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- THE = Princess Virginia By C. N. and A. M. WILLIAMSON, A111 hors of "tV* Litflil nintf Conductor." "Uose niiiry In Search of it I'atlicr." Ltc. ->? COPYRIGHT. 1007. DY McCLUUE. PHILLIPS t+ CO. CHAPTE? EIGHT W i_L LsM ' OT a window oi' i four Icoiith century w marble palace on tin with Us famous gard< ?? of tho nhio fountains, Hint was not ablasse with light, glittering against a faraway hack ground of violet mountains crowned i>y snow. Outsldo the toll bronze gutes wboro marble lions crouched tho crowd that might not pass beyond Btnred, dial tcrod, pointed ami exclaimed without jealousy of their belters, fuse:- Leo was glviug a hall, ami it was enough for their happiness t<> watch tho slow moving line of splendid state conches, gorgeous automobiles and neat brough ams With well Known crests upon their doors; to strive good naluredly for a peep at Iho faces and dresses, tin jewels and picturesque uniforms; to comment upon all freely, but never Impudently, asking one another what would be for supper and with whom (tie emperor would .' nice. "There she Is?there's the beautiful young foreign lady who saved him!" cried a girl in the throng. "I was there and saw her, 1 tell you. Isn't ehe an angelV" Instantly a hearty cheer went up, growing In volume, and the green coat ed policemen hud to keep back the crowd that would have stopped the horses and pressed close for a long look Into a plain dark blue brougham. Virginia shrank out of sight against the cushions, blushing and breathing quickly as Sho caught her mother's band. "Dear people dear, kind people!" sho thought. "1 lovo them lor loving him. 1 wonder, oh, 1 wonder. If they will ever see me and cheer me driving by his side!" She bad chosen to wear tho white dress with the pearls, though up to the last moment the grand duchess had suffered tortures of indecision between that and (tie blue, to say nothing of a pink chiffon trimmed with crushed roses. Bol'oro tho carriage brought them to Hie palace doors the girl's blush bad faded, and her lace was as white as her gown when at her moth er's side she passed between bowing lackeys through (lie marble Hall of LlOUS, on through the frescoed Hitter saal to the throne room, whore the emperor's guests awaited his coining. it was otiquctto not to arrive a mo mont later than 10 o'clock, and a few minutes after (he hour Unron von Lyn da) in tils ofllclal capacity as grand master of ceremonies struck the pol billed lloor twice with his gold knob bed wand of ivory. This signaled the approach of the court from the im perial dinner parly, and Leopold en tered, with a stout, middle aged royal highness from Russia on Iiis arm. Until his arrival the beautiful Miss Mowbray had held all eyes, and even when be appeared sho was not forgot ten. Rvory one was on tenterhooks to see how she would be greeted by the grateful emperor. The Instant that his dark head tow ered nbovo other heads in the throno room it was observed even by thoso Hot usually observant that never had I/cnpold been so handsome. Ills was a face remarkable for intel lect and firmness rather than for clas sical beauty of feature, though bis fea tures were strong and clearly cut. But tonight the Sternness that sometimes marred ttiom in the eyes of women was smoothed away, lie looked young find ardent, almost boyish, like a man who has suddenly found an absorbing now Interest In life. The first dance lie went through with tho Russian royalty, who was the guest of the evening, nnd, still rigidly conforming to the line of duty, which obtains in court ballrooms as on bat tlefields, the second, third and fourth dances were for tho emperor penances instead of pleasures, /hit for the fifth, a waltz, he bowed before Virginia. During this long hour there bad boon hardly a movement, smile or glance of ben w hich In; had not contrived to see since bis entrance. He knew just how well Baron von Lyndnl carried out Ids instructions concerning Miss Mowbray. lie saw each partner presented to her for a dance the emperor might not claim, and to save his life or a national crisis ho could not have forced tho samo expression In speaking with her royal highness from Russia as that which Spontaneously brightened bis fnco when at last ho approached Vir ginia. "Who Is that girl?" asked Count von Hreltstein In Ills usual abrupt mnnner as the arm of Leopold girdled the slim waist of Hie princess nnd the eyes of Leopold drank light from another pair of eyes lifted to Ids In laughter. It was to BaronefS von Lyndnl that the old chancellor put bis qtlOStlOU, and she Muttered a tiny diamond ?panglcd fan of hire to hide lips that would smile as she answered, "What, chancellor, are you jesting, or don't you really know who that girl is?" Count von Hreltstein turned eyes cold and gray as glass away from tin two figures moving rhythmically with tho music to the face of the onv.o eele ' ?itcd beauty. Hong ago" lio Mail ufl .. *od Uaronoss von Lyndal as passion atoly ns it was In liim to adtulro any woman, but lliat day was so far dis tant as to bo remembered with scorn, and now such power as kIio had over him was merely to excite a feeling of Irritation. ' I seldom trouble myself to jest," answered. "All, one knows that truly great men are bom Without a sense of luimor. Those who hove it are never as suc cessful In life as those without," smiled tho bai'OllCSB, who was by birth a Hungarian and loved laughter bet tor than anything else except complt- ! mcnts upon her vanishing beauty. "How stupid of me to liavo tried your patience! 'That girl,1 as you so un compromisingly call tier, lias two claims to attention at court. She is tho English Miss Holen Mowbrny whoso mother has come to Kronburg armed with sheaves of Introductions to us all. She Is also the young wom an of whom the papers are full today, for It Is she who saved the emperor's life." "Indeed!" said the chancellor, a gray gleam in his eye as ho watched the white figure floating on tho tide of music In the arms of Leopold. "In deed!" "1 thought you would have known, for you know most things before I other people hear of them," went ou the baroness. "Lady Mowbray and her daughter are staying at the Hohen-] Inugonwald hotel. That's tho mother i sitting on tho left of I'rincess Neu- ; fried?the pretty Dresden china per son. Hut the t.it*l is a great beauty." "It's generous of you to say so, bar ouess," replied the chancellor, "I didn't see the young lady's face at all clearly yesterday. I was stationed too far away. And dress makes a great " Who t? that girl t" difference. As for what she did," went on the old man, whoso coldness to wo men and merciless Justice to both sexes alike bad earned him the lllcknnmo of "Iron Heart"?"as for what she did, If It had not been she who Intervened be tween the emperor and death it would have been the fate of another to do BO. It was a fortunate thing for tho girl, wo may say, that It happened to bo her arm which struck up the weapon." "Or she wouldn't lie here tonight, you mean," laughed the baroness. ' Don't you think, then, that his majes ty is right to single her out for so much honor?" Her eyes were on tho dancers, yet that mysterious skill Which most women of the world have learned taught her how not to miss the slightest change of expression, If there were any, on tho chancellor's square, lined face. "Ills majesty ts always right," ho re- ; (died diplomatically. "An Invitation to a ball, a dance or two, a fow compli ments, a call to pay his respects? a gontlomnn could not 1k> loss gracious. And his majesty Is one of the tlrst gen tlemen In KuropO." "He has had good training what to do and what not to do." Tho baroness flung her little sop of flattery to Cer berns with a dainty ^host of a bow for the man who bad boon as a second father to Leopold since tho late em peror's death. "Hut -we're old friends, chancellor"-she was not to blame that they hud not been more In tho days before she became Haroncss von Lyn dal?"so, tell me, can you look at the girl's face and the emperor's and still say that everything will end with an Invitation, n dance, some compliments and a call to pay respects?" Iron Heart frowned and sneered, wondering what he could have seen twenty two years ago to admire In this flighty woman. He would have es Caped from her now If escape bad been feasible, but ho Could not 1)0 Openly rude to the wife of the grand master of ceremonies at tho emperor's bull, and, besides, bo was not unwilling per haps to show the lady that her senti mental and unsuitable Immendos were as the buzzing of a fly about his oars. "I'm close lipon seventy and no long or a fair Judge of a .voimm's attrac tions," he returned carelessly. "A look at her face convoys nothing to nie, bill wore she Helen of Troy Instead of Helen Mowbray the invitation, the dance, tho compliments and the call, with tho present of somo Jeweled son venlr, aro all that aro permlfsllile 1.; thj-j^rfiurostancee..' "What circumstances?" and the bnr oncss looked as innocent as on Inqulr lie: ctilld. "Tlie lady Is not of roynl blood, and his majesty, I thank heaven, is not n roue." "lie lias a heart, though you (rained Ulna, chancellor, and ho has eyes. He may never have used them to niucli purpose before, yet there must bo a first (line, and, the higher and more strongly built the tower, once it begins to (opple the greater is the fall thereof." "Is il the sense of humor, which you Bay I lack, that gives you pleasure In' discussing ihe wildest Improbabilities as if they were events to ho consider ed seriously? If it is I'm not sorry to lack It. in any case, it's well that neither of us Is the emperor's keeper." "We're at least his very good friends, you as well as I in my humbler way. chancellor, ami you and I have known each other for twenty two years. If it amuses me to discuss Improbabilities, why not? Since you call them im probabilities it can do no barm to dwell upon Ihcm as ingredients for romance. .Not for worlds would I suggest that his majesty isn't an example for all men to follow nor that poor, pretty Miss Mowbray could be tempted to In discretion, but yet I'd be ready to make a wager, the emperor being human and the girl a beauty, that an acquaintance so romantically begun won't end with a ball and a call." "What COUhl there possibly be more, or v> hat you hint at ns more, in honor?" Tho chancellor's voice was angry at last as veil as stern, for ho could not' boar per Istonco In other people unless il were to further some cause of bis own. To tho delight of the woman who had once tried in vain to melt his iron heart, Count von Brcltslcln began' to look somewhat like a baited bull, i lleillly, said the baroness to herself, there was an actual resemblance in ; feature, ami joyously she searched for a few more little ribbon tipped ban dciillos. What fun it was to ruffle tho tem per of the surly old brute who bad hu miliated her woman's vanity In days long past, but not forgotten! She knew tbo chancellor's desire for the emperor's marriage as soon ns a suit able match could be found and, though she was not in the secret of his plans, w ould have felt little surprise at learn-j lug that some eligible royal girl bad already boon selected. Now how amus ing it would be actually to make the old man tremble for tbo success of his hopes, even if it should turn out In the end to be Impossible or undo Blrablotto upset them! "What could there lie more in hon or?" she echoed lightly after an In stant given to reflection. "Why. the; emperor and the girl will see a great deal of each other unless you banish : or Imprison the Mowbrays. There'll ! be many dances together, many calls? in fad, a serial romance instead of a short story. Why shouldn't his majes ty know I he pleasure of a?platonie friendship with a beautiful nnd charm ing young woman?" "Localise Plato's out of fashion, If ever he was in, among human beings with red blood in their veins and be cause, as I said, the emperor Is above ] all else a man of honor. Resides, I doubt that any woman, no matter how pretty or young, could wield a really powerful influence over ids life." "You doubt that? Then you don't know the emperor and you've forgot ten some of the traditions of his house." "Are you trying to warn me of dis aster, baroness?" * She laughed. "Oh, dear, no?of noth ing disagreeable! Hut I should be sor ry to C.iink, as you seem to do, that our ! emperor has no youth In bis veins." "1 (hink nothing of the sort. What I do think Is that my teachings have not been in vain and that be has grown up to put' his duty to his country nnd his own self respect above everything, lies a strong man-too strong to be (rapped In the meshes of any pink and white Vivien. And If be admired a young woman not of roynl blood bo would keep his distance for bor sake. You say tills English miss Is with her mother at the principal hotel of Kron hurg. If Leopold constantly visited (hem (hOVO we should have a scandal. <>n (ho other band, to suggest mooting (he girl outside or Incognito would bo an Insult. Either way be would bo but poorly rewarding a woman who saved his life." Baroness von Lyndnl's color rallied lo the support of her rouge, nnd her smile dwindled to Inanity, for she bad Insisted upon the argument, nnd It was going against her. I In her baste to vex tho chancellor she had not stopped to study from ev ery side the question she bad raised. So far she had merely succeeded in Ir ritating him, and sho owed him much more than a pin prick. Such Infinitesi mal wounds she had contrived to glvo the man In abundance during bor twen ty two years at the Ithactlan court, but now, If she burl him at nil, sho would like tho stab to bo deep nnd memorable. To bo sure. In beginning the conver sation she had thought of nothing more than a inomontary gratification, but the very beat of the argument Into which she had thrown herself had warmed her mnliCO and sharpened the weapon of her wit. She could Justify j her expressed opinion only by events, j ami It occurred to her that she might be able to shape events In such a way (hat she could B0J with eyes If not In ! words, "I told you so." Her fading Stilllo brightened. "Hear Chancellor, you do well to.bnvo faith In your Imperial pupil." said she. ' Vou'VO helped to make him what he ; Is, and you're ready to keep him what he should be. I suppose even that If. , being but a young man and having tho hot blood of Ids rnCO, be .?bould Mvny int ? a primrose path you would take ndvantngo of old friendship to-er? put up signposts nnd barriers?" "Were- f hero tho slightest chance of J i such necessity arising," grumbled tho chancellor, shrugging bis shoulders. "It's llko your Integrity ami courage. What a comfort, then, that the noeo*. slty is so unlikely to arise!" Tho old man looked at her with level faze, tho ruthless look that brushes *way a woman's paint and powder and roldly counts tho wrinkles underneath. "I must have misunderstood you, then, a moment ago," he said. ,-I thought your argument was all the Other way round, madam." "I told you I was amusing myself What can one do at a ball when ono has reached the ago when it would he foolish to dance? Why, 1 believe that Lady Mowbray and her daughter are not remaining long In Kronburg." At last she was able to judgo that she had given the chancellor a lew un easy moments, for bis eyes brightened visibly wlth-relief. "Ah." he returned, "then they are going out of Uhaetia?" "Not exactly that." said the baroness slowly, pleasantly and distinctly. "I hoar that they've been asked to the country to visit one of his majesty's oldest friends." Leopold was not supposed to care for dancing, though ho danced as U was his pride to do all things?well. Cer tainly there was often a porfunctori ness about his manner In a ballroom, a suggestion of the sohller on duty In his unsmiling face and his readiness to load a partner to bei- seat when a dance was over. Hut tonight a new Leopold moved to the music. A girl's white arm on his ? that slender arm which had been quick and firm as a man's in his do fense?tho perfume of a girl's hair and the gold flints upon it. the shadow of a girl's dark lashes and the light ill a pair of gray eyes when they were lifted, tho beating of n girl's heart near htm, the springtime grace of a girl's sweet youth in Its contrast with the voluptuous summer of Uhnctian types of beauty, the warm rose that spread upward from a girl's childlike dimples to the womanly arch of her brows -all these charms and more which rendered one Kh"l a hundred times adorable took bold of him and made him not an em peror, but n man, unnrmorcd. When the music censed ho fancied for an instant that some accident bad befallen the musicians. Then \vh lie realized that the end of tho dam e come in its due time he reinen 1 witli pleasure a rule of Iiis court estab lished In the days of those who had boon before him. After each dance an interval of ton minutes was allowed before the beginning of another. Ten minutes are not much to a man who has things to say which could hardly bo said In ten hours. Still, they are something, and to waste- even one would be like spilling a drop of pro clous elixir from a tiny bottle contain ing but nine other drops. They -had scarcely spoken yet, ex cept for commonplaces which any one might have overheard, since tho day on tho mountain, and in this first mo ment of the ton each was wondering whether or no that day should be Ig nored between them. Leopold did not feel that it should bo spoken of, for It was possible that tho >*lrl did not recog nize tho chamois hunter in the ompor or, and Virginia did not fool that she could speak of lt. Hut, Iben, few things turn out as people feel they should. Next to the throne room was tho ballroom, and beyond was another known as the wnldsanl, which Leo pold had fitted up for the gratification of a fancy. It was named the wnld sanl because It represented a wood. Walls and celling were masked with thick growing creepers trained over in visible wires, through which peeped stars of electric light, like the check ei'lngs of sunshine between netted branches. Trees grew up, with their roots In boxes hidden beneath tho moss covered floor. There wore mot toes of Ivy draped rock in the corners, and here and there, out from leafy shadows, glittered the glass eyes of birds and animals- eagles, BtngS, cham ois, wolves and bears?which tho em peror had shot. This strange room, so vast as to seem empty when dozens of people wan dered beneath Its trees and among its rock grottoes, was thrown open to guests whenever a ball was given at the palace, but tho conservatories and palm houses wore more popular, and when Leopold brought Miss Mowbray to the waldsaal after their dance it was In tho hopo that they might not be disturbed. She was lovelier than ever in her white dress under tho trees, looking up at him with a wonderful look In her eyes, and tho young man's calm ness was mastered by the boating of his blood. "This Is a kind of madness," ho said to himself. "It will pass. It must pass." And aloud, meaning all the while to say something different and commonplace, tho real words in bis mind broke through the crust of con ventionality, "W hy did you do It?" Virginia's eyes widened. "I don't understand." Then, In an instant, sho found that she did understand. Sho know, too, that tin; question had asked itself In spite of him, but that once it bad been uttered be would stand to his guns. "I moan the thing I shall have to thank you for always." If Virginia had had time to think sho might have prepared some pretty answer; but, there being no time, hor response came, as bis question had, from the heart, "I couldn't help doing It." "You couldn't help risking your life to"? Ho dared not finish. "It was to save"? Nor was there any end for her sentence. Then perhaps It was not strange that ho forgot certain restrictions which a royal man in conversing with a com mOUCf Is not supposed to forget. In fact, he forgot that ho was royal or that sue was nor, and his voice grew unsteady, his tone eager, as If he had been some poor subaltern with tho gtrl of Iiis llrst love. "There's something I must show you," he said. Opening a button of th? military coat blazing with Jewols and orders, he drew out a loop of thin gold chain. At the end dangled a small bright thing that Hashed under n star of electric light ".My ring!" breathed Virginia. Thus died the emperor's Intention to ignore the day that had been theirs to gether. ?Vonr ring! You gave it to I^co. II,- kept it. Tie will always keep It. Have i surprised you?" Virginia felt it would bo best to say "Yes," but instead site answered "No," for pretty white fibs cannot ho told cider such a look in a man's eyes by a girl who loves him. "1 have not? When did you guess tho truth -yesterday or"? "At Alleheiligen." Silence fell for a minute, whllo Leo pold digested the answer and its full meaning, lie remembered the bread and ham. the cow ho could not milk, the rucksacks ho had carried. He ro incmbered everything nnd laughed. ' Vo\i knew at Allehelligcn? Not on the mountain when"? "Yes, I guessed even then, 1 confess. Oh, 1 don't menu that I went there ex "M'j ringt" breathed Virginia. ; ling to find you. I didn't. I think 1 iuldn'1 have gone had I known . uno believed you were at Me iii' had, but when I tumbled down nnd saved me I looked up and?of c u I'd seen your picture, and one i:i the papers that you're fond of ; eh is hunting. I couldn't help guess In ? 'Ii. I'm sorry you asked mo this!" "Vt by?" e one might have to be afraid of emperor if he were angry." ? i I look angry?" 'I heir eyes met again, laughing at then each finding unexpected in those of tho other which <i >vo nwoy laughter. Something in ; Id's breast seemed alive and rllng to he free from restraint, like a tierce wild bird. He shut his . rhtly, breathing bard. Both for gol that 11 question bad been asked, bill it was Virginia who spoke first, alnci it is easier for a woman than a man to hide feeling. "1 wonder why you kept the ring after my- impertinence." "I ha 1 a good rcasop for keeping It." "Won't you tell me?" "You're quick at forming conclu sion;. Mi. s Mowbray. Can't you guess V" "To remind you to beware of strange young women 011 mountains." "No." "!'. cause your own picture is in side?" "II was a bolter 1 >nson than that." "Am 1 not to ask it?" "( 11 that day you asked what you ch. All tho more should you do so HOW, since there's nothing I could re fuse you." "Not the half of your kingdom, llko the royal men In fairy stories?" As soon as (ho words were out Vir ginia would have given much to havo them back. She bad not thought of a meaning they might convey, but sho tried not to blush lest he should think of it. now. Nevertheless he did think of it, and the light words, striking a (hold they had not aimed to touch, went echoing on and on till they reached iiiat part of himself which tho emperor knew least about?his heart. "Half his kingdom?" Yes, ho would give il to this Mill If ho could. Heav en . what it would bo to share it with herl "Ask anything you will," ho said as a man speaks In a dream. "'I ben tell me?why you kept tho ring," "BccaUSO the only woinun I over cared-to make my friend took it from her linger and gavo It to mo." "Now the emperor Is pleased to pay compliments." "Vou know I am sincere." "Cut you'd seen mo oidy for an hour. Instead of deserving your friondshlp, I'm afraid I"? "For one hour? That's true. And how long ago Is that ono hour? A week or so, I suppose, ns time counts. , Hut then came yesterday and tho ! thing you did for me. Now I've known you always." "if you bad, perhaps you wouldn't want me for your friend." "I do want you." Tin- words would come. It was true already. He did want her, but not as a friend. II is world?a world without women, without passion flery enough to devour principles or traditions?was upside down. It was well that tho ten minutes' grace between dances was over and the music for the next about to begin. A young officer, Count von Breitstoin'* half brother, who was to be M1sj> Mowbray's partner, appeared lu ttio distance looking for her, but stopped, seeing that sho was stlP with tho em peror. "Goodby," said Virginia while her words could still bo only fur the ears ?f Leopold. "Not goodby. We're friends." "Yes. But wo shan't meet often." "Why? Aro you leaving Kronburg?'' "Perhaps?soon. I don't know." "I must see you again. 1 will seo you once more, whatever comes." "Onco more, perhaps. I hope so, but"? "After that"? "Who knows?" "'Onco more?once more!" Tho words eclioed In Virginia's ears. She heard them through everything, as one bears tho undertone of a mountain torrent, though a brass baud may bray to drown its deep music. Onco more he would seo her, what ever might come. She COUld guess why it might be only once, though he would fain have (hat once again and again repeated, for (bis game of hers, begun with such a light heart, was more difllcult to play than she had dreamed. If she could but bo sure bo cared, If he would tell her so in words and not Witb eyes alone, the rest might DO easy, although at best sho could not Bee tho end. Vet how in honor could he tell Miss Helen Mowbray that ho eared? And If the telling were not to be In honor how could she bear to live her life? "Onco more!" What would happen In that "onco more?" Perhaps noth ing save a repetition of grateful thanks and courteous words akin to a fare well. To bo sure. Lady Mowbray and her daughter might run away and the ne gotiations between the emperor's ad visers and the Grand Duchess of Bau menburg-Drlppe for the Princess Vir ginia's hand might be allowed to go on ns If no outside Influence had ruf lied the peaceful current of events. Then In the end a surprise would como for Leopold. Willful Virginia would have played her little comedy, and all might be said to end well. But Virginia's heart refused to he satisfied with so tame a last chapter, (I finish to her romance so conventional as to be distastefully obvious, almost If not cpdte a failure. She had begun to drink a sweet and Stimulating draft?she who bad been brought Up on milk and water and she was reluctant to put down the cup, still half full of sparkling nectar. "Once more!" If only that once could bo magnified Into many limes. If sho could have her chance, her "fling," like the lucky girls who were not royal! So she was thinking In the carriage by her mother's side, and the grand duchess had to speak twice before her daughter knew their silence bad been I broken. "I forgot to tell you something, Vir ginia." "Ye es, mother?'' "Yo.ir great success has made mo absent ilndod, child. You looked like a shining white Illy among all those handsome, overblown Rhnctlnn ?vo? men." "Thank you, dear. Was that what you foi-Rot to sny?" "Oh, no! It was this: The Baroness von Lyndnl has been most kind. She urges us to give up our rooms at tho hotel on tho first of next week nnd Join her house party at Sehloss Lyn dnlberg. It's only a few miles out of town. What do you think of tho plan?" "Leave?Kronburg?" "She's asked a number of friends - to meet the emperor." "Oh! He didn't speak of it?when we danced." "Rut she has r ntloncd it to him since, no doubt?bei giving me the Invitation. Intimate i. id of his ns she is, sho wouldn't daio ask people to meet him if lie hadn't first sanctioned the BUggOStlon, Still, she can afford to be more or less Informal. The baron ess was dnnclng with the emperor, I remember now, Just before sho came to mo. They wero talking together quite earnestly. I can recall tho ex pression of his face." "WflS it plensed, or"? "I wafl wondering whnt sho could hnvo Bald to make blU) look so happy. Perhaps"? "What Answer did you give Baroness von Lyndnl?" "I told her I thought you wouldn't mind. I told her we would go." (Continued.) Over Thirty-five Years. In 1872 there was a great deal of di arrhoea, dysentery and cholera infan tum. It was at this lime that Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoen Remedy was first brought Into use. It proved more successful than any other remedy or treatment, and has for thir ty-five years maintained that record. 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