge Boynton's
court room. Aurentsky hid been takeij
away to Jail with an oilicer. but not
without being made to understand by
Sylvy thnt some mlghtv change In his
fortunes had taken place, that the law
e-oulel forgive nnd even he merciful, and
that liberty nnd an opportunity to re
habilitate himself were almost In his
grasp. Rachel and the little Aurentskys
were clamoring about Victor and thank
ing him volubly. Victor listened to them
indulgently for a while, but soon man
aged to get Sylvy alone and In front of
him. Just for one lover look Into the
girl's eyes. They were swimming with
tears of gratitude: but there was also
admiration In them heights of admira
tion nnd depths of love. Victor's heart
leaped as he saw it and hope, a great,
rare, uplifting hope, built itself higher
and stronger In hl.i heart than ever bc
foi e.
CHAPTER XLII
The Day of Decision
JHRRY walked out of the courtroom
greatly depressed by the realization
that this was Ruth's father whom Vic
tor Rolllnson. In the Interest of truth
and Justice, had just excoriated so ruth
lessly. "Don't read the papers tonight. Ruth :
nor tomorrow morning. ,Iu-t eion'l lead
'em at all,'1 he telephoned her. "Aurent
sky? Oh guilty, of course, hut
with a recommendation to mercy. Vic
tor handlejl the case marvelously, and
the man will piobably not go to lull in
all just go out with a suspended scn
tvpec. Sylvy? Brave ns ever,
and twice as beautiful ; and Victor twice
as determined. I saw libit turn and look
at her when It was all over. Such a
look ! Ruth. It would make you believe
in love 11 you knew there wasn t nnv
such thing. Yes ; he nut tonight I
tell you all about everything."
The trial was concluded on Friday.
The campaign was In Its llnal days.
Tuesday the Iw-ue would be deeded. The
story nf the dramatic events of the
trial, nil of which had taken place aftei
the prisoner was convicted., and events
wh'ch were themselves surpassed In iu-tere-it
by the severe arraignment of
Buckingham with vvliich Rolllnson had
"onoludcil his brief passage at anus
with the banker, created a profound
impression. For one tiling it gave the
lie finally (n the hypothesis that Jerry
Archer could be construed ns In any
sort of real or prospective alliance with
the projects of Buckingham. For an
other, It gave one final and striking In
stance ot the ffect of misgnvernment
upon the lives and health of a whole
city.
Xot was It alone upon the mlnibt nf
the humbler classes, the dwellers Ina
tene-ments, that this Impression was
maele.
"There l pestilcnc enough bred
dally In that on alley tn bring a
nlague to the whole e'tv," Doctor Clwcn
baugh had declared In an interview with
the reporters.
There was a wave of outspoken sym
pathy for Aurcntskv. too. and generoutt
approval of the judue's action with re
gard to sentence, while Jerry's magnan
imous spirit toward the man who had
stabbed him did more than anything
else to drive home to tile c'ty the fact
th-it his administration. a he had tried
to tell the people of Kensington, was to
lie characterised by the human touch
This was the atmosphere in which
.lerrv at headnuarters rallied h'p force'
on Friday n'ght for the last two days of
I battle. Saturday and Monday. I.ven
the young leaner, mmse.i. wnn sausneu
that be had by now got tin? virus or Ills
fight beneath the skin of the coldest,
most btmlgv of Philadelphia tempera
ments. Kve'rybody knew the contest was
on ; everybody knew what It was about ;
everybody hiid taken h dcs. It was the
tensest battle of give and take, blow on
blow, attack upon attack that Philadel
phia had ever seen in a municipal cam
paign. Convinced now that vote- enough
were going to be ca-d to elect blm, Jerry
began to concern himself with getting
these votes counted.
There were all sorts of rumors about
false reg'nrations. about plant for
stufllng the ballot boxes, and for muti
lating and disqualifying in the count the
votes cast for the Real Republican can
didates. The rltction boards, were, ac
cording to custom, entirely bi the hanels
ot the opposition. The safety of tho
ballot for tho Real Republicans lay In the
shrcw-diics-, the persistence nnd the
.......... .. .. I ...n.nl.nnn at t tl a ni-lllc
perfunctory In the performance of their
eluties. they had encountered very cavall r
I treatment Sometmes this took tho
form of belner coolly gnored. elhowed
' or jostled out of tho way. Thin was tho
mildest form. In tho more violent forms
It expressed itself In threats and in
bodily assaults.
lvpenlv cocnlzant of this, anel abso
lutely incapable of doing anything In the
conventional or commonplace way, jerry
issued a call for workers that In itself
fell upon the opposition like the rain
ing of hombn from the sky upon an
enemy s works.
last paragraphs of the call "If you are
afraid don't come. They have treated
ie win nut lie- 1111 caoy jun. i.eu nit-
SURE. PflOFESSOR- WE CAN HANDLE
HEY !
IN THE BELL
The job. Years Ago yve drummed
THIS
for oof none Tov-m twnu-etc.
CHAPTER III !
The Spy Is Surprised
(General StrnUnw calls to PegoU
tn sec an nrmv ninrchlno throupli
the cltv. It is the IIVils army under
General Tin lit. Ulir accompanies It
to an airplane factor), ichcrc she
limit a Herman spjl at work.)
AS PEGGY made the discovery that
tho forcmnn was secretly injur
ing the seaplane, a young man in nn
army aviator's uniform entered the
room. The foreman quickly slipped
his file into n pocket and pretended to
be giving the machine a final Inspec
tion. "Got her ready for me, Carl?" cried
the young man.
"She's fine nnd fit, Lieutennnt
Young," answered Carl,
"Good," responded Lieutenant
Young. "She looks like a bllnger! I'll
have a chance to test her in real
notion today. We're going after those
German U-boats with every machine
we can get."
Lieutenant Young was so much ab
sorbed in admiring the seaplane that
he did not notice tho gleam in Carl's
eye. Peggy saw It, however, and she
clenched her fists. She wasn't going
to let the foreman send tills brave
young olllccr to his doom if she could
help It.
The seaplane was mounted on a
truck and workmen called by the
foreman quickly ran It out of a large
door to nn incline used In launching
the miichlnc-i upon tho bay on which
tho factory faced.
Peggy ran after. .She didn't know
just hnw to warn tho lieutenant. She
was Invisible because ot the effects of
Camouflage Perfume, and she was so
tiny she couldn't whisper in his ear.
By the time she reached the Incline
Lieutenant Young had climbed into
the pilot's seat.
"You've tested all tlte '.vires and
everything?" lie linked Call.
"You know I wouldn't neglect that,"
said Carl, so hypocritically that Peggy
wanted to pinch him. She had to act
quickly to upset his plot.
"Give me a booit to the lieutenant's
shoulder," .she cried to General Swal
low, lie fluttered above her and she
grasped his legs. He rose into the
air lifting her to the cockpit that in
closed the officer and the controls with
which he worked the seaplane. 1'eggy
leaned far over nnd shouted:
"Look at your wires! They've been
cut!"
Motors popping within the factory
drowned her tiny voice so that it
scarcely got through Lieutenant
Young's aviator helmet. Yet he heard
her and looked around to sec who
was speaking. Of course she was In
visible, and when lie saw no one he
thought his imagination was playing
tricks on him. So he prepared to start
his engine.
"Look nt your wires
again
the watchers nf reform roughly In the
past. A few years ago a man who was
lighting the gang In erne of Ihe wards
was attacked In the polls Itself; he de
fended himself with a stick of timber till
the police came, and to them, officers in
uniform, he surrendered. After thin
surrender he was maltreated Indescrib
ably and died In the hospital. A few
years ago some young men from the
V. XT. C. A. volunteered to serve as
watchers at the polls'. Some of them
were beaten brutally. Other such crimes
have happened. Reform workers have
been insulted, threatened. arrested:
thev have had their window books taken
from them and torn up and thrown in
their facet'. We mav expect things like
that on Tuesday, for, I tell you, the
machine is desperate.
"You citizens of Philadelph'a tl" not
like to have me refer to these things. .
.in not like to refer to them. ,ou te 1
kite it shames the city before tne ' wn mu.
and gives IV a nnei name-. '."",""""
that It was not 1 who shamed and gave
the c tv the bad name. It was the men
who did these things In the c Ity vyi icie
It was first written and widely adver
tised that all men were 'e,ne',vf'!"?'
equal My appeal to yoj h that brave,
dauntless men surround the polls to
morrow, and make these things impas
sible by their prei-ence.
lint when ynu mine out for this, kiss
vonr wives and tm.thcr, Bond-.v. for
'oil may die ns (leorgr 1-pi.le.v died, be
fore your loved ones see jmi again.
This sentence was melodramatic, but
it was apt. It maele memory connec
tions with an Incident that still burned
de.-p in the public consciousness.
R gh along In his speeches Jerry had
been taking potshots at misuse of the
Assistance Tto Voters" claut-e in the clec-
el..- lo.fn
"Xovv I want to remind you," he was
In tho habit of saying, "that -"very voter
who. not inquiring it. asks for assistance
perjures himself.'nnd I warn -.pu that
the Real Republlcin organization has
provided the necessary macniueiy .
check every such case, and I pledge you
mv word that, whether 1- am elected or
defeated, every man who asks for assist
ance who does not require It will face a
rhninal prosecution, coin- , ...... .... ,
But I'll lose my Job If I don t ask for
assistance.' T say to von tnai you n iu
some years oi your iiut-tij- n i '"'";,'
for It." nnd there was a snap to Jerry f.
.1.1.. -.u bo forked thin sentence out that
showed the wholo conviction of the man
was close behind the announcement of
his purpose.
"That's the alternative, and just so
you may know that it will bo a real pros
ecution, I want to add that Victor Rol
llnson will volunteer as a special prose
cutor In election fraud cases this tear
Xow. you men who. have been In the
habit of delivering j'our vote weakly to
the enemies of good government In this
city picture yourselves sitting in the
criminal dock with Victor Rolllnson
shaking his long foi dinger at you and
saving, 'Thou art the man,' and see if
It doesn't stiffen your knees n little. Set-,
too. If it doesn't make your old boss a
little wary about telling you to vote for
this man or that one, because, as ynu
well know, that's against the law Itself,
and we'll 'get' the boss who tries to de
liver Ills worKingme-ii as ii.em us wen
I 'get' the man that lets himself be de-
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"Look at
your wires!
been cul!"'
They"
screamed Pcsgy, as loudly as she
could.
Tho warning worried Lieutenant
Young, who evidently thought it was
Just a fancy of his mind. He exam
ined the wires close to the cockpit,
but not at their other ends, where Carl
had tiled them.
"Are you sure the wires are all
right?" he called to tho foreman.
"Sure I'm sure," repeated Car!, get
ting his Kngllsh tangled tip in Ills
nervousness. "I just looked at them."
Lieutenant Young put out his hand
to his throttle. Peggy was desperate.
She called on General Swallow for
help.
"Show him the wires are cut," she
screamed.' "Rap on them! Tear
them!"
General Swallow acted instantly. lie
hammered at the cut wires with his
beak, shaking them and making tho
putty fly from the filled places. Lieu
tenant Young couldn't see General
Swallow becouse of the effects of the
Camouflage Perfume, but lie did see
the quivering wires and the Hying bits
THE DAILY NOVELETTE
Shell Shock
By MARY LOXG
SILAS ALLEN, of
ceived a telcgtn
of Whitmarsh, had re-
long before every one in town had heard
the news. In fact more than two-thlids
of the inhabitants had read the contents
of tho yelleiw paper which the messen
grr had brought that morning. It said:
"Private Samuel Alien home for three
months' furlough. Arrive Whitmarsh
Center, Tuesday, 11.10 a. ill. Xlect."
And nearly every one who had read t lie
message had volunteered to go to the
station to meet the hero.
"I.em Crolbers Is tiie only one I
hain't seen." said Farmer Alien tn ".Ma"
Alien, as Ihey sat on tho porch of their
comfortable farmhouse. "Wonder why
he lialut been over."
"Well." replied his wife, "I hear he's
got u summer hoarder soino young girl
who's been awful sick. She jest wants
to set on the beach all day and git
built up. so Lent's busy cleanin' up ills
shore front, haulin' away all the shells
and stcvies so's to make it more com
fe.riabie for her."
And then silence fell between them,
nnd they sat there In the late twilight,
eieh busy with thoughts of their only
son. who was coming home to them next
day
A dn-ien willing hands and shoulders
wi re offered to help him into his father's
machine and home.
The wholesome life of the farm, to
gether with his mother's devoted care,
worked wonders and, six weeks later, the
young foldler was able to lake short
walks every day, and slowly his strength
returned tc him.
One especially fine summer day, when
he was feeling much stronger than usual,
he slarted out to pay a visit to his
father's old friend, Lem Crothers, but
finding the walk still a little loo much
for him, ho picked out a nice sandy
beach spot and stretched himself out at
full length to rest. In less than five
minutes he was sound asleep.
On the beach In front of the Crothers
home Aline Lee sat Idly gazing out over
the smooth, blue stretch of water. Her
book lav neglected on the sand beside
her, and every little while she would
pick up a pretty shell or stone and send
it splashing or skimming out into the
water.
"Well," she reflected to herself, "that's
more than 1 could do when 1 first came
here. I'm surely getting well and
strong again, thank goodness. I wonder
how far I could throw one of these
stones. I think I'll just test my
strength and see and then later I'll walk
around the beach and see If I can find
it."
Sho became quite excited In her search
for a shell or stone that should be so
different from all the rest that she
would be able to recognize it later.
"Aha !" she exclaimed with satlsfact'on
By H. A. MacGILL
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"1 11 ft 1 1 lfl it'ltt mtll tirr III i n rl on fin, .
with excitement, the little crowd waited ,"0"" ,l"a,' , tr,,CKI,T "own Ms fac0 fr01"
for a sight of Whltmnrsh's hero. Then u V.','!.,,"" "'V " lle' , - , ..
Sammle Allen, with his six feet of husky. ,,,.." l'-'"?:."'1,-' r .Stan.,"-7C(' ,'
strapping manhood, stepped weakly from ?,','" c?.l,,,m,e,el'v mit ot "ream from lur
th.. tr-iin i. ,ii-i-- ,i ii i c Viii.ap' .Mm lun. 'u hy er a ro you.tlie one?"
pr
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and ending Saturday.
of puttv. He climbed out on the wWrs
of the seaplane and reached up to the
wires, in a moment no nau louiiu
the cuts made hy the file.
Carl went pale as he saw that his
evil work was discovered. Peggy saw
him move as if to run away. Then,
like an actor, lie forced nn uncon
cerned smile to his lips and came to
the side of the machine.
"Anything wrong?" lie said.
Lieutenant Young stepped hack
from the injured- wlrea and looked
Carl full in the face.
' "What made you think there might
he something wrong?" he nsketl in a.
very calhi, very cold voice. "You Just
said the wires were all right."
'That's what the Inspector said,"
quickly answered Carl.
Lieutenant Young called to the in
spector. "Inspector Mordyce. will you kindly
come here?" Lieutenant Young pointed
to tho wires. "Did you give your ap
proval to these wires?"
The Inspector carefully examined
the wires. Then lie grew as white as
Carl had beqn.
"Some one has tampered with
them," he whispered to Lieutenant
Young. The ofllcer. his face set hard
nnd stern, and the boyish fun all gono
out of It, nodded his head.
"That's plain to be seen." he said.
Ho looked Carl square in the eye.
"Foreman Carl, you' nnd your crew
were tho only persons who touched
this seaplane after its Inspection. Line
up here."
Nine men lined up with Carl.
"Which of you ten tampered with
tlie wires?"
The men looked nt him In astonish
ment, even Carl simulating surprlse.y
No one answered.
Peggy turned eagerly to General
Swallow.
"Make him confess." she cried. "Tho
way you did Blue Jay."
That was enough for General Swal
low, lie darted to Carl's shoulder and
seized him by the ear, nipping It
fiercely. The foreman let out a yell of
pain and fear.
"Wow!" he screamed, Jumping for
ward. "Wow! Wow!" '
"Humph!" muttered Lieutenant
Y'oung. "I half suspected It."
"Xo, no, no!" yelled Carl. "It wasn't
me!"
General Swallow nipped his ear
again, and Carl screamed the louder.
"Pull the file from his pocket,"
cried Peggy. General Swallow let go
Carl's ear and jerked the file partly
out of ills Jumper pocket. Lieutenant
Y'oung saw it. stepped forward and
took the file. He fitted It to the marks
in tho wires. Then nodded his head
and beckoned to two guards.
"Place tills man under arrest!" Ho
ordered.
On Friday icill he told lioio the
seaplane, irtth Peggy on board,
goes searching for submarines.)
after n few minutes, "this ono, will be
just right," and she picked up a small
tightly curled shell, the Inside of which
was packed with fine, hard sand. "The
sand just makes It heavy enough tu
throw," she said, unconsciously speak
ing aloud In her Interest. "I'll try to
lilt that dark spot over there on the
other side of the beach." So, standing
up and taking careful aim, sho sent tho
little shell spinning across the water.
Fascinated, bho watched it go and
then
"Xlercy, what was that?" for a hoarse,
cry burst out upon the stillness. Aline
stood alone for a moment, stunned. "I
must have struck home one." she de
cided quickly : and fear lending wings
to her feet, sho sped around tho curve
of the beach and over the hard sand to
the other side.
"l Hi. why did I ever do such a silly
thing," she almost sobbed In her anx
loty. "I may have killed soma one."
And in her terror she rushed on with a.
frc-h burst of. speed.
Hardly seeing where she went, and
milium; so fast that she was not able
lo stop at once, Aline nearly fill over
the figure of a young man sittln-jr
against a rock, ruefully rubbing his
forehead with one hand, and with tho
other wiping away the little stream of
"The eine." bo answered, n little mi.
zled. " hy er yes, I guess I must
be; that Is, whichever one you mean.
I guess I'm it,'" getting slightly mixed
in his Kngl'sh. but smiling into the
gill's troubled face.
"Why, I mean are you tho one that
shouted for help just now," explained
Aline.
".Shouted," he replied. "Well, I should
say I did. You see, I was sound asleep
when this thing came along In such a
hurry. Why, I thought a shell from a
12-Inch field gun had struck mc, and I
eertnlnly must have yelled loud enough
to have scared olf a whole, regiment of
the enemy. You see, at first I really
didn't know just what had happened.
I'm sorry If I frightened you. Won't
you sit down a moment?' and he spread
his coat out on the sand.
"Well, really, you did give me quite a
shock," admitted tho girl, sinking down
upon the sand, just beginning to feel '
the reaction. "Hut then," she went on,
"I re.al!y deserved it, for, you see, I
threw the shell. I do hope It hasn't
really hurt you," she finished anxiously.
"Nothing' but a scratch," he assured
her, taking down his handkerchief to
prove his words. "It's not worth talk
ing nbout and certainly not worth the
awful racket I must have made. Dut
you see 1 was the shock, coming as It
did when I was sound asleep. But
there's no harm done, so don't give It
another moment's thought."
And so they sat there In the glory
of the summer sunshine and chatted as
only two young folks can talk, who are
mutually attracted to each other, and
for the rest of the morning and many,
a morning thereafter .Sammle Allen and
I.em Croihers's summer boarder walked
together on the hard stretch of sand
that lay between their two homes.
But three months is not forever, and
the end of the furlough was drawing
near.' Again, the two young people sat
on tho sand' at tho very spot where
thex had first met In such an unex
pected manner. .
In low tones Sammle Allen was
sneaking to the girl at his side. "My
time's nearly up, Aline," he said, "and
I shall have to.go.back. Aline, now.
and think that our pleasant days are
over." Ho looked at 'her suggestively.
"Must they be quite over. Aline?" He
rose nnd. taking her- two hands In his,
J helped the girl to her feet. "Aline, little
1 girl, won't you tell me that there'll be
j even happier days for me for us when
j I come home for' good?"
! And with smiling eyes and a little
. tremulous smile on her lips, the girt
i went Into the outstretched arms that'
awaited uer, ana wnen no sougnt ner
lips she did not deny him.
,'ir really think that I am the only
man in the company who can truth
fully say that he has suffered twice
from 'shell shock" n,ml survived," fcald
Sammle Allen some time later, "The
llrst took away the use of my arms
and legs for a little while, but the
second robbed me of my heart for
ever." "Well. I was frightened out of my
wits when It happened." confessed Aline,
"but since it has turned out like this.''
giving his arm a little squeeze, "why
now, of course, I'm very glad that I
gave you that Eecond 'shell shock.' "
Ana to-gemer tney wenaea tnelr way
toward the Allen farmhouse.
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