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SYNOPSIS
George McAusland was 38 years old
when he sailed from America to under­
take his post as a missionary in the Fiji
Islands A crime he had committed in a
tit of excitement had shattered all his
confidence tn himself. He felt forced to
avoid pretty Marv Doncaster, who board­
ed the ship at Honolulu. She was en
route to visit her parents, who were
missionaries on Gilead Island.
Mary
was attracted by George's attempts to
avoid her. One day George accidentally
fell overboard Mary unhesitatingly dove
into the sea to rescue George. George
is falling tr love with her. When the
boat approached her home on Gilead
Island, they learned that Mary's parents
had both died George volunteered to
take charge of the mission. Faced with
the necessity of losing Mary if he left
her now. George forced himself to ask her
to be his wtfe.
Mary accepted his
clumsy proposal, and they left the ship
to live in her former home on the island.
The scanty dress of the natives shocked
George at first, but he soon became
reconciled to their customs
Mary dis­
covered that Corkran. a sailor friend of
George s. had deserted ship to live on the
island. He had come there to help George
and Mary if they needed him.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
Mary understood as the days
passed that George both looked for­
ward to the whaler's coming and
dreaded it When one day Jarambo
came in some excitement to call
them to see a distant sail, Mary
asked quickly whether it was the
Venturer. Jarambo said it was not
At dark that night, the schooner
was still distant but at dawn she
made in toward the roads. Mary
saw that George was uneasy at the
sight of this invader. They watched
together, standing on the rocks
above the landing place; and when
the schooner approached the an­
chorage, Jar ambo and the others
prepared to launch canoes.
But George called them back,
“Tell them only Jarambo is to go.
Mary,” he directed. "Have Jaram­
bo tell the people aboard the schoon­
er not to land here.”
Mary urged: "Canoes always go
off to any ship that comes in,
George, and people come ashore.”
We don’t want sailors here on
Gilead," he insisted.
She knew the message would be a
useless one; but she told Jarambo
to deliver it. He went off alone and
they saw a white man speak to him
from the deck of the schooner; and
George
commented
scornfully:
"That man's half naked, like a na­
tive!” Then the white man yonder
dropped down into the canoe, and
George said in deep resentment:
"He's coming. Go to the house,
Mary. I'll meet him here, get rid
of him.”
"Why, don't be silly! I'U stay and
welcome him with you.”
He said: "No, go to the bouse.
If he sees you, he'll want to stay."
Mary was. absurdly pleased. She
smiled.
After a while she beard them com­
ing near, and a strong young voice,
laughing, said:
"You're damned mysterious! What
have you got here, a gold mine?
Man, these are hospitable seas. We
make all comers welcome.
You
ought to learn the custom of the
country.”
She soon saw a young man in
soiled white trousers, barefoot, nak­
ed to the waist, his skin bronzed
by sun, fine golden hair curled tight
on his chest, eyes blue as the sky in
the brown of his countenance. He
wore the radiance of bounding
health; and when he saw her he
stopped and cried delightedly:
"Oh, ho! No wonder you wanted
no callers, Parson!"
Then he came forward by her hus­
band's side; and George said grudg­
ingly: "Mrs. McAusland, this is Mr.
Aulgur.”
The young man grasped her
band. "Fritz Aulgur," he corrected.
“Your husband tried to warn me off;
but now that I’ve seen you, you're
going to have a lot of company
here.”
CHAPTER V
She said uneasily, and watching
George: "Won't you come in?" She
asked curiously: "Why will there
be others coming?"
“Pearls!" he told her. His eyes
were bold. “Not but what there'd
be a rush anyway if they knew you
were here, Mrs. McAusland.” She
felt George tight with rage beside
her.
"Pearls!" Fritz repeated,
“Black Laurence found shell in the
lagoon across the Island, months
ago.
The typhoon caught him,
ripped his masts out; and I picked
him off what was left of his schoon­
er. He had a broken head and died
of it; but I pieced together things
he said with the prickings on his
chart, and figured where he’d been
and what he'd found His halfbreed
supercargo caught me studying the
chart and tried to knife me as we
were making into harbor. He missed
his try and dove overboard and got
away. I tried to pot him in the
dark, but no go. He'll be back, with
his friends, as soon as he can raise
the wind; but I came along for a
look-see.”
I
He stayed an hour, did most of
the talking.
He had known Mary’s father, had
touched here once four or five years
ago. "I get around,” he said. “I'm
•pt to drop in almost everywhere,
give me time.”
Mary asked him whether in his
travels he had seen the Venturer.
He had, three months before. "In
Honolulu," he said. “She's been all
over the lot, was just about full up.”
She had next day a message from
Corkran, a question; and when
George was asleep in the afternoon
she walked toward the beach, sure
the sailor would be there to meet
her. He was. and he asked: "Now,
who was the fine young man who
visited you, yesterday?"
Mary told him. and he listened
with a gravity that disturbed her.
"Honey fetches the wasps," he cor.-
merited soberly when she finished.
"There’ll be more like him along, or
maybe worse. How did himself take
it? He was red behind the cars. I'm
thinking?"
“I'm afraid so."
"Aye, like a boy looking on at a
game he don't know how to play.
Himself takes life the hard, tough
way." He looked at her with a curi­
ous gentleness. "I thought he'd know
better by now.” She wondered why
she found his understanding so full
of comfort He was like her own
thoughts. "Well, ma'am,” he said,
"anytime you need me. I'm here,
standing by."
She went back to the house sur­
prisingly strengthened.
Mary and George almost forgot
Aulgur during the days that fol­
lowed. Something more imminent
and dreadful rose like a cloud to
shadow their lives. George seemed
now completely healed of the cold
which he had caught when he fell
overboard; but within a few weeks
after they landed on the island.
He held it toward her
his palm.
there were coughs and colds
sneezings all around them. Ieni died,
and others too. Mary was deeply
distressed; but George professed not
to be surprised.
“It’s always been the same.” he
insisted. "In the Sandwich Islands
the natives have been dying off ever
since the first ships touched there.
There aren't many births, you know,
and a lot of babies are strangled as
soon as they're bom. Or thrown
over the cliffs.”
"But they love the children,” she
urged jealously. "Almost too much.
Not only their own children, but all
of them. Don't you notice that chil­
dren are never punished or disci­
plined here, George?”
"Yes. They should be, too. Some
of them need it.”
She warned him quickly: "Don’t
try it I remember Father saying
that they would never forgive that
I'm almost sure there've been some
massacres and bad trouble where
white people struck a child or some­
thing. They’d never forgive us if we
were unkind to the children."
He smiled faintly. "I’ve no In­
tention of doing anything of the
sort.”
He returned to the point. "But
the thing is, these Islanders have
been dying off for generations.
Plagues have killed them off.”
"Nobody was ever sick here when
I was little. I remember Father
was always proud of it."
"They need to learn how to take
care of themselves, that's all. We'll
have to teach them to build proper
houses, to live properly."
But the remedy was not so simple
as he tnought. After Fritz Aulgur’s
first visit, the epidemic suddenly ex­
tended its attack. George labored
over the sick with an ardor that
seemed visibly to drag the flesh off
his bones.
He became thin and
gaunt with his own efforts.
He was a methodical man. He
kept a diary, recording every day’s
events. One day he said to her:
“Mary, thirty-two people have died
since we came, in less than four
months’ time.”
She saw that he was shaken in
his certainties, and his nerves were
raw; and she sought to strengthen
him in many ways. He began to
long for the coming of the Venturer,
thought Captain Corr would surely
have medicines aboard.
They forgot the pearls in the la­
goon across the Island, forgot Fritz
about three weeks after he sailed
out of the roads, Fritz returned,
and —he stayed two days. Despite
George’s protests, he came often
ashore. He showed them the pearls
he had already found, warm with
life as though they had a pulse of
their own, so that Mary caught her
breath at sight of them; and Fritz
saw how she was stirred, and he
told her that a pearl needed to be
worn to acquire beauty.
She liked Fritz. By contrast with
her husband's somber garments, the
golden brown on this young man's
bare chest and shoulders was warm
and beautiful. Against her husband’s
austere denial of the flesh, this Fritz
Aulgur by his frank acceptance of
it seemed to shine. She asked curi­
ously:
"How long have you been living
so. sailing around alone’ Aren't you
lonesome, sometimes?"
He chuckled. "Lonesome? Now,
it would need a woman to think that,
always so sure a man must have
some woman forever by him." His
eyes clouded, seeming to look past
her; and he shook his head. "No.
the sea's company, The sea and
the wind, Yes, they’re company
enough for a man. Too much for
some men, maybe, like a heady
wine, If you've seen many men in
their liquor—and how could you
ever. to be sure?—you’ll know what
I mean.”
George made a resentful sound;
but Mary urged, deeply interested:
"No. I haven't, of course. So—what
do you mean?”
Fritz smiled.
"Why, only that
some men are better drunk than so­
ber. and some are better sober than
drunk. It's the same with the sea.
One man will be made by it. and
another spoiled. Liquor, and the
wrong woman, and a long voyage
will each strip the trimmings off a
man. I've seen more than one that
was fine to look at start off on a
long cruise with his head high, and
come home . . .” He hesitated,
quoted then: " ‘Lean, rent, and beg­
gar’d by the strumpet wind!' ” And
he chuckled and said: “Only the
man that wrote that did not
mean the wind by itself. It was
the sea he meant. A woman— l •ven
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a bad one—is mild and easy enough
till something stirs her up; and when
she's roused, it's the woman who's
dangerous, not the thing that roused
her. It’s the strumpet sea that
tears a man and strips him and
peels him down till you can see
what's in him. The wind no more
than rouses up the strumpet sea.”
Mary nodded thoughtfully; but
George spoke, in angry interruption.
"You like the taste of an ugly word.
Aulgur, to keep repeating it.”
Fritz said amiably: "It's a good
word all the same. Parson. It means
what it says." Nevertheless he tem­
pered his remarks thereafter; and
I as though be began to be sorry for
| George, he treated him from that
| hour with gentleness. Only when
on the third day, the storm having
passed, he was about to depart,
George ’woke a moment's flare of
anger in him. Aulgur wished to
give Mary one of his pearls. “For
your hospitality,” he said. "With
my thanks! Wear it A pearl needs
wearing, to make it completely
beautiful.”
He held it toward her in his palm;
but before she could move. George
by her side struck down that open
hand with a violent gesture. The
pearl did not fall, because Fritz
closed his Angers on it; and he
looked at George with narrowed
eyes. He said through teeth that
were white and even and firm:
“Don't do that again, my friend.
Parson or no parson!”
George retorted: "Then don't you
insult Mrs. McAusland.”
Aulgur laughed briefly and not
mirthfully. "Now, you know,” he
decided, “it strikes me you’re the
one who insulted her.” He met
Mary’s eyes and laughed again.
“You’ll have to ret used to visitors,
Parson,” he predicted in a grim
"There’ll be others
amusement
coming; and some of them—if you
can believe it—even blacker villains
than I.”
When he was gone, when they
turned back up the path, Mary asked
gravely: “George, need you have
done that?”
, »
He demanded: "Did you want the
pearl?”
“I could have declined It with
some courtesy."
"I won’t have such men here!”
he cried. "Staring at you, giving
you things!”
Mary urged wearily: “What use
is that, George? The world’s full of
men. We can’t always live alonel
No one can.” He went ahead of her
in silence, not replying. She thought
following him up the path: He’s half­
sick himself, with worry over all the
poor sick people here. I must be pa­ I
tient, try to help him. must be kind.
Jarambo posted men as George
commanded, high on the peaks that
walled the island across with a bar­
rier almost impassable, to watch
Aulgur’s schooner in the lagoon and
report her movements; and they
sent regular news of her, but the
news was reassuring. She lay peace­
fully at anchor in the lagoon, and
her boats went off every day, and
men were diving.
Mary and George paid as the days
passed, less and less attention to
these monotonous bulletins; for they
had a nearer trouble. The Island
had become a place of death; death
that struck at random, without dis­
crimination. They forgot Aulgur in
fighting a hopeless, weary battle
here, going to and fro among the
maddeningly submissive Islanders.
They were afoot all day, and their
nights were broken. George was ex­
hausted in body, and his spirit too
wore thin.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
Physical Form Important
Factor in Selection.
HOTEL ASSEMBLY
(Arrocioto Poultry Hurhtndnma. Ruff*'*
Uanrtiuty.)
In selecting breeding hens this
fall, consider physical development
and breed type as well as egg pro­
duction during the last 12 months.
Otic of the best means of measur­
ing the physical development is the
body weight of the birds, and in the
white leghorn breed no individual
that weighs less than four pounds
should be considered for breeding
purposes, while five pounds should
be the minimum weight for hens of
the heavier breeds, such as Rhode
Island Red and Barred Plymouth
Rock
It is likewise just as important
that the eggs the birds have laid
have been large enough to sell for
the best prices; namely, that they
have averaged better than 24 ounces
to the dozen, and in addition, have
been of good shell color and strong
shell texture. These factors of egg
quality must receive due considera­
tion in any selection of birds for
breeding purposes.
If sufficient breeding records are
available, the pedigree of the bird
should receive due consideration,
care being taken to use hens that
have had a good ancestry and whose
sisters have shown a tendency to
satisfactory egg production. S ha
background is an indication of
strength in the breeding value of the
stock. While it may not be possi­
ble to obtain many birds that come
up to the standards suggested, still
u small pen of such individuals
would give much more promise of
better stock in future years than a
larger pen of birds, showing wt*ak-
□esses of an inherited nature.
Noxious-Weed Seed
Destroyed in Silage
Put weedy hay crops in the silo in­
stead of the stack or mow. to stop
the spread of weeds.
This is the substance of advice to
farmers which T. E. Woodward, of
the bureau of dairy industry, of­
fers on the basis of experiments
with seeds of noxious weeds buried
in ensilage when silos were filled
at the Beltsville research center.
Of 26 varieties of weed crop seeds
that went into the silo, 23 were killed
outright, and the germination of the
other three—bindweed. Lespedeza
sencea, and American dragonhead
mint—was greatly reduced.
Many farmers have burned clip­
pings from weedy pastures and hay
from weedy meadows because they
were unwilling to take a chance on
fouling cultivated fields with the
weeds in the manure hauled from
the feed lot. When weedy material
goes through the fermentation in
the silo and then through the diges­
tive process of animals there is no
likelihood that weed seeds will be
troublesome. The silo and the live
stock will safeguard the cultivated
fields, and the farmer can safely
get out of the weedy material any
feed values that exist.
Johnson grass seed was one of
the varieties killed completely in the
silo, and this suggests that making
silage instead of hay may provide
a new and safe way of making use
of the good feed values of Johnson
grass without the danger of spread­
ing the seed to cultivated fields
through manure.
NINTH A MADISON. SEATTLE
WNV
By PROF C. H. PLATT
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PSYCHOLOGY TEST
FOR SOLBIERS
Tests in psychology for all men in
the army are proposed by officers
at Fort IJix, where such tests are
now being applied to determine the
fitness of soldiers in special situa­
tions. And just when it seemed that
enlisting in the army might be the
only way to escape those tilings!
•
Comforlnbla Modern Hoome
Dallr II IS
Wa.kly IS Up
Coffee Shop
DENTAL PLATE REPAIR
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Alti"* BlOO •
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Another rends: "You are walking
along u muddy road carrying a stone
passes
in one hand when an auto
i
Would
and splashes mud over you
’
you throw the stone? Answer yes
or no.” There's only one unswer
for a soldier to that one: : "No. But
don't depend on it.”
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HOUR SERVICE la Rosi Ci ses
Bria« «r Mall Tear Plata«
I m lenii-CREDIT EsteaM
D r . H arry S imlir ,
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One of the questions is:
"You
are driving an auto at night While
driving you meet another auto which
will not dim Its lights, regurdlcss of
your signals. What would you do?”
The question becomes particularly
important if the gent In the other
car happens to be a general.
•
Professor Elmer Twitchell, this
department's eminent psychologist,
has prepared the following tests for
volunteers and draft prospects«
1.—You are driving a limousine to
the front. There are four young
ladies with you. On the way you
Dining Room
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HOUSEHOLD /
QUESTIONS V,
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line a clean sheet of wrupping
paper to roll pics and pastry on.
It saves a lot of cleaning up later.
• • •
Apples pc "d, cored and baked
in pineapple juice muko a new
und tempting dish.
• • •
Painting the U*p and bottom cel­
lar steps white may save niuny
falls.
RELIEF
COLDS
FOR PAINFUL SYMPTOMS OF
encounter two majors going to the
front on foot, They both give you
th« thumb in the orthodox hitch-
hikrr manner, You explain that, as
you have four girls with you. there
is no sense taking them aboard un­
less they can dig up another major.
Go on with the story from there.
2.— You have answered the draft
summons and presented yourself for
physical exami­
nation. You are
found to be a per­
fect specimen, but
the examiner is
to
the
called
and
tn
phone,
stumbling over a
chair drops his
them mixed up.
papers and
He returns to you and says: "Let's
see; you're the one with defective
eyesight and deafness in both cars,
aren't you?” Which of the three
answers would you make:
(a) —Right you are.
(b) —No, sir.
(c) —Yes, and my arches are all
gone, too.
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3.—You are assigned to guard
duty at night on a desolate post
Vigilance bores
yoif so you sit
down and use a
portable radio
While you are
listening to the
Pot of Gold pro­
gram a superior
officer comes
along. Which would you think the
best remark to make under the cir­
cumstances:
(a)—How do you suppose this ra­
dio ever got here?
<b>— Sorry, captain.
I forgot
where I was.
(c)—Let's both go home so we
can win this dough in case our
phones ring.
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JUST USE QUICK-ACTING
BAYER ASPIRIN AS
PICTURES SHOW BELOW
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down — il throat
pam I« not quxS
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your doctor.
Three tlmple ttepr relieve painful
tympiomi fart,.. accompanying
tore throat eared in a hurry.
At the first sign of a cold, follow the
directions in the pictures above—
the simplest and among the most
effective methods of relief known
to modem science.
So quickly docs Bayer Aspirin
act—both internally and ns u gar-
fllf. you’ll feel its wonderful relief
start banishing the pain of your
cold in a remarkably short time.
Try this way. You will say it is
unequulled. But be sure you get the
fast-acting Bayer prod-
uct you want. Ask for
Haver Aspirin by the
full name when you buy.
GENUINI IAYIH AIHAIH
Your Influence
Your mind has a great moral in­
fluence over the comrade at your
right. So you see the importance
of your own courageous thoughts.
ELECTION RESULTS
Old, Used Wood
Is Good as New
Wood taken from old buildings
can be safely used for other pur­
poses, according to the U. S. for­
est products laboratory at Madi­
son, Wis.
Age in itself does not cause
wood to deteriorate in strength.
If the material is free from de­
cay, insect attack, checks, splits,
or other defects, it should be
good for re-use tor .any purpose
for which the lumber was origi­
nally suitable, the forest prod­
ucts laboratory points out
The principal cause of damage
to wood in buildings is decay and
decay cannot occur unless a cer­
tain amount of water is present,
says the laboratory. In old build­
ings in which the sheathing, roof
boards, floors, and other wooden
parts have been well protected
from the weather the wood will,
in practically all cases, be as
sound as when first erected. Wood
may darken with age, but it has
lost none of its original strength
characteristics.
There can be no objection to re­
use of lumber simply because it
has been in use.
Culling Cows
Probably any time is culling time
when a poor cow is being thought
of. But now as cows come from
pasture their owner should ask ■
few questions before he turns Bossy
loose on a winter’s free board and
lodging. Diseased-udder cows, shy
breeders, and low producers should
all be asked what returns they can
be expected to make. Maybe an
empty stanchion and a full feed bin
would mean more profit than a filled
stall and an empty feed bin.
An office-seeker, if defeated.
Finds his stock of friends depleted.
An effice-secker. if elected.
Has friends he'd not before sus-
pected.
Richnrd Armour.
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It iremi good to see America
off the scold standard after elec­
tion, thinks E. B. Jay.
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A dictator is something that goes
in one era and out the next.
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HERÍ S WHAT TO DO ABOUT
4G&WSIUMF
If that “wa«h»d out." olultlah faoHM ••
due to temporary conatlpallon. try Garfloltf
Too lonltht. ClronM Internally thia mild.
plMaont «my. Tire leee quickly — feel. look,
«rork better ell day Ion«. 10c — He at
¿ruttlortt.
GARFIELD TEA
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Out idea of the complete football
fan is the fellow who witnesses the
game, listens to his portable radio
description of it and then buys a
paper to see what hnppened.
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BORDER INCIDENT
The statesmen of (fill in the blank)
Took just a little nap,
And when they woke they couldn't
find
Their country on the map.
—Richard Armour.
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opiAte« or f|t»mine
GARFIELD
HIADACHI P0W01R
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Sor* doctor
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prfsiet-*-
if hvidachot
Misunderstood
Minds of moderate caliber ordi­
narily condemn everything which
Is bejond their range.—Ln Roche­
foucauld.
CAN YOU REMEMBER
Away back when
empt as legitimate
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When speed laws
40 miles an hour?
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When wars could
ultimatums?
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babies were ex­
war targets?
were as low as
be stopped by
DRAFT REACTIONS
Drawings are a thing I hate—
I drew number One-Five-Eightl
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Lotteries they make me blue—
Now I’m known as Onc-NIne-Twol
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Never say my luck is fine—
I’m Eight Thousand-Six-Two-Nine!
• •
Number 158 in the First district,
New York, was a Chinese. If by
any chance he gets Secretary Stim­
son’s laundrv . . ,
Watch Your
Kidneys/
Help Them Cleanse the Blood
of Harmful Body Waste
Your kidneys ar* constantly flltsrlnf
vasts matter from the blood stream. Hot
kidneys sometimes lag In their work—do
not act as Nature Intended—fall to re­
move Impurities that, It retained, may
a ion the system and upset the whole
y machinery.
Symptoms may bo nanlnf backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dlsainaee.
settint up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyes—a feeling of nervous
aaztety and loss of pep and strength.
Other signa of kidney or bladder dis­
order are sometimes burning, scanty or
too frequent urination.
There should be no doubt that prompt
treatment la wiser than neglect. Use
Doan's Pillr. Doan's nave been winning
new friends tor more than forty years.
They have a nation-wide reputation.
Are recommended by grateful people the
aountry over. Ask your neighbor/
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