The Exeter Times, 1891-4-16, Page 2THE RIVALSI
13Y KENNETH. LEIGH,
CHAPTER I. ington, with her eyes axed on her plate, and
gigt Igiggig :scurry -headed boy of about eight, who sat at
Mrs. Flushton seas a witlow, ; the side in a highchair, drumming his sturdy
the was rich, lettelsome, awl absolutely in. 4
dependent, yet ehe felt thee her life lacked' "sts"rt the table aud eYinn. Jain dishes.
eritataly.
" Do say grace quiek, mummie," he said
suddeuly, having nride up la Mind about
the jams. " Miss Lucas has been down for
an hour, and she made me come down -stairs
too, though I told her yea were never dowii
before eleven o'clock . And we're bate so
huugree —Arnie we, Miss Lucas'!"
" Harold, be silent 1" said airs Leaming-
ton ; but she took his advice, aud laid down
her letters, said grace, and let 'breakfast be-
giu.
"You will find Harold a very troublesome
charge, Miss Lucas, I am afraid," she Baia.
Mies Lucas raised her brawn eyes shyly,
and dropped them again quickly as the
found Mrs Leamingtonregarding her through
gala " piaceneed
" Oh, I am suren--the began; but
Harold interrupted her,
"No; she won't, inummie. We get on
splendidly.—Don't we. Mies' Lueas ?"
Mrs Leamington began reading her letters
again ; but all the time elle was thinking
• Perfect manners—so shy and modest.
Very pretty, toe. She will be quite the
:age. I must Reif she bee proper dresses."
"Io you deuce?' asked. Mrs. Leandigtou
abruptly.
" Dance? Yes! I leereed at se1001 ; but
have not of course nentred for eome years,"
sloe anowered, and gleueed doubtfully at
Harold : was she goats; to be asked to teach
that sturdy infant the art of waltzing?
"Ah !-..we have a. good may deuces
here," Mrs. Leamington went. on. I my-
self am going to have open eveungs mice a
fortnight, and I think of malsittg tyre of
them into dances. I hope you will enjoy
them."
Miss Lucas beamed with =Wen grateful
surprise; but Mrs. Leamington did not
even seethe glenee. She was aetnated by no
npul se of kindness ; it was only that she
omitted to give these dances, and the pre-
sence a tae young girl in her bouse mule a
interest. Site i never had any eluldren ;
elle was not a u omen ; and the wheels
of her nousehr ia, under the eare of a latest
excellent housekeeper, moved too easily to
give her even the ecenpatiou of scolding her
raid. elite heel tried going abroad m stua
men. anti for three months she had jegited
very eonteetedly over the Continent with a
maid and. eourier. But, as we said, she
was Iset a clever woman, and she eould not
rones herself to enthusiasm even in Italy.
Pictine.galleries tired her eyes, read the
must. and ineense in the churchee produced
a s,sttinolent eireet upon her. Not did she
care for reading up her .guide -book for more
than a quarter of an hour at a time, and
tnen it was so difficult to find the page at
witich she had left off', and when she return-
ed to Englauti she was in a hopelessly eon-
fuea state este the venous eines the lied
passed through, and iavariably associated
Yeniee with Zenboia, and Rome with
Derelemone, which latter heroine she also
confused with Cleepatra, owing pedlars to
a certain similarity in the satinese of theirfatea
Slime she hed returued, nothing of intereet
had heppeneti kink the motiotoay of her
life swept the lase of her meal, who hail'
married. the courier. Though Mrs, Vlushtem
tied felt realer aggrievea this desertion
en the Teen of a maid who heal been carefully
trained and knew all her ware yet She had
eiven her a 'handsome tea-servme, and had
nosv, having got another maid, forgiven her.
After' all, it had its etivantages, for the last
Trani had never got on with Perk the pug
do, ,ind the preeenataue was fond of doge,
an'il cottsentea to undertake hie Salute
n
slay eat. Still Mrs. Flusbton felt, ae she
sat nipping her chocolate aver the fire on a
foggy OtiellilliT morning, that herlife lacked
interest, and the gazed rather helplessly
routal the luxurious morreing-roone as if to
try to tied it. ,
"1 glee dinneninetS, she said. charming -excuse for giving them.
"1
AM sure me' nennera are ttrWaye stteeeSS.1 (.4 (41, you are eery eine to ine,
IhI.she bid dawn her nun and, olieninn Leamington ! I did not know. -did not ex.
" Mother, nlies Lucas raeed me all the
way down.staire this morning ; and sheseys
she used to elide down the banisters when
she was a little boy—girl. And she sayis"—
" Harry, if you've finished your break-
fast, you nay go and prepare your books in
seheenroom for Miss Lueas, Saul Ins
a drawer of her oserttedre. toek out her
tiusaboola After a time she sighed.
"The tillingtons and the Browus aren't. at
litime, and the tiarringtons aro in mumn.
ung," she S3id. " After she added, " it
ie very early for a dinner; and itns very
difileent witbout a. man to nine the foot of
tile table, I think it must be an evening."
She re -opened her ving.hook at the !nether, *ening pity ou her protegee,"
letter A and began mating a pencil Rees He sinmen off hie chair and went; and
s etly elle stopped and eightel again. Miss Lucas, having obtained leave, followed
le 1 w i4h I had a feature," she said, " A Leg.
mere musical at•home would seem to have ""
May Lucite was au °pilau. Her father,
no reason for it ; if I had some one to aek elerg men of the Church of Ilineltuid, had
died three years before, wben May was
eighteen. Since them she and lter mother
had lived together in e little cottage in the
Devonshire village which was them home,
and had ekea out their scanty income by
receiving as bearders two little Incilan.born
children. Then the parents of the children
hail returned and the mother and daughter
could not hear of any other boarders, and
funds began to run very low. They then
made up their minds to separate and break
up the little cottage home. Mr a Lucas
consulted the vicar, her, husband's successor,
and he advertised for a governess's post for
May.
Mrs Leith Leamington was nommen ofeap.
rice. She had been troubled by the accents
of the various applicants who came to eve
her in answer to her advertisement, and
was strtzek by the fact of May being the
them to meet, now 1"
At this nueuent & footman Caine in and
preseuted a silver tray with three letters on
it, Mrs. Flushten took them, and carefully
examined all three before opening any,
whieli is a way of ladies when they have
littlo to do. One wart a, hill. This Mrs,
Fluthton laid cat Iter capacious silken lap.
She had never known what it WaS to feel a
trifle anxious on opening a bill. The seeoud
was a, thin tignare envelope addressed in a
lady's nand, and with a erest on the back.
This Mrs. Flusliton opened, It was an at.
home card, with a crest in the corner, :mid
"Nus. LLIT1I LEA:VI:A:TON at Houle Deti-
eertilar 7th and llst ; January 4th and IStli ;
Vet try 1st, lath, from 9-11.S0 o'clock.
ilesaineltan Gardens."
Mrs.1Flusliton perused this oard several
times, after which she laid it down, and,
takiug up her knittieg, clickea her needles
daughter of a clergyman and only twenty.
fast and furiously for Fop= moments. 'Then
She wrote to the vicar who was given
ohe laid the knitting down and took up the i'be•
as referencs ; and on receipt of his letter of
eard again.
"o like Mrs. Leith Leamington V' she
ejaculated, raistng her eyes in protest to the
"Site alsveye tries to do something parlour, anto t widow and her daughter,
new and make a sensation ! Fortnightly at. who cried over the crested note.
homes !—and the last on leap -year's day! If Rt She will he just a sweet young Devon
that islet Mrs. Leith Leanneigton all over ! and quite a companion to me. It is
—I wish 11 thotigitt of fortnightly at- very irksome going everywhere alone. Oh,
bomea" she added, aftera pantse. Then her she will be useful to me in thousand ways !"
eyes fell on the ne,gleeted third letter,. aind Mrs. Leamin tou said to her husband.
she took it up with a slight look of eariosity
at the unknown writiug and the foreign
stamp.
the time of which I write, there was scarce-
ly a more popular woman in London than
Veronica Browne.
She bad now been in England a little over
a year. She had lived principally in Lan-
don, which possessed an extraordinary
faseieation for her. Shelled hove to tbiuk
however, for various reasons, some of which
we shall hear later, that it might be well
for ner to take apiece in the country, and.
one of her objects in her visit to the North
was to look round for some place, on whieh
to pitch her tent,
It itt needless to say that Miss Browne,
the amount of whose fortune, thanks to the
disputed will, was known to every one vrho
took an interest in such matters, had. been
wooed again and again, wooed also by
gentlemen whose mere notice would have
been e.onsidered an honor hy most women.
She had not, however, allowed herself to be
won. She liked her liberty. She enjoyed,
innocently enough, the observance with
whieh she was surrounded, and ber brain—
one of the most active, restlesS brains that a
woman has ever been gifted with—was full
ef schemes,most of whieh, as shefelt, would
perisb tuitriea if she gave herself A husband.
As regards appearance, Veropiea was, in
the fullest seuse of the word, a handsome
woman. Tall and somewhat full of tiger°,
with a clear eoroplexion, flashing brown
eyes, and a profusioit of dark, early hair,
she was a girl who would have been notieed
even in a crowd.
Of courae she dressed to perfection, She
had loaneti the art of dressiug in America,
and had practised it in Pans, under the
best mestere and mistresses of the little.
known seience. Wherever she went, and
whatever she was doing, her style of dress
was appropriete to the occasion. Save that
it was so very Appropriate, so perfect in its
way, there was never any remerk to be
made about it,
warm eecommendation promptly wrote and
engaged Mayon a salare of fifty pounds a
year, thus _bringing joy into the cottage
"tiv ewer. Amer," it ran, "1 don't know
if you have altogether forgetten my exis-
tence ; but I hope not, beeause I'm going to
follow the example of all scapegrace young
nephews, and only recall myself to your re.
memierance in order to ask a favour. The fact
is, my ten years are up, and I've six months'
leave to come home ; but it is all visry well
for the Colonel to shake hands with me and
congratulate me, and all the other fellows to
look at me with the eyes of envy • but I—
" e able to manage that young
eapegrace Haery ?—that is the chief question.
Hie latent ers are abominable," replied. Mr.
Leamington.
" Oh yes," ansa-ered his wife indolently.
'She accustomed to the care of children,
and quilled Greek and Latin ana mathe-
matics with her father, who was a great
senolaiti Ilarry only needs gentle super-
vision."
a eutie fiddlesticks!" growled Harry's
father. "I'd rather trust to the Greek, and
Latin and mathematies I"
ntaihen May Lucas arrived—the night be -
haven a home to go to. I thought first of foreibe breakfast -table seene—Mrs. Lame
refusing, and thus making myself famous in ington had had a moraent of misgiving. She
a moment, as being the first man on record was so very pretty. There was nothing
wbo would have infused home -leave after artificial about her sunny brown hair, and
ten yearsservice, But the ridiculous part of her fair English skin needed no aid from the
the thing is that I have got just the same
feeling of a yearning to see the old country powder -box.
"1 may have no end of trouble," Mr&
and. all the old haunts, and no black fa es,
and wind and snow, as if I'd. a patriarcbal
roof and a welcome waiting me: And so it
-was that I suddenly—don't be offended—
remembered my Aunt Betsy, and that
she cried whenf went to India ten years
ago, Aunt Betsy, if I come home, may I
coma end see you first, before knocking
about a little? Or will you say : " Yes,
cried when yott went away ten years ago ;
but all these ten years you have only writ-
ten to me once:" 'India is au awfully hot
place for letter- wi iting ; the thermometer
at my side is up to ninety degrees now.—I
hope you see well in health, aunt, and that
you don't think ine a confoundedly impudent
chap for writing like this. -"Year affection-
ate nephew,
'FRED OsBORNE."
Mrs. Flushton folded the letter up end put
it back into the envelope with it cerious ex-
pression on her face. Then she suddenly
begau to sob. Poor lad 1 poor Fred 1 Oh,
if Mary had been alive! Her son, that she
was so proud of 1—her first baby 1 Oh
Mary, little Mary 1 I'll be a mother to your
son ! welcome him home for you, dar-
ling 1 Oh, I've been a selfish woman; I've
been a lone, selfish woman 1"
Mrs. Leith Leamington sat at the top of
-her breakfast -table, dressed in a. flowered
morning robe ana a dainty lace cap, readies,
her letters. She was betweexi thirty an
forty years of age, and everything tit -out her
conveyed the impression of being artificial:
the bronze -gold of her elaborate coiffure ;"
the expression of her thin, handsome, powder-
ed face; the tones of her voice when she
eke.; and ker striking morning costume.
he was the kind of lady of whom yea find
yourself unconsciously tvoudering what her
husband privately thinks about her; but
) also the kind of lady 'vleeee husband is blind-
ly devoted. to Ilea
Ifer husband vi d.. sot at the breakfast -
table, having left for baa office a good two
hoers before ; so ene splendours of the morn-
ing gown were wested on a very prottyyoung
governess wire at opposite Mrs.steith Lem..
When Colonel LyAdon was brought up by
Itis frietal and formally introduced to Miss
Browne, be felt at Once that he wart in the
presence of a capable warmer "I bear we
are travelling the tame way." he said, lift-
ing his hat courteously. "1 hope youwill
make use of inc. I shall be delighted to be
of service to you in any way,"
,‘ musk you a thonsisud times," saia the
young lady. Her swift brown eyes swept
over ltim for a moment. In that motneut
she seemed to tette, hint in. She smiled aud
hem out her head. I hoe' from Utiele
Alia," she send, " that we are tet be neigh -
beers up in the North You are bound for
Castle Ettriekt I ani on my way to vieit
General Mackenzie, of Deep Deena Per.
haps you know the place ?"
"Ole:yea I know it well," said the
colonel. "General Mackenzie is one of my
oldest friends, 'We served together in India.
I stayed at Deep Deane years upon years
ago. Is this your luggagel.."
A pile of boxes, ba.gs, Saratoga trunks,
bundles of wraps and -umbrellae WAS being
wheeled on to the platform, and beside them
walked a young lady in travelling costume
and a StUart-lOoking man in livery, both of
whom were trying, but apparently with
scant sueeess„ to count the parcels. Yes;
it is all mine," said Miss Browne with a
little neigh. "That is whet frightened my
uncle. I might travel in safety, he thought,
but my possessions would be too much for
inc. Colonel Lyndon, do you know that
young lady in grey? If you do, I wish you
would intreduce me to her. I should like
to travel in the same carriage. Her face is
a perfect picture."
"1 was Just going to ask your permission
to introduce her to you," said the colonel.
"She is the governess of a little friend of
mine, youngest daughter of Mr. Winstioney
ef &neck, and they have been put under
my uharge by Lady Flora Winstanley."
We are keeping you from thena, Lyn.
don," said Mr. Smith.
" Oh, not at all. They have a protector
now. I believe I am not wanted by any
one," said the colonel.
Miss Browne was still looking meditative-
ly at the pretty girl% grey and ber com-
panions, Olt, yes ; they have a protector,"
she said, smiling, " What a good-looking
bey 1 The happiest face I have sem for ages.
Does he belong to them, Colonel Lyndon ?
I should say, to look at him, that he was in
love aud had just been accepted."
"That is Cantein Winetanley, of the
Third Foot," said Colonel Lyndon. "He
is young to be a captain, but he is not quite
a boy, Miss Browne. You mustnot, at least
let, him know that you think him one. He
is one of the best young officers' in the
service, but he stands upon his dignity."
" Oh ! introduce me ! introduce me !
This is delightful, quite like a romance,"
cried Miss Browne. Uncle Aliek will see
the luggage in. Not the fur wrap, uncle
dear, or the dressing -ease. James can bring
them to the carriage. Now then, Colonel
Lyndon. The good-looking boy is on the
loott-out for you."
They met at the door of a first-class tr.:im-
partment, which was as yetunappropriated,
and into which Percy Winstaeley was cram-
ming books raid newspapers, and cakes and
fruit, and the parcels and bags -which Letty
Morrison insisted were either too frail or
too valuable to be entrusted to the luggage -
van.
"There is not room for all those things
in t here," said Miss Browne to the colonel.
Couldn't on persuade the ladies to come
Les,mittgton bad thought, looking at her.
to
"1 don't want to be turned into a chaperon my carriage ? Uncle Alick engaged a
to my boy's „overness I"'
saloon -car for me this morning; If the two
ladies would join rrie it would be pleasant, 1
But to -day Miss Lucas's manners were so
think, for us all. Then Captain Winstanley
exquisitely shy and grateful that Mrs Leam-
ington felt relieved.
• ' • • • ' • •
Mrs. Flushton's nephew lutd arrived. The
whole town knew it. Mrs. Flusliton bad
herself driven down to the stationto meet
him, end had brought the bronzed. young
hero in triumph home. fter ten years
of Indian native service, he had indeed
fallen into a clover -field. His aunt,
gazed into his handsome young face, seeking
wistfully for some likeness to her younger
sister, his mother, who had died nearly
twenty yeers ago. She found some likeneas
in the eyes, she said; and he smiled at her,
and said. carelessly: " Oh, I was always
supposed to be the image of my father; '
and then regretted the remark, seeing his
aunt's disappointment, and added, hastily,
"except about. the eyes, you know!" His
father lutcl married again, and had become
alienated from the family of his first wife,
and had died seven years before. Hrs.
Flushton did not think about him in con-
nection with her sister's child.
" limit, you will spoil me 1 You make
me feel quite awkward: I am not used to
it 1" Fred Osborne exclaimed, laughingly,
as his auut showed him the rooms she had
had prepared for him, with blazing iires in
both the bedroom and the smoking-rooni
adjoining, and a regal supply of cigarettes
and cigars in boxes oiethe writing -table.
"1 knew you woeld Smoke," she said, with a
gentleleugh of tri umph. 93e. byou won't sp end
The law -suits, whose course was followed
with keen interest, by multitudes of people,
maele Veronica famous. When, acting on
the advice of her uncle, Mr. Alexander
Smith, she came over to England, she had
no cidiculty in making her way into society.
Her appearance and personal qualities
helped her to keep the poeition which her
wealth and notoriety had made for her. At
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Percy, with a, laugh. Well, good evening,
We must take our places,"
A few moments later, and they were mov-
ing slowly out of the station.
In the ladies' carriage everything went
smoothly. Veronica, who could be, when
elm awe, one et the most charming cora-
penions in the world, set herself at wee to
win. Millet: heart and to conquer Letty.'s
shyness. Before they had been au hour In
the train she had succeeded. The young
girls had forgotten that she was a rich,
hatulsornelyedressea woman of the world.
Tbey were listening to her stories, which
were exceedingly arming, and giving their
OlVil little teems in return, They were
telling her sena they knew about the towns
aud villages which were, or seemed to be,
flying past there, and admiring with her the
brilliancy of the July sunset., Milly cried
o ut that she would are far bettor skies in
the North. " Wait till September," she
said, "or October. Then you willsee. You
would think sometimes that the moors were
on fire,"
"But I don't know that I ehall arty in the
North SO long," said Miss Browne.
"Oh ! I hope you will, I hope
e ried .nlilly, and timid little Letter echoed
the wish.
Well, I must see how I get au. If yea
aro all very interesting. But I think you
T
and you might have this carriage."
While she spoke she was bowing and
smiling to her new acquaintances. Maly
and Letty Morrison were a little shy of her
at first : she looked so very experienced
but Percy Winstanley was delighted with
her, He had never seen a girl, as be sa,icl
la ter to the colonel, whose appearance pleas-
ed him more.
"One can't be fermal in a railroad sta-
tion," she said.
" Ciremnstences don't admit of it. Now,
are we all together? There is Uncle Alick
making signs to us. We may as well take
possession of our carriage."
In a few minutes everything was arranged.
Milly and her youiee governess wore occupy-
ing comfortable seats in Miss Browne's car-
riage ; her parcels and theirs were in ; Mr.
Smith wasbowing and smiling his farewells ;
and Colonel.Lyndon and Captain,Winstaaley
were standing at the door of the ladies' Car-
riage, taking their orders.
It was Veronica, of course, who issued
them. Milly, who had scarcely recovered
from the efieet of her delightful surprise,
could do nothing but gaze with shining eyes
at her brother, aud Letty Morrieon was tar
too shy to make a single remark.
Veronica, happily, was able to speak for
them all. " 'We shall stop at York, I sup-,
pose. That will be in the middle of the night,
she said. " One of you might just peep in.
If we are not all of us asleep, we might like
a cup of coffee. When shall we reach Edin-
burgh 2"
Very early in the morning," said Peecy,
and unfortunately there's no a train on
to our place until nearly mid-day,"
" Oh 1 but I call that fel-lea:ate, ' said Miss
Browne. " We (raft breakfaat at an hotel
and go round together. 1 have never seen
Edinburgh:, My Scotch friends tell me it is4
the most wonderful place in the universe."
are, mid eronice, with a smile.
"Percy is interesting;" said Milly earnest.
ly. "Oh ! Miss:Browse, iyou ought to see
what be is. But afraid be won't be at
h.erte very long. I think it's a shame that
people should have to go away so far. And
there are lots of soldiers wanted in Eng-
Litdcott would not have your brother it stay.
atehotaus solilier,Maly ?" said her governees.
Yea_ I would, 1 would," cried the child.
"I should like him to stay at home always.
Why shouldn't he ? We want to be taken
eare of as well as the people in Africa,"
"Of course we do," said Miss Browne.
But Letty seal softly, " I am Afraid we
can't choose, Milly. We mustall be contented
toerre where we are sent."
Li the carriage where Colonel Lyndon and
Percy bad seats there was very little con-
versation. Percy, who was tired by the rapid
travelling and successive excitements of the
day, dozed off early. The colonel remained
awake, gazing out quietly upon the changing
sky and revolving many thoughts in his
mind. He was accustomed to long vigils.
Seated. at the door of his tent, in the sweet
starry nights of the Indian winters, or in
barracks at a station% the plains' when the
earth was steaming all night withthe heat
which the fierce tropical sun has drawn up
out of her bosom, or riding in the smell hours
of the morning from barracks to camps, be
had often outwatched the stars, and suck
moments he had found favourable to thought.
Many a knotty paint be hail settled with
himself, many & problem he had striven to
solve, many a, high thouglit—such thoughts
as make the cheek suddenly flush, and the eye
kindle—had come to him, when the world
around him was wrapped in slumber.
He bed n particular problem before him
now, nor any hankering after abstract
thought. And yet he was glad of the quiet
hours. He was thinking of the strange in-
equalities of fortune—wondering why one
human being should be born to every sort of
privilege and observance, while another had
nothing. This puzzle followed him through
the night.
We shall think, perhaps, our colonel was
a man of violent theories—one who thought
lightly of loosening the laws of property and
bringing in anarcby, by destroying the bands
that hold society together. It was not so.
Had we asked him, in fact, what his polities
were, he would have told us that he was "a
faithful disciple of the old school." Whence
then had this new feeling of discontent
against the general order of things arisen?
The image that followed the colonel
througk the night, haunting him even in his
brief half-hours of sleep, may partially ex-
plain the mystery. It was of a fair-haired
girl, dressed in plain travelling garments,
witb timid appealing eyes as the sky of the
East, and most delicate features. That a
creature so tender should be cast upon the
world, should have to earn her bread by the
labour of her hands, should live in the -houses
of strangers, this, to the great heart of the
old soldier, was inconceivable.
' Oecasionally, through that long night,
he thought of the other glrl whose acquaint-
ance he had. made, and whenever he thought
of her be smiled. He admired her; nornan,
with his full senses about him could have 1
failed to do so. But take care of her ! It
was absurd. She was rnore than able to
take care of herself and of any number of
people besides. Strange, strange were the
inecmalittes of fortune I Further than that
the colonel, with all his deep thinking,
could not advance. r
At Yorlehe peeped into the ladies' car-
riage, and, finding them awake, brought
them coffee and rolls. There were no other
stoppages, except of a few moments at a
time. _Finally they all met safely on the
platform of the station at Edinburgh, where
they found—and this did not surprise Colo-
nel Lyndon in the least—that Miss Veronica
Browne, who looked as fresh and brisk as if
she had been all night long in a comfortable
bea-room instead of a railway carriage, was
prepared to take them all in hand.
"We are all going to the Palace Hotel,"
she said. "My uncle wrote for rooms there,
and to have breakfast ready. We'll rest for
an hour before we look round Edinburgh.
Wilily has promised to show me everything
—the Castle a,nd the dear old town, and the
Calton Hill and llolyrood. I think," turn-
ing to Colonel Lyndon, " one of ou had
better telegraph to Lady Flora Winstanley
for we shall certainly not catch the forenoon
train.",
The colonel would have demurred at this,
for he did not know bow Lady Flora would
like it ; but Percy took the full responsibility
err his own shoulders. ,
Come along," he said. I'll telegraph in
your narn e. iqy mother has such confidence
in you, I know he won't mind."
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