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The Wingham Times, 1914-01-22, Page 7THE WINGETAI TIMES, JANUARY 222 1914 A Rock In the Baltic Ry ROBERT BARR, _Author qf "The Triumphs of Eugene Velment," "Takla," "In the Midst of Alarms." "Speculations of John Steele," The Victors," Etc. Copyright, Me, by itobsrt Barr. By Arrangement with The Authors and Newspapers Association of Now York. hut percepti Coming back to the j table. he stood for n few minutes In Seep thought. Although the cot bed I was fixed to the tloor, and although it was possible that the shelf in the next I sell coincided vsith its position, the ' risk o" OJ4eovery was too great to cut between the two cells there. The obvious spot to attack was the in- terior of the tunnel through which the streamlet ran, but Jack, testing the temperature of the water with his 'hand, doubted his physical ability to remain in that ice cold current more than a few minutes at a time, and if he worked In the tunnel he would be 111 but submerged. Ile feared he would perish with cold and cramp before he • had made any inipression ou the rock, To the edge of the stream he drew the table, and, mounting It, examined the upper orifice through which the • water escaped when the cell was full. He fottud he could stand on the table - and work in comfort untll he had ex- cavated sufficient rock to allow him to clamber into the upper tunnel and so . continue his operations. The water . he used would flow through the tun- nel and down to the main stream in the next cell. All be had to do was to dissolve a semicircular hole In the rock that would bend around the end of ,those steel bars and enter the tunnel :again on the other aide. Eager to be . at work, he took the full basin, shoved it far along the tunnel until it was stopped by the bars; then, placing his • candle beside it and standing on the • .table, he began operations. The limestone under the influence of .the spray dissolved very slowly, and by the time the basin of water was ex- hausted all the effect visible under the light of the candle was an exceedingly slight circular impression which was barely visible to the naked eye. "I must make the solution stronger, I think," he said, grievously disappoint- ed at the outcome of his labors, and as he looked at It he heard the clank of the withdrawing bolts. Blowing out the candle, he sprang to the floor of the . cell, picked up the table, set it down In the center -of the room, groped for the chair and sat down, hi a heart pal- pitating wildly at the fear of discov- ery. Followed as usual by the man with the lantern, the jailer came in, carrying a bowl of hot, steaming soup, which he placed on the table; then he took frona . his pocket a spoon, a small hunk of black bread and a piece of cheese. In the light of the lantern Lermontoff • consulted his watch and found it was 6 o'clock. The jailer took the lantern frotn his assistant, held It high and looked round the room, while Lermon- toff gazed at him In anxiety, wonder- ing whether that brutal looking ail- , cial suspected anything. Apparently he did not, but merely wished to sat- isfy himself that everything was in order, for he said more mildly than he had hitherto spoken: . "It Is a long time since any one oc- eupled this cell." Then his eye rested on the vacant corner shelf. "Ah, excellency," he centinued, "par- don me. I have forgotten. I must bring you a basin." "I'd rather you brought me a can- dle," said Lermontoff nonchalantly, al- though his lips were dry. and be mois- tened them as he spoke. Then, to learn whether money was valueless on the ock, as the governor had intimated, he drew from his potket one of the re- maining gold pieces. glad that he haP- veins] to hare•so many, and slimed it into the palm of the jailer's band, whose lingers clutched It as eagerly as if he were in $t. Petersburg. "I think n en mile on n be managed, excelleney. Shall I bring a cup?" "I wish you wodd." The doer was again loeiresi and bolt- ed, but before Lernientoff had finished his sonn and hread and eliesse it was -opened again. The killer placed a tin basinsimilar to the former one on the ledge,. put a 'candle and a candlestick en the table and a tin cup beside them. , "I thouzht there was no pertaf Rus- *Was Badly• • Run Down. • Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills Built Her Up. Mrs, Prank Blough, Sarnia, 'Ont., writes:—"I embrace the opportunity to write you saying that 1 haVe used Mil - burn's Heart and Nerve Pills, arid found thein very helpful to me. I was very badly ruti down, and was taking doctor's tnedicinta. My son, out West, wrote inc saying, ` lilotherf you use the Mil - burn's Heart and Nerve Pills, they will be better for you than doctor's medicine,' This I did with good results. I often recommend them to other people. My doctor did not know I was using them, he used tea say `Why! I never saw any one's heart gain tip like yours has. Wu do net need any more medicine.'" Milburri's Heart and Nerve Pills are :tic. per box, 8 boxes for 11,25, at all dealers, or tnailed direet on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, • Toronto, Ont. sia where bribery was extinct,' Irrt the prince todihnself as the door closed again for the night. After supper Lermontoff again shift- ed his table, stood upon it, ilt his can- dle and resumed his tunneling, work- ing hard until after midnight. File progress was deplorably slow, and the spraying of the rock proved about as tiring a task as ever be had undertak- en. His second basinful of solution was made a little stronger, but with- out perceptible improvement in its ef- fect On ceasing operations for the night he found himself in a situation common to few prisoners—that of be- ing embarrassed with riches. He pos- sessed two basins, and one of them must be concealed. Of course he might leave his working basin in the upper tunnel where it had rested when the jeiler had brought in his supper, but he realized that at any moment the lantern's rays might strike its shining surface and so bring on an investiga- tion of the upper tunnel, certain to prove the destruction of his whole scheme. A few minutes' thought, how- ever, solved the problem admirablys He placed the basin face downward in the rapid stream, which swept it to the iron bars between the two cells, and there it lay -quite concealed with the swift water rippling over it. This done, be flung off his clothes and got into bed, not awakening until the jail- er and hi assistant brought in bread, cheese and coffee for breakfast. The next day he began to feel the inconveniences of the governor's friend- ship and wished he were safely back to the time, when one loaf lasted four days, for it'such were now the case he would be free of the constant state of tension which the ever recurring visits of the jailer caused. He feared that some day he might become so absorbed in his occupation that he would not hear the withdrawing of the bolt, and thus, as It were, be caught in the act. Shortly after lunch the governor sent for him and asked many questions per- taining to the running or the dynamo. Lermontoff concealed his impatience and set about his instructions with ex- emplary earnestness. Russian text books on electricity at hand were of the most rudimentary description, and, although the governor could speak Ger- man, he could not read it, so the two volumes he possessed in that language were closed to him. Therefore John was compelled to begin at the very A B C of the science, The governor, however, became so deeply interested that he momentarily forgot his caution, unlocked a door and took Lermontoff into a rem which he saw was the armory and ammuni- tion storehouse of the prison. On the floor of this chamber the governor pointed out -a large battery of accumu- lators and asked what they were for. Lertnoutoff explained the purposes of the battery, meanwhile examining it thoroughly and finding that many of. the cells had been all but ruined in transit through the falling away of the .composition in the grids. Some- thing like half of the accumulators, however, were intact and workable. These be uncoupled and brought into the dynamo room, where he showed the governor the process of charging. He saw in the storeroom a box 'con- taining incandescent lamps, coils of silk covered wire and other material that made his eyes glisten with de- light. He spoke in German. -If you will give me a coil of this wire. one or two of the lamps and an acriimelator, or, indeed. half a dozen of them. I will trouble you no more for candles." The governor ditl not reply at the moment, but a short time after asked Lermontoff in linseian how long It would be before the accumulators were charged. Lermontoff stated the time, and the governor told the jailer to bring the prisoner from the cell at that Amur, and so dismissed his instructor. One feature of this interview which pleased Lermontoff was that, however much the governor became absorbed in these lessons, he never allowed him- self to remain alone with his prisoner. It was evident that in his cooler mo- ments the governor had instructed the jailer and his assistant to keep ever at the heels of the prince and always on the alert Two huge revolvers were • thrust underneath the belt of the jail- er, and the lantern holder was simi- larly firmed. Lermontoff was pleased with Oda, for if the governor had trusted hite entirely, even though he demanded no verbal parole, it would have gone ngainst his grain to strike down the chief, as he ruthlessly intend- ed to do when the nine was ripe for it, and in any case, he told hinaself, no Matter how friendly the governor might be, he had the misfortune to stand between his prisoner and libtrty. Lerrtiontoh' was again taken from his Cell about half an hour before the time he had named for the completion of the chaeging, and, although the gov- ernor said nothing of his intention, the jailer and his man brought to the cell six charged batteries, a coil of wire and a dozen lamps. Lermontoff noW changed his 'Working Methods. Ile be. gen each ele,ht as soon as he had finished dinner mid worked till nearly' morning, sleeping all day event when interrupted by the jailer. Jack, &allow- ing the example of Robinson Crusoe, attonapted to tie knOtel oik the hill Of timeby Maine tiotehet with hie knife on the leg or the table. buf most Jaya lie forgot to perform thIs operation, 11011 80 tag wooden Almanac fell hope- lessly out of gear. He estiMated that he had been a little more than a week in prlsou when be heard by the clang of the bolt that the pest cell was to have an occupant. 'I must prepare n for him ' he saki, and so turned out th I light at the end of the wire. lie bail arranged a neat little switch of the accumulator, and so snapped the light on and off at his pleasure ' without the trouble of un- screwing the nuts which held in place one of the copper ends of the wire. Going to the edge of the stream and lighting his candle, he placed the glass bulb in the current, paid out the flex- ible line attached t� it and allowed the bulb to run the riskof being smashed against the iron bars of the passage, but the little globe negotiated the rap- ids without even al perceptible clink and came to rest in the bed of the torrent somewhere about the center of the next cell, tugging like a fish on a hook. Then Jack mounted the table, leaned into the upper tunnel and lis- tened. "I protest," Drummond cried, speak- ing loudly, as if the volume of sound would convey meaning to alien ears— "I protest against this as an outrage and demand my right of communica- tion with the British anabassador." .Tack heard the jailer growl, "This loaf of bread will last you for four days," but as this statement was made in Russian it conveyed no more mean- ing to the Englishtnan than had hie own protest of a moment before The jailer and his tmistant ever at 51 e ' heels of the prints. • brotight intelligence to the jailer. The door clanged shut, and there followed a dead silence. "Now we ought to bear some good old British oaths," said Jack to him- self, but the silence continued. "Hello, Alan," cried Jack through the bars. "I said you would be nabbed If you didn't leave St. Petersburg. You'll pay attention to me next time I warn you." There was no reply, and Jack be- came alarmed at the continued still- ness. Then he heard his friend mut- ter: "I'll be seeing visions by and by. I thought my brain was stronger than it is—could have sworn that was Jack's N:oice." Jack got speedily and qtnetly down, turned on the switch and hopped upon the table again, peering through. He knew that the stream had now become a river of fire and that it was sending to the ceiling an unholy, unearthly glow. "Oh, damn it all!" groaned Drum- mond. at which Jack roared -with laughter. "Alan." he shouted, "fish out that electric bulb from the creek and hold it aloft. Then you'll see where you are. I'm in the next cell—Jack La- mont, electrician and copperstnith; all orders promptly attended to; best of references and prices satistactory." "Jack, is that really you or have I gone demented?" "Oh, you always were demented, Alan. But it is I right enough. Pick up the light and tell me what kind of a cell you've got" "Horrible!" cried Drummond, sur- veying UN situation. "Walls appar- ently of solid rock, and this uncanny stream running across.the floor." "How are you furnished? Shelf of rock, stone bench?" "No; there's a table, cot bed and a wooden chair." "Why, my dear man, what are you growling about? They have given you one of the best rooms in the hotel. You're in the star chamber." "Where in the name of heaven are we?" "Didn't you recognize the rOck from the deck of a steamer?' "I never saw the deck of a steamer?" "Then how did you cotne here?" "I was writing a letter in my room when some one threw a sack over my head and tied me up in a bundle, so that it was a close shave I wasn't smothered. I Was taken In what I suppose was a cab and flung Into what I afterward learned was the hold of a steamer. When the ship stopped, I was carried like a sack of meal on some one's shoulder and uninunpered before le•gaunt speeter In uniform in a room so dazzling with electric light that I could hardly see. That was a few minutes ago. Now 1 Mit here and starving. Where is this prison?" "Like the mikado, as Kate would say, the Authorities are bent on mak- ing the punishment fit the crime. You are irt the Rock in the Baltic, Which you fired at with that gun of yours. I told you those suave office:Gs at St. Petersburg Were playing With you," "Hut why have they put you here, Jaekr 'Oh, 1 was like the good dog Tray', who itsfeicleted with _eiewetionable teattie POCKETBOOK INSURANCE IS CHEAP yee By HOLLAND. VOU can insure your pock- etbook by reading the advertisements in this paper. The manufacturers of the most reliable goods and the merchants who sell them are telling you what is best, what Is cheapest, what is most de- sirable and where It can bo bought They know what they are talking about, and they would not talk in such an expensive manner unless they knew their words would bear in- spection. They want to save money for you because by so doing they make a perma- nent customer of you. It takes little time and lit - tie trouble to read the adver- tisements and few occupa- tions' will pay better. The returns are immediate and the profits are in cash. IF YOU WANT THE BEST YOU WANT THE) GOODS THAT ARE ADVERTISED. palannwaMIN. T suppose, and thus" got- into trouble." "I'ni sorry." "You ought to be glad. I'm going to 'Set out of this place, and I don't be- lieve you could break jail unassisted 11 twenty yours. Here Is where science '<min:nits brutality. 1 say, Drue.1,- !o,,,lbr1-1 your teble over to the cot, - ‘r nod tneunt it, then we can talk without shouting. Not much chance of any one outside itearlug us even. if we Jo clamor, but this is a damp situation, and loud talk is bad for the throat. Cut a slice of that brown bread and lunch with me. You'll Mad it not Mit bad, as you say in England, especial- ly when you are hungry. Now," con- tinued Jack as his friend stood oppo- site him and they found by experiment that their combined reach was not long enough to enable them to shake hands through the bars, "now, while you are luxuriating in the menu of the Trogz- monde& r11 give you a sketch of my plan for escape." "Do," said Drummond. "I happen to have with me a pair of bottles containing a substance which f dissolved in water and sprinkled on :his rock will disintegrate it. It proves 'tither slow work, I must admit, but I utend to float in to you one of the aottles and the apparatus, so that you may help me on your side, which plan eas the advantage ef giving you nse- 'ul occupation and allowing us to coin - 'tete our task in half the time, like the engineers on each side of the Simplon unnel." "If there are bars in the lower wa- orcourse," objected Drummond, "won't ou run it riak of breaking your bottle gainst them?" "Not the slightest. I have just sent 'sat much thinner electric lamp hrough. but in this case I'll just tie s'sx. slag sauirt gun. In my Coughed almost Ali Night With That Dry Tick- ling Sensation in the Throat. A bad cough, accompanied by that ;stressing, tickling sensation in the iroat is most aggravating. Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup heals mucous surfaces, relieves oppression id tightness of the chest, removes zumulated mucous or phlegm, quites :et the most obstinate and distressing ,•tgiis, securing sleep and rest at night, .t only tn the sufferer, but to others 4.1lose rc..s1 would otherwise be broken, Mro. Duel Marphall, Basswood Ridge, •" rust a few lines to let nt leiew witat Dr. Wood's Norway did for Inc. 1 took a severe Ned. ;lied almost all night with firs, ticklers sensation in my throat. The lire boele did inc so much good, T theueet 1 weed try a second one, which I am plolqed to say requited in a complete •oe-, 1 ,- m strongly recomniend it to 'my tees suffering from a cough or any itrott irri t a tion. The price of Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is 2,fras a bottle; ties Imp 'wily size, 50e. It is put up in a yellow wrapper; three pine trees the trade mark, and is manufactured oely by The T. Milburn Ce., Limited, Toronto, Ont. 'i-Cackinfl, attach that to ;no w ve, and the current will do the rest, You can tinioad and I'll pull my stocking back again. If I dared wrench off it table leg, I could perhaps shove bottle and syringe through to you from here, but the material would come to a dead cens ter in the middle of this tunnel unless I had a stick to push It within your reach, "Very web; we'll work away until our excavation connects and we have made it of sufficient diameter for you to :squeeze through, You are then in my eell. We put out our lights, and you conceal yourself behind the door. Jailer and man with the lantern come in. You must be very careful not to close the door, because if you once shove it Out we can't open it from this tik', even 'though It is unlocked and the bolts drawn. It fits like wax and almost hermetically seals the room, You spring forward and deal the jailer with your fist one of your justly cele- brated English knockdown blows, im- mediately after felling the num with the lantern. Knowing something of the weight of your blow, I take It that neither of the two men will recover consciousness until we have taken off :heir outer garments, secured revolv- ers and keys. Then we lock them in, -,-ou and I on the outside." "My dear Jack, we don't need any tunnel to accomplish that. The first time these two men come into my ”oom I can knock them down an easily here as there." "I thought of that. and perhaps you rould, but you must remember we have inly one shot. If you made n mktake. f the lantern man bolted and tired his iAtol and once closed the door—he ,-ould not need to pause to lock !t— elly. we are done for. I should be o,leetly helpless in the next room, 1,1 after the attempt they'd either rown us or put us into worse cells as '•ir apart as possible." "I don't think I should miss fire." itt in.utinnotul confidently. "Still 1 ee the print and will olx,y orders." "My Official position on the rock ever :-.1nee I arrived has been that of elec- trical tutor in chief to the governor. I 'lave started his dynamo working and have wired such portions of the place ns were not already wired before. During these lessons I have kept my eyes open. So far as the prison is con- cerned, there are the governor, a sort of head clerk, the jailer and hi 1st- ant—four men, and that is all. The jailer's assistant appears to he the cook 01' the place, although the cook- ing done Is of the most limited descrip- tion. The black bread is brought frorn St Petersburg, I think, as also tinned meat and soup, so the cuisine is on a somewhat limited scale." "Do you mean to say that only these four men are in charge of the prison?" "Practically so, but there is the gar- rison as well. The soldiers live in a suit of rooms directly above us, and as near as I can form an opinion there are fourteen men and two officers. When a steamer arrives, they draft as many soldiers as are necessary, un- load the boat, and then the Tommies go upstairs again. The military section apparently holds little intercourse with the officials, whom they look upon as jailers. I should juslge that the mili- tary officer is chief of the rock because when be found the governor's room lit by electricity he demauded the same for his quarters. That's how I came to get upstairs. Now, these stairs are hewn in the rock, are circular, guarded by heavy oaken doors top and bottom, and these doors possess steel bolts on both sides of them. It is thus possible for eitber the iniSkary authorities up- stairs or the civil authorities to isolate themselves from the others. In case of a revolt among the soldiers the gov- ernor could bolt them into their attic, niti they would find great difficulty in gteting out Now, my plan of pro- ve lure is this: We will disarm jailer mil assistant, take their keys, outside garments and caps. The jailer's tog - gory will fit you, aud the other fellow's may do for me. Then we will lock them in here, and if we meet clerk or go:ernor In the passages we wilt -have time to overcome either or both before they are aware of the change. I'll go up the cireular stair, bolt front the in- si.:e the upper door and afterward bolt ths lower door. Then we open all the cells and release the other prisoners, dreeend from the rock, get into the Finnish fishing boat, keep clear of the o cannon that are up above us and gat' for the Swedish coast. We can't .adss it. We have only to travel west, and ultimately we are sate. There is only one danger, which is that we may make out' attempt when the steamer Is here, but we must chance that." "Isn't there any way of finding out? Couldn't you pump the governor?" "He is always very much on his guard and Is a taciturn man. The mo- ment the tunnel is fillished I shall question about some further eleetrieal material, and thee perhaps I may get a hint about the steamer. I imagine she eoines irregularly, so the only safe plan would be for us to wake our at- tempt just after she had departed." "Would there be any chance of our ending a nutnber of the military dawn - stairs?" "I don't think so, Now that they Mire their electric light they speed their time playing cards aud drinking volka." "Very well, .Tack; that scheme seems reasonably feaelble. Now get through yotir material to me and issue your In- structions." CALAPTER XIX. 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It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething. Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels* assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural Bleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Ilave Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. '-se.-:".....see'eereteseeieseelesess -•• Was-- the halirt- of-ihe-janer in visaing Drummond only once every four days. The lieutenant made his difficult pas- -ewe, squeezing through the newly com- pleted tunnel half an hour after a loaf had been set upon his table. Jack trnew that the steamer bad recently departed, because two days before the governor had sent for him and had ex- hibited a quantity of material recently landed, among other things a number of electric bells and telephones which the governor wtis going to have set up between himself and the officers and also between his room and that of the clerk and jailer. There were dry batteries and primary batteries and many odds and erms, which made Jack almost sorry he was leaving the place. Heavy steps, muffled by the thick- ness of the door, sounded along the outer passage. "Ready?" whispered Jack. "Here they come. Remember, if you miss your first blow we're goners, you and I." Drummond made no reply, for the steps had come perilously near, and he feared to be heard. Noiselessly he crossed the cell and took up his posi- tion against the wall, just clear of the space that would be covered by the opening of the door. At the same moment Jack switched off the light, leaving the room black. Each of the two waiting prisoners could hear the other's short breathing through the darkness. On came the shuffling footsteps of the jailer and lantern bearer. They had reached the door of No. 1, had paused, had passed on and stopped in front of No. 2. "Your cell!" whispered Jack, panic stricken. "And they weren't due to look in on you for four days. It's all up! They'll discover the cell is empty and give the— Where are you going, man?" he broke off as Drummond, leaving his place near the door, groped his way hurriedly along the wall. "To squeeze my way back and make a fight for it It's better thee"— Lamont's hand was on his shoulder, and he whispered a sharp command for allence. The two attendants had " 2" tliaspertel ft( k, halted in front of No. 2, and while the lantern bearer fumbled with the awk- ward belt bIt ceinpanien wits saying: "Hold on! After all, I'll brlag the other hie food first, I think." "But," retnonstrated the lantern bear- er, "the governor said we were to bring the Englishmen to bite at °nee." "What if he did/ How will be know We stole a belt minute to glee the prince his dinner? If we bring the Englishmen mestere first, the print* ; natty have to wait an hour before we eetiak back With the Euellshtnitm," -7‘Let -- "With his pocketful of rubles? Not I. Be may decide to give no more of his gold pieces to a jailer who lets him go hungry too long." "I've got the door unfastened new. and"— 41 'Then fttsten it again and come back with me to No. I." Faint as were the words, deadened by intervening walls, their purport reached Jack. "Back to your place," be whispered. "They're coming!" The rattle of bolts followed close on his words. The great door of No, 1 swung ponderously inward. The lan- tern bearer, holding his light high in front of him, entered, then stepped to one clAe to admit tho Jailer. WhO CM* close atter, the rev or rood In MA oil* stretched bands. Unluckily for the captives' plan, it was to the side of the cell opposite to that where Alan crouched that the tan tern bearer had taken his staud. There was no way of reaching him at a bound. The open door stood between. Were the jailer to be attacked first his fellow attendant could readily be out of the cen and halfway up the corri- dor before Alan might hope to reach him. The friends had counted on both men entering the room together and crossing, as usual, to the table. This change of plan disconcerted them. Al- ready the jailer had set down les tray and was turning toward the door. Alan, helpless, stood impotently en the shadow, biting his blond mustache with helpless rage. In another second their cherished opportunity wouldvan- Ish. And as the jailer's next visit was to be to No. 2, discovery stared them bs the eyes. It was Jack who broke the momen- tary spell of apathy. He was standing at the far end of the cell, near the stream. "Herer' he called sharply to the lan- tern bearer. "Bring your light My electric apparatus is out of order, and I've mislaid my matches. I want t• BIC" — The lantern bearer obediently bed advanced into the room. He was half- way across it while Lamont was still speaking. Then from the corner of his eye he spied Alan crouching in the an- gle behind the door, now fully expelled to the rays of the lantern._ (To be Continued) HAD iii164ESTION For Over Ten Years. Weakening the body will never remove dyspepsia or indigestion, on the con- trary, all efforts should be to maintain raid increase the strength. Burdock Blcod Bitters will do thin, and at the •znine time enable you te partake of all the wholesome food re- quired, without fear of any unpleasant after results. Mr. Henry P. White, Surretteville, N.B., wtitese--"I have been troubled with Indigestion for more titan ten years; tried several doctors, and different medicines, but all without success. 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