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CHAPTER XI Continued
Greeba caught her breath and an
swered Ye
Did you know of it while you were
still In the Isle of Man
Yes she answered again more
faintly
Did he tell you
Yes and he bound me by a promise
never to speak of it but I could not
keep it from my own husband
Thats tsrange said Michael Sun
locks with a look of pain To share
a secret like that with you was very
strange he added
Greeba was flurried and said again
too bewildered to see which way her
words were tending And he gave
me his promise in return to put aside
his sinful purpose
Thats still stranger said Michael
Sunlocks Greeba he added in an
other tone why should you say you
did not know Jason
Because the Langmann was with
us
But why my girl Why
Lest evil rumors might dishonor
my husband
But where was the dishonor to me
in my wife knowing this poor lad
Greeba
At that she hesitated a moment
and then in a tone of gentle reproof
she said nestling close to him and
caressing his sleeve Michael why do
you ask such questions
But he did not turn aside for that
but looked searchingly into her face
and said He was nothing to you was
he
She hesitated again and then tried
to laugh Why what should he be to
me she said
He did not finch but repeated He
was nothing to you then
Nobody save my husband has ever
been anything to me she said with
a caress
He was nothing to you no
No she answered throwing back
her head
Just then the English maid came to
say that the six big Englishmen who
had been there before were in the
kitchen again and asking to see her
master not her mistress this time
In an instant Greebas little burst of
disdain was spent and she was all
humility and entreaty
Dont go to them she cried
Dont listen to them
Who are they he asked
My brothers I have not had time
io tell you but I will tell you now
She put her arms about his neck as
if to hold him
What have they come for
To tell you some falsehood and so
revenge themselves on me I know it
I feel it Ah a womans instinct is
sure But dear Michael you will not
receive them Refuse and I will tel
you such a story And you will laugh
Let me go Greeba he said un
loosing the grip of her tightening
arms and the next moment he was
gone from the room Then all the
spirit of the woman arose in Greeba
and throwing aside her vague fears
she resolved as only a woman could
In the cruel hour when a dear heart
seemed to be slipping away from her
that come what would she should
hold to her husband at all hazards
and that whatever her brothers might
say against her let it be true or false
it threatend to separate her from
him she must deny it What matter
about the truth Her love was before
everything And who was to disprove
her word Jason alone could do so
and his tongue was sealed forever in
a silence as deep as the graves
M hael Sunlocks went out of the
rcori like a man in a dream an ugly
dream a dream of darkening terrors
undefined He came back to it like
cne who was awakened to find that
his dream has come true Within one
hour his face seemed to have grown
eld He stooped he stumbled on the
lloor his limbs shook under him he
was a broken and sorrowful man At
sight of him Greeba could scarcely re
strain an impulse to scream She ran
to him and cried Michael my hus
band what have they told you
At first he looked stupidly into her
quivering face and then glancing down
at a paper he held in one hand he
made an effort to conceal it behind
him She was too quick for him and
cried What is it Show it me
Its nothing he said nothing
love nothing
What have they told you she said
again tell me tell me
They say that you loved Jason
he answered with a great effort
Its a lie she cried stoutly
They say that you were to marry
him
She tried to answer as stoutly as
before And thats a lie too but
the words stuck to her throat
Oh God he cried and turned
away from her
There was a stove in the room and
he stepped up to it opened the iron
door and thrust the paper into the
crackling fire
What is that you are burning she
cried And in another moment be
fore he knew what she was doing she
had run to the stove pulled back with
her bare hands the hot door that he
was closing with the tongs thrust her
arm into the fire and brought out the
paper It was in flames and she rolled
it in her palms until little- but its
charred remains lay in her scorched
fingers But she saw what it had
been her own abandoned letter to Red
Jason Then slowly looking up she
turned back to her husband pale a
fearful chill creeping over her and he
had thrown himself down on a chair
by the table and hidden his face in his
arms
It was a pitiful and moving sight
To see that man so full of hope and
love and simple happy trust a little
hour ago lie there with bent head and
uuried eyes and hands ciasped togeth
er convulsively because th idol he
Ccstlaael
Stry
had set up for himself lay broken be
fore him because the love wherein he
lived lay dead and to see tfcat woman
so beautiful and in heart so true
though dogged by the malice of evil
chance though weak as a true woman
may be stand over him with whiten
ing lips and not a word to utter to
see this was to say What devil of
hell weaves -the web of circumstance
in this world of God
Then with a cry of love and pain
in one she flung herself on her knees
beside him and enfolded him in her
arms Michael she said my love
my darling my dear kind husband
forgive me and let me confess every
thing It is true that I was to have
married Jason but it is not true that
I loved him I esteemed him for he
Is of a manly noble soul and after
the departure of my father and the
death of my mother and amid the
cruelties of my brothers and your own
long long silence I thought to reward
him for his great fidelity But I loved
you you only only you dear Michael
and when your letter reached me at
last I asked him to release me that
I might come to you and he did so
and I came This is the truth dear
Michael as sure as we shall meet be
fore God some day
Michael Sunlocks lifted his face and
said Why did you not tell me this
long ago Greeba and not now when
it is dragged from you
She did not answer him for to- be
met with such a question after a plea
so abject stung her to the quicK Do
you not believe Ive told you the
truth she asked
God knows I know not what to
believe he answered
Do you rather trust my brothers
who have deceived you she asked
So heaven help me has my wife
whom I have loved so dear
At that she arew herself up Mich
ael she said what lie have these
men told you Dont keep it from me
What have I done
Married me while loving him he
answered Thats enough for me
God pity me
Do you believe that she said
Your concealments your decep
tions your subterfuges all prove it
he said Oh it is killing me for it
is the truth
So you believ that she said
If I had not written you would
now be Jasons wife he said And
by this lignt I see his imprisonment
It was you who accused him of a de
sign upon my life Why Because
you knew what he had confessed to
you For your own ends you used his
oath against me knowing he could not
deny it And what was your purpose
To put him away Why Because he
was pursuing you for deserting him
But you made his vow your excuse
and the brave lad said nothing No
not a word and yet he might have
dishonered you before them all And
when I wished to sign his pardon you
tried to prevent me Was that for my
sake No but yours Was it my life
you thought to protect No but your
own secret
Thus in the agony of his tortured
heart the hot hard wofds came from
him in a torrent but before the flood
of them was spent Greeba stepped up
to him with flashing eyes and all the
wrath in her heart that comes of out
raged love and cried
It is false It is false I say Send
for him and he himself will deny it
I can trust him for he is of a noble
soul Yes he is a man indeed I
challenge you to send for him Let
him come here Bring him before me
and he shall judge between us
No said Michael Sunlocks I will
not send for him For what you have
done lie shall suffer
Then there was a knock at the door
and after a pause the Langmann en
tered with his stoop and uncertain
glance Excuse me he said will
jou sign the pardon now or leave it
until the morning
I will not sign it at all said Mich
ael Sunlocks But at the next mo
ment he cried Wait after all it is
rot the mans fault and he shall not
suffer With that he took the paper
cut of the law mans hand and signed
it hurriedly Here he said see
that the man is set free immediately
The Langmann looked at both of
them out of his near sighted eyes
coughed silently and left the room
without a word more
To be continued
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Ca lyle a Rapid Pcedei
One day at dinner a gentleman
moved it may bo by the sight of Mr
Gladstones conscientious mastication
of his food for the great statesman
was not one to eat in haste and repent
at leisure remarked what a victim to
dyspepsia Carlyle hud been Yes
said Mr Gladstone he smoked too
much I have been told that he ate
quantities of sodden gingerbread and
he was a rapid feeder I lunched with
him one day and he tumbled his food
into his stomach It was like posting
letters After a slight pause Mr
Gladstone added Carlyle did not
seem to use his jaws except to talk
Building Largest Ship
The Celtic steamship to be finish
ed and launched this summer will be
the largest vessel on the oceans It
will have a displacement of 33000
tons nearly 5000 tons greater than
the largest steamship now afloat a
half dczei long railway trains can be
carried by her and she will be able
to provide for nearly 2500 passengers
almost an army brigade and Capt
Israay expects to see an even greater
than the Celtic built within a year or
two
The -total receipts from the Philip
pine customs tor February were 750
000
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WARNING FROM JAPAN
Plainly Intimates That Eusaias Present
Methods Wont 8uit Hikado
MUSI KEEP AWAY FROM KOREA
Czars Mysterious Overtures Saspected to
Threaten Encroachment Aa Official
Says Little Island Wouldnt Hesitate
to Tackle the Empire
LONDON March 23 The Foreign
offices take3 a pessimistic view of the
immediate situation in the east in
spite of the settlement of the Tien
Tsin question and entertains grave
fears that the relations -between Japan
and Russia may shortly reach the
danger point Judging from informa
tion obtained in various official quar
ters in London Japan has confided to
at least some of the powers her deter
mination to oppose at all costs any
secret agreements made between Rus
sia and China by which the former
could secure territorial or other ad
vantages contiguous to Korea
The British government has receiv
ed no official confirmation that the
Japanese fleet is mobilizing -but it
would not be surprised to learn such
were the facts A highly placed Brit
ish official said to a representative of
the Associated Press today
All Japan wants is a free hand
against Russia This she has got so
far as England and Germany are con
cerned and I presume so far as the
United States government is concern
ed although I do not imagine for one
moment that any of the powers men
tioned would be drawn into a fight
between Japan and Russia If Japan
sees nothing for it but to fight she
would have the moral support of ob
jections committed to paper by at
least two other powers against secret
treaties with China That is all but
Japan seems to consider it sufficient
to provide against interference
Confirmation of the foregoing defini
tion of the situation was afforded by
the secretary of the Japanese legation
who said In the course of an inter
view
While rejoicing at the fact that
England and Russia have reached a
pacific settlement over the minor is
sue the main question the integrity
of the Chinese empire remains unset
tled In response to pressure brought
by Japan upon Russia it was announc
ed that Russias secret treaties with
China had been modified but the
terms have been withheld Until we
see the treaties we will not be satis
fied that the modification does not
consist of words merely without any
alteration in the spirit In this con
tention we believe other powers will
support us
It appears that Great Britain would
be quite willing to refer the whole
Manchurian matter to arbitration on
the lines of The Hague conference
The Tien Tfin siding affair is not
considered important enough to be dis
posed of in this way and it will im
mediately become a matter of diplo
matic Interchange between St Peters
burg and London
REJECTS f OUR OF CLAUSES
Cuban Committee on Relations Opposes
Inrt of Plntt Amendment
HAVANA March 23 The eommit
tee on relations of the Cuban consti
tutional convention met today to con
sider the report drawn up by its sec
retary Senor Juan Gualbartez
It is understood the report rejects
four clauses clauses dealing with
coaling stations foreign relations the
right to intervene to preserve peace
and the entering into treaties cov
ering the points in question The
other clauses are treated on the lines
of the previous the sanitation of the
Isle of Pines being virtually agreed to
Three of the five members of the
committee objected to the rejection in
toto of the four clauses mentioned and
urged that some consideration should
be given them No vote -was taken
but a majority was opposed to accept
ance The committee adjourned until
Tuesday next
Carnegie Answers Van Wyck
NEW YORK March 22 Mayor Van
Wyok received the following cable
gram from Andrew Carnegie today in
reply to the one sent to the latter yes
terday
Many thanks my dear mayor for
your kind telegram Delighted and
grateful for opportunity to serve New
York
Two Regiments Returned
MANILA March 23 The United
States army transport Grant sails for
San Francisco tomorrow with the
Twenty ninth and Thirty second regi
ments of volunteer infantry
Grans Leading Man Is Dead
DENVER March 23 J W Kings
ley leading man of the Jules Grau
Opera company died at St Josephs
hospital in this city today of pneumc
nia after a weeks illness
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SAYS HE IS A KIDNAPER
EX O Henderson Confesses te Share la
Cadaby Crime
DALLAS Tex March 22 Sheriff
Johnson tonight made this statement
H C Henderson this evening con
fessed to me and County Attorney
Summers that he is one of the Coda
hy kidnapers His confession was
made voluntarily He stated that he
had squandered end used in fleeing
from Omaha most of the money he
got as his share in the kidnaping
job before I arrested him in this city
as a suspect early in February Coun
ty Attorney Summers asked Hender
son why he had not admitted his iden
tity earlier and he said
Heretofore when I have been In
trouble I nave had a man ibetwean
me and the court house But now I
see there is no chance for me to get
out of thirteen years sentence on my
conviction here in Dallas lor theft
and I might as well own up to the
Omaha job
CIVIL GOVERNMENT JUNE 30
Transfer from Military Control of Phil
ippines
WASHINGTON March 22 Tha
trasfer from the military to the civil
government in the Philippines is ex
pected to occur about June 30 accord
ing to calculations made at the War
department upon information receiv
ed from the Taft commission and
General MacArthur It Is known that
even where civil governments are be
ing established by the Philippine com
mission the military will be neces
sary for some time to support the
civil authorities It is the intention
to withdraw the military as far as
possible however from any participa
tion in the governments established
and the soldiers will be more of a
police than a military force Wher
ever possible native police will be or
ganized
ENCAMPMENT RATE IS EIXED
Central Passenger Association Men Meet
and Definitely Decide
CLEVELAND O March 22 An im
portant meeting of railway men was
held at the Hollenden hotel in this
city today at which the 1 cent a mile
rate promised for the Grand Army of
the Republic national encampment t
be held in Cleveland next September
was formally promulgated This fixes
the railroad rate absolutely and fin
ally
In St Louis January 21 last the
government committee of the Grand
Army accepted the rate and the en
campment was located at Cleveland
The Central Passenger association ap
pointed a committee to fix the rate
formulate ticket conditions and make
other arrangements to govern for tne
thirty fifth Grand Army encampment
TO ASK TEN MILLION DOLLARS
Indians on Yakima Reservation in Wash
ington Make Claim
SPOKANE Wash March 22 Ten
million dollars will ibe asked from
congress at its next session for the
fourteen tribes of Indians on the Ya
kima reservation in this state So
states Rev Thomas Parene an Indian
Methodist preacher the representative
of tine fourteen tribes who was in
Spokane last evening on his way
home from an interview with Presi
dent McKinley and other high officials
Parene says white men have settled
upon a million acres of land of his
people worth 10 an acre
Nebraska National Banks
WASHINGTON March 20 The re
port of the condition of the national
banks of Nebraska exclusive of Om
aha and Lincoln at the close of busi
ness February 5 was today made pub
lic Compared with the previous
statement in December loans and dis
counts have increased from 18708783
to 19903356 and individual deposits
from 19456685 to 20040666
Insists on Piece Work
CEDAR RAPIDS la March 21
At a conference between General Man
ager Williams of the Burlington Cedar
Rapids Northern and striking shop
men this afternoon Mr Williams of
fered the men many things they had
not asked for but insisted that they
would inaugurate the piece work sys
tem throughout The machinists
boilermakers and blacksmiths will not
work under this system
Insurgents Barn Village
MANILA March 22 Insurgents
have attacked and burned the ungar
risoned village of Ugius in the prov
ince of South Ilocos A detachment
of the Twentieth infantry overtook
and chastised the marauders
What Spaniards Conldnt Do
BOSTON March 21 The Olympia
Admiral Deweys flagship was placed
in the dry dock today to be scraped
and painted below the water line The
government is spending aoout 500000
on it for alterations
Will Prohibit Cigarettes
ST PAUL Minn March 22 By a
vote of 72 to 30 the house today pass
ed the senate bill prohibiting the man
ufacture sale or giving away of xjiga
rettes
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Commoner Comment I
Extracts From W J Bryans Paper
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AN IMPOTENT REMEDY
President Had ley of Yale college
in a recent speech at Boston renewed a
recommendation which he made some
months ago to the effect that there
should be a public opinion which
would drive the trusts out of existence
regardless of statutes The earlier
dispatches quoted him as saying that
we would have an empire here within
twenty five years unless something
was done to destroy the trusts but he
has since denied making any such
prophecy The mere fact that so
prominent an educator recognizes the
menace of private monopolies is both
significant and encouraging but the
remedy which he suggests is an im
potent one Public opinion is neces
sary first to enact and second to en
force law but public opinion alone
will never give the public protection
from the trusts
It would not be safe to keep horses
if public opinion was the only protec
tion society had against horse stealing
A man is influenced by the public
opinion with which ho comes into con
tact and the horse thief does not as
sociate with those who have conscien
tious scruples against larceny neither
does the trust magnate associate with
those who object to trusts It will be
a long time before the opinion of an
ordinary mortal or for that matter
of all the ordinary mortals has an in
fluence upon the man who can make a
fortune in a year by preying upon
those ordinary mortals
Mr Rockefeller would be indifferent
to a petition signed by ninety nine per
cent of the people asking him to low
er the price of oil even at the risk of
decreasing his donations to colleges
but he would heed a law made and
executed by a majority of the people
All credit to President Hadley for
his effort to create a public opinion
against trustsbut that public opinion
must be crystalized into public stat
utes before it will check the trust evil
THE SITUATION IN ST LOUIS
In the last number of The Commoner
there appeared an editorial entitled
A Sample of Harmony which called
attention to the attempt which is be
ing made in St Louis to elect Mr
Wells on the democratic ticket not
withstanding the fact that he opposed
the national ticket in 1896 and 1900
and still refuses to accept democratic
principles though willing to accept a
democratic office
The St Louis Republic in last Sat
urdays issue seems to admit the facts
stated in that editorial but attempts
to avoid the conclusions drawn from
them It says
Mr Bryan naturally does not care
much about municipal government in
big cities That is a problem with
which he has never been called upon
to contend But St Louis democrats
care a great deal not only as citizens
but as party men If they do not take
the best course in municipal politics
they will dwindle into a small political
body in a short time The comments
on St Louis politics in Mr Bryans
paper have not the weight of knowl
edge or of sympathy
The Republic is in error Mr Bryan
does care about municipal government
in big cities but he does not expect
good municipal government under the
administration of a man who believes
in making the president an emperor
and who is willing to let the trusts
control the national administration
The man who sees no danger in imper
ialism a large standing army wars of
conquest private monopolies and the
other policies for which the republican
party now stands is not likely to give
the people of any city large or small
a wise just or economical administra
tion The mind of an intelligent man
is consistent and as no one doubts the
intelligence of Mr Wells it is fair to
assume that he would be as willing
to allow local corporations to control
the city administration as he has
shown himself willing to allow larger
corporations to control the national
administration It is no answer to
say that the republican candidate may
be as bad as Mr Wells The demo
cratic party is not responsible for a re
publican administration and can make
political capital out of the wrong do
ings of such an administration But if
Mr Wells is elected the democratic
party must assume responsibility for
what he does If as is probable he
would run the city according to the
latest and most approved republican
methods the democrats would be com
pelled to repudiate his administration
or obliterate the distinction between
republican methods and democratic
methods
The republican governor of Utah
has acted in the interest of the Mor
mon church as well as in the interest
of the gentile population of his state
in vetoing the bill which was intend
ed to prevent the prosecution of per
sons guilty of polygamy The practice
of polygamy at one time indorsed by
the Mormon church is now renounced
by the church and prohibited by stat
ute It is not surprising that there
are occasional violations of the law
but these will become less and less as
the years go by until polygamy be
comes a thing of the past Any attempt
to reopen the question by giving direct
or indirect sanction to the practice
would bring on a political controversy
which could result only in one way
namely in the continuance of present
laws and then to the enforcement of
the law would be added the bitterness
and prejudice which such a contest
would be sure to arouse
President Lincoln said that labor
deserved much higher consideration
than capital Mr Carnegie says that
labor and capital deserve equal con
sideration It is quite a step from the
doctrine of Lincoln to the doctrine of
Carnegie but the Hanna doctrine is
istn worse for it puts capital first and
labor nowhere
According to the dictionary of the
reorganizes a democrat is a man who
votes the republican ticket in national
campaigns but is generous enough to
allow democrats to vote for him in a
municipal campaign
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AN INSULT TO DEMOCRATS
It is unfortunate from a party stand
point that Mr Wells was nominated
for mayor by the democrats of St
Louis It would be a reflection on the
democrats of that city to assume that
none of them possessed the necessary
qualifications for mayor It would be
an insult to the honest intelligent and
faithful democrats of St Louis to say
that none of them could be trusted to
give the city a good administration
The main argument if not the only
one made in favor of Mr Wells nom
ination was that he was a man who
could win It seems then that he
was nominated because he was thought
available Why available
The Republic says that Jefferson
club leaders nearly all opposed the
nomination of Wells and adds that
he was nominated by business men
Are these the same business men who
have been giving support to the re
publican national administration Ac
cording to the Republics logic the
democratic party must go to the busi
ness men whenever they refuse to
come to the party If so the situation
becomes clearer When they refuse to
vote for a democrat the remedy seems
to be to nominate a republican If this
is good local politics it may be ap
plied on a larger scale In other words
party principles are to be ignored and
party success is to be the only thing
considered
TheCommoner insists upon its orig
inal proposition If the situation in St
Louis is such that democrats are justi
fied in supporting a republican the
candidate ought not to be called a
democrat or placed in a position where
he can make the party responsible for
the enforcement of republican ideas
COST OF A WORLD POWER
Congressman Livingston the demo
cratic member of the house committee
on appropriations has issued a state
ment comparing the appropriations of
the recent congress with that of the
congress that died March 4 1897 The
Fifty sixth congress appropriated 1
44006254595 Congressman Cannon
for the republicans points out that
this is a decrease of 128000000 from
the appropriations made by the Fifty
fifth congress which was the imme
diate predecessor of the recent one
But Congressman Livingston main
tains that it is better to make the
comparison with the Fifty fourth con
gress that being the last to make ap
propriations for the support of the
government prior to the war with
Spain
Mr Livingston shows that the ap
propriations made by the Fifty sixth
congress exceed those made by the
Fifty fourth congress in the sum of
39548227208 He calls attention to
the fact that nearly all this Increase
was due to appropriations for the sup
port of the military establishments
For each of the two years prior to the
Spanish American war the regular
army cost 23000000 Since then how
ever it has increased to 115000000
per year The Fifty fourth congress
appropriated 30000000 for the navy
while the Fifty sixth congress appro
priated for the navy 143793000 Dur
ing the last two years the pension ap
propriations have increased 8000000
GRATES HARSHLY ON AMERICAN
EARS
Down with the Americans is the
popular cry among the people of the
Philippines Down with the Ameri
cans is the cry that resounded
throughout Porto Rico last week
Even in Cuba they are beginning to
whisper Down with the Americans
When the Spaniards called us Yan
kee pigs we were not in the least dis
turbed on the contrary we rather en
joyed it Our conscience was clear It
was natural for a people engaged in
upholding a despotism to show their
hatred for a people devoted to liberty
and a republican form of government
But this cry Down with the Ameri
cans has become altogether too pop
ular among people who have shown
their devotion to liberty as thoroughly
as we ever displayed our love for
liberty
Is it not about time for thoughtful
Americans to ask what we have done
to provoke this popular cry Why
have we done it and why do we per
sist in it to the detriment of our ma
terial interests the disturbance of our
conscience and the destruction of our
repudiation as the foremost champions
of liberty
John Sherman the greatest financier
in the republican party repudiated
the Philippine policy of his party
Benjamin Harrison the last republi
can president before McKinley repu
diated the Philippine policy of his par
ty Thomas B Reed the most distin
guished republican out of office has
repudiated the Philippine policy of his
party These things might disturb the
president but for the fact that Mr
Hanna is ever near and keeps the fin
ger of destiny pointed toward the
Orient
The trusts generally issue two kinds
of stock preferred and common The
preferred stock is intended for the pre
ferred people and the common stock
for the common people The preferred
stock has a fixed dividend which must
be paid before any dividend can be
declared on the common stock the
common stock therefore is subject to
the greater fluctuation It might with
propriety be called lambs food be
cause it is most popular with young
sheep before they have experienced
the first shearing
After listening to all the praise be
stowed upon Senator Carter for his
having talked the river and harbor
bill to death it is humiliating to learn
that he did not do it through patriotic
motives but because the managers of
the bill would not include an appro
priation for the building of storeage
reservoirs in Senator Carters section
of the country
Possibly the transcontinental lines
oppose the Nicaragua canal for fear it
will require so much water that none
will be left for railroad stock
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