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8 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1913. 4 The Half-God BY ALBERT DORRINOTON. Author of ‘THE RADIUM TERRORS,” “CHILDREN OF THE CLOVEN HOOF,” Etc. (Continuation of Chapter VII.) Captain Engleheart wiped his brow like one newly risen from a bout of fever and ague. His limbs trembled violently. With slow, shaking steps he reached a chair and dropped into it wtih a cry of pain. Dr. Hammersho regarded him with slow contempt. "You indulge too much in the drug, my dear friend. Just now your feet are in Iceland, your head in hades!” "That’s so, Hammerhead, that’s so!” A dry laugh escaped Engleheart. Gulp ing down a glass of water from the washstand, he steadied himself in the chair. "I've heard people say you’re the limit in nastiness and temper—for a Jap.” Dr. Hammersho looked out of the window quickly, as though a sound had attracted him. It proved to be merely thffe fluttering of the'pigeon flock dis turbed from the adjacent eaves. He came back slowly to the ©enter of the room. "You know that Prof. Caleret is dead!” he stated suavely, "and that our chances of getting out of this country are remote. You know these things,” he insisted, with another side glance in the direction of the window. Captain Engleheart blanched beneath the sickly yellow of his skin. He half rose from the chair, but the sudden ac tion caused a reeling sensation in the limbs that forced him gasping and trem bling into his seat. "Don’t be too sudden. Hammerhead,” he responded huskily. "You throw your statements about like fishhooks. Now,” ’ he continued, holding tightly to his seat, "this Prof. Calaret was a friend of Bernice. Am I right?” "Perfectly.” “You took me last night tnto a gar den adjoining his laboratory And . . . let me see . . . there was a shot fired through the lab win dow. We had an argument about the firing, oh, Hammarhead?” Capt. Engle heart leaned from his chair, his left hand pressed to his brow. “You were not quite yourself,” the Jap doctor volunteered. "I have con stantly warned you of the opium habit. It will lead to dangerous hallucination,**, mental instability, madness!" "But that shot!” interrupted the cap tain. “I don’t quite remember.” The face of the Jap doctor was brazen in its immobility.."You said that the professor had received favors from Bernice. And the opium in you caus ed you to hate the man. I could not restrain your mad act. Those Amer ican firearms are tricky things. Caleret got your bullet somewhere between the eyes!” • Capt. Engleheart crouched in his chair, "Good God!” he said under his breath. "The madness of it!” Hammersho shrugge*. "The press and public are demanding the slayer of Caleret I fear your precious Bernice will be implicated!” A bleak, scared look sat on Capt Engleheart, the look of a man pushed to the edge of the gallows: “Bernice knows nothing of this!” he faltered. "Your infernal tongue bewil ders me!” "We are under police surveillance, my dear captain. Y'ou know she in troduced me to Caleret. It was unfor tunate, yet very necessary. Still,” he went on disparagingly, "we shall behave like gentlemen if the worst happens. Your Bernice will be exonerated.” Capt. Engleheart shook himself fiercely. AH his life he appeared to have been more or less dependent on Hammersho, for vpium, money, shelter, and very often medical attendance. Without the Japanese doctor life was unendurable. It was Hammersho who had induced him to return to England In connection with a scheme for pro moting a Japanese medical association. Sngleheart’s place in the scheme had Sever been clearly defined, but it had fceen understood that the captain might prove useful. J To Engleheart the new association *ieant the promotion of a firm of medi- j&l swindlers who anticipated dping business in bogus electric belts or pat ent foods. He was not very clear about either, but it seemed to him dur ing sober moments that the Jap doctor was in grim earnest aoout making money. Hammersho had told him of his meet ing with Bernice and the news had shocked his opium-shattered nerves. Of her marriage with Fabian Kromer not a word had escaped the Japanese doctor. The captain was assured that Bernice was earning her living in the capacity of a lady secretary in the house of a wealthy American merchant. Engleheart, the man of many blun ders, was content to leave her in peace, content to allow her the guardianship of Imry, since it would rid him of a heavy responsibility in regard to the boy’s future education. The journey from Tokio to Uondon had been broken by further debauches, nights when the long stemmed opium pipe and ‘cooking” needles figured con spicuously. His arrival in England had come with a sharp Jolt. Ruthless ly shaken from his dreams, he had been bundled ashore with piles of luggage in the cold gray of a Lo rJ on morning. The rest was a succession of similar inconveniences, a panorama of half-seen events wherein Hammersho and O Shani Ma had supplied him, at inter vals, with the omnipotent drug. They had moved from lodging to lodg ing, from suburb to suburb, when Ham mersho deemed it admisable. In waking moments he had heard a discusion anent a mysterious professor named Caleret who had evolved from his crucible an element called zeu. Zeu was the mir acle of the modern laboratory. It was the offspring of uranium, radium, tha- leen, helium and a dozen more or less confusing substances. The medical world had hailed it as the god of joy, the annihilator of pain and suffering. Hammersho and his confrere, O Shani Ma, had exhibited an almost fiendish interest in zeu. To possess a hundredth part of a grain had been their one frantic desire. It amused him to hear those two little brown men discuss the potentialities of zeu. With it they could remove the mountain of disease and misery which afflicted humanity— at a price! Engleheart knew now how far he had been their accomplice. Things had hap pened with magic swiftness and always while he was under the influence of opium. He dimly remembered accom panying Dr. Hammersho to a part of London one evening when the lights and roar of the traffic caused his head to spin and ache. They had climbed a wall and had concealed themselves in an outhouse which faced the side en trance to Prof. Caleret’s laboratory. In silence they had watched the pro fessor at work, through the half-open window, had even heard his half mut tered exclamation as he paused to brood over his recent loss. ' And while they watched, Dr. Hammersho plied him with stories of Caleret’s affection for Bernice. Engleheart had grown angry and impatient by turns and there had been a scene between the two, in the outhouse, when Hammersho pro duced the revolver. Afterward there was a fixed idea in the head of Engle heart that the Japanese doctor had fired it at Caleret, through the laboratory window. It was a deseprate business. No one could say where it would stop, Engle heart brooded. That Bernice should have been mixed up with the affairs added confusion to his already distract ed mind. Dr. Hammersho bent over his crouched up figure in the chair and slipped a cigarette between his fingers. "If the police come here and ask ques tions, you know nothing.” you felt that he ran no risk of injury “Did I really shoot Caleret?” Engle heart said without looking up. “On your word as a gentleman of • Japan, Hammerhead. Come . . . now!” The Jap doctor snapped his fingers impatiently. "You are not aware of your own blind fury, my dear captain. 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There is ; really no cause for alarm.” Engleheart rose stiffly from his seat ! and shuffled upstairs to his room, The drawn blinds almost darkened it. Pull ing them aside he raised the sash to inhale a f>reath of air from the garden. The spinning sensation in his head was always jiresent after a night of excess. A dry, white taste invaded his mouth; his limbs cried constantly for re pose , , , Something in the flower-scented at mosphere relieved the sense of suffoca tion. Thrusting his head from the win- down he Inhaled In deep gusts the life- giving air. He must leave the pipe j alone in future. The aftermath was more than he could bear. His throbbing eyes took in the long stretch of garden and the squat figure of O Shani Ma standing beside the hive. Legions of dead bees were scat tered around as though O Shani had smoked and poisoned them in sheer malevolence. The swarm of dead bees fascinated Engleheart. What was the meaning of O Shani’s insenate slayings? Even bees were worth money, and since coming to the house Dr. Hammersho had spent time and money on the hive. It seem ed foolish, therefore, to destroy so wan tonly the little colony of honey-gather ers. Returning to his couch he stretched his limbs and tried with difficulty to exercise his mind in thought. But the mill wheels merely ground out a single ever recurring question, Who shot Caleret? Repetition of the thought brought weariness of brain and nerve. A de sire for the pipe became stronger as midday approached. He heard Dr. Hammersho pacing the room below; the occasional clatter of dishes and cooking utensils reached him together with the nauseating odor of boiling fish and vegetables. Slowly, methodically he reached for the flue-like pipe that stood always ready beside the couch. A tiny smoke-blackened lamp was drawn near his elbow; a pair of "cook ing” needles flashed suddenly in his shaking fingers. Quickly, deftly he rolled a pellet of opium over the sizzling lamp flame with the craft of a China man, and then with a turn of a needle deposited the fuming pellet into the pipe. His livid features relaxed af ter the first indrawn breath; a sigh of ineffable tenderness escaped him at the slavering gluck, gluck within the long pipe stem . . . Then his half roused ear caught a faint drooping sound with in the room. He swore softly under his breath, for he remembered that he had forgotten to close the window and draw the blinds. Bees, bees, bees, his brain seemed alive with the droning of them. Why had he not shut the window, since every lover of the pipe prefers sanctu ary from invading noises and interrup tions? The droning became an organ note to his half enraptured senses. But with each inhalation of the opium fumes came a desire to escape the ter rible bee sounds. To his intense hor ror the invading bee swept close in to the flickering opium lamp, as though drawn irresistibly by the sickly odor of the burning drug. He rose to his ^lbow and glowered at the black and gold insect that seemed to swim above the livid flame of t lamp. How incredibly ridiculous it seemed that this gatherer of honey should assail his privacy at such a time! He watched it half irritably, the pipe clasped in his feverish hand; then seiz ing an old newspaper at his elbow struck blindly where the brown and gold hovered near a fallen crumb of opium beside the lamp. The blow swept the band of black and gold to the floor, and for the mil lionth fraction of time the wings trem bled and grew stiff. Engleheart stared with half-sneering eyes at the dead bee. A roll of cigarette paper no larger than a postage stamp semed to be suspend ed from its body. Or was it an illu sion caused by the sudden slant of sun shine from the window? With an outward flip of the paper he cast.the dead bee across the room and sank back on the couch. Belcfw in the stuffy kitchen Dr. Hammersho brood ed over the unwnshed dinner plates. C Shani Ma squatted in the doorway, eating fish and bread from a tray on his knee. To have sat at table would have interfered with his outlook on the garden, and the occasional bees that came in from the near fields. The Jap doctor made occasional references to a small notebook beside him. "I almost despair, comrade, of what has happened. We have Caleret’s for mula, but the god Zeu has gone astray on the wings of our messenger. Our plans are dust!” O Shani Ma looked up from his tray, a piece of white bread between his teeth. "Since we killed Caleret to ob tain the formula, we can not offer it for sale, How, then, are we to get money?” "Not too much from Bernice, com rade. She will fight us if we press her. Engleheart is on our hands. I fancied we might use him to frighten Bernice. We must do something! His opium costs money. We live on fish that he may suck a pipe and dream!” Hiogi Hammersho had not brought Maurice Engleheart to England in sheer joy of comradeship. Under pressure Bernice couid be made to yield per manent income for them both. He had followed Bernice’s fortunes for the last year. Only by the merest chance had he become aware of her marriage with the wealthy Fabian Kromer. Engle heart had returned from Sydney to Nagasaki, begging for some easy place to rest his body. Hiogi had permitted him to sleep in one of his garden houses in fear lest the ex-captain might convey to the customs authorities a hint of their past operations in the opium traffic. Then came news of Bernice and her millionaire husband. Hiogi seized the opportunity to visit England with his opium-smoking pro tege. In London he lost no time in seeking out and watching the woman he had chosen tu exploit. On the day he de cided to reveal himself to Bernice came the news of Caleret’s world arresting | dsicovery. It gave pause to Hiogi's movements. Calaret was a friend of Fabian. The professor’s new-found Zeu was valued beyond price. If it were possible to gain admission to th laboratory the professor’s radium-god might take flight. There were ways of baffling these stupid London police. A little brain and nerve were needed, and he, Hiogi Hammersho, might be mas ter of the world’s greatest curative agent. With this and the formula ot its manufacture in his keeping the wildest schemes were possible—medical blackmail, the wresting of colossal fees from the incurable rich. Nothing was easier. Therefore he had gone into the Frenchman’s laboratory and had em ployed his Asiatic brains to some pur pose. The result was as yet indefinite. He had lost a bee, and until its where abouts was ascertained his future and the welfare of Bernice were in peril. The afternoon dragged on. O Shani Ma had raked the garden, plucking weeds, and f searching in odd corners with tireless persistence—for bees. Both Japs were subconsciously aware, by now, that the cottage was under po lice surveilance; yet they laughed in secret at the helplessness of Scotland Yard when confronted with an untrace- able bit of criminology. It was almost dark when the little doctor ascended the stairs and entered Captain Englehart’s room. Lighting a candle, he held it over the opium- dazed figure on the camp bed. "You are still in the heaven of your HEM LIST BP FUTILITIES BURLESON’S ORDER DEMANDING WORK SOUNDS DOOM OF SINECURE HUNTERS 4,566 Were Killed and Injured in Georgia During 1912 Four thousahd five hundred and sixty persons were killed and injured by steam and street railroads in Georgia last year. These alarming figures are inexplicable and are especially mystifying when it is known that they show an increase of more than 100 per cent over the number of persons killed and injured in 1911. There can be no doubt about the accu racy of these facts, for they were com piled* by the state railroad commission from the sworn reports made by the roads in accordance with state laws. The 1911 reports showed that during that year 2,166 persons were killed and injured. These reports, however, were not as complete as those for 1912 for they only recorded the number of passengers and employes killed and injured, while the reports for 1912 went a step further and included all other victims of acci dents, such as trespassers, at crossings or on rights of way, news agents, ex press employes, mail employes, et al. Even though these had been included there would have been but little change In the percentage of increase, for the 1912 reports, which record persons other than railroad employes and passengers killed and injured, places but 350 vic tims In this class. CENTRAL LEADS LIST. Of the steam roads the Central of Georgia comes first with 987 killed and injured, while the Southern railway is second with 582. The Georgia railway and Power company—(Georgia Railway and Electric company, of Atlanta)—leads the list of street railroads with 652 killed and injured. The Savannah Electric company is second with 318, and the Ma con Railway and Light company third with 255. A summary or recapitulation of those killed and injured by the steam roads for each of the two years follows: l 1911. 1912. Passengers killed . 16 16 Passeng-ers Injured . 508 B12 Railroad employes killed. . 80 74 Railroad employes injured . 958 2,284 Other persons killed.. .. 101 Other persons injured.... •. ... 249 Total killed and injured .1,542 3,236 •Not reported. A similar summary for the street rail roads shows the following figures: 1911. 1912. Passeng-ers killed 4 0 Passengers injured . 543 897 Employes killed 2 0 Employes injured . 75 82 Others killed * 18 Others injured * 333 Total killed and Injured . 624 1,330 ♦Not reported. A consolidation of the killed and in- jured by both steam and street railroads follows: 1911. 1912. Passengers killed . 20 16 Passengers injured .1,051 1,409 Employes killed 62 74 Employes injured .1,033 2,366 Others killed * 119 Others injured * 582 Total killed .. 82 209 Total injured .2,084 4,357 Total killed and injured. 2166 4,566 ♦Not reported. Although the character of injuries 1 sus- tained is not set out in the reports, it Is safe to say that a very large propor- dreams, captain,” he said, coldly. "It is time for marching.” Englehart stirred himself slowly, his gaunt arihs flung over his head as though pressing back the shapes that haunted his waking moments. The can dle flame seemed to pinch his eyes. “This marching is getting on my nerves, Hammerhead.” He blinked owlishly at the little Jap doctor. "What is the good of running from place to place?” "We must run or be hanged, my dear captain. O Shani Ma and I discuss our plans boldly in your presence and you never listen. You know I conceived a plan to extract that grain of Zeu from Calaret’s laboratory?” Captain Englehart passed a shaking hand over his brow and scowled at the yellow, mask-like face peering at him under the uplifted candle. "My head is full of bees. I don’t know how yours got out, doctor. Did— did you take it with you into Caleret’s laboratory ?’ The Jap lowered the candle and spoke with his lips to the Englishman’s face. "You do not understand what I have done. I played for 60,000 pounds’ worth of chemical extract that was no larger than the tip of my writing pencil!” Engleheart drew a sharp breath. "You were talking of bees. Do you know, Hammerhead,” he thrust the Jap’s face from him deliberately and looked into the hollow eyes that seemed to glow r from under the huge frontal bone; "I think you have been dealing in dreams, too. Bees, oh . . . .!” He lay down, his knees updrawn, his face convulsed with laughter. The Jap doctor waited patiently until the Englishman’s mirth had subsided; then his voice became a harsh whisper. "I took my pet bee into Caleret’s lab oratory after your Bernice had over come the difficulties of an introduction. If you had not been a skulker and a drug fiend, my dear captain, you might have observed the days and weeks I have spent in training a certain well- marked bee which belongs to the swarm outside. "I conceived it possible,” he went on with scarcely a tremor in his voice, "to attach a fine silken thread round the bee’s neck. To t*his thread I secured a scrap of cigarette paper no larger than your finger nail. I carried the bee in a ventilated pill box. Once in Caleret’s laboratory I felt that with the aid of an outside friend the Frenchman might be induced to leave me alone with his precious Zeu even for a period of thirty seconds. That was my chief difficulty. I was a stranger to him, but he ac corded me what had 'been denied dozens of more prominent men—a glimpse of his half-god! "I stood trembling a little on the cold, asphalted floor of his laboratory as he produced it from the iron safe, a tiny speck of brown lying at the bottom of a platinum tube. It was highly flueres- cent and radiated violet mists of fight. It’s atomic energy was amazing. When covered with a dark cloth it became a living volcano of ultramarine rays and purple gases. The professor was very enthusiastic. " ‘This is the power that will govern the world,’ he said to me. ‘Disease cannot five in its presence. Its rays will destroy all bacillus of consumption, cancer germs, every malignant disorder of the human race.’ "He placed it in my hands and my blood leaped and flamed at the touch of this god-like element. I held it for fif teen seconds, held 60,000 pounds’ woFtli of super-radium that would not cover the tip of your little finger! "Then I said ‘Thank you very much, Prof. Caleret, for your goodness in al lowing me to inspect the little god from your crucible!’ (Continued In next Issue.) BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.—Post master General Burleson’s purpose to hold presidential postmasters to a strict accountability in the matter of time and attention they give to their re spective offices is expetced to simplify the patronage question in many states. It is believed in Washington that the attitude of the postmaster general will remove from the field of applicants hundreds of persons who wer e anxious to serve their country as postmasters and at the same time devote most of their attention to personal business matters. It is estimated in Washington that if Mr. Burleson’s .order had been operative under the last administration it would have disqualified at least 75 per cent of postmasters who held officj under President Taft. It has never been the custom for postmasters of second and third class offices to attend to post- office business, to the exclusion of everything else. In most of these of fices the custom has been for the post master to depend upon his, or her, as sistant to perform the duties incident to the office, while the postmaster de voted himself, or herself, to other mat ters. If the postmaster were a man, he usually was interested in real es tate as a “side line,” or perhaps he was a lawyer, or merchant, whose personal affairs required most of his time. MANY APPLICANTS AFFECTED. All over the south scores of persons were applicants for postmasterships who never intended to give up their other business in order to accept the postoffice. In Georgia, Tennessee, Ala bama, Florida and Mississippi, it is un derstood, a number of lawyers were among the applicants, on the theory that they could pocket the emolument, add to their local prestige and continue to practice their profession. Following the issuance of Postmaster General Burleson’s statement, scores of applicants, who had been pestering their congressmen, gav e notice of the with drawal of their applications. The real ization that the postoffice department doesn’t intend to maintain any sine cures killed their desire. to serve the government. While the postmaster general’s order was inspired, undoubtedly, by a desire to economize in the administration of the postoffice department, it is true that Mr. Burleson was encouraged by Democratic members of congress to promulgate the order. Admittedly, it lessens the difficulties of the congress- tion were what is known as minor in juries. It is a notable fact that in 1911 and 1912 the steam roads killed but 16 pas sengers, a total of 32, and, that the street railroads killed but 4 passengers in 1911 and none at all in 1912. While the steam roads killed* 60 employes in 1911 and 74 in 1912, the street railroads kill ed but 2 employes in 1911 and none at all in 1912. COUNTRY-WIDE RECORD. Excluding Georgia statistics the re ports of the interstate commerce com mission for 1912 show that the total number of persons killed by steam and street railroads in all the other states of the union last year was 10,376 and total number injured, 165,281. Number of passengers killed in all states outside of Georgia, 302. Number of passengers injured, 14,497. Employes killed, 3,561. Employes injured, 14,076. Persons other than pasengers and em ployes who were killed, 6,513. Persons other than passengers and employes who were injured, 10,128. To obtain complete data as to the entire United States the statistics for Georgia should be added to the fore going. FORT VALLEY FRUIT INJURED BY COLD (Special Dispatch to The Journal.)„ FORT VALLEY, Ga., April 2.—De spite many reports to the contrary, it is a fact that the recent cold wave injured seriously the fruit crop throughout this section. In the orchards where the fires were not kept burning the night the frost fell and the temperature dropped so low almost half of the fruit was killed. There were only about six or seven growers who kept fires in their or chards, and consequently the decrease in the expected amount of fruit is, great. • For several days the result of the cold did not tell upon the fruit, but in many orchards the tiny peaches have begun to turn black, and the situation is discouraging. The cold seeified to effect the fruit in spots, and whether the land was high or low, in some orchards it did the damage and killed outright at least half the crop. Farmers generally expect to be pre pared another year to protect their fruit with the burning log3 in and around their orchards to prevent its loss in this manner again. Many growers who Expected to spray their fruit once or twice more have become discouraged to the extent that they feel it will not repay them. However, though the cold has short ened the crop, a good price is expected for that produced, which, in such cases in years gone by, was profitable. men in the same proportion that It eliminates applicants. “Yes, my old friend, I was mighty anxious to give you the postoffice at Blanktown in return for the many things you have done for me, but the postmaster general was obstinate and stubborn in his purpose to hold post masters to a strict accountability in the matter of time and attention they give to their offices, and that let you out,” the congressmen can now say to their friends. And by way of putting Dn a little more salve they may add: "Undoubtedly you were the man for the office. Your services to the party entitled you to the recognition and the community was entitled to have you as postmaster, but Burleson—dad bing him—just wouldn’t hear to it, when he understood that your business would demand at least a part of your time.” BURLESON’S STATEMENT. Here is what Postmaster General Burleson has to say about the mat ter: "It is the policy of the administration to require in all cases conscientious and efficient service from its officers and employes. Clerks and carriers are required by law to serve 8 hours daily, and thre is no reason why the post master, who is the highest paid em ploye of the office, should not give at least an equivalent in time and effort. In making new appointments to of fices of the presidential grade, the postoffice department will require here after in addition to the usual qualifica tions with respect to. ability, character and experience, an assurance from the appointee that his whole business time will be devoted to the duties of -the po sition to which he is appointed.” The order of the postmaster general, agreeable as it is to the members of congress, and unpopular as it will be to thousands of would-be postmasters, will be sustained by the country, It Is believed. For once, the members of congress, in playing politics, are play ing into the hands of the general pub lic. It is not believed that Postmaster General Burleson had any thought of the political aspect of the matter when he issued his statement. He was, as stated, prompted by a desire to econo mize in the administration of the de- partmnt.- His policy is in entire har mony with the plans and purposes of President Wilson. Indeed, It Is believ ed likely that Mr. Burleson consulted with the president befor he Issued his statement, notwithstanding that many congressmen were anxious to have the policy announced. A Physician Cures His Wife Of Consumption With A- Simple Home Treatments Book Fully Describing The Treat* merit Sent Absolutely Free To Any Lung Sufferer. DR. W. H. KNIGHT of East Saugus, Mass., writes: "My wife was down witl. Consumption, when 1 ordered the Lloyd treatment. She was very weak from ni«ht sweats, cough, and in a feverish condition. 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A Wonderful Offor No one else offers a BOTTLED-IN-BOND whiskey at our price of 80 cents a quart— no one else would pay the express charges on a one quart shipment as we are doing. Wo Stand The Loss Shipping one quart, express paid, means a loss to us—but we want your trade—and we know when you have tried this whiskey, you will be I Address what it says—we must send you a quality that will please you in every way—and we will do it. Now, Rush Your Order Cut out this coupon—fill it in—and mail it to U9 with SO cents in stamps, coin or money order— and the full quart of fine old BOTTLED-IN- BOND whiskey will go forward by first express. pmniunmimmniiiinnBiiiniiiinHiiuiiBiiMimininMiimainiiiw THE HAYNER DISTILLING COMPANY Enclosed find 80 oents for which send me ONE fall quart bottle of Hayner Private Stock Bottle-ln-Bond Whisker- express paid—as per your offer. 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