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CHAPTER NtiIII,--(Continued).
'iris was the woman my soul longed
for, the complement of my own nature,
the being presaged in any dreams, whose
diaphanous form had so often seemed
to flit, between Ut
ever been blessed by a sight of, iter.
was positively starried to realize how
wonderfully
reg xi fancies 1 of Lmirie tvitichtbadt for-
ever pictured, a slim, glue eyed, Yeilow-
alt rlaughterouthfu alt tea ning creature,
At four o'clock. I went to bed at last,
and slept he. eh: until half -past eight.,
At nine, while I was enjoying my mornmen and -
ing tub—never more refreshing than saw better to n sow u,nutesl1 mug met
atter a short night—Wrenshaw tapped at my dressing -room door, sand them. No man of sense marries
iris of her type before, and I under
's lir wl'riv if viae please, sir. I a woman of that, sort. They belong to
the kitten or chorus girl species—pr'etty,'
graceful, . good-tempered, and affection-
ate, to all appearance, andfull of little
caressing tricks and ways; but at heart,
they are nothing but ignorant, Shane",
heartless, ungrateful; and• immoral little
animals. Hervey, don't waste your heart
upon such a woman. She will take it in
her cleave and playwith it.and purr over
it: kind when she is tired of it she will
throw your heart aside, and take her
soft words and pretty trieltS to ` some
richer or better -looking man, or even ,to
some penniless and ugly scoundrel, out
of mere frivolity and love of change.
t
11
"Great Scott.' What big words and:
big looks! 'Hervey, it you thought at•
man Wee a decent. fellow, and srt'ty him
•tbout. to 'oolumit sulQide, wouldn't You.
try staid stop him? 'When. you carie to
me in inY studio at Itlensin1yrton a Year.'
awo, you intertez ed just When .I meant
the nl t7o ty
r -- acid • it was as
theuean pities y and,
Anywvay, 'I like you, respect you
admire you: lri many *aye "j otic no-
tions are too high-flow n and 'You're .;too
he bes , this
1 cailt; but
etyou
deliberate-
ly setting out to cut your throat with-
out a protest. For Heaven's sake, don't
marry that girl! It would be a social.
and ertisttc suicide. I tlnclerstand wo,
and my canvas long betore my eyes hast to jo n
d rikl s you
dacln t let mo al lie'
told *!hilt yup were out of town, as were
Your instructions, but he insisted urian
going up to the studio, saying as he had
left some canvases and'things •there.'
"Hang the fellow!" I muttered, below
my breath.
'Wray was a desperate stayer and my
train started at eleven thirty-five.
'flet rid of him as,.soon as you can,
and let me have my breakfast," I said
aloud.
But half an hour dater'C'l'renshaw
came to raze again. a comic picture of de-
spair,
It Th this. w1 , ray, sir, but he's taken the erne -
e •he won't go: He's
got his canons
a Thonly man to deal with that type af.
.
chair, and his feet on another, and be s Wolter is the bully, who frightens her
filling the room with his nasty, cheap to- into faithfulness by oaths and blows,
co sivalte. I spoke to hixn strongly. With such 'an ideal and romantic and
ac
sir; but says he: ''Four master would
never refuse an hour's rest and shelter
d
tired d. man
he says. Depenhis pon t, sir,
he has come to borrow money. When a
gentleman—leastways a man—won't be
put off from seeing another, it's always
a favor he comes atter; and it's gener-
ally ready money."
Wrenshaw seldom delivered himself looked for vehemence, so utterly at va
of so many words: but he disliked WraY, Mance with his usual lazy equanimita;
I believe, only a little less than he die- partly astonished and partly angered zee.
liked Lilith. For my own part, I was But during his long and passionate pro -
exceedingly annoyed be the preseip e St test I had time to- reflect that, being the
this uninvited guest at my studi man he was, lie could neither understand
was especially irritating to reflect that, the love I felt nor the nature of the girt
although I might indeed breakfast who inspired it. So I affected to eat my
down-stairs or out of the house, and slip sea. as pars a ' h
off to Bristol without meeting him, I
should practically leave Lilith's reputa-
tion in bis hands, since he was quite
unprincipled enough to find out for him-
self
its of
LI
o •tra
new r
many p
s if the a y
e
- walls
the
wa
from
down
takend
which I had
st i
and l�IaeFd lust within my desk and
quite artful enough, by pumping the un-
friendly Wrenshaw, to discover that• she
had visited the studio not many days
ago. Little 'Wilson, a friend of his, had
seen me dining with her tete-a-tete at a
Regent Street restaurant. Charlie
Brookton had recognized me by her side
in a eab; and Madge had already openly
put the most unjust and cruel interpre-
tation upon my relations with her.
Certainly I was to marry Lilith at
once, and so put a stop to all possible
scandal; but it was intolerable to rue to
tirinit that her name should be `made'
light of, even for a short time, by a man
of so bitter a tongue and so cynical a
disbelief in ~women as Nicholas Wray.
Under these circumstances I resolved.
to see him, and so at least get him out
of the studio. From "Wilson's account. I
guessed, too, that he was in very low
water, even had not his own words to
Wrenshaw confirmed the idea. For many
months, none of his brilliant black -and -
white work hied been seen about town,
and I could riot bear to think that a man
of such brilliant' capabilities shonid
really be in''tvant,- even though his mis-
fortunes were more often than not the
result of his foolish excesses.
Moved by all these impulses, I ascend-
ed to the studio, and found Wray just
as 'SS'renshaw had described him, taking
his ease upon e. eouple of chairs, an
Silting the' room with smoke -from. Izie
Pipe, a handsome amber -mouthed and
elaborately, carved one which I had
never seen. before.
Wray looked. aa ever. handsome, Pic-
turesque, and dirty. In spite of the
shifty life I had heard he was leading,
his tall frame was less thin- than be-
fore. A loosely knotted yellow silk scarf
encircled the wide turned -down collar of
his flannel shirt, which, with that brown
velvet painting -coat, of mine,. which he
had calmly annexed after his last visit
to me, helped to produce a very strik-
ing and unconventional ensemble.
"Hello, Hervey! I thought old Wren-
sliaw was lying!" was his greeting, as
he lazily stuck out one of bis Ione•,
white hands.
"I had told him I was not at home to
anybody," I answered shortly. I -ani
only in town for a few days, during
which I have been extremely hard at
work; and in two hours' time: I am leav-
ing London again. So you will excuse
me if I begin my breakfast.
He lay still for a few moments, star-
ing at me' over his pipe, and smoked on.
in silence. while I rang the bell and gave
some orders to Wrenshaw about MY'
breakfast.
"May I ask where you are going in
such a deuce of a hurry?" he. inquired,
as the door closed on the man.
"I am going to Bristol."
' To Bristol, eh? It wouldn't be a had
notion for me to go to Bristol and ask
ley Cousin, /nate Worland, to pat me up
for few nights. Would you like a
fellow -traveler?"
"No, Wray," I replied einphatically-
"I most certainly should not."
sensitive nature as yours, marriage with
Lilith Saxon would mean.at tragedy and
your utter ruing body and soul. Calve
ine your word, Hervey, not to carry out
this mad freak of yours—or, at least,
Promise me to see Lady Madge before
you' attempt to go down to Bristol."`
He. was lividly pale and the per pira-
tion stood out upon his face,
un -
Ring Christian and Qaeou Alexaudrina.
An unconventional hotoera. h' of the Rulers of Denmark, taken at
Bucking n c ion of their recent visit to England.
Buckingham Palace on the occasion g
b 1-f t, u dine myself t a w
that I must forgive his abuse of Lilith, i
since it could be only his genuine con-
cern for my welfare which inspired it.
"T am sure you mean well, Wray I
therefore observed. as c Iry
a
s T could,
,
then he had Hn shedsuea.
and
stood
holding on to the back of a chair close
to the table at which I was seated, `and
therefore T cannot resent what you say
as I should otherwise do. But you must
understand that this is the' last time
that LiIith's name is mentioned between
us until she has become my wife."
He drew a long breath sharply
through his teeth. and remained silent
for several minutes.
Then, in : a strangely subdued ,manner,
he took his hat and his canvas from the
chair on which he had, tossed thein,, and
without once looking back at me he left
the studio..
I have warned you," be muttered,
with his hand on the door, "I can do no
more. The•consequences'be on your own
head."
CHAPTER
Little enough 1'thought or cared for
Nicholas 'Way's warning as I took my
place in the train on my way down to
Bristol.
My" mind was wholly concerned with
wondering how Lilith would .take my
wooing, what she icould say, and how
she would loole at Ina
Irad she not herself wished that all
days might be like the brief time we had
spent together in London? Had she not,
little more than a year ogo;,:clung to me,
sobbing. her heart out on my shoulder,
and imploring Inc not to leave her among
strangers? .Had she not prefesssed'her
willingness—nay, more, her eagerness—
to adopt any menial position so that she
might not be parted from me?.And,
above all., had she not escaped from Mrs.
Sackson's'at midnight, a fortnight ago,
fox' the mere pleasure of walking up and
down the street outside my studio door?
How could I. help thinking she would
be glad to receive xne in my new char-
acter of a humble suitor for her hand?
It was not surely, aquestion' of. vanity.
I was her only friend. For weeks. after
entrance into Mariana House establish-
ment she had, as she admitted' to me,'
looked for and longed for my visits
every day. Her present position was
uncertain and invidious; but as my wife
it would be secure. And best encourage-
ment of all for an anxious, eagdr lover,
there was that soft kiss of hers like
Diana's kiss, unasked. unsought," that
had quivered upon my' cheek when ive
last parted.
In such thoughts and recollections I
beguiled my journey. Ji. cold, moist wind
was blowing over the downs as I drove
up from the town in an open fly, the
driver of which enlivened the way by de-
scanting upon the popular local topic
of the number of suicides .frustrated or
successfully carried through from Clif-
ton Suspension Bridge during the last
year. I wished, with the unreasonable-
ness of lovers that the weather had not
changed so suddenly for the worse, and
that the near neighborhood of Marian
House were not renowned as a suicide
centre. But the sight of the low-lying
building nestling among. its elm -trees set
my heart bounding with a boyisvredelighit
and my blood tingling in' my ns,
"Well. that's frank, at any rate!" he
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With this roughage .there is danger
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mind are unformed. And, then. she is
so much attached to me that it would
break her heart to part from me
sud
de
n-
Iy. Besides, although sounds egotis-
tical on Isar Part to say.so,wh ie
would
she find the affectionate sympathy, the
real home influence which she enjoys
under my roof?"
Mrs. Morland was eviclently, much ex-
cited. Her sweet voice actually shook
with feeling, and I hastened to assure
her that I'ha•d no idea of removing Lil
imtheetto. any rival 'finishing" establish -
But Lilith is no longer a child," I
went on. She is a beautiful, marriage-
able young woman—and, in short, Mrs..
Morland, I have come 'down here to ask
her to be my wife:"
Every' trace of color faded from Mrs,
nioriand's face.
Your wife! she repeated -blankly,
staring at me with a consternation she
did not attempt, to conceal.'Mr. Hervey,
is this a jest?,Everybody knows. that
next season you are going to marry Lady
Margaret Lorimer." •
Everybody is wrong, Mrs, Morland.
Lady Margaret has dissolved our en-
gagement." •
• And you really thought,"Mrs. Mor-
land said; rising from her seat in her
growing excitement, "you oouidw=really
possibly think. of proposing marriage.to
a girl in Lilith,s station of life just to
pique and spite • your former fiance?
Surely such a proceeding would be al-
together beneath you, Let me beg and
entreat you to' think better of such a
Preposterous plan."
There has never' been any question
with me of •piquing Lady Margaret, I
said. 'Pray dismiss such an idea from
your mind. I wish to marry Miss Saxon
because I love her, and for no other,
reason."
"01, my dear Mr. Hervey," Mrs. Mor-
land exclaimed, in her softest and most
persuasive tones, sinking down on , her
seat again and :joining her hands
what appeared like very real anxiety,
"for your own sake, for the, sake of your
family, your genius, and the splendid
career before You, I implore you to give
up all idea of such a terrible mesalli-,
ance. Lilith herself regards you with
respect and gratitude, wholly in the
light of aprotector or father----"
' There are just eleven years between
us"Years are,, nothing. Remember your
relative positions. 'As far as I can ga-
ther, Lilith's early training` and asso-
ciations were of the lowest and most,.
Sordid kind, You have educated her out
of pure charity; butif you were to
marry her, would the world believe it?
You know how shamefully censorious:
People are. Could you bear the sor of
thing that would be said about y
wife?„
"The world Mrs. Morland;" I said, "is
nothing to me. An artist makes his own
world."
(To be continued.)
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Feeding. the Calf.
The another's milk should be fed
the first week, beginning when the
calf is 24 to 36 hours old. `Mie milk
must be fresh and warm, about 95
to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and must
ahvays be fed from a clean pail,
preferably a tin pail. A wooden pail
is 'too hard to keep sweet and clean.
"Granny's" Tribute.
The Rev. Mr. Lawrence had
hinged to spring out of the cab, boarded for so long a time with the'
observed, laughing imperturably, "And that I 1 g Y ami! that when he was
may I ask what takes you to Bristol of and bound on aaead, shouting to Lilith Granby' y
an emcee that I was coining' to bear her off as obliged to remove to a new field of
"Surety •, ure y you 'must remember," 1 saidus em
my brine
Another that a young girl in whom I am deeply not ser and an older servant than the labor, the family keenly felt his
girl I had seen on the occasion of nxy lose,
"'.Phe best pastor we've ever had
interested is in the care of your cousin,
Mrs. Stanhope Morland?"
"Din ab, yes, of course! Fact is T.
haven't been near my cousin for so long,
and haven't heard from you, and I'd for-
gotten all about it. But, now that you
ll
recait, I remember a. little dancing
beggar -girl you have somehow picked
up, who insisted upon hating scupper
with you and mo in the studio, and
wanted to spend her lite with you"
"Please be careful what you say" I
said coldly, I am going down to.
Brietol to -day to ask "that girl to be my
wife."
'Wray sprang up in his chair. He had
grown pale with excitement, andwas
staring at me incredulously.
"What ww hat i.n the world are you talking
about?" he exclaimed. 'In' six months
You will be married to Lady Margaret
Lorimer; the •pavers are full of it "
•"'They will have to be filled with con-
tradirtions. Lady Madge dissolved our
engagement yesterday morning."
"oh, a lover's quarrel!. That is no-
thing," sold Wray, in tones of relief. "If
yotT really have been keeping that danc-
ing c'hilcl tit Date's school all this time,
and It has come to •Lady ilXa•dge's ears
through, some infernally good natured
Estero, rrf course there would be ruc-
tions '1'het inagntfteent woxnart would
be a tigl'A S f aealousy, and would
��abS �,A �„l��a'�, 'Min � ljiaTtrx rrex m "
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bhe as a superb creat',arrc;-and as to mat plenty Qf eheeage Tom this timefor-.
girl--poohl a lucre thirea,d-pager, untie- ward
sato fwd thing, if I' retxleniber rig,'ittly, I A !dolt 01' unmistakallle alarm flashed
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last visit, opened the __d�oor to zee.
Irs. Morland and "Miss Saxon were
both at home, she said, glibly in answer
tomy• inquiry. Would I' walk into the
drawing -room?
Mrs. lktorland did not keep me wait
ing• long. :The rustled into:.tlie room in a
handsome gray stilt dress, elaborately
trimmed with lace and steel, her curly
dark heir dressed in the, latest 'style,
and looking altogether like a plate in a
fashion paper. She held out a small,'
plump, much -ringed hand' for me to
shake, but I noticed that its touch was
strangely cold and clarnnty, and that her.
comely, fresh -complexioned face wore
an anxious expression which she strove
vainly to mask in smiles.:
"Delighted' to see you, 1b Ir. Hervey.
Pray sit down, I was so sorry Lillth
was not here yesterday. But you see,
the dear girl had seemed just a little bit
—not exactly ill --=but droopy lately, and
I thought a clay or twoat the seaside
of the heuse:of a lady who was anon ozio
of my assistant teachers --a most charm-
ing and cultured womanof responsible
age --would do the dear child good. L11-
ith is growing very fast,.. and she re-
quires a little petting and change of ate
now and then."
"It is very thoughtful:: of you, I'm
sure," I said, speaking' :with some re-
serve. "But LIMIT will, I hope' have
sketched her and your out asleep .to
P:ether. I thought she. was about twelve.
Why. she's a child, man a mere child,
and you are-1'—wi'iat 15 it? ",�hit;tv??" s
"'weuty-eight. Arid Lilitlr 2v
!
rev.44nteax "
Irl Yelete. ner1iane. But you lock
t1i'rty--on my word you do,and she
looka fourteen! It is preposterous, Her-
,;•eyi A marl freak' on spur part, born
of pique because you have ivad'reled
with that splendid. woman, No gran
In his,, rl pt senses would descend from
'Wealthy totled tarry W a little. ill-bred,
urrfarined, uned, eteted minx of a demo -
1 nF girl
ii, baxriti,ia. b IiliatxE accomplished; and
n
ito rs 111oluitns es.
"You do of cionte,oypltate taking her
away i,`i'biiz here, surely?" she suggested;
"The place suits' her bo admirably, and
she is malting such progress. And then
—pardon rue --but, it is an understanding
always that pupils remain with rrte not
less than two Years 1 cannot rio myself
to ex pl iinedsmyhthan
tin this tresj ect
to you on the occasion oe your ur first visit,
and 1 certainly understoo,1 that you
agreed to the arrangement,"
ere Miss gexeraIeetees Morland I -louse
before the 11b'a' '!'ear's are rap," 1, said
ver;; coldly, for I was thinking of Tail•
ith's worn-out boots, and threadbare
in this town.,'' declared Father
Granby, heartily. "I don't .• expect
to see his equal again."
"Such good company," said Mo-
ther Granby ; ",and so sympathetic
if the least thing went wrong.
"He was the easiest gran to cook.
for I ever knew," contributed Aunt
Ann "Ile was .always satisfied
with what he had to eat, and he
never grrimbled,"
"He had titch a serenedisposi-
tion, sighed. Sister Laura. "Be
brought an ,atmosphere of peace
whenever he came into the .house."
"Granny" Granby, in her cor-
ner lay the &replace: shook her
head 'dolefully as said "added her tri
izute of affection.
"I'll miss him di&etfully." she
mourned. "Ile was the best hand
et !etching moth millers ever 7
did see."
The second week whole milk from
any. cow may be fed, rand the third
week, if the calf as m good health
and growing nicely, the change to
skim milk may be begun. Do not
make the :m+sitake of feeding more
skins milk simply because the cream
is removed. The whole milk con-
tains about as much protein res the
calf can handle and whenswim milk
is. ,fed in large quantities the calf
gets morethan he can use, and as
a consequence a sick calf is the re-
sult.
The change from • whole milk to
skim milk mast be gradual : from.
one half to i3 pounds t, day, de-
pending upon the size and vigor of
calf. To an average calf, two weeks
old, we would feed about 'twelve
pounds -a, day of whole Milk. The
first day of the third week, or when
it is desirable to begin the change,
the daily feed would be eleven
pounds of whole milk and one
pound of skim milk, the second day,.
ten pounds of whole milk and two
pounds of skim milk, and so until
the complete ohange•is made. It is
just as essential to feed the skim
milk warm as the whole milk, al-
though when the calf gets larger
and stronger, •six to ten weeks olcl,
a gradual change to cold milk may
be made.
Allow the 'calf a, clean, airy pad-
dock or boa stall in which to get
exercise. °Give: him .some well cur-
ey,
d ha 'such astimothy and clover,
or timothy alone, as soon as he will
eat it, which will. be when he is from
"Yotr are et/eaking of the lady :Who- is glote3, you will; het be s. loser if I.110(1
to become MY, rvlfe T Nal'a epringing that S. entered into any agreenie;nt of the
front my "and t,n1ese you teeth:tit- kind, ycra iruggeist"
ly epotolgtrc si.nd r etraot your word3, I '.rout frim is much tee yaung and too
mutt a'rc you to leave thtrl house and ignorant to leave zehoor yet. She knows
Peter to vie it it at cin!' nothing of the world, Her manners and
Cant Sidestep 'That,
"Don't tale any notice of the
cook, my dear,"
"But John, 7 have to take it when
!fife {ices it to rue."
"When I marry it will be for love
only,"' "Is that •so?" "Positive-
ly!' '`And if some poor man pro-
poses to you?" "But he won't. .1.
shall take good care nob to fall 1n,
love with any man who isn't able
to provide me ' with what 'luxttries'
I require."
Sunlight.
Sunlight is one of the.best and
cheapest disinfectants at our dis-
posal, and we"should take advant-
age
dvant
a e of this fact•at every oppoetun-
g
it '. In: the co:ts+truction: of barns'
,Y
or shelters` of any kind for animals,
ample provision should be made for
the admission of ' the 'maximum
amount of •sunlight. Southern ex-
posure is 'desirable, that is, having
the majority of the windows facing
the south. The warmth' this pro-
vides in cold weather is desirable,
and much of the excessive heat .in
summer can be .avoided .by provid-
ing suitable curtains or screens.
Most disease germs are easily kill-
ed by direct sunlight, as has been
repeatedly shown. by experiments.
Both Come Bach.
"You know what a boomerang is,
don't ,you, Johnnie 4"
"No, ma'am."
" boomerang is something
Why,. a boome Una S
you throw out and after a •little
y •
-while-while it turns and conies back,"
``Please ma'am: it's somethin
like the prodigal son,ain't iti"
The Proper Terni.
"What's that?" cried rthe new
doctor in the mining camp- You
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Staiuslaus Rabajcsyk, a Polish
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police., near the ancient town of
Lenozyca, Russian Poland, has' won
fame in :Russia, Germany and Aus-
tria, for his. strange;cures,
The patient, who may be in New
York, Vladivostocl3; or Warsaw,
sends by mail or wire his OOhristiran
amine, with . exact date of birth,.
Thai, is all. On getting his data,
Stan+islaus puts the letter, message
or card before him on . a table, •sits
down in front of it, drinks a glass'
of cognac and goes into a short
trance. Then he says to his se•cre-
tarry, "I see such and such a thing
in the patient's body. He must do
so."
o and
s
say you .have `shooting pains' in
your back. Why, you're wounded,
man?'
"That's • what' T . said -`shooting
pains,' " said Plate Pete,
The secretary writes down the
medicines and treatment and the:
prescription goes to the address
sent with the . Christian name and
date.
Stranislaus' can neither read nor
write, but his cures bringhim enor-
mous 'crowds, as'.
mo - well' • as stacks of
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letters and . despatches. Though
Topolca is more than 30 :miles from
the nearest railway depot, patients
of all sorts and conditions, from the
poor peasant who: can pay nothing,
to the rich in their cars, and furs,
flock to 'him. When they come in-
stead of sending their names by
post, he does not ask them details,
but go
-6's into a : tram-.ee : and tells
them what is the matter:
His fee ranges from 'a few cents.
to $5, according to a patient's
purse. r e. He also levies a toll of a eaer-
bottle of French brandy from all,
except the very, poor.
scientists of Euro
Many s e have A
vainly sought to solve the in.y+stery
of the peasant's strange power. A
correspondent made the tedious
journey to Topolca to investigate.
When he arrived at the. healer's
house, Stanislatll wars saying to a
Russian official . who was suffering
from alcoholism1
"What is the use of your coming
to see mel - I can only heal the
body; it is your soul that is ill:
Control that and you will be well."
Turningto the correspondent he
grumbled:
mbled - "You are not sick. You
ru.
have come to find out whether I am
a: fraud or not You are notfrom
these p
arts, but I cannot tell where
you- are, my
front as � gift only ap-
plies
' to the sick, not to the
bealthy.,, •
His latest: striking achievement is
to grow a fine crop of hair on a,
perfectly bald pate, and since news
of itgof abroad his househas been
besieged by rich people who are
hairless. He says his remedy for
baldness is a decoction, of snake -
Weed.
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