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THCPROrESSORS MYSTERY
jWELLS HASTINGS i2 BRIAN HOOKER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS fcy HANSON BOOTH
conrniGHT i9n vthc dobds-merriu. compaky
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First
Prof. Crosby casually encounters at a
suburban trolley station Miss Tabor,
whom he had met at a Christmas party,
both being bound for the Alnsleys, On
the way the trolley Is wrecked, ncur the
Tabor home, and there Crosby goes to
spend the nlsht. After retiring he li
summoned and turned out, to find ac
commodations at a nearby Inn, no ex
planation being Riven htm. lie en
counters Mr. Tabor In a heated debate
with a rough looking Italian the next
day, and learns the Italian Is one Caruccl.
Later at the Alnsleys he meets Miss
Tabor again, and they are getting on
famously, when Dr. Walter Held, Miss
Tabor's stepbrother turns up, and carta
her off home. Crosby Is warned ha must
not try to see Miss Tabor again. He
persists, and Is Invited to accompany her
on a midnight trip to the city, where
they rescue Sheila, Miss Tabor's old
nurse, from the effects of an assault
committed on hor by Caruccl, who turns
out to ba Sheila's husband. In escaping
ffAm Vi n jtlttr ... I I, C! V. 1 1 . I -
"wit "mil uiioiiui nicy imvo V
brush with the police, but avoid being
uouuiicu or laeniiuea. unis gets tne
newspapers Into the game, and one of
trail, turns out to be Maclean, an old
n ui wtuBuj m, wno is persuaded to sup
press the Tabor name, and to assist In
clennlncr nn fViA mviin,.. r I M.
"v ...j ..in j . . i wiiu mean
time Crosby has gotten Into the good
K r i ",Aoor lamuy. nas learned
that it Is Margaret who wedded Dr.
Held, while he is In love with Miriam,
who answers to the family pet name of
Ladj. Ho and Maclean locate Caruccl
working with a gang of graders near the
Xabor home, and manage to stir un
Quite a row with him, when Sheila Inter
i?w" u Cro.sby returns to the Tabors,
where he gets Into an intimate conversa
tion with Mrs. Tabor, only to be lnter-
SXSff1 Vsri.Ladjr anl her father! As a
result of the conversation that followed
undu'lv" JtW1 hff, m?-th"-" who iSSS
T2wyJcltd' whu Crosby and Mr.
h. ha amoke and talk over
wlfe'ltUhnh M",!ln that his
S?i 5..h.taltlJ ha8, been shattered since
the death of a daughter several years
prior, and that conditions are becomfnl
SSeaablft- Caruccl is the storm-conter,
and they agree that he must be gotten
flLlw0';- h6"a lBi0 nelp' Crosby goes
?vh wA0,7,,n,,and encounters MaoLean.
niii?" . s TUp som8, Information as to
Ft?.1?1'! M,acLan explains the situation,
mv.Si8,,163!? u,p ,0 ,h0 solution of the
mystery. It Involves a visit to a spirltual
lUle seance, which Crosby makes under
Maclean s guidance. It tlevelope the
medium pretends to produce the spirit of
Mrs, Tabor's dead daughter, the wife of
Dr. Reld. Leaving the - scene of the
seance. Crosby Bee Caruccl on the street
and follows him to a drinking place,
where the Italian meet Dr. Held and a
flant. and drinks aro served for three,
t becomes apparent that Reld has a
schema on foot, for Crosby notes that
Carucci's drink Is drugged, while neither
of the others Is drinking. A large roll of
bills Is handed Caruccl Just beforo he
collapses and Is carried out. The giant
comes back with the money and gives It'
to Held. Crosby accosts Hold, and they
Quarrel, Rld Jias planned, to havo
Caruccl shanghaied; Crosby meets Sheila
and tells her what has happened to her
husband. She tells him of the death of
Miriam Tabor and her infant child, and
lays the blame on Dr. Held, with a sug
gestion that Mrs. Tabor needs a priest
more than a doctor. While Crosby Is
puzzling over Sheila's story, he Is called
on the telephone by Tabor, who tells him
Mrs. Tabor has started for town alone,
and asks Crosby to keep track of her.
Crosby encounters Mrs. Tabor, and goes
with fier while she keeps an appointment
with the man Reld had twice taken
secretly to the Tabor home.
Now Read On
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CHAPTER XXI.
Concerning the Identity of the Man
with the High Voice.
I had my first good look at him while
he moved deliberately past me and up
to the door of the house: A man past
middle age, In frock coat and silk hat, In
spite of the season, heavy without portli
ness, a figure of an elderly athlete. A
shock of iron-gray hair brushed the back
of his collar, and his face was a face
to ponder over, a face at once square and
' aquiline, broad forehead, predatory nose,
and the massive lips and jawbones of a
conqutror, clear-cut under a skin of
creamy Ivory. He might have been a
' Roman emperor In time-worn marble.
While I stood Irresolute, wondering
whether to follow, and on what pretext
I should do so, the door swung open and
he passed ponderously within; and the.
next Instant Mrs. Tabor appeared at the
ground-floor window, motioning to me
, frantically. I came forward, but she as
frantically waved me back, and seemed
to Indicate by her gestures that I was
to keep the taxlcab where It was. A
moment later she slipped out of the door
like 'a fugitive, ran across the sidewalk,
and fell in a heap inside the cab, crying:
"Take me away, quckly! Oh, take me
away!"
I directed the astonished driver to the
Grand Central, and sprang In beaide her.
She was very pate and breathing in
sobbing gasps, and remembering her weak;
heart, I was alarmed almost for her life.
But she began to recover as soon aa wo
were fairly In motion, and by the time
we had gone a few blocks was apparently
beyond the Immediate danger of collapse.
She was still, however, pitifully pale and
shaken, clutching unconsciously at my
arm, and whispered. "That man tlat
man" like a frightened child.
"Whom do, you mean?" I asked, "Not
the chauffeur? He went the other way
aa soon as you were Inside."
"Chauffeur? No, what chauffeur? J
mean the old man that came In after me.
He comes after me everywhere. I can't
rt AWAV from him. In Mining nnwV
She tried to look out of the window.
"There no one coming?" I said
blindly. "He' dent his car away, and he
couldn't follow us If he tried. lis all
right."
'Really? Are you quite' sure?" She sat
up, and began setting her hair to rights
with little aimless pats and pushes. "You
must think me ill or crazy, Mr. Crosby,"
she went on. with a faint smile, "but It
you could only understand, you would
see that I'm not so absurd as I seem.''
"Rut who Is he?"
"He's the worst of them all. He's the
head of It. My own people would hear
reason If It weren't for him. He knows
h, he knows all the things that nobody
ought to. He doesn't want me to ever
see Miriam I can't get away from him.
I car.'t possibly get away from him." She
as growing hysterical again, and I
dared not let her go on, much as I
wanted to hear mere.
"He Isn't here, anyway." I said. "He
Isn't anywhere about and he Isn't coming,
and you have got away from htm this
time. And I'm going .to take you safe
home and see that no one troubles you
any more."
I felt that I was talking like a fool, but
my reasurnncc. fatuous aa tt was, had
Us suggestive effect. She grew steadier,
and I waa able to lead her mind away
from its terror, until, aa we reached the
station, she had become almost like her
self. "Mr. Crosby," she said tus the cab
stopped, "you've done me a difficult ser
vice very tactfully, and you are a won
derful nurse: I'm really quite myself now,
and there's no need at all of your com
ing home with me. But I want you to
understand a little why I had such an
absurd shock. That man Is insane, and
I'm afraid of him. But I can't make the
family believe it."
I tried to pay the least possible atten
tion. "I'd better come with you anyhow,"
I said carelessly, "just to be on hand.
There's no harm In having a man along."
She protested that she waa quite well,
and that there was not the slightest oo
caslon for my trouble. And Indeed, she
was so marvelously recovered that It waa
hard for me tn believe my own memory
of the last few minutes; the oppreeslon
had passed from her aa a slate Is cleared
by a sponge, and there was hardly a
sign of visible nervousness to show that
she had been excited. Nevertheless, I
could not leave her so, though I waa
racking my brain for an explanation, and
raging at the responsibility which pre
vented me from hurrying back to see it
As I was buying the tickets, a god from
the machine appeared In the person of
Sheila, armed for travel and looking more
anxious than ourselves. She took pos
session of the older woman like a nurse
discovered a lost child.
"Here ye are on your way home again,"
she cried, "an" me thlnkln' I'd have to go
all the way out alone on the hot thraJn,
with no one better than meself. That
man of mine's; off to sea, Mrs. Tabor,
an' Miss Margaret sent me word to come
back an' make meself useful. But ye'd
be knowin that already. Ye're only In
the city for the day?"
"Mrs. Tabor and I have been lunching
together," I said, "and It seemed so hct
In town that I hardly liked to have her
go home alone."
"Ve've been" Shell a shot a fuUk
glance at me. "Well, there'll b no rood,
Mr. Crosby, unless ye were to come to
Stamford yourself anyway," and she be
gan to Inquire volubly after the health
of the family.
Mrs. Tabor turned to me. "There leaUy
s nothing for you to do, Mr. Crosby,
except to come soon and see me again,"
she said brightly. "I'm quite well, and
I'm In safe hands, as you see"
Ho far aa I could tell, she was right;
and I had no further need for overriding
dismissal. I saw them both safely on the
train, and hurried back; resolved to reacn
the bottom of at least this new mystery
beforo I slept that night. My telephone
call nas answered by Reld, upon whom
I wasted no unnecessary words, telling
him only that Mrs. Tabor had been con
tinually with me, and was now on her
way home In charge of Sheila.
"Why on earth didn't you phone be
fore?" he snapped.
"Couldn't," ,-ald I shortly. 'Good-bye,"
and I raced for the subway.
A north-bound express was Just leav
lng( and I had barely time to squeeze
Inside the door. The nearest station to
the house would be Sixty-sixth street; but
by taking the express to Seventy-second,
and running back op a local, I theuld
navo time, I hung on my strap, fdgjtns
with Impatience while we bowed through
th clashing darkness and flashed past
the blurred brilliancy of the stations. As
we passed fllxtytslxth street, a local drew
out' In the same direction as ourselves,
running fpr a., moment side by side wh
us before It fell behind. Its rows uf
lighted windows balanced almost wthln
reach; and close Inside, n one of the
cross-seats amidships of the car, sat the
maan whose mere presence had so ter
rified Mrs. Tabor.
There was no mistaking that face, even
if the silk hat and formal frock.-c,oat had
not been at that season almost an Identi
fication in themselves. I cpuld as soon
have mistaken Ibsen or Napoleon appear
ing before me In the flesh. The massive
head waa bent fprward thoughtfully. aid
ono broad white hand lay loose along the
window sill. I noticed a plain M ring
on the little finger. Then, as the ex
press began to slacken speed, the window
moved slowly past me and. out of tight
ahead, I had a strong sense of having
seen the fare many times before, though,
try as I would, I could not ft It to a
name. He waa either same person well
enough known to have his picture often
In print pr else the striking distinction of
his features had given me that Impres
The loeal was standing at the platform t
a we drew Into Beventy-second street,
and I pushed ogt and across it to with
small regard for the amenities of the
crowded station. A score of people, It
seemed, were possessed of personal de
signs to block my way. I dodged a chan
ticleer hat, caromed off a hpt and angry
commuter or so, an found myself
scrambling at the tall of the Impatient
cluster before the sliding doors,
"Little lively, please!" roared the guard,
"lennux'n West Farm, local train! Both,
gates!"
I djd my best, bvit there were too rnany
ahead of me, I?ven as I reeh4 (or that
grip on the doorcailng, which meant the
right to squeeze Inside, the clanks ef the
gong sealed my disappointment I ran
wildly along the train, trying to overtake
the relay of sliding doors and Jangling
bells; but It was of no use. Then for an
Infuriated minute or two the train stood
still, locked and Inviolable, while the sta
tion alarm chattered over head, and
through the gleaming window I could
Me my man sitting calmly In his place.
As It cleaked out Into the darkness, an
other express growled In behind me; and
I had still presence of mind enough to
slip aboard. My one chance was that we
might overtake that local In a favorable
spot
A Peril of the Sea
Copyright, 1914. Internatl News Sen-Ice.
By Nell Brinkley
The Lorelei, who crouched on the rocks in a mist of patue and
sons,' too Sirens, with pomegranate blossomo rod in their hair; tho
shoals, arid tho dreamod-cf and watched-for serpent of the non, tho
great wave in midocean, jado on its riding tip and indigo in it b swal
lowing hollow; tho September -squall and tho storied merman, with
oyster shells on hs breast, who comes up at sunset once every seven
years and might frighten a chap to doath with tho cold staro pf his
eye; the ''Ninth Wave," that calls to the ears of tho out-land Scot and
Jta call is "Follow, Follow," and he follows who hoars it Into the plght
dark sea, out and out, until his weary limbs can row no longer and ho
alnka all those ore perils of the sea! But they are nothing to the
larming, charming peril that the sea, takes on in June! Lovelier than
a mlsMvrapped siren, more deadly than tho fabled sorpont, oyes that
hold both the jade and tho indigo of tho midsoa wave and swallow
your heart it you look too long, more sura than a September sauall.
and Just a swjrt to your undoing-, from whom you had better run like
the dickens aa you do from the fsheyod merman; more luring than the
"Ninth Wave," with, Its same beckoning call pf "Follow, Follow!"
Closo in to shore It Is as thick as the surf edgo In Juno as tho sud, pf
the lacy water, Sometlmop It wears a scarlet frock and sometimes
sheeny black; sometimes 1U hair Is red and sometimes blackbird dark
and sometimes gold, and always is It as myriad as the sandpiper that
hops and rustles on tho sand. Better bo careful, Billy-boy! Don't
laugh at tho desperate word "perij" for a clear-headed serious chap re
called 'to rno ft woman's face whom we both much nduilre-r-and "Do you
know," mipth he, ''It's a terrible thng for a heart-breaking creature
llko' that U bo Just Jqose In the world she's dangerous perilous I
call It now)"
Bo perilous Is tho word a "Perl of the Sea."
-r-NJSLL, BR1NKUMY,
If"
The Origin of Metalic Ores
(To be Continued Tomorrow,)
By GARRETT P. SBRVISS.
Tou have reJ of tht legendary Indian,
who, while chasing game on a Bolivian
mountain 'le, seised a bush to prevent
himself from falling, and, the bush being
pulled loose from
Its scanty hold on
the rocks, he saw
ill crooVed rppts
grasping masses of
gleaming white ore.
and thus became
the discoverer of
the famous silver
mines of Potosl,
Tou have also
read, perhaps with
Itching fingers, at
prospectors. pckng
up nuggets of gold
worth 1.000 each,
or opening veins of
quarts, ell sh.gt through with
thread of the yellow molal,
You know that oiea qf gqld and sllyer
or any other precious or useful metal
are not to be found In everybody's uack
yard, hut must be sought for In certain
favored parts of the earth.
But haa your Intelligent curiosity ever
led you to Inquire how these ores came
to be where they are and nowhere else?
Have you ever wondered what makes a
gold nugget?
Possibly you think that gold and other
metals grow somewhat aa fruits do, In
soils and climates that are specially
suited to them. Well, there Is consider
able truth In that idea, and the word
"grow" Is. In one sense, surprisingly ap
plicable to such deposits.
But this U a great deal more In the
heavy
matter than you would Imagine, ntjd on
no subject haR sclenca fought more bat.
tle royal than on this of the origin of
metallic ores. I think that there, are
sorno geologists who would rather find
out this secret, to the very bottom, than
discover the richest lode that the ribs
of the earth contain. If they coud do
both, that would be perfection, and we
must not forget that knowledge Is power,
I find the subject again under discus
on In scientific journals, and Or. Hatch
the president of the British Institution of
Mining and Metallurgy, has been setting
forth some of the ancient and modern
views about It. Thoy are interesting even
to persons who never expect to fet a
dollar out of the ground oxcopt with the
aid of a hoe.
Until about 400 years ago everybody
who thought about It at all believed that
veins of precious ore were distributed
Upder the Influence of the planets. At
that time astrology held the place of
science,
Finally ficorge Agrlcola, a German
mineralogist, whq lived about the time
when the. gold and silver pf Mexico and
Peru were making Hpafn the temporary
mistress of the world, h't upon a theory
which came, li substance, very near the
truth. lie taught that water, penetrating
Into the earth and becoming heated, took
UP scattered minerals In solution, and
afterward deposited them ores In cav
ities in tho rooks. The mineral solutions
he called the earth's "Juices."
A couple of hundred years later the
"What Stands in Science
By EDGAR MJCIE.V IjARKIN.
Q. As the nebular hypothesis of I.a
Place Is not aocoptod by the astronomers
of today, Is It not possible that great
mathematicians of the future centuries
will discord many theories held ss cor
rect by astronomors of the twentieth
century?
A. Not discarded If based on rigid
mathematics. This Is the only thing that
cannot be upset. The hypothesis of I-a
Place, where the aolar system was
thought to have been formed by masses
being thrown off or abandoned by a ro
tating mass of rare gas, to later heeom
planets, was not based on mathematical
proof. It was a theory.
JJ
In 1901 I said In print that beyond doubt
seme gigantic discovery would be made;
some rock-hewn stupendous law; so
far-reaching, an (nluve, that all of the
laws thpp known would t aubsldary or
mero by-lawe,
Th Is now fullfulM in the Isolation
Mid weighing of electrons. Nothing exists
but electrons, Is the law And therefore
vtery other law whatever Is secondary
that Is, a by-law in comparison with this
mighty law nt the very base pf nature,
pf the entire universe aa It now stands
In Its majesty.
Iet ua have one language and one code
or set of laws. And one bottom law upon
which all others stand as upon rock,
German geologist AVerner set forth
view that became, very famous under the
name of thq "Neptuplst theory." from
reptune, the god of the sea. Werner'
Idea waa that m the earth cooled down
from thu primeval nebula out of which
Is was formed, It waa enveloped In a
unlveieal hct ocean.
Holding In solution all kinds of mln
ersls, and that when the rocky crust
was formed, the water leaking down Into
It deposited Its metallic contents by
Chemical precipitation In veins and lodes
wherever the circumstances wsre favor
able.
But hundred years ago the Keptun
1st theory, which has swept everything
before It In the minds of me of science
met Its Waterloo at the hands of Hutton
the Scottish geologist, with his "PJu
tonlo theory (from Pluto, the god of the
Internal regions). Button's Idea was that
the material which fill the metallic
veins were melted by heat and forcibly
Injeeted Into the clefts and fissures of
thestrata from below.
The "Neptunlsts" and "Plutonlsts'
had a hard fight, with the latter holding
the upper hand, until their theory had
assumed a kind of compromise form
with water again playing the principal
lole. The American geologist Van Hlse
Is the author of one of the latest theories
according to which, meteorie water (con
densed atmospheric vapor) penetrate
deep Into the earth's crust, and, with
steadily Increasing temperature, takes up
mineral matter Into solution, rereading.
as It gets deeper, the water reaehe larger
opening In the rocky crust, In which It
ascends, with decreasing temperature
apd pressure.
There It deposits the ores, whose ma
terlals It has collected In Its wandering
and carried along In solution.
But this Is not th last word, and Pr
Hatch point put that In recent years
there has been a partial reaction toward
the Plutonist theory. Besides, a great
deal eem to depend upon the nature of
the ore whose origin I in question
When the Monroe Doc
trine Was Alive
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
It was exactly fifty years ago April ,
1R9I that Maximilian accepted the crown
of Mexico from the deputation at Mlra
mar, and thus was afforded the oppor
tunity for tho
people of the
I nlted States to
show to the world
what they thought
about the "Mon
roe Doctrine"
whether In their
opinion It was a
joke or a reality
A s everybody
knows, the govern
ment of the Vnlted
States h n d Its
hands full when
the Austrian arch
duke came over to establish himself ir.
the land of the Aztecs; and he was per
mitted to fix up his throne, mount It,
and play emperor for a time on these
western shores.
in the meantime the monarchists of
Europe were nudging each other, and
with sly winks saying to one another,
Wo knew It. Uncle Sam was only bluff
ing, and when his blutf was called ha
slunk Into his hole like tho empty brag
he Is well known to be. The Monroe Doc
trine Is dead." And then they laughed,
and laughed again,
Oood-natured a he wax and Is, and
perhaps always will be Uncle Sam got
pretty mad to see tho fun they vfere hav
ing with him across the water; but hs
simply had to bite his lips, hitch up his
trousers and stand It, Being right In the,
midst of the biggest and bitterest fam
ily row that ever tried a nation's strength
he simply had no time to attend to any
thing else. It was humiliating to have
these quality-fellow In Europe laughing
at him, but he was helples and had to
take his medicine as best he could.
But by and by "Uncle Robert" fought
himself out of breath and felt down, the
war ended, and the union wa saved.
And then, upofi getting hi mind a bll
after hi hard tussle with "Johnny Beb,'
Uncle Sam apat In his hands, straight
ened himself up, rolled up his sleeves and
shouted to Maximilian to get out. that
he "wouldn't stand for the sort of thing
he waa attempting to do In Mexico.
Maximilian shouted back that ha "didn't
propose to get out at all; that there wa
a big man over n Europe named Na
poleon the Third, the great emperor 61
France, and If Uncle Bam had anything
to say let him aay It to Napoleon."
Taking him tt his word, your Uncle
Bamuel sent Napoleon word to recall hi
troop from Mexico at once, aa their
presence over here was dlstatrful to him,
and the suggestion did not have to b
repeated. The French troop were
called, and after a brief struggle with
th Mexican people poor, Maximilian lost
hi throne and hia life.
Th Monroe Doctrine had prevail;
and the bold attempt on the part pf thi
French emperor to found a monarchy on
the North American continent went up
In smoke. America wa America In those
days, and the Monro Doctrine was a
live wire that no old world monarchist
cared to handle.
Advice to the Lovelorn
Jly BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
"Mnmn'n airl."
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young girl.
JO year old, very good looking and a
goon nrrssor. Put nav no iciiuvr, win
wrns across a lot of fellow that would
like to take me, out, but these I could not
love, oni tne poy mat I realty oio nae
don't Ilk me because I wouldn't co to
any cafe and cabaret show. Bo now I
wlih you would give me good advice and
let me know If It' wrong for a girt to go
Ill BU' II I'lmcoi lui fciiTj uwjf n qt, IV I MVfl
Ing wrong and always call me mama's
gin, nnuwn r, i r.n,
"Mama" girl" ought to be considered
a title of honor. It you are the sort of
girl who would never allow herself to
be Influenced to do anything that would
grieve your motlkr, I see no reason
why yon cannot go to a cafe occasionally
or to cabaret. Of course, you must he
sure that you are going to a place t
excellent reputation, and you must n)t
touch any form of Ifquor,
Avoid Their Cnmpnnr,
Dear Mis Fairfax; I am IS and a friend
of a young married couple whom I visit
quite often. A I am very Jolly. I often
Joke with the husband, who Is also of the
same nature. His wife does not seem to
approve of this, but I do not mean any
harm by being Jolly with him, for t )
my natural disposition.
Which do you think Is the moat ap
propriate way for me to act when I am
in their company?
UNHAPPY JMAY
If the wife I Jealou of you It w be
Impossible for you to so conduct yoyraelf
that she will not see cause for further
jealousy. The wise thing to do will he to
see aa little of them aa possible.
Boy or Girl?
Great Question!
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hood. it has been generally recom
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ularly do these knowing mother spealc
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absence of strain on the ligaments and
freedom from those many other die
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There Is no question but what
"Mother' Friend" ha a marked tendency
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addition to the physical relief has given
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It 1 absolutely safe to use, renders
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cations best suited to thoroughly lubri
cate the nerves, muscles, tendons and
ligament Involved.
Tou can obtain "Mother's Friend" at
almost any drug store.
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