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WELDON J. COBB
C H A P T E R V I.
was conscientious to the point
that,
Gideon. Hope had said he had two 6b- though here for an ulterior purirase, she
jet'ts to attain : to reach the man controll was loyal to'the exigencies of the business
ing the patents on “ the Kane-Latimer regime of the Institution.
One or two of the mill messenger boys
metal process,” to revolutionise a political
wore in sight, but they might dally; Mr.
situatiop.
There was a third motive he had in Kane might not understand from them
view, but he did not state it to Michael how imperative was the necessity of the
Delehanty, or to the Amalgamated mes moment.
“ I will go and tell him myself,” decid
senger : the crowning desire of hia life
was to secure some positive proof that ed Claire.
Percy Kane was the murderer of his
She ran back to the ’ phone, ordered the
wire held, and passed quickly out of the
brother.
He had profound faith in the exist quarters into the open air.
She had to pass down a cindered road
ence. somewhere, somehow, of an incrim
inating clew. Sometime it would come to between two long shops, round the cast
light. But if there was no such evidence, ing shop, and thus reach the spot where
no witness, Hope determined to resort to she knew her employer to be. It was
any means to finally urge the millionaire over a quarter of a mile away by this
route, so she hurried along the deserted
schemer to a confession.
His— Hope's— was the task to reduce roan so rapidly that she did not notice a
this man to poverty, to subvert every am figure steal from a shelter shed and pur
sue her path.
bition and joy of his life.
But to follow that other trail, to bring
This was Gideon Hope, awaiting an
actually home to Kane his crime— that opportunity for a brief necessary word
had been left for the deft hand of a wom with her.
Since his whole facial presentment bad
an— Claire Tremaine.
Two days after the peculiar error been changed by that dip in the acid
which had "disguised" Gideon Hope most trough, he had ventured more boldly in
'effectually, a beautiful young girl sat at and out among shops and workmen.
a richly carved desk in the private office
Claire sped on, full of her mission. As
of the new iron magnate of the Kanawha she reached the middle of the long casting
shop, she fancied she descried a way of
district.
It was a luxurious apartment, supplied encompassing her purpose with due econ
with every model modern accessory known omy of time and distance.
to progressive business. Handsome deco
Broad doors cut the exact center of the
rations covered the walls, soft velvet structure on two sides. She could look
rugs were scattered about the polished across and through tbe width of the place.
hardwood floors. The ornate in leather,
By covering three hundred feet, cross
oak and bronze supplied each corner and ing the gutters and troughs in soft black
niche, and rich electric light chandeliers molding sand, tbe set “ pig iron” beds,
supplied the place with constant illumina she could come speedily to the other side,
and at once discover Kane.
tion.
Claire Tremaine had been in the em
Her dainty feet disturbed the even,
ploy of the company for three months. numerous rows of indentations sunk to
Under Gideon Hope's tutelage she had receive the molten iron, but not sufficient
been trained, steeled, for the part she was ly to destroy their utility, and she hur
to play. Kane had never seen her during ried along in the semi-gloom of the cov
his dealinga with her father, for the ered shed until about half way across the
motherless girl had been away at school structure.
over three years, spending her vacation
Then a grewsome, a hurried, sound
at the home of an aunt in Maryland,
checked
her; then a flare, sudden, blin'd-
where her father went to visit her.
So she had few acquaintances when ing, shot across both far ends of the
¿he came home finally to reign as queen building.
It seemed as if the jargon, tbe foul-
of the fair palace her father had erected
for what he believed would be a rare, some blase of bell itself had let loose!
Claire stood appalled. The overwhelm
happy future.
Here at Stanton there
seemed no probability of ever meeting ing, the terrible, the soul-curdling had
any old seminary friend. Still she had happened— all in a moment!
This had occurred :
considerably altered her appearance. But
A t either end, on a signal, because the
this had not detracted from her beauty;
the assumption of the character of a time had come for the usual operation, the
poor young girl compelled to earn her two immense blast furnaces had been
daily bread— it had rather heightened openened up.
Instantly their gushed forth tons of
graces and loveliness that had at once
won her a position as copy clerk, a pro molten metal, cascades, a torrent of i t !
Quick as lightning, swift, lurid steam,
motion to the stenographer desk, and
finally that of especial private secretary it splotched Into the central gutter, and
spread.
to Percy Kane himself.
Out, in— filling a score o f feeder arter
Claire was alone in the private office.
Her eyes were sadly fixed upon the busy ies, distributing veins, channels, in one
minute tbe long,
scene of labor without. In memory she throbbing, setient
went back over the past few weeks. Her speeding rivulets of red hot metal dash
lip trembled, her bosom rose and fell with ed down, along, across.
Claire was environed— shut in !
varied stirring emotions.
Only now, in the vivid illumination, did
T k m a sudden determination nerved
her. and she drove from soul and face the workers on the end platforms discover
the flitting tenderer sentiments that had the human victim penned in.
But now no hand could stay the de
Intruded.
8he drew a letter from a drawer to stroying stream; now no saving arm
which she alone had the key. She open could reach her.
“ She’s lost!"
ed and read it over.
“ It ’s reached h er!’
“ Dear Mr. Hope: I have for you the
“ No, not yet, but----- ”
.
Information you desired of the metal pro
A roar of many voices went up— a
cess patentee.
“ O f the other information I bare found groan of hope It was, half cheer of hope.
Claire had sunk to her kneeg. She
nothing. I f he has in bis possession any
document or record incriminating him. or thought her doom had come, and was
even linking him with the Consolidated praying.
With closed eyes she felt the hot,
Silver Company, he carefully conceals the
scorching breath fly nearer, closer.
same in some place elsewhere.
The spell-bound workers were glaring
“ I am at my post. »1 serve, I wait, as
you desire, but I must see you. The or at one sudden, heroic figure.
A man had abruptly appeared at the
deal is too severe! Something has hap
pened. He— but I will not write what side doorway Claire had recently entered.
It was Gideon Hope.
I must tell you.
In an Instant he saw the frightful peril
“ You must take me away from here—
something has happened, as I tell you, of tbe woman whose life had become so
strongly bound up with his own.
and I must see you I”
A spring, and he was on the planking
She arose quickly, bestowing the letter
at her belt. A man entered the room— spanning the upper arches of tbe grimy
massive, overfed, overdressed— one of the structure.
A keen run and he was nearly over
“ big four” who had engineered the deal
that made a rascally quartette censors of her head.
There was a rattle. He had sprung to
the metal markets of the world.
He had the grace to remove from his the side of a derrick, released its gearing.
Its hooked chain dropped, tangled, di
mouth the cigar he was smoking as he
rectly over the head of the fire-environed
asked:
Claire.
“ Kane In?”
It rattled, swung, vibrated. Those peer
“ No, sir.”
She shivered at the leering, sensuous ing through spitting sparke of flame and
glance of this man. a figure-bead at the foamy fits of steam witnessed him slide
champagne supper directors’ meeting, a the chain like some apt sailor.
“ Cling to me!”
being who would have been a fixture in
Hoarsely, breathlessly, Hope shouted
some tannery or digging sewers but for
the word, lifting Claire as he spoke.
bis usefulness to Kane.
Her dress had caught ablaze. He dash
He passed out. She caught bis chuck
ling remark to tbe clerk in the next room ed out tbe flaming cloth.
Her eyes opened in wild hope— in wild
as he went out of sight:
“ I f U wasn’t for Kane, I ’d taka some er surprise.
“ Y o u !” she cried in a love of Joy, and
pains to cultivate Miss Rockford my
unhesitatingly clasped her arms about his
self !”
Claire stood erect, flushing, smarting neck— for to cling there was her only
to the soul— contact with these men sul safety.
A strange, weird emotion played across
lied every womanly Instinct.
“ I can not endure i t ! ” she said. Just Gideon Hope’s strong soul.
“ You know m e!” he uttered.
then the telephone bell In an adjoining
“ Anywhere!”
closet rang.
She went to the instru
He lifted hand over hand— they got
ment.
Claire forgot everything except the safe above the blistering heat, the spite
business of tbe moment as she received ful sparks of fire, shooting up like disap
pointed serpents.
‘ he message coming over tbs wires.
He was forced to rest the weight, the
It was a long-distance snnouncement
from Pittsburg, and it told of the con tension was horrible. Their eyes met. A
summation of one of tbs largest foreign startling, thrilling rapture filled him.
Almost could he wish to cling there a
contracts ever awarded an American
firm, but consequent upon tbe Immediate moment thus, with that sweet face so
near to hia own, and drop deliriously to
presence of Mr. Kane in New York.
It was so important that Claire knew the lurking death beneath— obliteration
She must lose no time in getting her of a broken life after one rapture-laden
employer to the 'phone to answer in per moment of ecstasy!
But be struggled anew. They reached
son.
She hastened into the outer office and the platform safe.
She still clung to him. He had saved
addressed the inquiry clerk:
her life. A shout aroused both.
“ Where is Mr. Kane?”
A white-faced man, followed by others,
“ He has just gone over with tha super
intendent beyond the casting shed, to see was dashing down the planking towards
about tbs erection of a new hoisting them. It was Percy Kane.
“ He Is coming!” said Claire, “ I most
crane,” was the response.
Clairs glanced about the office. She tell yet' something.”
SULTAN’S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PUBICO.
I I * was unnerved, in strangs enaction
— and trusted not to words.
“ That man! He— he has asked— *
Her gas* dropped. Then the continued
family :
“ He hae asked me to be hia wife.“
Gideoo Hope started aa though stung.
Then the old sternnee came to hia hard,
iron face.
“ You have found no clews— no papers?
Nothing of hie paet?”
“ Nothing," she said, weakly.
A void of agony was in the man’s heart.
But Kane was nearing them.
He thought of his purpose, o f hia mur
dered brother. 11is soul grew sick within
him, his face was ashen, hut justice nrged.
As though probouncing his own doom,
in a liars’» , hollow tone, Gideon Hepe
said decisively;
“ You must marry this man!"
to th e U n re d e e m e d .
There Is no to
m orrow In God's
caleudar.
Th e worst o f all
failures la to suc
ceed
in
doing
wrong.
In killing snakes
It Is better to cut
off an Inch o f head
than a foot o f tall.
Covetousness la the m otb.r o f many
«Ina.
Even the devil w ill behave himself
when chnlued.
C H A P T E R V II.
White as marble, the president of the
greatest iron and steel combine on earth
staggered liack from the ticker standing
in one corner of his privste office, and
gasped a wild, frantic word "Incredible!"
Around him was tbe busy hum of In
dustry, tbe air clouded with constant
steam and smoke, the jar of giant ham
mers, tbe whirr and whistle of wheel and
valve.
A t one corner of this vast industrial
city was his own nest of luxury, one of
a suite of offices magnificent enough for
a prince; there he stood. A man 'sud
denly transfixed, the white paper atrip
playing out from the ticker dropped from
hia grasp, a queer rattle sounded in his
throat,, and then be felt something givs
way, and the plate glass windows danced
da axled, and he fell in a senseleas heap
across the rich velvet tufted rug.
It was two months after the thrilling
events that hed culminated in the strange |
peril of beautiful Claire Tremaine in her
stranger rescue by the man who was at
once her master and her minion.
Little had tbe i>owerful confederation
of millionaries, who directed and misdi
rected the doings of the great metal trust,
recked of the insidious power that, in
visible but potent, was slowly undermin
ing the bold, strong work of years— they
A B D U L H A M ID , S U L T A N O F T U R K E Y .
knew not, for they feared not.
Perhaps the moat astonishing recent change In Turkey is that which la
And now a blow lad fallen— one! And
represented by the spectacle o f the Sultan taking a drive. Until the threat
they dreamed not it> source, not even its
import.
ened advance o f two arm y corps upon Stamboul forced Abdul Ham id to revive
For some minute* the great magnate
the constitution o f 1870 the commander o f the faithful never had dared to
lay stretched, a lump of clay. Then the
show himself outside the precincts o f Ylldlx kiosk, except fo r the Friday
door opened. Jauntily smoking a cigar,
d rive to the Selamlk in the Hamldleh mosque, which Is practically within the
Percy Kane entered the apartment.
grounds o f the palace. By thus showing himself freely to his people Abdul
His eye was bright, bis step firm. There
Ham id haa done a good stroke o f business for himself, because the Turk Is
was joy in his face— a new emotion that
a patient beast o f burden, absolutely loyal to his padlshah, and only asking
somewhat toned down the hard, sordid
not to be ridden to death by corrupt pashas and palace favorites. Hence the
lines of his selfishness and avarice. He
checked himself in surprise and then in public appearances o f the Sultan have been the occasion o f a series o f out
dismay, and. rooted, stood staring blank bursts o f perfectly sincere loyalty.
ly at the prostrate form at his feet.
“ Worthington, man 1 what is this?” he
trees as tbe native ones disappear.
exclaimed.
Eleven million larches, oaka, spruce«,
A cold sneer began to play over bis lit.
as the nstural thought came to him that
Douglas firs and eucalypts have already
the president had tarried too long at the
been planted, and vast numbers o f seed
elegant private buffet in the interior re
lings are coming In all tbe time. The
ception room. Just now, however, tbe
reason fo r replacing tbs native trees
figure stirred. There was a moan, then a
with species from the United States,
weird, convulsive ahudder.
Europe and Australia Is that those o f
The sufferer sat up, his hand voidly,
By a recently patented movable mold, New Zealand are too slow o f growth,
confusedly brushing bis brow.
a well organized force o f laborers can although some o f them produce excel
“ Something snapped!” he maundered.
T b e Implantations thrive
“ Snapped?” chalUnged Kane, with ir lay 2 feet o f cement sidewalk per min lent timber.
ute.
everywhere.
ritation.
A practically permanent paint,
a
“ Y e s !”
Th e older countries having beeL
rich brown In color, Is made by grind stripped o f their forests. In many cases
“ Where?”
“ In my head ! I was— I was----- ”
ing tbs bones o f mummies with bitu to the danger-point, search is now be
Laboriously the president struggled to men.
ing made fo r valuable woods In newer
his feet. He 'alN ied toward the neareot
Although iron ore Is fonnd in almost lands. Among these Is Brazil, which
(hair. Then as he sank into it his whit#
every State and territory In the Union, is known to possess enormous wealth
face grew still whit»»-. A sharp cry es
caped hia lips, and ne pointed a trembling It Is mined profitably in only twenty- o f this kind. A lready tbe great Bra
zilian forests are beginning to feed the
finger at th* snake-like strip of ribbon, nine.
A Pittsburg firm is making a special sawmills which are rapidly being erect
unwinding— unwinding, from the ticker,
remorseless as some gbonl of fate telling ty o f glaaa grave “ stones,” which show ed. It has been remarked that not
off the fortunes made, unmade, at the portraits o f tbe deceased blown in tbe withstanding the vast Increase In tbs
stroke of the pendulnm on the stock ex front.
use o f metal all over the world, the
change of New York City, five hundred
Contracts have been awarded fo r a l demand for wood Is still growing. Many
miles away.
most 10,000 tons o f dynamite for use o f the forests o f Brazil are yet so fa r
“ Look !” he shivered— ’’and read !”
on
the Panama canal within the next from the railroads that they remain
“ O h ! you mean----- ” began Kane cool
In comparative safety, but others are
ly, passing toward the telegraph instra- tw elve months.
feeling the ax. An Increasing quantity
ment— then a sudden excitement made
Th e Island o f Formosa exported
hint go quicker, for he began to estimate 4,121.1560 pounds o f camphor last year, o f timber finds its w ay from the In
terior to Rio de Janeiro, where it is
the source of his confrere’s emotion.
o f which 1,635,300 pounds came to the
used for packing-boxes, match manu
He snatched up the snake-like coil— United States.
facture, and many other purposes, and
deft, practiced finger and eye ran along
A patent has been granted to an at a note o f alarm is sounded by those
the narrow atrip indented with harsh dots
tachment to a rocking chair to operate who have learned what It means to
and dashes.
"The deuce!" he mattered, and hi» fins a fan to cool the occupant w hile away- strip a country o f its forest resources
white teeth clenched and met through the Ing to and fro. -
without providing fo r their renewal.
Havana.
Th e United States produced 5,004
“ Destruction !” he almost shouted after long tons o f manganese last year, worth
POINTING THE BONE.
a second lightning-like scan of the rib 124.703, more than any previous year
bon, and the cigar dropped from between
lir e r a tlllo a
o f tk o N a tlv *
except 1902 and 1000. .
his lips, and a gray color began to creep
B lo c k * o f A u s t r a l i a .
Over $225,000 has been subscribed to
from the brow downward over bis star
Th e native blacks o f Australia a n
the Koch endowment to be applied to a
tled, hia’appalled face.
steeped In superstition. A black fellow
crusade against tuberculosis, under the
(T o be continued.)
w ill on no account go near the spot
direction o f Dr. Koch.
where another black has been burled.
A company Is being form ed at St.
B o l i v i a n I n d ia n s .
He has a deep rooted averalon to one
Th e Indian women o f Bolivia are Louis with $2,000,000 capital to oper particular bird— the wagtail— because,
usually superior to their lords In actual ate a 11ns o f steel barges between that he says, “ him all day talk, talk along
city and New Orleans.
,
Intelligence; also in age, as a rule.
a white feller, tellum all about black
A
Philadelphia
foundry
makes
a
spe
They earn the larger share of their
feller,” and no opportunity Is lost of
mutual “ living” and take the lead in cia lty o f breaking up old steel cannon killing these little birds.
,
and remeltlng the metal fo r more than
most things.
Mamy tribes “ bury” their dead b>
As recognized head o f the house tbe h alf a hundred purposes.
sticking them up Into the forks o f trees
A compressed a ir buffer has been and there leaving them till the flesh
Bolivian Indian w ife is much more
likely to thrash her comparatively timid patented for locomotives which. It is has either dropped or been taken, leav
claimed, w ill prevent a serious wreck ing the bones clean. These bones are
spouse than he is to 111 use her.
In tbe markets, when produce haa to In the event o f a collision.
then taken down, the larger ones burled
Wlk^cience
^^pTVention
be disposed of, she can drive a far bet
ter bargain than he could ; she can car
ry as heavy burdens, endure ns much
privation and physical toll, labor, chew
as much cocoa and drink ns much
strong drink.
L ittle or no money passes among the
Bolivian Indians, their mediums of ex
change being whatever they may raise
or the labor o f their hands. They w ill
eat when not »hungry, drink when not
thirsty, sleep when not sleepy, any
where and any time when opixirtunlty
offers, “ against the time o f need,” as
they say. Th e m ajority are In a state
o f semi-intoxication from bnhyhood to
the grave, alcohol being used on every
pretext, freely as their means will al
low, on occasions o f births, deaths and
feast days— the last named being re
markably frequent.— Boston Globe.
He
H aa
to
B ay.
“ You know,” said the soulful youth,
“ music Is the food o f love----- ”
“ Nonsense!” replied the practical
fellow , “ my love prefers lobster salad,
terrapin and other expensive fodder."
— Philadelphia Press
TRUMPET CALLS.
W ax obtained by boiling crude ozo
cerite, obtained from the bituminous
shales o f central Poland and Hungary,
Is used fo r candles by the peasants.
T b s result o f observations o f doable
stars mads from 1839 to 1907 at the
observatory at Cambridge, England,
soon w ill be published In book form.
More than 100,000,000 lobsters were
propagated and set free by the fish
commission last year, with the result
that tbs pries was cut almost in half.
A Russian Inventor haa brought to
the United States a motor boat which
he claims w ill make a speed o f thirty-
one miles an hour with a 12-horse power
engine.
Mors rapid changes In animal and
vegetable life, says Science, are taking
place in New Zealand than almost any
where else in tbs world. T b e native
Polynesian race Is disappearing before
the European; the native w ild animals
amount to little In contest with Im
ported species, many o f which now run
w ild ; tbs streams are full o f Am eri
can and European trout, which attain
an enormous size; and even tbe forests
to be replaced by planting foreign
God honors the man
a fra id o f a hard place.
who Is
not
Putting ball bearings on the church
doors Is a poor w ay to fill the pews.
Denouncing sin with a club In the
hand is not the way Jesus did It.
The man God calls has to make a
move o f some kind. H e can’t stand
still.
A boy generally gets bis best from
hia mother and hia worst from
bla
father.
The book o f Jonah was written to
show that God ia in favor o f foreign
missions.
Tbe man who leads a prayer-meeting
should neither exhaust his subject nor
his congregation.
The preacher who does not get much
out o f the Bible fo r hlmaelf w ill get
less fo r his people.
There Is something about a real man
that makes him shun a w ay that Is
carpeted with v e lv e t
» H - H - 1-M - kk k H I t ! » » ♦ ♦
HOW ABOUT YOUR D0OÎ
I
Some facts which every lover o f dogs
should know are printed In Our Four-
footed Friends. The w riter o f tbe ar
ticle believes that nine dogs out o f ten
which their owners have to get rid o f
are simply tbe victims o f careless or
unkind treatment.
Overfeeding and
lack o f exercise are the cause o f Ills
In tbe canine race as well as among
human beings.
Nothing Is so certain to make a dog
sullen or cross as chaining him up.
He suffers so much from confinement
that It Inevitably changes his disposi
tion. I t Is not only a wrong and a
cruel w ay to treat a dog, but It Is fool
ish, fo r a chained dog can be o f no
service to his owner excepting to bark.
A tramp or burglar knows the dog
cannot reach him to harm him.
A chained dog Is likely to bark at
a friend as well as at a foe, or at a
dog ruunlng by or a passing team. Th e
fam ily gets used to his barking, and
no one Is likely to get up In the night
and Investigate every time the chained
dog barluu
A dog that Is well treated and has
hia freedom stays about the place and
guards I t O f course there are excep
tions— “ tramp dogs,” we call them ; but
the fam ily wanting • watch dog can
find one that w ill discriminate between
friend and foe, and strike terror to
tbe heart o f evil-doers by tbe very fact
that he is loose.
I have beard it said, and I believe It
to be true, that burglars dread a little
house dog Inside tbe house more than
a dog outside the bouse, as they have
ways o f quieting the latter.
A dog
that sleeps Inside the barn Is a greater
safeguard .to tbe barn than one out
side and chained up.
I f a dog Is kept outside to guard a
place be should not be chained, but
should have a goodsized, comfortable
dog house, facing south, raised at least
six inches from the grouud, ns other
wise the floor w ill be cold and damp,
and cause rheumatism. There should
be a bed o f loose straw o r excelsior,
changed frequently enough to keep it
clean and dry, and always a dish full
o f fresh, clean water.
A dog Is a living, sensitive creature,
not a machine, yet he frequently gets
less careful attention than the machi
nery men use. I t Is seldom a boy or
even à man w ill take as good care o f
his dog as he does o f his bicycle or his
automobile.
A chained dog is wretched, and ns
one has a right to cause any creature
constant suffering, even to serve what
one may call a useful purpose.
S »(ln * l* (
E a r ly .
“ PHpa,” said little libllo, whose fath*
er was shaving himself, “ didn't you tell
me once that a man was a benefactor
who made tw o blades o f grass grow
»»here only one grew before?”
“ Yes, my son.”
"Then a man who makes safety
razors Is a benefactor. Isn't be?”
"W h y so?” asked hia father.
“ Because he makes ten blades grow
where there wasn’t any before,” an
swered little Hollo.
’A lvlra ," groaned the sad father,
“ that boy Is going to be a hum orist”
and tbe smallest handed round as keep
sakes to those nearly related to tbs de
ceased. Should one black fellow wish
the death o f a rival or enemy he points
the bone at him. This means that he
takes one o f his late relation’s bones
from his dllly bag and points It, In the
presence o f witnesses, at the man he
wishes to get rid of, all the time pour
ing forth threats and curses.
Strange as It may seem, tbs on*
pointed at w ill often languish and even
tually die, perhaps In a month, perhaps
in a year, for no sooner i t the hone
B it t e r ly D is a p p o in t e d .
pointed than he makes up his mind to
Inquisitive—
If, as you say, you knew
die, and there is no saving him.— Lon
this
man
to
be
a rake, why did you In*
don Standard.
vlte him to your house?
D l f f e r e a t O p in io n s .
Henpeck— Heavens, mnn, I never
he would elope with my
“ I see a man Intends to let a rattle dreamed
snake bite him and depend on prayer daughter; I thought he would carry off
my w ife.— La Rlre.
fo r a cure. I call that faith.”
“ I call It cruelty to animate unless
H e , la d e r d .
somebody's going to pray for the snake
“ Jinx la going to Honduras to en
after It’s bitten such a fool aa th a t” —
list in tbs army o f that governm ent1*
Philadelphia Ledger.
“ H e’s a soldier o f fortune, e h r ’
“ No, he’s a soldier o f no fortune |
I f women are talking machines, men
I f he bad a fortune he would stay
who sow w ild oats ahoukl he cl
lag menhlnea
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