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BARNWELL SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
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By RUPERT HUGHES
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Copyright W Harper Jk Brothers
THIS WEAK,
yTells How Lydia E.^inkham’0
Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Health.
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DAPHNE AGAIN TURNS TO CLAY, BUT AS THEY PLAN FOR
THE FUTURE A NEW BLOW FALLS. ■%
„ Synopsis.—Clay Wlinburn, n young New Yorker on a visit to Cleve
land. njeets pretty Daphne; K1p, wfip*e brother Is in the same office with
Clay in Wall street.. After a whirlwind courtship they become op gaged.
Daphne goes to New. York with her mother to buy her trousseau.
Daphne's brother. Bayard, has Just married and left for Europe with his
bride, Leila, Daphne and her mother Install themselves In Bayard’s fiat.
Daphne meets Tom Duane, inan-about-B»wn, who seems greatly at
tracted to her. Daphne accidentally discovers that Clay Is penniless,
except for his salary, Raynnrri and his wjfe return to New York unex
pectedly. The three wofuen set out on a shopping-excursion and the tw^>
younger women buy exfw-nilve gowns, having them churged to Bayard.
Bayard is furious over the expense, seeing hard times ahead. Daphne^
Indignant, declares she will earn her own living and breaks her engage-*
meat wltlfcCIny. Through an Introduction by Duane, Daphne induces
Iteben, a theatrical magnate, to give her a position in one of his com
panies. Her first rehearsal la a fiasco, but Reben, at Duane’s request,
gives her another ehahee. Sudden illness of Miss Kemble, the star,
gives Daphne her chance, but her acting is a dismal failure. She Is con
soled by Tout limine.
CHAPTER XII—Continued. *
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a Satan or Raphael had whispered to
her an Invitation to revisit the scene
of her late humiliation with Clay. With
Duane’s magic purse there would be
no danger of a snub from the waiters;
.with his own car.there would be no
risk of footing It home.
Then an Imp of mischief spoke* for
her and said, “All right!”
Duane told the clufuflTeur nnd the
car shot like a Javelin from the lighted
street Into the deep forest-night of
Central park.
What would Clay say? But, after
all. he had failed her ip a crisis,- Per
haps he hud turned his heart else
where. Men were Impatient, vindic
tive, fickle.
When Claremont was reached and
Duane handed Miss Kip out he noted
that her hand wus hotter than his own
and a .little quick to escape, her face
wu Hushed and h*»r lips parted as if
with excitement., He assumed that
the speed of the ride atwl the tang of
adventure were to blituiv*. .
While the waiters were serving the
■upper and while he was attacking It
with the frank appetite of honest hun
ger she recounted the evening’s dis
aster as calmly hs if It were the story
of somebody else. In fact, she was
standing off and regarding herself with
the eyes of an alien. We change so
fast that the persons we were yester
day are already strangers, nnd their
•eta the acts of distant relatives. Her
calm was really the numbness of
abock. The anguish would come to
morrow. __
“I can’t understand myself at all,”'
Daphne said. “1 went through every
one of the motions, hut I couldn't
reach the audience once. I was like a
singer with a hud fold singing In a
foreign language—you don’t know what
the song Ik all about, hut you know
that It never quite gets on the key.”
“You mustn’t he discouraged.”
“Oh, yes, I mufet! I couldn't he an
actress in a thousand years. Mr. Bat
tersea told me.so himself/*
Duane felt the truth of tlilsj hut It
hurt him to have her feel it. It of
fended his* chivalry to realize how im
polite fate Could he to ‘sb proITy a'girt.
He hated to see her reduced to the
necessity of proving how* plucky she
could be. He tried to liud an escape
for her. He said :
"You’re- far too good for tht* stage.”
“1 don’t believe that for a minute.”
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ness in Cleveland to a post of distinc
tion in New York; to solve at once all
the hateful, louthsome, belittling rid
dles of money ; to be the bejeweled nnd
feted and Idolized wife and mistress of
this young-'American grand duke; to
buy that impossible trousseau, or bet
ter; to live In a New York palace in
stead of a flat; to go about In her ow-n
limousine Instead of an occasional tax
Icub; to be fortune’s darling Instead
of a member of the working classes,
struggling along with bent neck under
a yoke beside a discouraged laboring
man!
When the car reached her building
she was resolved to see Duane no
more. She could not tell him so. After
all, he had been everything thutwas
courtesy and charity. It would hardly
She Stared at Her Image in the Mirror.
have been polite to treat him with ab
solute indifference. Duane got down
and holped her out and took her to
the door, which was logged at tins late
hour. While they -waited for the door
man to nnswepvthe bell she was pay
ing him his wages;
“You are wonderfully kind. I had a
gorgeous evening. You save.d my life.”
Site- ifad said more t+mn she ifitend-
she—protested. “But I've Iuolv thaih j M . had earned.
Knm a! It i ,t r, I oil m .lit V
something I can do.'
“May I help you to decide?” — —
“If youLoiily would! But Tin getting
to he a nuisance.”
“You are a—a—to me you are a—
well, you’re not a nulsanct^’
He dared.not fell her what she was,
especially ns the waiter had set the
bill at his elbow and was stnivding tiff
In an attitude of Ul-conceqJcd. Impa
tience for the -tip, which lie knew
would he large. Mr. Duane always
gave flie normal ten per cent and a
bit extra, lie tipped wisely .but..no£
too well, knowing that ni^ixtr/iyugunt
tip wins a waiter’s contempt almost
more than none at all. The head, waiter
fairly cooed “Good night’’ and almost
gave them a blessiqg. ».
The starter had Mr. Dunne* ear,
wnlting for him ut the curb-ami W-Uai,
htrhftt tvTtli one hnud as la -n uggjcd
u quarter away with the oUjer. lie
stepped, in. to lay the lin n Iqprol*/
'over their knees with reverence, closed
the door exquisitely ami murmured,
“Ooud-H-rgtit!” —_ —o-
The car was yfi* aristocrat; it (float
ed from the cuife with swii'uliku
■weep.. • ..*•
Daphne thought of Clay and lierseif
"plodding homeward. She seemed to
see them or their wraiths staggering
disconsolately ;ilojig.‘ She felt very
■orrj^ for them. Here wag a chance to
save one of thcm-^TmtlT of them, in
fact; for In taking hvr financial bur
den from Clay’s shoulder* she would
b£ twice strengthening him. If she
were to accept ifuaiic ms her hpshpnd
ther\ her prolUems would In* suited—
and (“irr-wrn^rfix- free of her.
To be Mm. 'Pm rHiane;/<> step Into
the society society; to lift ktr father
•other Irote a tr
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Then may l call soon?”
“Of course;” ?
‘Tomorrow?” - ‘
. “I—well, I’ll lot you know.”
‘*T'ine! Telephone jiie at— I’ll
write it out for you. I’m not often at
the club whose you found me, and my
number isn’t In the hook,” Hefwrole
V»n Ids card his telephone address and
gave it to : her as the diiurinaii ftp-
j peared.
fie murmured^ “Don’t forget.” She
Mrs. Chivvis was touched. - “You
poor ciilldi! It reaffy Is—Just too bad!”
She pondered, i then she tightened,:
“Tin sorry you¥e disappointed, but I’m
glad you’re not to be in the theater.
It must he Very wicked.” ■ ' .
“It’s mighty difficult,” said Daphne.
Mrs. Chivvis thought a moment
more, then she said:'
“Did I fell you?— No, I don’t be
lieve I did—you wore away—hut Mr.
Chivvis gets liis' vacation next week.
He’s got to take it when his turn
comes. The man who was going now
couldn’t be spared, so we have to leuve
Tuesday. I’m .going, -of course, so I
can’t give you your meals. You can
get your breakfasts In the kitchenette.
Of course I’ll ullow off whatever is
right.” . .
“Oh.” Daphne said. “I’ll be, nil right,
I guess.”
Daphne had not realized how much
she depended on Mrs. Chivvis till now.
She wus to be left alone at the very
time when she was mosj in peed of
society. The whole world was forsak
ing her.
CHAPTER XIII.
When the Chtvviscs had gons Daph
ne assailed the task of composing her
letter of resignation from Reben’s em
ploy. It was not easy to resign with
digulty and the necessary haste.
She sent it off by messenger. It was
none too prompt, for Rehen had al
ready dictated a very polite request
for Daphne’s head. When he received
her letter he reculled his stenographer
and dictated a substitute for his first
letter. In this fee expressed his regret
ut learning Daphne's decision to re
sign; the former understudy had come
back from the road, he said, and would
resume her work., lie begged Daphne
to uccept the inclosed check for two
weeks’ salary In lieu of the usual no
tice, and* hoped that she would believe
him faithfully hers.
Daphne felt a proud Impulse to re
turn the fifty dollars. She wrote a
letter to go with it. She looked again,
and suw It was the first money she had
ever eurned. She hated to let It got
She decided to frame It and keep It to
point to in ufter years as the begin
ning of her great fortune.
Late In the afternoon, when the
western sky was turning lrttd a loom
for crjmson tapestries almost as rich
as her own driyims, she went^ to her
brother’s apartment.
There the N # ew Girl found the Old
Woman In the throes of finance. .Leila
hud brought her check book and her
bank book to her husband. Her af-
fulrs were in a knot.
He laughingly offered to help her.
She was hurt by his laughter, but not
hu f so deeply us he wus by his dis
covery of her mouetury condition. He
had established her bank account In
a mood of adoration, a precious sacri
fice on the altar of Idve* She had not
cherished it, hut . scattered it heed
lessly. And money was peculiarly
precious now in the final agonies of
the hard times, when only the fittest
of the fittest could survive the last
tests. Credit was the water cask, and
dollars were the hard biscuits of a
boatload of survivors from a wreck.
She told about her failure and her
future nnd Leila Raised her courage
and her optimism. They dined cheer
fully and Bayard decided -but the best
preparation for the hard wUrV
of him would be an evening of (Aiyety.'
lie invited his Wife and his sister, to
go with , him to the Winter Garden,
where the typical “Sunday concert” of
New. York was given.
CHAPTER XIV.
Lund might be reached if they held
out, hut self-denial was vital.
Bayard gazed at Leila with wonder
ing KM5 'afi(l terror. She was both
divinity-and devil x in his eyes. "Tie
groaned:
“Ajp> you trying to wreck me? - You
know how hard I’m working ami.how
much I need money iu my business
and how much it meufcs to your future,
but you won’t stop buying and charg
ing and burning my poor little earn
ings. We discharged a stenographer
yesterday because we wanted to save
her ' salary of fifteen dollars—and
bere'S a chock for a pair of shoes for
you that cost sixteen. -
“But tell me one thing more before’
I’m carted Off to Bhxuuingdale in a.
strait jacket. Why, in heaven's name,
why—admittihg_yau jnsjulmd. to-have
Then the Chi wises came back from
their vacation unexpectedly early,. They
had found~ the hotels expensive and
Mr. thlvvls was afraid that his Job
would be snatched from him if he
were not there to hold it down/
Clay called on Daphne that evening
and the Chivvlses retreated tb ^heir
own room. But ns they could be over
heard it was evident that they could
overhear, and the lovers found no
chance to- say any of the things that
frightened their souls. ,
One evening Daphne said to Clay in
as low* a voice as he could hear: “Mrs.
Chivvis is growing uneasy, honey,
about our being together every eve
ning. I told her we were engaged, but
she didn’t seem, convinced. Perhaps
you would let me wear that beautiful
engagement ring again. Pwas a fool
to give it back to you. May I have it
ogr-”, ..
Clay blenched in misery. “I—I’m
afraid I— You see, I hadn’t paid
much on it; and lost week I hujLan in
sulting letter from the jeweler. lie
tlireatencd to sue me and notify my
firnr, and I—well, I had. to fend it
hack.”
He was so downcast that she an
swered with mock cheer: “Oh. thnt’s
all right, honey; It doesn’t mntter.
After all, it’s only u ring;- And we
have each other.”
“But we haven’t each other. This
way of living Is driving me crazy. I’ll
be all right os soon as these hard
times are over and I can make fome
commissions. But it’s so dismal to
wait. Couldn’t we get married and
live on my salary?”
*‘I could if you could.”
lie .caught her In his arms so vio
lently that Nhj? squealed.
r The next day Clay telephoned to her
his firm had Just offered «hirn the
choice of accepting half his salary or
turhlng In his resignation. It was
really Impossible for. two to live on
half of what was hardly enough for
one.
Daphne cried n long while in her
room. She got out her list of ways to
earn fifty thousand dollars again and
cried over that.
There Is nmeh foolish and futile pro
test against the nowadays woman .who
goes into business outvie her home.
But the fact Is that it is her business
that began It. Her business 10ft the
home first nnd sThvlsmerely following
It to the-places where^muv conditions
nnd Inventions have centralized and
mechanized it. *'
New conditions have taken her
distaff and hrt-'i^ishtub nnd her- cook
ery and gflfssip liufe the woptfn mills
and. steam hiundrh^\^mL^estaurnnts
and fele/hone exclmngesTr^he has had
to go thr her to do her necessary work.
E\eii tie entertainers, the singers,
dancers,idlers of stories, who used
to stir tin* seraglios and tire castle
balls have been gathered fnto opera
houses and theaters nnd into vaude
ville and moving picture’pnlnces.
- Daphmv-having no gifts for spin
ning,' evoking, or laundry, t/ied the
theater. Her old-fashioned lover pro-
Philadelphia, Pa.—“I was very weak,
always tired, my back ached, and I felt
sickly most of tha
.time. I went to s
^doctor and he said
I had nervous indi-
1 gestjon, which ad
ded to my i weak
condition ke^t me
worrying most of
the time — and he
said if I could not
stop that/ I could
not get well. I
heard so muchabout
Lydia E. Pinkham’s
rainy season. He had found his salary L Vegetable Com-
too small* for his courtship requisites; pound my husband wanted me to try it
now that ills salary was halved hi§ 1 took it fora week and felt a little bet-
--courtship had to be reduced to the ter. I kept ifeup for three months, and
minimum of expense. -' ; „ I .feel fine and can eat anything now
w-, , . . .. . , „ without distress or nerVousrtess. —Mrs.
Bayard nnd I.olla ha,I more money j WoRTHLINEi 2842 Korth Taylor St,
to spend, and they innde ambitious Philadelphia Pa.
pnrntroo Rnt Dnniirwh nntl Pinv must: ,
The majority of mothers nowadays
murmured,. “I wqnL” Both said
“Good nigirt.” .'TTIjiftnodoonmm galh-1 pitiful litxip pair of sli.iw*—why*
■ ■ ... >r~ - . when you wrote the chocks.diduk. you
subtract it‘from your 'balance instea
ered her in nnd hoisted ..heir to-, her
lowly eyrie. It was v$fy different
from where she wouhf ha\'e gone as
Mrs. Duarte*- ~*r v -
But when she was. in her room she
tore- hfs card to’ pieces—after she had
-lupked at it. She stored at herduiag-i*
in the mirror. She lna^lwho4-*ho syw
thcie. . " J __ *» . \
Sin* vowed to break lier.prdffffge--fo~t^t
of adding i,t? J. ask you,!” •- -
~T)h, tlid ^ do Unit?” she asked, look
ing over his shoulder. “So I did!” and
she j>ut her cheek close to his and
giggled; '■ ,
jle shook his head in imbeeil'e infnt-
uation, and drew.Imr .around into his
Tent Duane/ SJje'vowed to forget hi-Jf
Jcleplfone iimulier. But it dmuvd'
about ih the dark long after she ire!
closed li*.T-eye*. ■ - .*, ■
The next morning she overslept even
That was what Daphne overheard
when the maid let, her in. SheJPumd
In Ihbyrrd's* lap.
Bayard did not.toil DaplKfe whdt his
cunt, rellCe With Leila had been.' He
beyond the,extra hour the Chivvises simply closed the check book and the
permitted themselves ,/nd jjie rt ranger ' hank b<M»k and said to Leila: “I’ll send
within their gates on Sunday*. the hank my - cbc?k, for thirty-,eight
l \Mien Daphne appea-red^it break- cents mid ask ’eui tojilo^e tlu'ir ac-
trying m I Jn yiwn Air.; - crmrir: Tb.a’II mightyy glad to
vis greeted her with u voice' as <*dd do it.”- |
passion. But the feorld seemed bo be
full .of every other ‘.trouble except'
work; Evcd liad^she been skillpd. as
she wy 'tWould have availed her
ihTie, since skilled laborers were be
ing turned off by the thousands. And
uhskilied laborers were ludng turned
off by the tens of thousands.
Clay had saved nothing against the
voyages. . But Daphne and Clay must
swelter with the other staj-at-homo^ © V erdo, there are so many demands
millions. Clay denied himself even the upon their time and strength; the result
two weeks’ vacation allotted to him. is invariably a weakened, run-down,
Bayard took his, however, and carried nervous condition with headaches, back
ache, irritability and depression — and
•oon more serious ailments develop.*
It is at such periods in life that Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound will
restore a normal healthy condition, as
it did to Mrs. Worthline* \
Just Missed Him.
A negro was trying to saddle a
mule, when
a bystander nsked:
“Does 4 that * mule ever kick you?’
“No. sail, but be kicks sometimes
f’se Jes’ been.”—Berkshire
SHOOK WITH
•< NERVOUSNESS
Leila Had Decided That It Was BetUr
for Her Health to Stay at Newport
Till the Cooler Weather Came and
Her Summer Wardrobe Had Been
Worn Out.
Leila off t«r- Newport, where they
hoarded humbly, If - expensively.
While they were gone, at their sug
gestion. Daphne moved down into
their apartment. It was large and
beautiful, and, ■■ Clay said, it was
“not infested with Chlvvisej.”
Now and then Clay quarreled with
Daphne because of her obstinate de
termination to have a trade of her
own. Then they made up. And quar
reled anew—lovers’ quurrels, summer
storms thnt break the’sultry tension
of the air and make pence endurable.
Bayard came back alpne. Leila
hud decided that It was better for
her health to stay at Newport till
the cooler weather came nnd her
summer wardrobe had been worn out.
So Bayard joined _the army of
A Lady Was Flat On Her Back
With Terrible Spells. But Her
Husband Got Cardui,—
And Now She Is >>
* GTrateful.
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McKinney, Texas.-—Mrs. Mary Sbq V
enson, Af till* place, state** “About
’a”year nnd a half ago I was down in
bed for six weeks, not' able to sfi t up.
I was flat an tuy back and had t» r-
rllde spoils- . , . Why, It looked
like I would die. At time* I didn’t
know anything. I would get nervous,
I couldn’t hear anyone to talk to ine,
—I would Just Jerk and shook with
nervousness . . . pcross my. back
was so sore nnd ached me nil the
time, I would have a dizzy feeling.
My limbs ached me nnd I wouM get
numb nlid feel so weak ... I
cnhl to my husband I.knew Cardul
Was good 4jnd I believed I had l>est
try It.
He got nie n bottle i>f Cardul, and
w lien I h:f?T only taken one-half bot
tle of Cardul I felt stronger. I took
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a half a dozen bottles hlrogi OR r, t?I tl
in two .weeks after I began taking I
town-tied husbands, the summer wid* yas up^in three I was doing my wot-k.
owers. He went back once a week
on furlough to spend s Newport Sab
bath with' his wife. 1 IIe~hecame one
of the Kridav-night-toMonday-morn-
ing ‘excursionists. There was leisure
enough in his office. - •
,Ho i insisted on Daphne’s krcpthg;
her room in his apartment, and of
evenings he affixed himself to her
und/Cluy. ami made- their company a
crowd. But they welcomed him as a
chaperon of a sort. Also, he paid his''-
way .with liberality, except for occ^i- „
sional spasms of retrenchment, when
lie economized atrociously. lie pre
dicted that good times would never
come again. The whole world had’
gone to pot and would never come ._
out.
Suddenly he changed his tune; sud*
den’y the whisper went about that
hard times were ending, „ — -■>
In his bachelor days,) when Bayard
was gro’wlhg in commercial stature
like a young giant, he had regarded*
his business with all the warmth of
a poet. His office building was his
Acropolis and hts 1 office the peculiar
temple- of his muse; and her name
was Profit. He thrilled* like a poet
to the epic inspiration of. n big sale,
and he knew a joy akin to the poet’s
revision of Iris scansion if he devised
a scheme for reducing overhefcd
charge ot* wastage.
I praise Cardul f<>r I believe it Saved
piy life and I am grateful.”
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For over 40 year* Cardul has been
helping weak, siek women back to
health and strength. Try it-^tYdv.
r .\ cloak i^ not made "for a '-ingle
shower of faTii’y^-Tfhftkrn Proverb.
t*f hiim4
and dry as ttu> toa^i ■ .-'101 :k t.i-inte • j “And so will J," said Leila.* “It was
“Yi it ^uTre rather 1 at&^getting in j awfully hard work ke. ping track of
last audit —or thi- inomlftg, rather.’ j every little penny. I’d much rather
Ihiphne's answer ’wtis not an expla
nation. Imt it uas betters—
it. Mrs. Chivvis, b«FT[ * r
•n last night. —Ye*! 11 tl
eipal p.-irt and tilled it. ! leiphn** iii not tc*td what all this
t go. uc wi the sla ji: any 1 talk vat at~»ut, tojt- rhe-^uad** a fai *
- -« ** -ugh she pr*. teniK*vl uul to
Id
*<»h. f
t my
•Oh, Did I Do That?” She Asked,
- Looking Over His Shoulder.
tested, and she went, anyway. But
she was irot suited to the theater, nnd
have a regular allowance in cad» ev-1 she re^reuied witlrdothing to show for
erv weak." * *—rher expedition except lier shattered
right Jtjald Raya rd._ “We’ll try pride and -^le * fifty-dotriTr. check fof
it—next wfi kr ; . I two week*’ spy.
Bayard, led on by the visions
-of riches to be won in wall
street, draws. all his savings
from the bank and begins spec
ulating in stocks. Then at far-
off Sarajevo rang out the shot
that plunged the^world into the
frightful nightmare of w*r.
■ Bayard was among the first
casualties. Read about it in the
next installment
Weak From Pain
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Mrs. Gibbert Was in Misery,
But Doan’s Brought Her
Splendid Health. -
"About hi years ago my kidneys Were
in bad condition," !-ays_Mrs. Lucy Gib-,
bert, 15310 Columbia Ave;, Harvey, 111.
“There was a eon-taut, dull, bearing-
down pain m tlie small of my back. 1
couldn t turn over in bed without such
pain I could ,hardly, breathe. Mornings
1 was stiff, sore and. lame all over;
my back was like a rusty
hiufce. ____ 1 "...
(Tammat ion <n the
bladder nearly drove me
wild.4 The kidney w‘tTe-
tioiis jjia.ssed every little
while, day and night, a
little at ‘a time, and
burned like liw. Great
Sat'S of water formed un
der my eyes. „ .
*‘I v.as iit such misery. Krs. Gibbert
I would become weak and so nervous 1
would scream. > I .had., nerve-racking
headaches and 'the'b:/k of uay.* neck
pained ino. I was >0 T 1 •'/>: I lidn’t <!ar
Wnd over for fear of * • t ng on *m'«
face. Mv .sight be- trim 1 HTi; 1.• L T \\ ■
sick'all o\er ; j
“Five boxes of Jlnon's KiJvry Pill* J
civrcd rnf of kidney trouble* Since 11 . • I
I have enjoyed /focn jid Jiealtli .jin! 1 I
otve it fell to Doan’s.
.'&Horn to brfor*'' wr,
, • SAW’FT. DAXJf'K.. I
A’ofarv Public.
Get Doan • at Any Store. 60c a Bdi
DOAN’S 1
F05TER-MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO. Au Y
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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