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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1931-07-02, Page 2Clint w' n News -Record CLINTON, ONTARIO Terms•of Subscription—e2,0(1 per year in advance, to Canadian addresses; $2.50, to' the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper diecontnued. until all arrears are paid unless at the .option of the. publisher. The date to which every eubeeriptton is Paid is denoted on the label. Advertising Pates—Traneient adver tieing, 12e pet count line for first insertion. 8e for each subsequent Insertion. Heading counts 2 tines. Small advertisements, not to exceed 'one inch, such as "Wanted," "Lost," "Strayed,"" etc., Inserted- once for 35c, each aubsequent• Insertion 15o. Advertisements eent in without In- structions as to thenumber of.in. Bertlot s wanted will run until order- ed out and will he charged` accord. ingly, Rates for. 'display advertising' made known on application. 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Parties Desiring to effect Insurance or tranraet other httaf'less will be promptly attended t on application to any of the ab•ve.officers addressed to their respec- tive post offices. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. �PIADiAN� �i � diw TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clutton as follows: Buffalo and Goderioh Div. Going Beat, depart 8.58 a.nt. u " u 2.55 p.m. Going West, depart 11.55 a.m. u u " 10.09 pan. London, Huron & Bruce Going South, depart 7,88 a,m. N U is 8.88 p,nt. Going North, depart 8.80 pan. az.. 1,.Gg, dp. 11.58 u,m. Salada a °ree t tea ' is a' aster T Teeth fermi the gardens' 103 THE TULE , • S s MURDISR STORY or A MISSING ACTRESS AND THE TAXING OF WITS TO EXPLAIN HER FATE. BY NANCY BAlslt 114AVIT,Y, SYNOPSIS ' Sheila O'Shay,. formerly a popular actress; and now the wife' of the young multi -millionaire Don Ellsworth; disap- pears leaving no trace behind her. Don visits Dr. Cavanaugh, the famouscrim- inologist, and confesses that his married life has been very unhappy. Dr,Cavan- augh agrees to investigate the case. Peter Piper, reporter of The l:Ierald, is sent to cover the ease. lie goes to Dr, Cavanaugh's home. By accident he meets the doctor•'s,adopted daughter, it beauti- ful young woman. Peter learn that she isinter ty interested in the Stllsworth ease, CHAPTER VI. Peter Piper had all the normal'sus- eeptibility of n young man to the charm of a pretty girl. The difference between him and the usual young man was that he had learned to gauge its effect discount it and lay it neatly on one side where it would not interfere with his judgment. The life of a re- porter early teaches the lesson that women—even young and pretty wo- men—are human beings, Peter had looked into more than one pair of wide and innocent eyes bad listened to more Man one sweet and persuasive voice, had responded amiably to more than one appealing smile, and bad discover- ed hat all these attractions might' net prevent their possessor from pass- ig bad cheques or engaging in the art of blackmail. Experience tends to dis- sipate the rosy and distorting mist in which one sex views the other; .tut the reporter quaffs strong and numer- ous draughts of experience beydnd the limits of Lis persoi)ai affairs. If he cannot carry that brew with a clear head, he is soon advised to seek a more congenial career, in which he will be the only loser if his sympa- thies run counter to the facts. Peter's head was very clear indeed. He was aware of the faint tingling exhilaration of fcllloweng a ."lead" which -had turned in an unexpected direction. The fact that Barbara was very attractive to look upon enhanced her newspaper value; it did not in the least befuddle Peter's faculties. Re was capable of proceeding precisely as if she were an angular spinster of all too certain years—which may be lack of chivalry or its fine-drawn fur- thest developments. As he glancad s,oewise at Barbara's averted profile and noted the firm curve of her chin and the breadth of brow delying the childishness of her short•titlted nose and delicate coloring he paid her the unspoken compliment of not under- estimating her intelligence. She was, for the moment at least, his antagon- ist. And experience had talcen,out of him any masculine conceit that, being a woman, she was therefore too help- less a foeman to be worthy of his steel. Barbara showed that she deserved the compliment by sitting, quite still and silent, in her corner of the coupe. "What I' really came for," Peter ob- served conversationally, "was to see if you wouldn't help me by using your influence to get me an interview with your father.» "You said you came on the Ells- worth ease," Barbara took him np quickly. Hex hands lay quiet in her lap, but there 'was a tense watchful- ness in the poise of her small, alert figure. The years had 'dropped from her, dropped like pebbles flung sound- less( from a cliff edge 'into the sea. She was once again the orphan asylum child, stamped by the hard, unremit- ting effort to hold her own, to cluteh,, bit by bit, at fragmetary advantage in that regimen to inimical to the spirit of childhood. "So l did," Peter assented. "The office sent me out to get an interview with Lir. Oavauaugh on the case—his views on the psychology of runaway wives, with sidelights on husbands from whom wivesdisappear—some thing like that." "My father doesn't see interview- ers—surely you knew?" Barbara faeed him now, once again the self- possessed young woman of wealth and position. Her polite remote voice was calculated to pot a presumptuous re- porter in his place. But Peter was not to be intimidated by a "society" manner. "Yot're ever so much more lilte Alice in 'Wonderland than Lady Clara Vere de Vere really," he said with a disarming ensile. "Look here, I hoped you'd help a fellow out --it's my jab, you know. I came because I Was sent, but since I was sent, I've got to use every effort to get what I was sent for. That's reasonable, isn't it?" "Ye -es," Barbara adinitted, "That's your point of view. But I'm much more likely to take my father's, There's a little thing like loyalty, you know. You play on my sympathies to 'get mo to persuade father, as a favor, tc do something he wouldn't do other- wise. Well,"supposing that I could--- I won=t! The set of Barbara's chin was' very firms indeed. "Not even to help out -Don Ells- worth?" • ISSUE No. 27—'31, "What --do you' mean?" Barbara's voice was little more than a gasp, e "You and Mr. Ellsworth were pxi- vately engaged to be married -before he married Miss O'S8ay," Peter calm- ly asserted. "liow did you know?" The words came out before she could stop there. She bit her lip and a slow flush mounted to her forehead and drained away again, "Look here," Peter said -kindly, "I haven't any ill motive against any of you. I'm quite willing to be frank. I simply guessed it, Whatever Don Ellsworth does has a way of getting 'into the papers, and one of the things that got in, by way of society gossip from our Del Monte correspondent, was that you and lie were seen to- gether a great deal just prior to his sudden marriage. I've the clipping here. But you needn't mind—the ad- mission is certainly nothing against you," "But what does it matter? Why de you want to know? You surely don't mean that you're going to drag that in? I was, a fool to let you trick me like that?" Barbara's voice was bitter with accusation of both herself and him. "It matters just this much," Peter said steadily. "There's more in this Ellsworth business than meets the eye though goodness knowd it's been meeting the eye plenty these last few days. Suppose that young Ellsworth had a reason for wisLing his wife out of the way. Suppose that you were the ream." "Gracious, you do leap to melee drama!" Barbara's smile flashed out a moment., and was gone. "If every married somebody else than the first girl whdse,name the gossips connected with his, changed his mind and mur- dered his wife, this world would be an even more jolly place for the news- papers than it is." Peter's eyebrows -one. "Murder," he murmured gently. So far as I know, nobody has mentioned that the Ellsworth case involves a murder." He saw Barbara's teeth catch her lower lip. Then, as if warned against allowing her features to betray her, she aeleased it, and turned to hint a composed and itscrutible face. ' "Your own phrase, I believe, was that Mr. Ellsworth might wish ills wife `out of the way-' Putting some- one out of the way is a familiar idiom, isn't it? Pardon me if I misinterpret. ed your meaning." Peter's eyes beamed upon her with frank admiration. Ho 'could discount personal attraction, but he knew bet- ter than to discount quickness of wit. Peter disliked fools, even when they made his own task snore simple. "You reserve all your naps for your sleeping hours, don't you?" he com- mented, Barbara ignored the tribute. "I might remind you that your in- spired flight of imagination has no string tied to it holding it down to mere evidence. You must know that you can't print any such insinuation. Mr. Ellsworth would be after you for libel in no time." "I knew you were a bright girl!" Peter's gray, eyes shone With enthusi- asm. "I didn't suppose society buds had a chance to accumulate that much common sense. The point is, it's a working hypothesis)—and working hypotheses sometimes accumulate proof while they work. Now you zee why it would be a good thing for you to get your father to give me that interview." CHAPTER VII. Barbara pondered Peter's last state- event, with its sudden shift of ground.. "No," she said finally, "I don't see what interviewing my father can pos- sibly have to do with it." "You thought my hypothesis flighty and 'libellous and a few little things like that—not a nice hypothesis at all. Well, I'm not wedded to it. Only I'm addicted to theories—I really can't live comfortably without one. Your father might present me with a pleas- ing substitute, devoid of dynamite. Even if he doesn't, he's always good copy, He would distract nu attetnion from these imaginative flights."" "This sounds like a novel sort of blackmail." Barbara's face was white, but her voice was cool. Not for nothing bad she spent the first fon;'- teen years of her life on the defensive against the world. "Naturally, I ,ion's care to have the fact that Mi Ells- worth and I wer.t once—very good friends dragged into print 311 00131100 - tion wits a sensational ttoxy. I should dislike it extremely. The rest of your flight into the blue is sheer piffle, and you know it." Her voice vibrated in it quick gust of angor—but under that burst of indignation Peter listened for the notte of anxiety: "You wouldn't dare print a word of it—you're trying to frighten me with bogies. I sued to dry all alone in the dark; because 1 )snow . there was • a black • leopard °revelled in the corner of the room, where the broom and dustpan stood,1» the day time, .Nobody ever hothet,'ed to come and •console tae. 'Well, It wits good training. ` I had to learn to meet and kno'w-my bogies, alone and in the lark and to conquer them. 'Sb, you see, I recognize a bogie when I see one—even a growl] up one;" (To be continued) . What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrcnterl Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern .A. snappy ensemble with heaps of dash and chic. The jacket is in the popular' hip length that is so becoming to moat figures, The trousers are fitted with tucks at the waistline. The wide flar- ing legs move with the same grace as a skirt. The tuck -in blouse has a youthful tie neckline. This smart pajama ensemble Style No. 2621 may be had in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. It is suitable for the hastens, for. lounging or for resort for beach wear. For the hostess, it's adorable in royal blue crepe silk with roman stripe silk blouse. For lounging, a gay printed crepe silk is practical. For beach, linen prints end shantung show Paris chic. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plait- ly, giving number and size of sueh patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each,number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide St, Toronto. Twenty -One "Don'ts" To Better Conditions Philadelphia -William Guggenheim, New York financier and philanthro- pist offered a 16 -rule plan "for the re- turn of better times". The 16 rule plan follows: Don't produce .commodities at a loss. Don't manufacture at a loss. Don't discourage capital. Don't interfere in European poli- ties. Don't withhold credit where need- ed in America, if the risk is a fair one. Don't withhold credit where need- ed In a foreign country, if the risk is a fair one. Don't lower the tariffexcept for reciprocal trade pacts with other nations. Don't overburden with taxes, the railroads, as they are necessary for our welfare. Don't fear to increase taxes where better distribution is advisable. Don't discourage our shipping in- terests. Don't hold back on foreign trade, but :.go out and .get it. Don't buy stocks of questionable value and merit. Don't get panicky -things wi11 Come out all right. Infuse the nation with the spirit of a man like former President Wil- liam McKinley. Infuse the.nation .with the spirit of a man like former Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, ' When business- expansion begins to well overtake depression, see that inflation is avoided. "Do you tliink life will ever be on a higher -plane?" "Sure;' airplanes will soon be as common as automobiles are now." Where the City of Washingtoh now stands, prehistoric Indiana had a vita lageof considerable + importance, a sort of local .capital for ;the region, Cut Preserve Costs In,,Berr y Season Short Boil Method Gives More Jars At Lower :Cost— Less Labor Strewpe'rry:season reaches*lie peak in Canada about the end of June, the big wholesale nfarlcet gardeners say. And that will he jelly makingtixne, for the careful housewife who knows that the beet jame and jellies are made when the seasdn is at its hight, Abe berries clear rod in dolor, -rich in flav- or, and not too, ripe, e Strawberries have not yielded to the general overproduction this :sea- son, So the thrifty' homemaker will look for methods to make the fruit go as far' as 'poesiblo in stocking the empty fruit sheives for next 'winter's needs. To pt'eveut waste, oi' fruit by too long boiling. of Jams, and jellies is the greatest single saving the housewife can make, When she, cuts down the length of time required to concentrate the; Jelly -malting substance in fruit, She cuts down her fuel,bill, her wot'k, and .increases the number ' of jars of jam or jelly slid obtains from the same quantity of berries. As everyone knows, strawberry jelly is almost im- possible to make even 'with very Iong boiling. But the sew economical short -boil recipes give a lusalous, clear red ,jelly, and almost .twice as many jars of fruit as the old method would, This is equally true in malting that delicious strawberry jame that everyone loves. An illustration of the cost of mak- ing strawberry jam by the long and short boil methods shows most clearly the economy of time, labor, and money by using the newer process. And this process is always sure, never the gamble that attended the long hours of work over a hot stove by the old meth- od. To make Six .eight -ounce jars of strawberry jam by the long boil meth- od requires two quarts of strawberries, at approximately 30c, two pounds of sugar at 6o a pouitd, and '*0 least 30 minutes boiling. The total cost of the jam would be about 72c, or 12c a jar. And the jam would be dark in Color, rather sytvppy in flavor instead of having the tang of the fresh fruit. Using the same amount of berries, 10 eight -ounce jars of strawberry jam may be made by the new abort boil method. The secret is -supply the de- ficiency of jelly -making substance in the ripe fruit by adding pure bottled pectin. And tbe time to make up ten jars of strawberry jam by ibis method is 15 minutes, The quantity of sugar has to be in- creased to thicken the fruit not boiled away, but even this does not Moreno the cost her jar. Two quarts of ber- ries cost 60c, three pounds of sugar '18c, and is bottle pectin 16c, making the total cost 03c, but the recipe gives ten elgbt-ounce glasses, Huts making the total cost per glass only 0 3.10 cents, against 12 cents by the long boil methods, and this does not take into account tbe saving of fuel and labor with the new recipe. The re- sulting jam is sparkling red in color, and bas the fresh flavor of the fruit because it is cooked only about two minutes. Here is the recipe: Grind two quarts of fully ripe bele ries, or crush completely One.layer at a elate so that each berry is reduced to a pulp. Measure 7 cups (3 lbs.) of sugar and prepared fruit into large kettle, mix well, and bring to a full rolling boil over the hottest fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling, Bol hard for 1 minute. Remove from fire and stir in % cup of bottled Pec- tin. T1ton stir and skim by turns for just five minutes to cool slightly to prevent floating fruit. Pour quickly. Paraffin hot jam at once. If preferred, the fruit ntay be sliced instead of crushed and then 4'fa cups of pre- pared fruit is required, instead of the 4 cups (2 quarts) used in the above recipe, To snake that masterpiece of culin- ary art, strawberry jelly, here is a testers recipe that makes the result of clear, sparkling jelly cortaiu, Crush thoroughly or grind about 2 smarts of fully ripe berries. Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out jttlee. Measure 7% cups of sugar, and juice lute large saucepan and nit.-. Bring to a boil over '•'ttest fire and at once add one bottle of pectin, stirring con- stantly. Then bring to a full rolling boll and boil hard la minute, Remove from lire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at once. This makes 11 eight ouuee glasses 'of jelly. And, In- stead of throwing, out the crushed ber- ries in the jelly bag, make them up -ht. to jam by the first recipe given above, C1rig•ADVE-NTt RE -6 Of cotAi adiank/�.oy SCOTTIE-. ' • .. bat SCOTTII - .'hat Dame before: Captain tlmmy and his dog Scottie have many Strange -ad- vetitnres While flying even Chita, iti'ter ericaping ,from bendits and enemy ,gel. Ilers they finally land their plane at the military base from which they Started, and are greeted, with an unexpected sur - 311'1a0, / A.fter escaping from the enemy's soldiers, we pushed the plane to an altitude of several 'thousand feel, find headed straight for Shanghai, It was etill early in the morning when we sighted the familiar flying field, spread out like a small green handkerchief in the early sunlight; Heading the plane down in a wide spiral,we rolled to a stop outside the airdrome, .. Then to our amazement, a Lieutenant and a detacment, soldiers hdrove upof and told no we were under arrest. We were dumfounded, "By who's orders are we under arrest?" I ask- ed. • "General Lit's orders," replied the dapper little Chtheso pificer, We were more 'surprised than ever. General Lx had been our friend and helper from the beginning of our trip. Now he had placed us under arrest, "On what charge are we arrest- ed?" I asked. "Kidnapping Colonel ' Pottg, re- sponded the Iittle officer. We were bundled into . an army truck and rushed• through the streets with the siren screaming. In no time we arrived at the palace of General 'Lu, General Lu welcomed me gravely, shaking hands with himself in Chinese fashieee and then dismissed the orderly. Then he unfolded a plan so amazing that I pinched my- self to see If I were really awake. He had SOLD OUT—Can you beat that? SOLD OUT—itis office as a (General. Someone had paid him a great stack of money to quit—and being a business man first, he had The Census Man The Census Man came round to -day. A diplomatic youth, Said he: "Take heed to what you say, Tell nothing but the truth."' He asked my name and my address, How much I earned per week, What property did I possess, What language did I speak? • I told hits what, he wished to know, Explained my sex was male, Ile took my word that that was so, My wife then told her tale. "He's forty year's of age," she said, "And thirty-five am I, We just ten years since we wore wed, I cannot tell a lie." That Census Man' was full of fun, But crafty as a fox, He saw that Jim, our stalwart son, Stood six feet in his socks, The. Census Man looked up at Jim, And quite serenely smiled, Said he: "Yon must be proud of him, he's such a hefty child," —J. li..Bfssette, Montreal. Adventure Let her go to Italy (tnd•let her go to Itome! I'll plant a bed of pale pink phlox, Zinnias and hollyhocks, Petunias and four-o'clockes, And gayly stay, at-home! —Morale Eberle. lank accepted,. To yon and I this would bo-treeson-inexcusable—but to (Gen- eral Ln war was simply a business proposition; Why shouldn't one take a Job as. General,—and after making a success' of it, sell out? I must have looked shocked, .which seemed to hurt his feelings, but he stiflell his pride and continued with his plan. He wanted to 'leave China promptly, go to Japaveoand I was to fly over with him. lie was, enc a round sum of money, or practi- caily, anything :2 could ask within reason for the trip. The arrest was simply' a' bluff. If I .said "Yes" all would be: well. In a flash ,it occurred to me that here was all the equipment and hale we needed to try .-t, finds Lleuten' ant Stone's brother, now held cap- tive by the mountain bandit tribe. I accepted at once—with the under• standing that Guy Stone would firs( be townie' Prom that moment, there wasn't a thing we could ask for that we didn't get immediately—from ex- tra stra heavy canvas to phosphorous paint, Working secretly its a special guard- ed hangar, we fashioned our plane into the weirdest looking ch'agon you ever saw, Trail- ing out back WAS a long can- vas tail, that floated straight out when wo were in the air. • In the Clay - time it was a /4f w i 1 d lookm,; plane, but at night it was positively terrifying. . So much so, that when 11'u Hsu, the Interpreter entered the hanger after dark one night, he near- ly passed out entirely, Actually he fainted, and I thought we would never bring him around. (To be continued,) Notes Any of our young readers writing to "Captain Jimmy", ,2610 Star Bldg., Toronto, will receive his signed' photo free. Chocolate Malted Milk The health -giving, delicious drink for children and grown- ups. - • Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. Relieving Motor Tension Ruth L. Praukel "I wish I could teach Mary to eat better," sighed Mary's mother. "She starts in all right, but after a few min- utes she just squirms and wriggles, and stops eating altogether. It doesn't matter what she has either. She be- haves the same whether it is ice cream or spinach." "11m!" answered Cousin Jane, who had come to visit. "She seems to have a hearty appetite and to be perfectly well, I wonder if it's just a case of motor tension?" "0f what?" asked Mrs, Jones, "Motor teneion, You see small children have the greatest possible difficulty in sitting still, Even some adults find it hard. You've seen the crowd at the ball game rieo up and stretch at the seventh inning, That's to relieve champed muscles. And that's for adults, Little children find it much more difficult to sit still than grown ups. In fact, for some it is next to impossible to remain in one position for more than a. few minutes." "But they have to sit at their meals," put In Mrs. Jones. "What am 1 to do?" "Why don't you let Mary get down when she reaches that strained point and walls once or twice around the table? That should take the kinks out of her legs, and let her come back relaxed enough to be able to continue her meal," "It doesn't sound logical to me," ale severed the mother, "but I've scolded andnagged and punished and coaxed until' I'm beside myself. A four-year- old who can eat beautifully shouldn't be such a problem, I'm cure." "No. She shouldn't," admittdd Cous- in Jane. "But very often feeding prob- lems arise more pane the strain re- sulting from cramped muscles titan from actual dislike of the food. It's Perfectly evident that when a child begins to swing her feet and kick the table, or to squirm about ou her chair, s'he's not doing it just to be naughty, but because she bas to wont off some accumulated energy, And you'll find It less nerve-wracking for you, if you let her work off that energy by com- plete activity, such as walking around the table, than if you fight her and try to compel an impossible control on her part." "I'm going to try it," said her cous- in. And the very next day, when Mary began to kick the table and to forget to eat, her mother instituted the game of "walking the wiggles away." "Wouldn't you rather walk around the table than kick it?" she began quietly. Mary looked up. "Yes. May I real- ly get down?" At her mother's smile and nod, the active little body slid happily off the chair, and Mary started trotting round the table. "Just go enough to get the kinks out of your legs," suggested blether, and after two turns a pleased little girl climbed back into her chair, and hap- pily attacked her chop and carrots with never a squirm, while a delighted mother made a mental note of one more worry conquered.—Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 4010 Street, New York City. These articles are appearing weekly in our columns, • Modern Authors Do Not Starve Provident Writers Gather Up Large Fortunes Loudon, — Arnold/Bennett's estate probably amounted to $500,000. Arn- old Bennett's income must have tun well into five figures for a good many years before his death, and he 'was a shrewd business man who invested his savings carefully. If he did leave $600,000 It would not be the largest of literary fortunes amassed in this coun- try. It is not more than the amount left by Stanley Weyman, the novelist, and somewhat less than that bequeath- ed by Sir W. S. Gilbert (of "Gilbert and Sullivan"),•who holds tbe record, I believe, with $5G5,000. Dickens left about $450,000, and hardy as meets, Which is surprising, considering how little he earned in the first forty years or so of his long literary life. The idea that writing is a poor trade dates back from the Grub St. period of the earth eighteenth century. But popular authors did very well from that time onward. Scott gained a large fortune by his poems and novels, lost It in the collapse of Constable's pub- lishing house, and made another foe - tune in the six years before he died. Byron received $10,000 for two cantos of "Cltilde-Harold"; Thackeray, in a letter to Mts. Brookfield, admitted to earning $50,000 in a single year, Even the "serious" writers could sometimes Prosper. Messrs. Longmans still have the original cheque for $100,000 which they paid Macaulay. ler I31e history. On the whole, however, literature-' for the favored few --la probably a more profitable business than ever it was before. There must be at least half a dozen novelists and dramatists in England whose incomes would com- pare favorably with those of the lead- ers of the Bar or the most successful practitioners in Harley Street. PreservingWild Flowers June is the month of flowers, and many readers will be starting to col- lect and preserve the wild flowers which they find on their week -end rambles. One method of drying them is to place them on a layer of clean soft sand in a ilox, and then cover them up with more sand. They will take a few weeks to dry and will then be ready to mount. . • No matter how severe, you oan always have inarnecdlate relief: Aspirin always stops pain quickly. It does it without any ill effects. harmless to the heart; harmless to anybody. But it always brings relief. 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