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ALL JACOBS’ STORES
AND DRUGGISTS GENERALLY,
SYNOPSIS,
(tordon Kelly, a young North Geor
gia mountaineer, comen to Atlanta
to pet n place with Billy Smith’s
Cracker**. It is raining when he
reaches Ponce DeLeon and he 1h
nearly run over by an auto. In which
an- tw<> persons a man and a young
girl. The driver of the. car Is an ar
rogant fellow The girl makes him
stop the machine She gets out and
inquires if Kelly is injured. She
apologizes for her companion’s
brusque manner. Kelly sees Malta -
gor Smith ant tells him he has never
played a game of ball. Smith con-
sents to flive Kelly a trial. The girl
in the auto in Mildred Peery, daugh
ter of Galen Peery, a crafty and
wealthy speculator in timber lands.
Her companion is Forrest Cain, a
rich young man about town. Kelly
owns timber land that Peery would
like to possess.
Now go on with the story.
By A H. C. MITCHELL.
copyright, 1913, by International News
Service.
Little Bobbie’s
Pa
THE
TRIPLE
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
TIE
job that any man or woman ever had
to tackle.
“You can never find a house anywhere
that has not some terrible drawback,
he went on. "You can take your choice
between a poor house in a good neigh
borhood and a good house in a poor
neighborhood.
"If you have a good house In a poor
neighborhood your little Cedric and
Kenneth and Quentin will be con tarn i
nated by contact with those common
Awfulwaflfle children and the horrid
young Beansirales. And if you take a
poor house in a good neighborhood your
children will hang wistfully upon the
fence and watch the haughty Stalkswag-
gers children, exclusive young Many-
bridges and the stuck-up little Snippy-
doodles at play.
"If a house Is perfect in every other
respect the landlord will live too near.
You are not at first suspicious of the
fact that there is a handy little gate by
which he can enter your back yard. At
first he is just helping you move in.
But after you are settled you find him
on the premises every time you come
home from anywhere.
IF you knew how many different ways Faust Macaroni can
1 be seryed, you would have it several times every week—
write for free recipe book and find out Faust Macaroni is
a savory, toothsome dish—you make a whole meal
on it alone and feel thoroughly satisfied.
MACARONI
is strengthening, too. A 10c package contains more nutri
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the muscle, bone and flesh former. Comes in air-tight,
moisture-proof packages—makes a meal that’s a feast.
At all grocers*—
5c and 10c
packages.
A wa nd of grouchy ln.«t nite
Ma & me knew he was going to
^ be grouchy’, beekaus sum old
friends of Ma was going to visit us for
a few days fk they was to cum last nite,
aJl the way from Colfax, Wisconsin.
I doant like to be a killjoy, sed Pa, &
I will do my best to treet Mister &
Missus Bing all rite, but you know as
well as l do what It will be. Both of
them will want to be took to all of the
leading points of interest, such as the
hoam of the widow wich entertained
George Washington onst & the museum
of art & the points of historical interest
outside of those wich I have just men-
shuned. After I have dragged them &
you & lit tel Bobbie all oaver the town
for a few days, showing them a lot of
stuff that 1 doant care a rap to see. they
will say goodbye & tell us to be sure &
cum to Colfax & stay a month That
is sum invltashun, issent It? sed Pa—
cum to Colfax & stay a month. It
sounds like cum to Sing Sing A: stay
thirty years.
Pa Gets Their Name Wrong.
Well, thay are my frends, anyway, sed
Ma. A- I want you to be nice to them, &
please remember, sed Ma. that thare
naim isent Bing, thare name Is Ging
G-I-I-N-G, Ma sed, with the accent on
the two Os.
Wen Mister A- Missus Ging calm thay
didn't look as If thay was happy at
all.
I am glad to bid you both welcome to
our home, sed Pa. I have offen heard
my wife speek of her deer friends the
Pings.
Gtng. sed Mister Ging G-I-N-G.
That doesn't sound like a vary hard
naim to reemember, he sed He looked
at Pa kind of cross & Pa handed the
look rite back to him.
What do you think of Atlanta, deer?
said Ma to Missus Gn$
I think it is perfeckly beeatly, sed
Missus Ging We had to ride in that
horrid trolley all the way from the depot
to’here, & I had to stand up. I wanted
Mister Ging to maik a gen tel man give
me his seat, but you know how husband*
are. He sed that perhaps the poor man
was tired Think of it, and fancy me,
& Ging. having to stand up in a com
mon street car. W(jy, at home we have
our own carriage.
If 1t Is anything like the carriages T
used to see in Colfax wen I was court
ing you, Pa sed to Ma. I am afrade Mis
ter & Missus Wing wuddent have
reafhed our hoam till to-morrow morn
ing. Colfax was noted for its prHty
gurls and its saddle backed skates, sed
Pa Thare was only one hansum horse
In the town. & nobody cud drive it.
I beg your pardon, sir, sed Mister Ging
There are sum magnificent horses in
Colfax I have two roans that I wuddent
self for a thousand dollars.
I wuddent give a thousand cents for
them, sed Pa Thare Isen’t any class to
a roan horse. Who ewer heard of a
roan horse stepping out A winning the
Brooklyn Handicap? sed Pa.
Never mind, deerest. Ma sed to Pa. I
am sure Mister & Missus Ging will get
to love Atlanta after they have had a
chanst to git around. Thare is so much
of interest to see here. & the shops are
very butlful now. The windows are jest
full of hargans.
Missus Ging Is Put Out.
The windows can stay full of hargans,
sed Mister Ging I toald my wife bee-
foar we left hoam that the stores in
Colfax was plei#t;A good enufT for her
mother before her and plenty good enufT
for her. Thare Is going to be no ex-
trava-gance on this trip Hevlngs de
liver me. sed Mister Ging, from a shop
ping & bargan hunting woman I wish
you would show u« our room, he sed to
Ma. My wife & I are vary tired. 1 sup
pose you have breakfast at seven, he
sed.
Oh, deer no, sed Ma. We have break
fast at nine.
Oh, well, sed Missus Ging. I suppose
my husband A- l can go out to a reste-
rant. Do you know a good cheap place
nefre here? she asked Pa.
Yes, sed Pa. I know a good cheep
place. They have rooms thare too
TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT.
Cain had no definite idea in view
except to drive a considerable distance
out of town and have it out with this
j stranger. Hitherto his money had en
abled him to have his way in every -
! thing and he had ridden roughshod
: over every obstacle that presented
I itself in his path, so that the idea
: that he wa.«* a sort of demi-god had
become firmly Implanted in his na-
! ture. In the case in hand he did not
stop to realize that his money was
of little use to him. Ho was blind
j with rage. He attributed his mis
understanding with Mildred to the
passenger in the back seat. Cain re
solved to eliminate this stranger from
his affairs. He tried to get more
speed out of the car. hut by this time
the roads were growing worse and
worse as they got further out of
town. They had passed the limit
of electric lights and except for the
rays of the powerful headlights every
thing was in inky darkness
They must have driven all of half
an hour and were a good fifteen miles
from where they started, when Cain,
spying a road that branched off to
the left, turned into it Up to this
point Gordon Kelly, in the back seat,
had made no movement whatever.
He might have been asleep, for all
Cain knew. But the car had not
traveled a furlong on the branch road
before he gave evidence that he was
very much awake.
With a spring as light as a panther
he vaulted over the back of the front
seat and landed lightly beside Cain.
Reaching down he switched off the
magneto, pulled ou\ the plug and
dropped it into his coat pocket. Al
most instantly, the motor stopped and
the car came to a standstill.
CHAPTER Vm.
R eaching down to the coil box,
Cain discovered the plug was not
there.
“Where’s that plug?*’ he demanded,
fiercely.
“I have it in my pocket.’' replied
Kelly, quietly. ‘Something is likely
to happen pretty quick, but as I don’t
know just what it is, I thought I would
be on the safe aide, that’s all.”
"Who are you?” cried Cain.
’’ I will tell you who I am, but first
I want to know if I am talking to a
crazy man, a fool, or a joker,” an
swered Kelly. While he was speaking
he was fumbling in his pockets. He
now drew forth a match which he
held up to the other’s face. Cain blew
it out almoat as quickly as it ignited
but Kelly had seen enough.
"Oh, you’re the Deerys’ chauffeur.”
he observed calmly. "You’re the man
who nearly ran over me the other
day. Well, did your employer tell
you to dive me out here, or did you
do it on your own hook?”
‘Tin not a chauffeur." exclaimed
Cain hotly. “I’m a friend of the Decry
family and, if you want to know, I
brought you here on my own hook.
What are you going to do about it?”
“You are certainly a queer sort.
What is your object? Is this a hold
up game?” Did you bring me out here
to rob me?”
“Rob you; no!” shouted Cain. “I
can buy and sell you a million times!”
The calmness of the man seated be
side him acted as a kind of reverse
English on Cain. He had been angry
all along, but was now furolus and
“H’
ERE comes Johnny!” ex
claimed Mrs. Jones, sighing
disconsolately. “He must
have been awfully good to-day—for
he’s as dirty as a little pig. and he's
an hour late!”
Her caller opened her eyes in
amazement. "Awfully good?” she re
peated “Why, when my Sammy
comes home late and Is dirty 1 usually
know that he’s been into some sort of
mischief. It’s never a sign of being
particularly good to my eyes”
“Well, your Sammy doesn’t go to
the same school,” returned Mrs.
Jones. “Johnny has a pretty and
stylish teacher, and. what’s more, she
knows how to make her pupils like
her. They all fight to do things for
her! 1 learned all about it when I
w'ont to call on her one day after
Johnny had brought home a perfect
report card For a whole month he’d
been coming home late and looking
perfectly, dreadful—you-’d think he
was a street Arab 1 have never been
able to get anything out of him. ex
cept that he’d stayed after school to
clean the blackboards.
A Perfect ^ard.
“Even though he whs my own angel
child. I had iny doubts as to the rea
son he slaved. and I thought i would
have his fatty-r settle with him when
his report cabu» u* A
A Story for Baseball Fans That Will Interest
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S Natural History Lessons *£
No. 2—The Lamb
a weird scene, hut Kelly was ready
to have done with it.
“Do ypu own this car.” he asked.
"No.”
“Who does own it?”
• The Davis Garage.”
Kelly took the plug from his pocket. |
inserted it in the coil box and switch
ed on the spark.
“Crank It,” he ordered.
Without a word Cain gave the mo
tor a whirl and the machinery start - 1
ed w ith a roar. Kelly jumped in j
the driver’s seat and, evidently sure
of every movement, eased in the re
versed gear and backed the car off,
the road with a view of heading it
in the other direction. This accom- ,
plished, he called Cain to the side)
of the car and said:
By Dorothy Dix
Might Lose Temper.
“This may appear a childish act on
my part, blit I’m going to leave you |
here to find your way back to town I
the best way* you can. It will do you
good to think the w'hole matter over
carefully. I don’t know yet what
your object was In bringing me away
out here. Is there anything you
want to say to me?"
Cain made no answer.
“Very’ well,” continued Kelly. “I will
probably be able to figure it out for
myself in the course of time. You
are evidently one of those rich young
fellows that have more money than
brains. I never met one before, but
I have read about them ip newspa
pers, My name Is Gordon Kelly and
I live at the Imperial Hotel. It is
possible that you will be seeking some
kind of revenge on me, but let me
warn you to leave me severely alone.
If you annoy me any further I am
liable to lose my temper and Dord
help you if anything like that comes
to pass.”
This may sound like heroics deliv
ered by a stage hero in a melodrama,
hut as a matter of fact Kelly spoke
calmly and seriously. It was simply
his way.
Waiting a moment longer and re
ceiving no response from Cain, Kelly
started the car and slowly plowed his
way through the mud to the main
road, where the going was much bet
ter, leaving Cain to shift for himself
He drove carefully back to the city
and reached his hotel in about an
hour. Instead of stopping there,
however, he continued on three or
four blocks and slowed down next the
sidewalk in front of the Capital City
Club and left the car, standing there.
Walking hack to. his hotel he went
to the desk and asked for his key.
He was splashed with mud from head
to foot and Clerk McCiendon eyed
him suspiciously for a moment, but
as Kelly did not seem disposed to of
fer any explanation, he silently pass
ed over the room key.
When Kelly reached his room, he
went to the telephone, called up Davis'
garage and said:
“You remember sending a car to
Mr. Deery’s house about 9:30 to
night? Well, you will find the car
in front of the Capital City Club
and if you want to know anything
more about it you will have to see
the man you sent along as chauffeur
Good night.”
Gordon Kelly then peeled off his
mud-bespattered clothes, threw, them
on the floor of his bathroom, took a
bath, crawled between the bedsheets j
and five minutes later was sleeping 1
the sleep of the just.
Who was this young man from
the mountains who knew all about
handling automobiles? How did he
acquire his calm manner? Where
did he gain that easy and confident
bearing? Whence came the breed
ing that enabled him to enter one of
the “best” houses in Atlanta and con
duct himself as though he had beenj
brought up in “society?”
• * *
Forrest Cain, chewing the bitter
cud of reflection, walked for more than
an hour in the direction of the city
before he got a lift. Then a friend
ly milkman came along and he rode
the rest of the way in. Going to
his room, he kicked the sleeping
George out of bed and made him
attend to his w r ants. Cain remained
in bed all next day. His trunks bad
gone to New York and that night he
followed them to the metropolis.
To Be Continued Monday.
“H‘
OUSE HUNTING," said the
man who is boarding with the
Pikers until he can get a
home and bring his wife and children to
HERE are few
more valuable
animals than the
Lamb, whether
you consider it
from the mint
sauce or the
Wall Street point I
of view. In
either capacity
it is our meat
and f u r n 1 shes
glad raiment and
diamonds to
those who, but
for it, would not
slain a dozen take Its place. Indeed,
against the cold blasts of Winter.
The name of the individual who
discovered the first Lamb is lost in
the mists of antiquity, but as a source
of supplies he has got the individual
who made two blades of grass grow
where only one grew before beat a
city block. Thus are we called upon
again to marvel at the wisdom of a
beneficent Providence that has creat
ed just the proper thing to meet our
every need.
Lambs are found in all parts of the
known world, and appear to multiply
with great rapidity, so that as one Is
slain a dozen take its place. Indeed
the theory is held on Wall Street that
a new batch of Lambs is bom every
second, but this probably exaggerates
the situation. At any rate, the Lamb
crop for the last year or two has been
so poor that many brokers have been
forced to -prey on one another.
In appearance the Lamb Is of a mild
and pleasing aspect with a voice that
sounds like the amateur soloist who
kindly consents to sing at a club din
ner. Originally the Lamb Is of a
snow white color, but after a short
sojourn away from its native haunts
it is apt to need a hurry trip to the
laundry. It gets soiled very quickly.
In the matter of T~3flm
legs the Lamb Is
eclectic, some
Lambs having
four, one located
on each corner,
while other Lambs
have only two.
which are situated
at the extreme
northeast end of
their anatomy,
thus enabling
them to stand up
right after the
manner of men.
Also, some Lambs have alfalfa on
their chins, while others have smooth
faces, but this difference depends on
whether they came from the middle
West or not.
We may dismiss the quadruped
Lamb in a few words, merely stating,
in passing, that It has of late devel
oped an ambitious and aspiring ten
dency to rise skyward under the tui
tion of Messrs. Armour and Swift, and
that it has shown a coy disposition to
stay In cold storage that every one
who has the good of the country at
heart must deplore. However, that
great veterinarian Professor Wilson,
late of Princeton University, we un-.
derstand, has pcAr
u n d e r t a ken th%
moral regenera-
tjon of the Lamb,
and eke the beef,
and the pig, and
we may Hope Is
see some needed
reforms instituted
in this line.
It is in the two-
legged Lamb (ge
nus suckibus) that
the trained nat
uralist finds his
most' interesting
study.
This amiable creature lives apparent
ly only to give pleasure to others,
which It does by the simple expedient
of suffering itself to be sheared by
any artistic trimmer that happens
along. ' ’ ' *
This Is great sport, and it Is a mat
ter of pride that .our VV'ftfl Street
brokers hold the world’s record as
the champion fleecers of Lambs
Being so gentle and kind, the Lamb,
especially the woolly ones from Pitts
burgh, are held In great esteem by
women as pets. There was Once a
chorus girl named Mary who had a
little Lamb, with a fleece as white
as snow, and everywhere that Mary
went his money’
did surely go—but
that’s another
story.
Lambs are gen
erally of the mas
culine persuasion,
though occasional
ly we observe an
elderly female
mutton dressed as
Spring Lamb ca- j
perlng around at
the dansant.
There are many
curious sights in
nature, and this Is
one of the curlousest.
Not What He Meant.
Jones and Long had not met for t
years. Once—that Is, tn the days
when both had been striving fob
fame in their different professions—•
they had been really good chums, and
many a talk had* they enjoyed to
gether by the fireside as to the little
places they would take in the coun
try "when their ships came home.”
The dream of Jones has been real
ized. and now, although a portly old” '
fellow, it was with a sense of real '
pleasure that he prepared for a visit
from his former friend.
“Ah, it’s splendid seeing you down,
here, Long!” he said cordially, by way
of greeting. “Quite like old times'—•
what? And the missus, I know, is
longing to shake you by the hand.
But first—yes, you must come along
and have a look at my greenhouse.
You simply must I”
And Long went.
“Well, Jones,’! he said, “you’ve got
a mighty pretty place down here; but,
to my mind, It’s just a bit bare.”
“Oh.” replied Jones cheerfully, “that’s
because the trees are bo young!- Next
time you come—why, they'll be so
big that you won’t recognize them!”
There is a large missionary school in
Tokto where the teaching is given in
English. One of the pupils not long ago
wrote a composition on England, from
which these are extracts:
“The England which occupied of the
largest and greatest dominion which
rarely can be. The Englishman always
works with very powerful hands and
the long legs, and even the emmenced
mind and his chin is so strong as de
serves iron. Being spread out from
Europe to Australia to America his do
minion is dreadfully extensive, so that
his countrymen boastfully says, “The
sun are never set on our dominion.’ The
testimony of England say that ‘he that !
lost the common sense, he never had
any benefit, though he has gained a
complete world.’ The English are cun
ning mention to establish a great Empire
of the Paradise. As the Englishmen al
ways confide the ooject of the pure and
the order to be holy, and the reproach
him if any of them are killed to death
with the contention of other meti!”
town, “is the worst and most depressing
“Yes, this is the garage—yes, Miss Deery—Yes, I understand—111 have a car around in nve
minutes.”
that It would be a very poor one, sine*
he was kept in almost every single
evening.
“You can imagine my amazement
when Johnny brought home a perfect
card. Motherlike. I doubted his ve
racity. I even thought it was not im
possible that he had doctored his card
to show to us. So I put on my hat
and went to school to see his teacher.
I thought Johnny was singularly un
concerned about it—but, then, you
know, you can never tell about boys
“Well, it seemed that Johnny’s
teacher had had such a dme trying
not to seem to play favorites that she
had adopted a system of rewards.
The pupils are allowed to wash so
many blackboards or beat out the
dust from so many erasers or raise
the windows so many times for cer
tain grades in their studies.
"But the choice reward is ringing
the beli. I do wish • Johnny w$ts
bright enough nlwhys to ring the bell
—or el6e dull enough just to open the
windows or pass papers. But lie’s of
that intermediate brightness that re
wards him with blackboard cleaning.
He scoft8 at the windows and papers.)
but he's had the bell only a few 1
timed
"Johnny will get up eariy. eat aj
cold breakfast and hardly allow me
to see that lie is properly washed j
**» Luc privilege of ringing
that bell, he’s so anxious to get to
school in time to see that it is done
right! And as for my errands, he
finds it quite impossible to do them in
his limited time.”
He Was Late.
“What makes you so late?” she in
quired, as Johnny came in, brushing
the chalk dust from his sleeves.
Johnny grinned happily, “I had 95
in geography and 100 in spelling—so
she let me have all the boards to
night,” he answered, triumphantly.
“And last week F'rank had the bell—
and he came late, so she said if I’d
come early to-morrow and he wasn’t
there I could have It. Anyway, he
cheats!- And I’ve a good mind to tell
her! ”
“Will you run to—” began Mrs.
Jones, but Johnny interrupted her as
he turned to go.
“Yes. but just wait. I’ve got to see
a fellow that’s waiting out here!”
And Johnny was gone.
“My, I wish I knew her system,”
declared Mrs. Jones, enviously.
“And errands are such nice, clean
work:" sympathized the caller, glanc
ing at the coating of chalk dust that
had settled on the rug. “Maybe if
you tell him it’s a reward?”
But Mrs. Jones smiled and shook
her hoad. “I’m not a teacher!" she
replied.
move
“Naxt you note with concern that he
and his wife are exceedingly familiar
with the history of all the people who
have occupied the pren ises before you.
And presently you begin to realize that
your idiosyncrasies will furnish consid
erable data for the edification of your
successor.
“Every time you find the landlord at
your house he is there merely in the
capacity of a friend. He was afraid the
cat was caught in the fly-paper or that
the canary had escaped, or that mice
had got in the piano. He just come to
see that everything was as it should be
You are glad to find that you have such ’
a solicitous friend who is always looking
ifter your interests.
“But when you come home suddenly
some day and find him taking a bath in j
your bath room his disinterested mo
tives are not so clear. You become dis
satisfied and begin getting ready A*,
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grip you. As you read, try to follow the author’s channel of thought
and when the time comes for you to sit down and write that final
chapter, be ready to win one of the big cash prizes in The Georgian’s
great offer.
gave every• indication of losing con
trol of himself entirely.
“1 can’t figure you out at all.” said
Kelly in an even voice. "I’m not muck
used to city ways aud 1 thought at
first you had been ordered to tAkfc
me on a little drive, though Jt is a
mighty queer night for it. I stood
for it as long as* you stayed on the
main road, but when you turned off
here 1 thought it was time to quit.
Tell, me please, what this is all about?
If you have been drinking, you ought
to be sober enough by now. If it’s a
Joke. I’ll take it as such and let it go
at that.”
Fain ignored the question.
“What were you doing in Deery’s
house to-night,” he snarled.
“I was Invited there, but-—”
“You’re a liar!” screamed Cain,
making a movement as if to struggle
out of his seat behind the wheel of
the automobile.
Just Chastisement.
As quick as the stroke of a cat
Kelly shot up his right hand and his
fingers closed on Cain's collar with
tiie strength of a vise. With the same
movement he Jerked Cain’s head down
to the floor of the car. He sent his
left foot crashing through the side
curtains* which had been fastened on
to exclude the rain, and thus clear
ing a passage, as it were, he jumped
to the ground, dragging the strug
gling Cain after him like a sack of
meal. Cain fell in the muddy road
with a splash. Still holding his man
by the collar. Kell^ ankle deep in
mud, hauled him around in front of
the car and deposited him there in
the full glare of the searchlights.
“Now we can see what we are
doing," he remarked and In spite of
the effort he had made to drag a
man of Cain’s size, his respiration was
hardly above normal.
Cain scrambled to his feet and with
a vile epithet rushed at his antagonist.
But Kelly, who had a reach like Bob
Fitzsimmons, simply put out one hand
and Cain ran blindly into it and
stopped short. With one powerful
shove Kelly sent the other man reel
ing backward and, losing his balance,
Cain fell with another splash in the
mud. In two jumps Kelly stood over
him.
“There’s only one thing to do to a
man like you,” he said "Get up.”
Cain lay motionless, blinking up
at Kelly as though he had just been
awakened from a bad dream.
“Get up,” ordered Kelly again.
But Cain refused to move so, reach
ing down Kelly inserted hi* fingers
In the collar of his foe and yanked
him to his feet. Then, turning him
around, and facing him up the road,
Kelly stepped hack one pace and
delivered a solid kick in Cain’s nether
region.
There is nothing that will take the
fight out of a man sooner than a
weighty kick, placed where It will do
the most good. There is nothing so
humiliating to the recipient, nothing
so mortifying, so abasing. Such was
the effect on Cain. He started to run
up the road, but Kelly followed him
and executed a series of blows with
the foot, of astonishing power and
accuracy. At last, grabbing Cain by
the collar once more, he turned him
around and kicked him back to the
headlights.
Cain was covered from head to foot
with the red mud of Georgia and
Kelly's clothing was so splashed with
it that very little of the material
showed. The rain had practically
ceased and only a fine mist was fall
ing. Away off ln the distance could
be seen the glow of the lights of At
lanta reflected above that city. The
rays of the powerful headlights fell
full on the two young men. It was
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