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DB The Diamond Bracelet By MRS. HENRY WOOD. Author of Cut Lynne, Etc. CHAPTER III. Alice left her sister standing in the room and went upstairs. But she was more than one minute away; she was three or four, for she could not at first lay her hand upon the letter. When she retnrned her sister advanced to her from the back diawing room, the fold ing doors between the two rooms be ing as before, wide open. “What a fine collection of bracelets, Alice!” she exclaimed, as she took the letter. "Are they spread out for show?” "No.” laughed Alice; “Lady Sarah is going to the opera, and will be in a hurry when she comes up from dinner. She asked me to bring them all down, as she had not decided which to wear.” "I like to dress before dinner on my opera nights.” "Oh. so of course does Lady Sarah." returned Alice, as her sister descend ed the stair3. “but she said it was too hot to dine in bracelets." “It is fearfully hot. Good-by, Alice. Don’t ring; I will let myself out." Alice returned to the front room and looked from the window, wonder ing whether her sister had come in her carriage. No. A trill ng evening breeze was arising and beginning to move the curtains about. Gentle as it was, it was grateful, and Alice sat down in it. In a very few minutes the ladies came up from dinner. "Have you the bracelets, Alice? Oh 1 see.” Lady Sarah went to the back room as she spoke, and stood before the table looking at the bracelets. Alice rose to follow her, when Lady Frances •Ohenevix caught her by the arm and began to speak in a covert whisper. “Who was that at the door just now? It was a visitor’s knock. Do you know, Alice, every hour since we came to town I have fancied Gerard might be calling. In the country he could not get to us, but here—. Was it Gerard r "It—It was my slater, carelessly an swered Alice. It was not a true an swer, for her sister had not knocked, but It was the readiest that rose to her lips, and she wished to escape the questioning. "Only your sister,” sighed Frances, turning to the window with a gesture of disappointment "Which have you put on?” inquired Alice, going toward Lady Sarah. “These loose fancy things; they are the coolest I really am so hot; the soup was that favorite soup ot the colo nel's. all capsicums and cayenne, and the wine was hot; there had been some mistake about the ice. Hill trusted the new man, and he did not understand It; it was all hot together. What the house will bo tonight I dread to think of.” Lady Sarah, whilst she spoke, had been putting the bracelets into the jewel box, with very little care. “I had better put them straight,” re marked Alice, when she reached the table. "Do not trouble," returned Lady Sarah, shutting down the lid. "You are looking flushed and feverish, Alice; you were wrong to walk so far today; Hughes will set them to rights tomor row morning; they will do till then, l/oek them up and take possession of the key." Alice did as she was bid. She locked the case and put the key into her pocket. “Here is the carriage," exclaimed Lady Frances. "Are we to wait for cofree?" “Coffee in this heat.” retorted Lady Sarah, "it would be adding fuel to fire. We will have some tea when we return. Alice, you must make tea for the colonel: he will not come out without it. He thinks this weather Just what it ought to be; rather cold, if anything.” Alice had taken tne nraceiei no* in her hands as Lady Sarah spoke, and when they departed carried it upstairs to its place in Lady Sarah’s bedroom. The colonel speedily rose from the table, for his wife had laid her com mands on him to join them early Alice helped him to his tea, and as soon as he wus gone, she went up stairs to bed. To bod, but not to sleep. Tired as she was, and exhausted in frame, sleep would not come to her. She was living over again her inta.vlew with Gerard Hope. She could not in her conscious heart affect to misunder stand his implied meaning—that she had been the cause of his rejecting the uniot proposed to him. It diffused « strange rapture within her, and though she had not perhaps been wholly blind and unconscious during the period of Gerard's stay with them, she now kept repeating the words: ‘Can it lie? can it be?" It certainly was so. Love plays strange pranks. Thus was Gerard Hope, heir to fabulous wealth, con sciously proud of his handsome per son, his herculean strength, his tow ering form, called horns and planted down by the side of a pretty and noble lady, on purpose that he might fall in love with her—Lady Prancrs Ch?nevix. And yet the well-laid project failed; failed because there happened to be another at that young lady's side, a sad, quiet, feeble-framed girl, whose very weakness may have ssemed to plaias her beyond the pale of man’s love. But love thrives by contrasts and it waa the feeble girl who won the love of the strong man. Yes; the knowledge diffused a strange rapture within her as ahe lay there at night, and she may be ex cused if, for a brief period, she gave range to the sweet fantasies it con jured up. For a brief period only; too soon the depressing consciousness returned to her that these thoughts of earthly happiness must be subdued, for she, with her confirmed ailments and conspicuous weakness, must nev er hope to marry as did other women. She had long known—her mother had prepared her for it—that one so af flicted and frail as she, whose tenure of existence was likely to be short, ought not to become a wife, and it had been her earnest hope to pass through life unloving and unloved. She had striven to arm herself against the dan ger, against being thrown iuto the perils of temptation. Alas’ it had come insidiously upon her; all her care had been set at naught, and she knew that she loved Gerard Hope with a deep and fervent love. “It is but an other cross,” she sighed, “another burden to surmount and subdue, und I will set myself, from this night, to the task. I have been a coward, shrinking from self-examination; but now that Gerard has spoken out, I can deceive myself no longer. I wish he had spoken more freely that 1 might have told him it was useless.” CHAPTER IV. It was only towards morning that Alice dropped asleep; the consequence was, that long after her usual hour for rising she was still sleeping. The opening of her door by some one awoke her; it was Lady Sarah’s maid. “Why, miss! are you not up? Well, I never! 1 wanted the key of the jewel box, but I’d have waited if I had known." “What do you say you want?” re turned Alice, whose Ideas were con fused, as Is often the case on being suddenly awakened. “The key of the bracelet box. if you please. “The key?” repeated Alice. “Oh. 1 remember.” she added, her recollec tion returning to her. "Be at the trou ble. will you, Hughes, to take It out of my pocket; it is on that chair under my clothes.” The servant came to the pocket and speedily found the key. “Are you worse tlu'.n usual, miss, this morn ing?” as^jd she, “or have you over slept yourself?” “I have overslept myself. Is it late?” “Between nine and ten. My lady Is up, and at breakfast with master and Lady Frances.” Alice rose the instant the maid had left the room, and made haste to dress, vexed with herself for sleeping so long. She was nearly ready when Hughes came in again. “If ever I saw such a confusion as that jewel box was in!” cried she, in as pert and grumbling a tone as she dared to use. “The bracelets were thrown together without law or order —just as if they had been so much glass and tinsel from the Lowther Arca-le.” “It was Lady Sarah did it,” replied Alice. “I would have put them straight, hut she said leave it for you.” I thought she might prefer that you should do it, so did not press it.” "Of course her ladyship is aware there's nobody but myself knows how they are placed in it.” returned Hughes, consequently. “I could go to that or to the other Jewel box, in the dark, and take out any one thing my lady wanted without disturbing the rest.” “I have observed that you have a gift of order,” remarked Alice, with a smile. “It is very useful to those who possess it, and saves them from trouble and confusion.” “So it do, miss,” said Hughes. “But I came to ask you for the diamond bracelet.” ui ai ciri. CUIUCU l ii« umiuuuu Alice. “What diamond bracelet? What do you mean?” “It Is not In the box, miss.” “The diamond bracelets are both in tho box,” rejoined Alice. “The old one is there, not the new oue. I thought you might have taken !t out to show some one, or to look at yourself, miss, for I'm sure it’s a sight for pleasant eyes.” “1 can assure you it is in the case,” sa d Alice. "All are thpre except what Lady Sarah had f You must have overlooked it.” "1 must be a great donkey if I have,” grumbled the girl. “It must be at the very bottom, amongst the cot ton,’ she soliloquized, as she returned to J>ady Sarah's apartments, “and I have just got to 'ake every individual article out to get at it. This comes of giving up one s keys to other folks.” Alive hasten'd d^wn. b gglng par don for her late appearance. It was readily accorded. Alice’s office in the house was nearly a sinecure; when she had first entered upon it Lady Sarah was ill, and required some one to sit with and read to her, but uow that she was well again Alice had lit tle to do. Breakfast was scarcely over when Alice was called into the room. Hughes stood outside. “Miss,” said she, with a long face, “the diamond braceletis not in the box. I thought I could not be mis taken.” "But it must be in the box,” said Alice. “But it is NOT,” persisted Hughes, emphasizing the negative; “can't you believe ms, nyiss’ What's gr.ne witl» It?” Alice Seaton looked at Hughes with a puzzled look. She was thinking matters ovet. It sooned cleared again. “Then L*dy Sarah must have kept it out when she put In the rest. It was she who returned them to the case; I did not. Perhaps she wore it last night." "No, miss, that she didn't. She wore only those two-” “I saw what she had on,” interrupt ed Alice. “But she might also have put on the other without my noticing. Then she must have kept it out for some purpose. I will ask her. Wait here an instant, Hughes, for, of course, you will like to be at a cer tainty.” “That's cool,” thought Hughes, as Alice went into the breakfast room, and the colonel came out of it with the newspaper. “I should have aaid it was somelHHly else who would like to be at a certainty instead of me. Thank goodness it wasn't in my charge last night, if anything dread ful has came to pass. My lady don’t keep out her bracelets for sport Miss Seaton has left the key about, that’s what she has done, and It's hard to say who hasn’t been at it; 1 knew the box had been ransacked over.” "Lady Sarah.” said Alice, "did you wear your new diamond bracelet last night?” "No.” “Then did you put it into the bos with the others?” “No,” languidly repeated I^ady Sarah, attaching no importance to the question. Alter you nan cnosen me nrnceivis you wished to w’ear, you put the oth ers into the box yourself,” exclaimed Alice. “Did you put in the new one. the diamond, or keep it out?" “The diamond was not there.” Alice stood confounded. “It was on the table at the back of all, Lady Sarah.” she presently said; "next the window." “I tell you. Alice, it was not there. I don't know that I should have worn it if it had been, but I certainly looked for it. Not seeing it, 1 supposed you had not put it out, and did not care sufficiently to ask for It.” Alice felt in a mesh of perplexity: curious thoughts, and very unpleas ing ones, were beginning to come over her. “But, Lady Sarah, the bracelet was indeed there when you went to the table,” she urged. “I put it there.” “I can assure you that you labor under a mistake as to its being there when I came up from dinner," an swered Lady Sarah. “Why do you ask?” "Hughes has come to say it is not in the case. She is outside, waiting." "Outside now? Hughes,” called out her ladyship; and Hughes came in. "What’s this about my bracelet?” "I don’t know, my lady. The brace let is not in its place, so I asked Miss Seaton. She thought your ladyship might have kept it out yesterday even ing.” "I have neither touched it nor seen it,” said Lady Sarah. "Then we have had thieves at work.” "It must be in the box, Hughes,” spoke up Alice. “I laid it out on the table, and it is impossible that thieves —as you phrase it—could have come there.” "Oh, yes, it is in the hox, no doubt." said her ladyship, somewhat crossly for she disliked to be troubled espe cially in hot weather. “You have not searched properly Hughes.” "My lady.” answered Hughes, "I can trust my hands, and I can trust my eyes, and they have all four been into every hole and crevice of the box.” Lady Frances Chenevix laid down the Morning Post and advanced. “la the bracelet really loat?” (To be continued.) NAPLES BREAKFAST VENDORS. Thar Make the Morning Air Voral with Their Calls. The air of Naples becomes vocal with the characteristic calls of th6 breakfast vendors. “Hot, hot, and big as apples!” shout the sellers of peeled chestnuts. These are boiled in huge caldrons in a reddish broth of their own making, which is further sea soned with laurel leaves and caraway seed. A cent's worth of the steaming kernels, each of which is as big as a large English walnut, is a nourishing diet that warms the Angers and com forts the stomach of troops of children on their way to school, or rather to the co-operative creches, or nurseries, where one poor woman, for a cent a day each, takes care of the babies of a score of others who must leave them behind to earn the day’s living. Meantime digniAed cows pass by, j ‘with measured tread and slow,” shak ! ing their heavy bells and followed by their beguiled offspring, whose busi ness it is to make them “give down” their milk at the opportune moment, and to let the milkman take it Noth ing can be funnier than this struggle between the legitimate owner, the calf, and the wily subtracter of the lacteal treasure. Although tied to hia mother’s horns with a rope long enough to reach, and even lick her bag, but not to get satisfaction out of it, his bovine wit is often sharp enough to give the slip to the noose and elude the vigilance of the keep er, occupied, perhaps, for the moment, in quarreling with some saucy maid servant over the quantity of milk to be paid for. The scene which ensues is wr-thy of the cinematograph. As a sequel calfy's tail is nearly pulled off, but he has spoiled the oppressor’s game for one day, anyhow.—The Cen tury. Call a man a donkey and he Is apt to kick. DELIBERATE ACTION.' PRESIDENT NOT DISPOSED TO PUSH RECIPROCITY. Practical and Itnaulta to B« Carefully Cenaldert-d Any of the Kasann Treaties Are IteatihmlUed to the HuRta for ltatlllcatlou. Free Trade and other newspapers which so glibly misinterpret the late president's altitude with regard to for eign trade extension, and who so con fidently count upon President Roose velt to make good their misinterpreta tion. would do well to pattern after the intelligent reasonableness of the. fol lowing statement by the Washington correspondent of the New York Times: “There will be no precipitate action by the president on the subject of reci procity. The agiiation on this subject In some of the newspapers, w ith asser tions bolstered up by quotations from Mr. Roosevelt's public assurances, whether intended to help the cause of reciprocity or to prejudice it, has no warrant further than that intended in the promise of the prrsideut to adhere to the policies cf McKinley. The sub ject a a large and comp'ica ed one, and not even Mr. McKinley, after years of experience, was prepared to say just what the details of a reciprocity treaty with a foreign country should be. A reciprocity policy cannot he defined in any but the most general termr. by the executive, and with the legislative branch must rest tlie task of providing the details." It is well and truly said that the sub ject of reolpiocity is "a largo and com plicated one”—so large and so compli cated that not even President McKin ley, with his wealth of practical knowledge In tariff matters, cou'.d or did claim to have mastered it. Unlike that rather numerous brood of quick thinkars *»ho Imagine they have solved the Intricate problem after having given it a cursory glance, and who don't trouble themselves about the working details, Mr McKinley consid ered It to be his duty to go Into the reciprocity question deeply and thor oughly. He had previously turned the matter over to hands and heads which he supposed were competent, only to And out that they were bunglers and botchers. So, in the last few months of his life he had devoted himself studiously to the examination of reci procity, alike on general principles and In detailed workings. The result of his painstaking investigation was the Buffalo speech, in which he de clared for the enlargement of our for eign trade through a scheme of re ciprocal concessions such as should not curtail domestic production. In his Judgment, reciprocity that should Increase the Imports of articles ‘‘which we ourselves produce*’ was not reci procity at all; it was free trade In dis guise. It was this deep seated conviction which animated the statement by President McKinley to a close and con fidential friend, In Washington, on the afternoon of June •!, 1901, to the effect that he (the president) favored only that plan of reciprocity sanctioned by the Republican national platform of 1900—namely, reciprocity “in articles which we do not ourselves produce," and that he was opposed to any scheme of trade extension that would take from a single American workman Ids job. There is precisely where William McKinley stood at the end of the first week In June, at a time when the quick thinkers had him all thought out as ready to abandon protection, and that Is where he stood when at Buffalo In the first week of September he made his last great speech. Hence, we say, the over-night theo rists would do well to think again once or twice before they attribute to the dead president and to his successor In office views and purposes regarding reciprocity not entertained by either Mr. McKinley or Mr. Roosevelt. The policy of McKinley Is to be continued absolutely unbroken by Roosevelt. The country has this pledge recorded, as It were, over McKinley's coffin. Of its conscientious fulfillment by President Roosevelt there Is no possible doubt. There will be, as tho Times’ Wash ington correspondent states, “no pre cipitate action by the president on the subject of reciprocity.” That is, the foolish treat’es negotiated by Commis sioner Kasson will not again he laid before the senate for ratification. Other treaties there may be, but, if so, they will be treaties framed in accord with ti»e spirit of American prosperity and progress, and not free trade folly un der the mask of so-called reciprocity. WAGES AND LIVING. Foreign Work I’eople Cannot Liv« Horr Cheaply Than Americans, The old stock argument of the free traders used to be when. In spite of their squirming, they were brought face to face with the fact that wages were higher lu this country than abroad, that, although wages were higher, the cost of living was higher, too, and that, therefore, workmen in this country were at no advantage, and that free trade, while it would lower wages, would at the same time lower the cost of living. This argument has fallen somewhat into “innocuous deseutude” of late, yet occasionally it Btalks abroad, like Banqno’s ghost. It Is Interesting, therefore, to note that Mr. Jacob Wtidmann. a prominent silk dyer of Paterson, N. J., states that while the wages of the workmen em ployed in h » mill at Paterson are from two to four times as large as the wages paid to similar labor in Switzerland, which is Mr. Weldmnnn’s native coun try, the cost of living Is less. In Swlt zerland a pood silk dyer Is paid $4 a we k; in this country the poorest dyers got $3 per week. Tho bast dyers in Switzerland a e paid from S3 to $8 per week, while in this country the best dyers earn from $13 to $30 per week. Those are actual figures, given by a man who knows. There is no guess wo;k about them, n khcr Is there any guesswork about Mr. Weidmann's statement concerning the comparative cost of living. Tor, as he states, some of the men employed in his mills who have come to this country from abroad have kept records, and have found that they can live more cheaply in this country. Whpn free trade is forced to meet facts it always geta the worst of things. GERMANY’S TARIFF EXPERIMENT. A high German official said to the correspondent of tho Associated Press in Herlin that ‘'foreign newspapers need not get excited over the new tar iff.'' the text of which has Just been published, "since nothing has been de cided; the bill is only a basis for dis cussion.” It has been eminently suc cessful In provoking discussion at any rate. In this country the press com ment has been temperate enough—tho verdict being that the tariff seems dis advantageous to tne interests of indus trial Germany. But in Russia and Aus tria, against which the new tariff operates more severely than against tho United States, strong resentment is shown by all newspapers. It will bo remembered that a few weeks ago there was talk of a great European combination against the Uulted States. Tlie first aggressive movement made by Germany hits her neighbors harder than It does America and furnishes an instructive commentary on the futility of the suggestion of a European anti American Zollverein.—Buffalo Com mercial. A VERY BAD CHILD. A QUESTION OF “SUGAR.” The consumption of sugar last year in the United States avoraged about 67 pounds for each inhabitant, which at 6% cents a pound would cost $3.42 apiece, or $16.10 for a family of five persons. If the duty were removed and the Sugar Trust allowed tne people to get the benefit thereof the saving would be $1.14 for each person, or $5.70 for a family of five, for a whole year. There is neither certainty nor probability that the saving would be as great as that, but there is almost a certainty that whatever reduction should be allowed would bo made for the purpose of breaking down the domestic beet su gar Industry, which is now the source oi wages and Income to 1,600,000 per sons. Would the saving secured by remov ing the duty on raw sugar pay for en dangering the life of so Important an American industry and one which in a few years promises to Bupply all the sugar needed and at lower prices than ever before known? What intelligent man would consent to be bribed with $5.70 to bring about a possible disaster to so useful and beneficial a business? MUchlrf for Idle Hand*. When men or women have plenty of serious work to do they don't potter with trifles. It is the idle who make mountains of molehills. If the Demo cratic party had any great or true aim for the real good of the country it would not bother itself and harass the voters over such a petty and utterly useless issue as the repeal of duties which, it claims, are outgrown and therefore inoperative. Its patron saint for such enterprises is Don Quixote. The party can only make itself re spectable by tackling tho main ques tion and fighting protection squarely on its merits. In doing so it may ex pose its blindness to a thousand obvl ous facts and its obtuseness to sountf reason, but it does thereby escape con tempt. Tlio German Tariff. All the commercial barriers that could be raised against other landi would not enable Germany to raise at} her breadstuffs. During the year end ing June 30, 1899, Germany imported from the United States 290,710,lSf pounds of hog products alone, much greater than wo sold to any other na tion except the United Kingdom. It Is a safe assumption, therefore, that ths tariff law that is now before the fed eral council and which will be passed for the agrarians is not the same schedule of impost duties that will go go into effect on January 1, 1804.--Chi cago Record-Herald. — I’rodacera •ml Couannn, Like other theorists free trader! have ever tried to separate producer* and consumers into distinct classes with contrary interests. How futile! In our day and country the producer! are the consumers and the more the; produce the more they consume. WOMEN MAKING PROGRESS. •full* Ward Hour* H«IIpv** th** Putin It Full of Hop*. It seems very arrange that after so many years women should still bi obliged to beg for equal suffrage, when it lias long since been shown that ont claim Is well founded, not only In ideal justice, but in practical wisdom, and that it is In the direction of tht tendencies of civilization. Our appeal to the legislatures has been refused an many times that to continue it seems like leading a forlorn hope. Yet a for lorn hope is glorious. To lead it Is glorious and to die in it is glorions. and it often conquers, and I am full of hope, for what is right In itself must triumph in the end. 1 feel as sured that In the near future the co operation of women In municipal and state affairs will not only be desired, but demanded, by men of pure and worthy citizenship. Mothers, wives, sisters, will no longer stand as sup pliants before state legislatures, ask ing that they may become politically the equals of men who profess to treat them as superiors, but who really com bine to keep them in a state of per petual minority. We women have hitherto been a sort of reserve force. During the rough, early ages of war fare man did the fighting, but we cher ished and nourished him. His blood was in our veins and hiB courage was our courage. Thank God, that period of war has almost taken Itself oft; we are at the beginning of a more peace ful period und now something more Is needed than muscle and the power to do physical battle. Thcro is need of moral and spiritual force and we have this stored reserve force within us. We have learned much from the men as to how the world should be governed and also some things as to how it should not. It seems strange that in Puritan Boston we should still be ask ing for municipal suffrage, while in Kuglaml and Australia and in our own Western states women has exercised it for years. Are we, then, so Inferior to those women? Or are our men so inferior to those men that they cannot see the Justness and sacredness of our claims? But this reform is to come, if the men of this generation have not wisdom or courage enough to grant It (1 do not say that this is so) the men of a future generation will. If no one of us ever votes we have gained this: We have stood for what was right in principle and for what Wil be proved to be right in practice.—Julia Ward Howe, in Chicago Chronicle. WHEN THIRST INSPIRES, 0<(<l Meami ItMortfd to to (let th« Nrreiwrj “Bye-Opener." “What won’t some people do to ob tain a drink of liquor?” was a ques tiou propounded the other day by Lieut. Charles Cole of the Central dis trict. The official answered the query himself by relating two or three storleg of odd means resorted to to got the necessary “eye-opener.” says the Bal timore American. “One of the funnies! I ever heard of," said the lieutenant, “was a trick played by a Marsh mar ket apace hobo on three of his com panions. The four men had engaged a room on a small street near the •space.' It was in the dead of winter and they borrowed a small stove ol the egg-Bhaped variety from a neigh bor. They built a fire in it, got thor oughly warmed and then stretched out upon the floor to sleep. At an early hour the next morning one of them awoke in a cold sweat, shivering like a leaf. The Are had gone out, and the room was like an icehouse. The first thing that crossed his mind was how to get a drink. He had no money and the next thought was how to get some. An Idea struck him. Without disturbing his companions he seized the stove in his arms and proceeded to the nearest Junk shop, where he sold it for a small amount and got hi< drink. It Is not necessary to add that he and liis friends parted company. There was another fellow who dally patroled the ‘space.’ He had a corn log. He wanted a drink badly one day and pawned his artificial limb. Now ho walks with a crutch. In one of th» pawnshops on the ’space’ you will ses a sot of false teeth. If I am not mis taken. they are exhibited In tho win dow. Until a year ago they were in the mouth of a once pretty damsel. She fell from grace, however, by tak ing to diink and pawned her teeth be cause she wanted whisky.” New Min. Mnlrtpropl»m*. A new crop of Mrs. Maiaproplsms was gathered by the passengers who returned to this country not long ago on the same beat with a certain Chi cago woman. She lamented leaving London so soon “b:cause there u-as an elegant sculptor there who wanted to make a bust of my arms.” Iu refer ring to the delights of her visit she spoke enthusiastically about a fancy dress hall which she attended, and to which "one of my acquaintances went in the garbage of a monk.” One of the passengers congratulated her on her daughter's better health. “She Is not nearly as delicate as she was the last time I saw her,” ha said. “No,” was the reply. "My daughter is in much better health. You know that natur ally she is a very indelicate girl.”— New York Sun. French Motor Carriage* and Cycle*. l^tst year there were registered in Paris somewhat over 5,000 motor car riages and about 11,000 motor cycles, the latter comprising motor bicycles, motor tricycles and the like. Practi cally all of the French automobile* have been of the internal-comhustlor type. Black and white. It seems, will con tinue Its DODularity.