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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1939-09-28, Page 2THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1939 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE T T-T-.-r—rr XI in grabbing at the tangent beads. “I think it’s read mean to about the poor feller lying down there, done nervous giggle escaped added, to me. rill Defending Hugh Bessie clenched hex’ hands. Her voice cut like ice, “My brother,” she said with unmistakable emphasis, “has a reputation which will put him above any circumstantial suspicion, And’ if any one has tried to smirch him by committing a crime with his club, I’ll—I’ll—” “Oh, dry up, Bess!" Hugh snap­ ped. “No one’s accusing me of any­ thing. Let them try it!” Mx*. Quincy thumped his cane. Lily I Kendall giggled nervously, while Bessie glared at her and said: “Teh! Tch!” Uncle Wylie drained his pipe noisily, till Aunt Nella nudged him. It was Albion Potter who brought us all back to normal. “Look at that cloud effect,” he said. "There, that’s just what I was trying to put into my picture. Cumu­ lus. My, I wish I’d bought some extra turpentine.” Bessie turned on him, angei’ in her biting tone. “If you’re trying to remind us that your turpentine was used on my coat—why, I think you’re plain dirty mean. As soon as the bridge is fixed my brothex* will buy you a barrel of the stuff to re­ pay the few drops you gave him on a handkerchief.” "I never intended—but I never gave your brother any, and you know it.” Goodness, were they going to fight ovei’ such a small matter—at a time like this “I suggest we all go look at the bloody club—exhibit A!” boomed the clergyman. Mr. Quincy beat a tatto. “We can’t all shout!” he shouted. “Let Quade continue.” Mr. I Explanations Due Victox* gestured from the foot of the steps. “My friends,” he began in a voice so imitative of President Roosevelt’s that even at that tense moment everybody recognized it and smiled, “let’s have a quiet little 'fire­ side talk. WTe all of us have things to exp-lain. Take myself. You have only my word I’m who I claim I am. I had, perhaps, the best opportunity of any one to commit this crime. Certainly I arrived at the crucial time. I can’t find my publisher’s letter’ ox’ any othei’ credentials to es­ tablish the fact I’m a well-known mystery writer, Vidoi' Quinn. And that title—‘Murder on the Bluff’— could anything be more pat- Now, I ask you. The club may be mine. The rest of the committee didn’t see it behind the sea chest. Perhaps I put it there. I don’t happen to have had the pleasure of knowing Roddy Lane, but late;-. “We all of us of suspects, cane of his does he know 'how to he can manage to get this that can come up By Isabel Waitt So it was true then. j Nella had known it all the never told me! Such a saccharine smile De Witt threw at her. time my good woman, In due time.” Then to the others he said: “It is true. I—I have a, prison record. It seared me, but I’m not ashamed of it. I suppose it will be all raked up again. I can only hope you suc­ ceed in solving this mystery before the press gets the story. Any more publicity—well we can all beax’ what we have to. I’ll help you any way I can. Mr. Quade.” And Aunt i time and as Jonas “In due it has Noth- Aunt Tell ’em it’s true, When that crook- Man’s cleaned out didn’t cover embezzlement, iprove young Saint or Hypocrite Was he a saint or a sanctimonius old hyproerite, pulling the wool over my aunt’s eyes? “For the moment my past history is my own. I can assure you nothing to do with the story, ing whatever.” “Course it hasn’t,” scoffed Nella. “Even if the poor man did lose every penny when the Lane Bank blew up and Roddy swiped—” “You kee>p still,” advised my uncle, for once in his life. “Mind your own business.” “True, ain’t it? Reverend.” “Yes, it’s true, ed son of the Old the bank, I lost everything I’d saved ifrom years of hard work. But’ others lost too.” “Why, wasn’t it insured?” Victor asked. “Nobody knows exactly, but what insurance there was Roddy’s supposed The people couldn’t Lane did steal the funds; he was nevei’ brought to trial because there wasn’t anything to go by. But the money was gone. The bank 'failed The Old Man shot himself.” “Roddy hid it in the Castle, if you ask me,” added Aunt Nella. “Now, we’re getting somewhere?” Victor said. “How many of you pie lost money in that fiasco?’ ’ CHAPTER XUI peo- was the “You you think. Why person hesitate? isn’t it?’ come Take Mr. could kill under the Quincy a man, use it? around head That and And quite a bit without that wheel chair. Can’t you, Mr. Quincy?” “Quite a bit,” Why, Thaddeous Quincy was actually grinning like a gargoyle. “I try to do more and more each day. Soon I shall swim and then—watch out! Go on, Quade. Great stuff.” Victor’s mouth twitched, but he wasn't smiling. “All right, Mr. Pot­ ter, paint doesn’t cover an alibi. He went to town, yes. And he lost a bottle of turpentine. Maybe he did- not lose it—-see? I hate to think what the police will do to all of you. “Take Hugh Norcross. He admits he ran Bessie, off his mashie ‘And the clergyman. plenty, I imagine, and will do so when the time comes—about that Lane fellow mistaking you for an ex-convict named Smith.” We all held oux’ breaths. “Yo-u’ve no right to give 'him the third de­ gree, Mr. Quade!” shouted Aunt Nella. “Wylie and I Xnow all about him goin’ to prison. It was a cruel shame, erend?” Nobody spoke. Mr. Quincy drawing imaginary circles on porch with his nervous cane, can’t expect us to anwer a question like that, Mr. Quade. Practically ad­ mit a motive for killing Roddy Lane? You’re crazy!” “Not so crazy as should an innocent A matter of record, Uncle Wylie removed his pipe. “If ’twas, this might not have happened. Only record is (personal bankbooks, i Nella and me—we’ve got ourn. But the ledgers of the Lane Bank van­ ished along with the funds. Nella’s nuts to say they were hidden in the Lane Castle. Authorities scoixred the place high and low, at the time. Co^uldn’t find a thing, That was after the old man shot himself, which some thought, as didn’t know him, was tantamount to a confession. Might a-been at that—for his son. But Roddy got off scot free. No proof agains him. Want to see counts? Joint they was.” “Later, Mr. Gerry, afraid to speak u.p.” “Why should he snapped. “The savin’s him half so mad as the fight over the boundary line.” our ac- You be!” weren’t Auntie didn’t make Uncle on the Spot across the lawn—looking for he says. He -cleaned a spot sister’s coat he says. His is missing. yo-u, sir.” Victor indicated ‘You could explain Why don’t you speak, Rev- Bilious Attacks There she went—making things worse fox- pool’ Uncle. The police would have a sweet time twisting him ai-ound in their net. Not only the lost savings and the old bound­ ary feud, but the damning evidence of his having been intoxicated, the finding of his pipe at the scene of the ruined fish shack he’d threaten­ ed over and over, quite publicly to burn some day. Was Victor Quade also adding up these things to make harmless Uncle Wylie Gerry into a killer? Why, he didn’t dare enter the inn by the front door; nor the rear door either, without first care­ fully wiping his feet! But Victor struck everybody sil­ ent when he said: “Mr. Gerry, you’re the only one here who knew man Brown. Is that right?” That was correct, Aunt Nella having seen him a few times distance. “Of course,” Victor went on, “he may be quite all right. We’ve noth­ ing to prove he didn’t go to Rock­ ville last evening and stay there, ox* 'try to return to the Head and find the bridge out. But an old man—to go off like that and leave a light) burning. You’re sure about the light, | you two?” He looked from Mr. ' j Quinc-y to me and we both corrobor- j lated, i ’ “That there ear trumpet—he never! went nowhere without,” Uncle Wy­ lie said. “Not even fishin’. Had it tied over his shoulder some way.” “Suppose you describe the man. Was he tall?” “Not so very. Warn’t short, nei­ ther. Kinder medium, and stooped- this only at a Biliousness is just another name for a elogged or sluggish liver. It is a very common complaint, but Can be quickly remedied by stimulating the flow of bile. This softens the accumulated mass, the poisons are carried, out of the system, and the liver and bowels are relieved and toned Up. Milbum’s Laxa-Liver Pills quicken and enliven the sluggish, liver, open­ ing up every channel, by causing a free flow of bile and thus cleansing the liver of the clogging impurities. They arc small' and easy to take. Do not gripe, weaken or sicken. The Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Chi. say the you saw talk that way when he is to a turn.” A her as she “That coir se looked bigger I wouldn’t say it was a runt. Who Sent the Money Everybody began to jabber again, hut they didn’t agree, 'Some said the charred torso was just’s Lane’s size; others said that it was too large and mut be Old Man Brown. Some held it could be either. I was having a conniption over what Unde Wylie had said about buying the church. It was ridiculous to suppose he’d sent me the money. Where would be get $800 without his wife’s knowledge. I mean! And yet I couldn't remember that he’d done any bidding at the auction him­ self that day’ while Aunt Nella had bid up to a hundred and fifty. I leaned over and whispered into Uncle Wylie’s ear: “Did you send me that mazuma?” “Huh?” • I repeated the question, only sub­ stituting the word dumb as anything ing in his pockets, some change. “How much you 73 cents.” I excused myself and ran in told Vic- could do all write the pen- money. He acted and started fish- and drew out want? Only got the house. It was high time I tor about that letter. He stunts with it; make them their names and compare manship or something. The rooms were a mess. We’d have to quit the business and clean up the inn and start lunch, pretty soon. Some of the beds had been tossed together in my hasty search for Rod­ dy’s diamond ring, but that was all. My own room didn’t even have the clothes airing. I flung them back a heap and ran to the bureau. The letter was gone! I couldn’t believe it. Maybe wasn’t the top drawer, where I stuck it under the pacer lining. I tried the others, knowing the futility. Then I went back to the top one again tossing my belongings helter- skelter. There was no doubt about it. The mysterious letter had been taken. Why? Was the writer after the rest of the bills still hidden in my stocking? CHAPTER XIV in it him did. to oblige.” written. I knpw before you did? Victor asked in- was cloudy and like. Coxne to think of it, I usual­ ly saw him. settin’ — either on the bench in front of the shack or ovei’ on the rocks back of the church.” “Well, go on. Was he light or dark? Old ox* young?” "Don't rush me. You know he was old—as old as the hills. So old I thought lxe hadn't oughter be livin’ all alone by himself and asked him why he did. But he answered as always, sticking that ear-thing into nxy face and turning his sideways, ‘Hey? I’m a lettle hard of bearin'. Sipeak louder.’ You’d think he’d step­ ped out of some Yankee play, “The Old Homestead or ‘Way Down East’ Character, he was, Old-timer. Only other thing I ever heard him was ‘Fishin'. fLike to fish off rocks whexx he first come.” “And when was that?” "Not so long ago. Just afore tourists, warn’t it, Nella?” "How sh’d I know? Nobody him come. Just saw a light there one night, and you went over and there he sat on the bench, twiddling his thumbs and 'blinkin’ at the sea,” Aunt Nella replied. "Blinking, did you say?” “That’s what Wylie said—behind his thick glasses, Wylie lit his pipe —” she broke off abruptly, as if the memory of the fishhouse and her husband’s pipe were to painful to go on with. “Said he was poverty struck lookin’. Old and deaf and hunched up and quavery sort of. I said if he xnade a nuisance of him­ self before my guests I’d have fired out of there but he never Squatter, you said Wylie.” The Old Fisherman “Told me he had ipermission stay iix that shack long as he liked. Didn’t ask him who from. None of my business. Old shed ain’t been us­ ed since bootleggin days when the police rounded up a cache of liquor "Hush, Wylie. That ain’t got no­ thing to do with this. You only saw the poor old feller once after that, didn’t you?” “Time he was fishin’ off the rocks you mean. Funny thing about that,” by uncle ruminated. “Cloudy day and he was over near the Pirate's Mouth. I was afraid he might fall in. There is a path, but it’s mighty dangeorus I yelled at him, and by thunder— maybe ’twas a coincidence—but he looked around and saw me. Then he disappeared. I tore after him, and he wasn’t in the Pirate’s Mouth. Climbed up the other, side, I guess. Anyway, I saw his light time I got back.” "Do you mean that old man got back Jo his shack Beat yoxx to it?” credulously. “Not exactly. It dark, the way it suddenly does when it’s fixin’ up to thunder, but I could see he wasn’t in the Pirate’s Mouth, nor sloshing around in the waters below’. I wanted to take a look at the chui-ch, knowing about the auc­ tion and all. Nella—Mrs. Gerry’s always hankered after that location. I was wonderin’ if ’twould pay to turn the building into a bungalow and sell the inn. Nella ain’t so sipry as—” “Why, Wylie Gerry!” my .aunt olazed at him. "This is the first I’ve he: rd you agree with me about the bungalow. This house has been in ; our—yo-ua’ family—for generations, i I thought you were so set on it you* wouldn’t leave it for the world.” Did she want to make things dif­ ficult for him? Did she have to fight him everything, he said? “I don’t see—” Bessie Norcross got no further. “The police will see plenty,” Vic­ tor said. “Mr. Gerry, you’ll certainly give them much to Thank you for telling mysterious Mr. Brown, short nor tall, wears uses an earphone, but turns when he’s unexjectedly yielded at, comes ifrom nowhere just before things be- ;gin to occur on the Head, is old and (apparently feeble, yet could climb . 'into and out of that Pirate’s Mouth iy 'so rapidly that he’d disappeared by the time you reached the spot, tho’ ■you tore after him. I-Im’m’m, very in- : teresting, don’t you think, .Mr. Quin- jcy?” ■ “Beats the way I manage without 'my chair.” : Lily’s bracelet let ;strand. “Oh, shucks!” i think about, us about this who’s neither thick glasses, BOB PEARCE A KRUSCHEN BOOSTER "KEEPS ME FREE OF POISONS’* says world’s champion pro sculler You should read what Bob Pearce says about Kruschen Salts. “I consider Kruschen Salts excellent as a preventive against common ailments that bring discomfort and worry to people in all walks of life. The body requires certain mineral salts and the daily dose of Kruschen is a good wgy to get them into the system, I take Kruschen every morning, myself—just a little—ana it is absolutely tasteless in coffee or tea. KEEPS ME FEELING YOUNG AND FIT/ Kruschen is a combination of several highly refined mineral salts. 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Potatoes are reported a better crop than expected from some areas, notably in the north, although the yields in the establish­ ed southern areas are disappointing. A pretty wedding took place, on Saturday afternoon at the Highland Golf Club, when Betty, daughter of Mrs. Dunn and the late Victor Dunn, of Talbot street, London, became the bride of George Cecil Flynn, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Flynn, Exeter. Rev. J. A. Agnew performed the ceremony in the long drawing-room where tall standards of flowers and ferns were used effectively. Miss Alberta Webb played the bridal mu­ sic. The bride was escorted and given in marriage by Cecil Cavan­ augh. Her gown was of white silk net over satin in redingote style with long shirred sleeves. iShe wore a fin­ ger-tip over-tlie-face veil of white tulle arranged under a satin coronet and carried Johanna Hill roses and lilies of the valley. Miss Patricia Dunn was her sister’s bridesmaid, was frocked in pink net over taffeta with bolero, the skirt in bustle de­ sign. She wore a Marie Antoinette hat and carried an arm bouquet of pink roses. Lieut. Murray Hodgins was the best man anfl Wilfrid Pal­ mer acted as usher. Mrs. Victor Dunn chose a black lace gown with cor­ sage of Johanna Hill roses and Mrs. Flynn’s gown was. of black sheer. After buffet refreshments, iMr. and Mrs, Cecil Flynn left by motox* fox* Northern Ontario the bride away in a rose wool sheer with coat and black accessories, will live in London. a......1 ........., ■ S.I!1!?".' ,,, r.1,1,;,' ■' . ,,J Sty* Sxeter QJimefi-Aimncatr Established 1873 and 1887 At Exeter, Ontario Published every Thursday moraine SUBSiCRIPTION-'—$2.0i0 per year tn *’ advance RATES-—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c. each Insertion for first four insertions. 25c. each subse­ quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar­ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c. per line of six words. Reading notices 10c. per lipe. Card of Thanks 5flc. Legal ad­ vertising 12 and 8c. per fine. la Mem or lain, with one verse 50o. extra verses 25c. each. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Professional Cards ■' -....... »-------a* GLADMAN & STANBURY (F. W. Gladman) BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, &c Money to Loan, Investments Made Insurance Safe-deposit Vaults for use of out Clients without charge EXETER and HE NS ALL CARS JUMP TRACK AT AILSA CRAIG going black They CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &<* LOANS, INVESTMENTS, INSURANCE Office: Carling Block, Mjain Stree*, EXETER. ONT. lapis cried, “Keep the difference and my mysterious friend had I’d read the letter so often it almost by heart. Still $500 is quite a lot of change. He or she may have thought there wouldn’t be more than, say—fifty. I got down on my hands and knees and looked uHder’flie bureau. I even moved it from the wall. No dice. What a sap I’d been to leave it in my room. Well, anyway, I could repeat the contents. .But now there’d be no way to get a slant on the writ­ ing. I recalled how sprawling it had been, backhanded and every which way, in the attempt to dis­ guise it. There could no longer be doubt about that. I began suddenly to be terribly afraid. Did the person who tried to use me have any connection with the foul deeds which followed? Was I dealing with a killer? A murderer who knew I still had half a thousand dollars of his in my possession? Why the Old Harry should a perfect stranger wish to present me with a tearoom anyway? (To be Continued) Professor W. A. Baker and Mrs. Baker of Guelph announce the en­ gagement of their daughter, Ruth Lenore, to Mr. Gordon Alexander of Schumacher, son of Mr. R. J. Wright and Mrs. Wright, of Kip.pen. The wedding will take place quietly early in October. Six freight cars of a C.N.R. left the rails as the train was pullin, into a passing siding at Ailsa Crai, recently. — No. 491, which ordinarily the London division track, ever because of heavy shipments of cattle cars to be set off along the Stratford division line through Lu­ can and Ailsa Craig the train was rerouted. The derailment took place as the freight pulled into the siding to allow the eastbound morn­ ing passenger train to pass. One oil tank car rolled completely over while the others remained standing. A wrecker was called from Stratford to clear the derailment and the main line was kept open. — Parkhill Ga­ zette. train ■to ■to The train was westbound, follows How- RECEIVE DANATION WHEN IS A “TENANT”.. Petrolia Advertiser-Topic Many people who have been accus­ tomed to regard themselves as “ten­ ants” within the meaning of the sta­ tute relating to municipal elections may find themselves without the right to vote at future elections, for ■ the Legislature has adopted amendment to the assessment which makes a new definition of “tenants” and alters the status of many people enjoying that position undei’ the law, says The Brookville Recorder-Times. A tenant is no longer under the Assessment Act anyone who pays rent for the quarters occupied 'by himself or his family. Instead, it is provided that he must live in a “do­ mestic establishment of two or more rooms in which the occupants usual­ ly sleep and prepare and serve the meals.” This means that the legal tenant of the future must not only sleep in his own quarters but must eat there. .There are numerous cases in which jsingle persons, either individually oi’ in gropps, occupy rooms and cook their own meals in them. They will gain the franchise. Similarly, there | ,are many couples sub-letting rooms I ’from their parents who will lose the .'same right because they take theii’ 'meals with the old people. The altered definition of a tenant will make considerable difference in future voters’ lists prepared foi' municipal use, and it should be borne in mind by people who wondered why their names do not appear these lists.—Milverton iSun an act on , of en- LoiS Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Lang, Forida and Toronto announce the gagement of their daughter, Ferguson, to Mr. William J. Finlay­ son, Toronto, son' of Mr. and Mrs. James Finlayson, Seaforth, the wed­ ding to take place quietly on Satur­ day, September thirtieth. Your Child A NASTY Relieve the Misery Without Dosing Rub chest, throat and back thor­ oughly with Vicks VapoRub at bedtime. Right away, VapoRub goes to work... two ways at once. VapoRub acts on the skin like a warming stimulating poultice. 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Ask your Druggist, Grocery or General Store* 10 CENTS PER PACKET WHY PAY MORE? THB WJSON FLY PAD CO., Hamilton, Ont, Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S.,D.D.S. DENTIST Office: Carling Block EXETER, ONT. (Xoeed Wednesday Afternoon* Dr. H. H. COWEN, L.D.S..D.DS. DENTAL SURGEON Office opposite the Post Office. Main Street, Exeter Office 36w Telephones Res. 3«j Closed Wednesday Afternoon* Donations amounting to $35.00 were recently received by the Zurich Fire Brigade from Mr. Fred, J. Hab- erer and the Hay Township Farm­ ers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Co., as ap­ preciation of the service rendered by 1;he brigade at the fire which des­ troyed Mr. Haberer’s apiary house and contents. The timely arrival of the ire engine and members of the brigade and the supply of water on hand made it possible to save dwelling house situated near iary house.—Zurich Herald. ARTHUR WEBER LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES a SPECIALTY PRICES REASONABLE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Phone 57-18 Dashwood R. R. No. 1, DASHWOOD CLANDEBOYE W.I. meeting was held the the ap- FRANK TAYLOR ' LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY Prices Reasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed EXETER P. O. or RING 138 USBORNE & HIBBERT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY of at the the The September Clandeboye W. I. home of Mrs. Maurice Simpson. The Scripture was read.by Mrs. Clarence Hardy. Community singing was en­ joyed with Mrs. C. Hardy at the piano Mrs. L. Kilmex* sang a solo. The fruit contest, judged by Mrs. A.' Davis and Mrs. R. Paton, Lucan was won Mrs. son. won Hall. Mrs. J.,Hall spoke on the wool project. Mrs. Clarence Hardy, a re­ cent bride, was presented with a silver tray. A guessing contest was won by Mrs. R. Schroedei’ and Mrs. O. Cunningham. by Mrs. Alvin Cunningham, Guy Harrison and Mrs. J. Simp- The collection of fruit was by Mrs. Ed. Dundas and Mrs. J. JUDGMENT FOR FARMER Judgment, was handed down week by Judge T. M. Costello missing the action of Harold Berner, operatox* of a bus running between Wingham and London, against Wil­ liam Falconer, of No. 4 Highway, 3 miles south of Clinton, for $100.00 damages to his bus when it struck a cow owned -by Falconer on July 27th His Honor allowed the counter-claim of Falconer for the price of the cow, $65. Evidence was to the effect that the cow jumped the bars separ­ ating it from the Falconer laneway and jeame out on the road and Fal- conex* and his help wqre trying to round it up when the bus came along northward bound, with Chester Ste­ wart as driver. The cow died the next day. The case was heard by Judge Costello on .September 1st but judgment was reserved until His Hon or went down to view the scene of the accident. His Honor held that the driver had a clear and unob­ structed view of the laneway and if the driver was proceeding at only 35 miles an hour, as he said, he should have stopped the bus. Falconer and I his man, His Honoi* held, were doing | tlieir best to get the cow under con­ trol and were in no way negligent, | There were six passengers on the bus i at the time, but none was injured. . I love t ■ - He’s like so man; | Who brag and shout ‘And beat their tho first darn last dis- to watch the rooster crow, ly men I know bluster, rant and manly chests without thing to brag about. Head Office, Exeter, Ont. President ............ JOHN Kirkton, R. R. Vice-President .... JOHN Dublin, Ont. HACKNEY 1 mcgrath DIRECTORS W.. H.. COATES ................. Exeter ANGUS SINCLAIR ... Mitchell, R. 1 WM. HAMILTON ... Cromarty, R. 1 T. BALLANTYNE ... Woodham, R. 1 AGENTS JOHN ESSERY .........- Centralia ALVIN L. HARRIS Mitchell R. 1 THOS. SCOTT .......... Cromarty SECRETARY-TREASURER W. F. BEAVERS - ExeterB. GLADMAN & 5TANBURY Solicitors, Exeter Lumber Shingles i Our Prices are the Lowest they have been for several years. If you are building it will pay you to call and get prices. 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