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EWORK . - LPink.i; c pounod g aýd, says g erecd with dis ties and I did know whatto do. mother advised to take Lydia E. 's Vege Compound and the Sanative 1,:'ui! ad o I took her iiz r vice and used ect remedies and Sse lf. Ifeelv do all m i which ,,f tI nmt do before, c and I could hardly Gift hiu letter if you the A scrtainly won- l down women. " W. rdal. O repol briou E. Pinkham's andi Sas been making stars reieing * back- to i i o, and in diaplacements, ''"' pains. Ithas iwng in jg for wait am invited to 'er Co. (con SItt free ad '" h.Ftitor ilito me Sharntt in C oft o10 W afa fer h' eeT en tbsa it sea- tul boasd to Icld to g heart- O ei at seen. Saje to ea I aMeer to some treubie o. ke maet tomb YU :1 ou y ter twee b etk ber s 'Thea q s ta pate of hi bus.t eep to-i Pia (1 fi bri Avoidt _.n o~it 1. to te Srit * a th - U.· Ii: .ý w1as º arý ývvýýaa~ w ----"--- --------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - By GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN I i aAuthor cf "Home," "Through Stained Glass," "John Bogardus," Etc. -3 W pyr.ght, 1919, by Hobbs-Merri!l Co".t . vvstett~e~tý+leltý!!ý9+ýtý+le"iý!1lrf'lt°!ýT 1:'lýýý ýý ýýý ý s.ý......ý..v,..,:_......a-..ý _:"ýr. ,.v CHAPTER X.-Continued. I hainl' -11- half-i 'With her bre: st r;<il :1til falling In "S:ta ;'h: it necop'mlllln:lll !Il'llt to thle olllnllllt- 11:' nlc rhtlalt. cheeks palu' lips parted. T'i, c}t t.I'rintI in vain p -wuit of the in- Illime •cre.lille tli:ht of soui ul. she stiood. il ra:;e -lill tense. timolre for r(ncete Illltidel free e.l, t of that Ilat:hin that is beyond art, he- roar yo)nd tninis and is called s(litite simnllly. it dli Gift of i;dI. With a tgos nand a hIak- ears warl shake of thie maitns great eadil, the v the voiee l'limbed stliotihly to that stu- Andlr pendllus high C that has wrecked the I Il reputationl of mnany Ipyttles and spke brought famle to a daring few. It held let i and still held until earth and moon and leap: stars seemted little things that paused shou to liten,. obstructed In unimportant leant "nurses. Breath suspended un~il her up . lungs were near to bursting. Andrea pend) waited for that note to conme down in- "Onu 'o the range of normlal belief, hut to tmat !ler mind at least It was dlestinedl to s:ive 'lang eternally in the heavens, for the neck ann had turned. As Her eyes knew horror for the first igal time. The iman's face was half oblit- Ipuss ,-rated. It had been plowed by conflu- near lit smnalll.px and destroyed by . worse sa nl Ilsease. The nose was gone, leaving i(lenl m ignoble ruin of strippe d cartilage. the Irlel in the air till it was like weath- leas *red parchment. One ear had been watt avagei in a clean cut so that it rose her o, a needle-point. That the wounds arin -ere healed only addedl an inexorable who nalty to their repulsiveness. lip. Only t11. man's thick red lips and dow i blazing eyes seemed to have es- to f ped the pestilence. As his startled he ize fell upon Andrea his month agni pened to a wide, soundless laugh. Hi .'ith broad shoulders stooped, his ah- kne ormally low-hanging hands curved up leg. ke monstrous talons and his shaggy nedl -'ard wagging to that silent laughter, to I Sadvanced upon her, encircled her the alat with his fingers and shot her up at 1 :htly so that she fell doubled across oar s back and chest. He gave a low any histle and sped from the crnal at an the credible pace. The boat-boys arose He ealthlly and flitted after him. furl To Andrea's transfixing terror was ed :ded a memory-a fleeting glimpse--- kne Trevor, standing,. hands in pockets, for -fore his door. On his face was an- bet -r-cold. white, unforgiving anger. can 'e thopght she cried out to MacClos- the r to stop, to give her but one moment " . explain, to beg forgiveness, to tur 'ovel at the feet of the one man is ""S 'I the world, but no sound came from ads :r llps. for Net until she stood tottering on the j anted bottom of MacCloster's boat did fac fe come back to her heart and veins a 1 ad lungs. She threw up her head tht nd screamed as she had never known oertal could scream-a wild, terrlo- na naged wall of desperate appeaL Mac- of loster snatched tiller from rudder, ba ruck her across the shoulders. nocked her, face down. into fetid At, ilge-water. I be The stench of the stale water pro- wr uced In her a reaction; it was so toh ausesting that it momentarily drove houghts of all other things from her th iid. She drew away from It and, to rawling to the grated floor of a small phi ockplt, crouched in the corner formed ar ,y the gunwale and the after thwart.. re fust to her left, so close that even to .vilt head bowed she could not avoid to - seeing his enormous feet, sat MacCles- Pc ter. % He talked to her steadily in a mut- w, terlag undertone, but a long time he assed before she began to distinguish me word from another. The mutter- pl ag swelled slowly to a clear and "' liqud enunmeiation; the voice became Ike mausie undefiled. But no longer coEd it drag her senses; she shud dered, cringed under its terrible ress. Its beauty had become forever "Dear, lovely, vile and sullen per sonm," It was saying, "who would have thought It? Who would have imagined that yan, a Helen among women, po0 Isesed of beauty,. youth and a really lovely evening frock, should have come so far for a man? Cheer up! You've found two; one dunghill ban tam and-and me." He laughed, not silently and still not gquilte aloud. It was an extraordinary sound. It awoke in Andrea a chord of memory. It was not the stereotypedw laughter of the stage; it was more spe cdaltied than that. Then she remenm bered. His was not the laugh of an lndividual;: It was the clipped. starea to, maddeningly deliberate. "Hla ! Ha! Ha!-HaI Hal Ha!" of chorus and conspirators in the "Ballo in Ma. - chera." "I asi you, who could have imagined it" he continued; then, his voice ( thickening to a sinister Intensity, he added, "I' could, d-- your soft car cass. WVomen! Fair women ! Ha! Ha I H! Dreams of fair women! GaOrrr! Spawn of hell! Pestilence that sleep by day and lurk lIn the shadows of night and wine. Damation of the filthy byways of the world, parading in the sweet ikieness of God !" Andrea suddenly looked up, straight into his blasing eyes. ".You yourself are speaking," she said in a clear voice. "I am a woman, week, miser able--never so mtserable as La this - awful night--bat I'm not a coward. I can forgive net you but what you soy, for you cried out Just now .from a hell Infinitely deeper than minse." The blaze of light in Maclaoter's . eyes died to a broodln glow. There was something In Andrea's face, some illumipation of the clean soul within Sher. that spoke with r sure voice, mloder, more perslasively than words "trhe gifts that women may bring In bheir hands," be saId with a whipr ng sigh. "love, tenderseas and honer, h -eat to the anchored seull I. Mae taster, tnqd the eworld at my feet ter Salk nlght Drk with edatatmis. wrinh sth wl I wmeat * n tha amm abst hoe du nbe hani Is." His voice droped to a titter. half-tiilll, ant notte of self- t-ickin., I,:!r "'Shalllipotx alnd worse in a single night. in tr: 11:1: I : : 11 :1 "'" The laugh rang out full-throi!tedl. Y thihiiihlrus, terrille for the freig;ht of lusin rege that it carried. It rolled :ul of an echioedt across the silent night like the a! roar of a strick:;ni lihn. Scarc'y hhd but n it died to a stillness n hent to Andrea' "I ears canme ai ch:r col nllllnld. 'alnln :: c[ an the voice of an executioner. "Lie doIn :vr. Aindre." 1111ut Before sihe couldl quite obey a rill, ever spoke. there, was the "'ihut !" of a hbu- 1 a let as a patch of MacCIlster's shirt try e lealled suddenly. weirdly, from hii- "Y' shoulder into the air. Instantly lie en" leanedl down andl with one hand picked '"' up Andrea lightly and hehl her sus- ('hIst pended between himself and the shore. p"Ils "One more. Trevor! you lousy b:n- or ti tumrn" he bellowed. "One more to iItrl save nie the trouble of writiging the "'' neck of your little chicken!" fart! As he tinished speaking, Trevor shot ."I again. A lock of vacant surprisei calm passed over the face of the punter run nearest to Andrea. He crumplled up. I'm1 sank as though all his bones haul sud- Just Sdenly melted and fell. face down. to ing. the bottom of the boat. His pole. re Al - leased, slid with n swift swi'h into the the I water. Mac'loster promptly placed ily u her on the seat beside him and gave a dicsh calm order to the remaining punters. iu\,* * who had pautsed in terror. He stood In utp. took the tiller between the tremeln- long I dous calves of his legs and proceeded tboth to till and light his pipe. "You see?" stoI, I he stl'l. quietly. "lie won't shoot ulit h again. How do I know? I'll tell you." Said . lie half seated himself, elbow on this knee. the tiller under the crook of his nI is. p leg. "A little brain work," he contin- si"it y 1irl ccºnverisatlonally. "Trevor meant ig oo r. to kill a nigger. but not that one---not A Sthe one next to you. He was shooting lot p at the bow-hoy and he hit the stroke had is oar! How do I know? Well. it's what now i any man would do, let alone one of Pl'r n the best shots that ever drew trigger. In1g I He would pick off the crew beginning the furthest from the point where he need- MIa' is ed all his nerve. Now the Bantam of t - knows what he knew well enough be- bet s, fore, only he knows it a d- sight Just o- better, and that is that no nman living the r. can shoot in moonlight tnd tell where cOu s- the bullet will go. it "He won't shoot again." he finished. sud to turning to her with a ghastly smile. wot ln "811 you're safe-safe with me. I don't I m ask you to love me for my looks-only hot for myself!" ce Andrea looked anywhere but at his ne id face. "You and I know." she said after as a pause. "that I atm quite safe with Cic id the man you once were." rn "Here," said MacCloster, his eyes " narrowing. "It's too late to pull any pot lc- of that stuff. Why didn't you try It em pr. back there when I was really soft r I rs. "When you were sincere," answered fri tid Andrea, "I was sincere. You knew It; bht you wouldn't have known it-it thi ro- wouldn't have been true-if I had taken it ! so the chance to save my skin." re "That's so," conceded MacCloster ter thoughtfully. "But if you're not going an d* to be persuaded to love me, will you all please tell me where I get off? What wi Nd are you good for, anyway? Do you tel r. realize that I gave up a case of gin "L ea for you and that a case of gin in these At sid troubled times is worth all of three 0- pounds sterling?" Andrea winced. "So rm really not ut- worth three pounds," she said half to 1 me herself. Ish MacCloster heard and took quick I'I er- pity on the wistfulness In her voice. at tad "Well." he said. comfortingly. "I ca mer un- Ast aved I It pe e h a hete r f re- w owep icef I cT W Shot Agan. I a mo ding aight Tever amn t Againt this healdn't the that oh"re it was a rard. question of sentihent or a matter of you having sonething pArttc atound l;ei os a tootue a man tight go further. a he . even among the r bothe tb g in about the seconr, I know better. There spes' are eases where a black likes a pertle oDer, nale wemas, and when that happens Mae' his fate is meterd by a peculiar leolL t fr I mit evern tIme I atch sisht itsa -g it hi e two extra poe la i pocket." 5see Whvl" age ALad *Whst do (hi w mean?, "Why. ily eair? iin I:, n't u k IV!ri t Trl ol, toll yei l ti hat I'nll int ll,. I'I< ' ell 're nt I :t'l: *, in . i il l sinýistl i il llith: he s t clon il ' .io ni of an% re'' II '%hy lithe sbo ut l tl ii lt' 'l t \\hb.1 it wasI. I wV s ver I, '. ll'l , sll- th lu. <il'1 but n~«" I really don't ,'r." i . "1'it kngi. cr'owini:; priide!" exl- li t ii O clai.usit Maut lhter, his mliinld on 'rl- e, !ul, 'vor. "'W hy, it's the ullll ltr,~v llit te orIllfla i uii,rltel per ci ti little lui itr n tt h r' - lhru e ever cra\ led out of a ,hip brain. It it wV':ve Vo Iiu'l for lilt- this h Illhe bliuck (coun- i try woliu t run sh rt of il," . ::. tti "Yolt meal youVii buy and sIell wont- , e,1 on?: askied Andilrei. oI . "No, inot exaci(tly." atntswerel Mie- ilitir; I' olstr. "I rai'se thi, n. I'i the legal that I I poissesor of a hundred aniid eighty-two. friomi or lfive or six. vi ives. lCait just re- t lueli t inin'lher." of Ith "t 'h" raspedt Andreai,r etuching still Th: farther iinto her crtier. at tl, "There you go." saul MacClo.nter. of c c:lmnly. "DI)oni't let your imaginiation thii ' run away with you. lly diar. I sall f.iili I'm thle legal tpo.ssessr iiand I mean just that. But what's the use of talk ing. You'll se.." All thliroughl the night and well into the nexit day the boat travhled stie:ul Ily Uliapstren. Mal Closter yawlul d plri dIigiously three or f our times. but tnever gave tip the tiller to a "Ioy." In the early nmorning they enterte d a . long reach of the streamli d Il uk 'on both sides by fiat plains. Mait'lost er stood erect and his eyes nmale the cir- cult of the horizon. "Nothing." he sailh. "If hle .ould have heaten us to this our nte would have been Den niis. le's given up his favorite little spotted hen. Flap your wings and say Sgood-ly." t Andrea's heart, already low, s:tnk in hlot lower. Not once tlirout'h the night l had she closel her eyes and she kniew t now that she had been hoping iand , priying that the first glearn of morn ing would find Trevor. the avenger. on Sthe bank. She could not know, t.s did . MacCloster, that tin iulnassalile forest Sof unbroken thorn stretched for miles between the two camps. There was t just one open road to MacCloster's ithe river-and on that no other boat e could equal the speed of his own. "Say." said MacCloster. tmoved by a sudden thought. "is there anyone that Swould give a lot of money for you?" 't Andrea's brows drew together in ly honest valuation of what was left of her old self. "I don't know." she said Is meekly. "Perhaps not now." "What would he give for you?" ilac l Closter asked, jerking his beard over C his shoulder. uct "Hle said he wouldn't give three 2 pounds." answered Andrea in a still. of t small voice. She began to cry. lth MacCloster's eyes grew round with for e fright. "Oh, come now." he protested. but ; "Here you've been hours without even the thinking o thinking of that d-d old trick. Stop ma n It!" he roared suddenly. "Stop it or squ I'll mash your head In." a I er "I wish you would." sobbed Andrea Ir, and cried harder than ever. ou MacCloster rolled his eyes hearen- lae at ward as though he implored aid. "Liii- Iv on ten." he said, talking into the sky. as in "Listen and I'll tell you what I'll do. wi se Are you listening?" th, ,e "Yes." gasped Andrea. wI "Well,." said MacCloster. "You've va ot been a lot of trouble to me and a big wl to loss. You can't expect a dry man to - ,forget a whole ease of schnapps. Now be Ick I'm going to let you write him a note re, and if you can get him to give three w, "i cases of gin for you. why he can have im, you. d-n him." th Andrea stopped crying, sat up wl straight and dabbed her eyes with her ii, .ery dirty fingers, but there was a th .trange. set look in her face that made v, MacCloster doubt her sudden cure. tj •"Will you do it?" he asked. h "Never," said Andrea. lii "You're queer, like all of them," he al Scommrented musingly. "But somehow Sthe suggestion.satopied you crying." pi "What on earth is that'?" asked An- , drea. her eyes fixed far ahead on an enormous pale-yellow dome that looked as If all the haystacks in the world had been gathered into one. "That." said MacCloster. his vast chest swelling in. equally Immeasur- h able pride, "Is my cla. my but." t "I thlnkithere is something the mat ter with my eyes" said Andrea. ti "What 1 see Isn't possible." h "Oh. yes it is," said MacCloster. 1 "'That's my hut; eighty feet high. one hundred and twenty feet across and , 'most a hundred yards' dash around." "But how did you build it?" asked b Andrea. absorbed in spite of her3 misery. h "Well." replied MacCloster. "I'm modest. I don't mind admitting that I God did the building; I just came along and put on the roof. Trevor ever show you any mafuta trees?" l "Yes. they are wonderful," said An drea. understanding beginning to dawn I tin her eyes. "That lut of mine." said MacClos-. ter, "is nhiling hut the biggest. round-' est, ilideot nmau'a tree in the world. tril-iilend .a t it and thatched over." Hlalf an hollur later tley made a• s landing. "Want me to carry you I r alagain," lasked MlacCloster with a leer. ti "or will you walk?" iby. "I'll walk," said Andrea. going sad denly white with sickening reolllec y at tion. will Itles CHAPTER Xl. ne is SI slMacCloster's cral was a master bat picee of ingenaluity. ra its 'enter rose here tbe stupedous canla that had aston rtre- Ished Andrea even from a mile away. Amound the monster huat was an Im lo ok passable bomsn or arrier of thorns ight I percd by a single mratrance; oatslde t !" the ba. in the fterm of a ring, came t de on eaer beate wt which em Ltee i a Ia l easp es bidiwsa -I., ! 1 s ··! t 1 i ! 1..it" !,,' + " I !, t',t ti . I:I 1 l:i ,rl ' t I 0 ; 1' t i htl:i'. Ie tl ',' ,\" 1 . P'ý,' 1 11 '111 ': Itri t : ':"-;,, l .,,t" I <'p '111 - ta 'i t lai , i, t io-'it til*- r i.p: iy. tre" .'lltr 1:1;it 1-t l- ' I ::' t, l l h!,annlyltt o\v c o rIt l. 1i, i r, f t 11'' i. r, "r ve~ ' r Ii1It1hie i u :I tI 1f 1:1 \,\ i whe i t g. V I I- t 'tl ly .1+ll 1 i l it it" i t"iý'1't' I m y' frmll n\ ' ivt e 1!tt'll<, io l Vtf i~.t i" thil;t hr d,'1:"dt d f ni ,:i tyrhe lt of ,,\h \ h,, I .llutenft- rI t'intin l the right of diti 'i ':Gi h -l. of ttrir f.niI, ,viip.ring. .\ri Tlhi, inlll a\'tinll ' , wulhl have strul'lk was 1 at Cie rot of the . ri ,'a l'. 'ot 't-|ptiall :l I'n,:r of I estel in'er""-ts hlad it not ,eoI ,r I str ! tht" unt s. ngsr's canny astautll n;e` !n \ hit' fueilitatil. III t O the UI' t" t hle v lt '!r :I. 1 llllin U o of 11. tI rt t hilte 1 an tiliti aI t ligt t an of o' wela St wthi th for the native male normally works lip d. but once in his life and that to earn cot n the sum with which to acquire the n e mate who will not only thenceforth Cli or sulaort him but eventually bring hli bel a return of two or three told on his t: i investment. As a consequence. MacCloster .ever at 'e- lacked boatheoys. machilla carriers. H is- ivory hunters or porters and cotnrolled ed -* as well an army of women antd girls~t o. whoise are time was applied first to the preparation of food and wood and r water fetching and then to the culti- he 'e vation of the enormous shamban ig which produced corn and millet in ht to great abundance for the lucky mean- th bers of the close corporation. fu te That there was a subtle poison at ee work somewhere in this socin thir i e mography was evidenced by the fact that while there was always a lion ni DPI waiting list of recruits for the estab- aI er ishment there was also a tendency on a the part of many natives to face star- dr ide vation rather than accept the ques- ,r the l timate structuri e of their family life It was further evidenced by anl e he abnormal apathy which seemed to is li- and lazy slerknets. SThis, however, was a -phenoeess ha t that did not trouble him so long e tl the th e re was a constant demand irn ex ess of the supply of nt arrigeni rlet ast girls; on the contrmary, while it Azz!o ed the easy enforcenent of a strict ilds- i bat (ipllne. In all matters that afvected a he was sole arnd ter beyntd tany cavil- h ter. 1ing, and a martinet.n one Andrea could have taken a rca th onably calm nteret in all the details n a.thrat owdey to her ittentio an hduring ked her rapid progress into the heart of er Matlu insters stronghold had it inot theen for tiaen incidentr that revivied all im her fetar and repugance towarl thi at man armnId which occurred as they en- t ame tered the drg court. Macotle r. stridtk or Ing ahtead of her. suddenly paused an b his horrItwle ae s apartly uchileve n- the inat lMaithle by undergoing a de 1os carriers. newly arnvedo and the crew to make delivery to their master refa le varioue cases. roome tf them evident o tholy au cloth, cutlery and knick ler, knacks dear to the native heart, but one. at least, brazenly pieroclaimed in d- deeply burnt stenciling its conte ntrs to the esbe gnl. It was on this small square i tbox tat MacCioin strs eyes were ive- ' eted. He turrnied aitd spoke to Andrea ble reason froe her blood. I was asil ter - though he had suddenly assumed a roe new and strange personality upon Stooi- which her twelve hours of brave intert/ waay. corse with him had had no ocaesion trus stranger within a stranger and hope. taid e leasty naseceinlble. .a Come with me, my dear," was all i rnhe sa d. ann- e. him elowb. -sa lit' A o . '. r I. , . .. ' . " . : !. ,! 1! 1"1,'' *'r!' W' i ' . - i ,a l,' . !\ . 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Sioie." si : t s '-" viIon'- tt'r irn hi :new oily vn i of t*'et. near th can neto r lhe re.'., rhen etver y.tu want , 144t out. n' l y" halve1 to fl is to clbn down 1414r lE- throetii, iling of haltll won't huave to do ythlr \w is,'. \hhkih for a di y or two; Iil se - It. An"'re!at thart drnk to leptht ofthat Into one of the hitter Anl iran was ti at'y usnhter.ed, ber,.tlh- fre her lower k .ll. trn itd and s a f"drew down at sh mth C. : ,,leerin at hert. a "Jpy rt.t iof dr;in her t \lat yor Wulln't be ippr Inale out of a coconut sar herell "ul a art box tile t witedh and, eidnt her winth aed for ther at hed owna ooking-tire. The measured ly liged t ed e th roh the conterton inack laide maes of o open vessel tilled witlaugh ofrom thirtye ctor be, chan. Iti- herelf full lenyou are. Sifacsie," said Mathe Clter, in his new oisently voice, "every thing you can possihly need anld when ever you want to go out. all you have ton do is to cliherb down and se through 1ty roours You won't have to a eelur own cheking for a day or two; I'll summoened your scoff up." b hAndrea's su eart sink to dfaepths tha e it had never reached before; her lower nlip trembled and drew down ant he Scornlers. S"Now, don't look so glum.no" said Mathe Closter, leering at her. "Just remem i ror that you couldn't be safer in stillnss to thrn yh of are here d empty !"ttl He turned and sleft her with a laugh er at his own joke. The measured "Ila! 'e H,! Ha !-Ha! ta! tna !" reverberat thaed through the Interminable mazes of Sth entomd ree. More t h an ever It to seemed the mocking laugh of thimbty of X voices, chanting n uniNU. She threw.) i- herself full length. face-down, on the No gass mat and covered her ears with in her hands. Presently bodily exhaus in- t!an emnlre to her aid and chate merci fully slept. at Hlours later she awoke to a feeling Itle that she had been definitely summoned ict y her subconi fous self to face an Im '.h. ntinent danger. Night had fallen and its peace had settled on the cral nti n ten,,ral. but tenlere was no peace in the r- great eala. Out of MacCloster's room t aropse through the whiperlng shutllness h a 4 ,erhes of monscron.s ounds mon-' a cursesl much intengs, the other man's conalny th critsh of a shattered empty bottle.hs teOi Thconi mea i ii ytrel na mor permIt e lemedn to bee wtlng upl thelhta and o st ide of the t hnree. that appeal to rew Conldrd as a Con tractship weis- in n endure thn- - Istaht ehatter el f the o hallw pated. Courtlesinly makesriI r ,ocnduranee for al timen poIle, s liutm int- huttr thpeople an' to tmxi IloWf he afor mnlrel nic- the peun le r : etheri enjoying Inlti-c s to oate frIendhll years."ou can pula of thatdow mnare ey w it h littl e that was prey may be Idreof ndppo sitted that hme thaing readu the no pica-t hlve much in thimmon. You ldcan't lke she wia re thout homin" charked withe merchanths poen- thoer hts and nof hnneism. setalehs Y e id- come pau fourt eenf yeaours. n rmit P tem to e ting Iotr thourihts nd e e tions. Your oupanionht ieps are the ieot inde of the thbns that apdeal to ir-: inn that. ,h an e,"einey rht What to do for A R i C I , t. i . T ,i i++n Vn tr, : r 1.. - ,',. , . l " : : '.i r - hSit I. n 1. , / P I ho ' An Arkan a.n or that se nz t e . , that rrm . I, r. - , " n 1 , , , a I ,'e hea ia+ !,el :.n u 1 +!: l . ta ., with Tn -- : ,, '.t r r ulat . fe .; -'s .. F ve., Pil, , .'I het' ha, e L ,!, tth t ds 1sl oulr terT!blor' . C1. 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