December 3, 1934 (6 pages)

~~ Smoky—the.Jast!. Rut-Hays had < @eached — bigh “Af he himself had held that gun. : knees, but he lunged up to fire again. “My sentiments exactly. . . Smoky, I saw something shine. Tip of a rifle. Right—to the right. Ah!” “Take the first feller, Jim . . —two—three.” Phe rifles cracked in unison. Jim’s mark sprang convulsively ap, and plunged down to roll and weave.out of sight. The man Smoky had shot at sank flat and lay still. Next moment @ volley banged from the cliff and a storin of bnilets swept ‘hissing and spanbging uncomfortably ‘close. Jin, stid and leaped to the floor of the cave below. Smoky, by lying Gown, lowered the rifles to him, ano then came scrambling after. Bays had slouched back to them, followed by Happy. “Jack, gimme Jeff's gun an’ belt,” Hays said, and receiving them, he buckled them over his own. Next he opened his pack to take out a box of rifle shells, which he broke open to drop the contents in his coat pocket on the left side. After that he opened his shirt to strip off a broad, black . One money belt. This was what had madehim bulge so and give the impression : of -stontness,~ when in fact he was lean. He hung this belt over a project; ing point of’ wall. : “In case I don’t gitback,” he added. ~ “An? there’s a bundle of chicken-feed _ Change in my pack.” There was something gloomy and splendid about him then. Fear of God, or man, or death was not in him. Rifle in hand he crept to the corner on the left and boldly exposed himself, drawing a volley of shots from two quarters. Then he disappeared, “What's Hays’ idea?’ asked Jim. “He must know a way to sneak around on them.” A metallic, spanging sound accompanied rather than followed by a°shut, then a sodden thud right at band ~ choked further speech. Happy Jack had been cut short in one of hig low whistles. He dwayed’a ‘second tipright, then uttering an awfy) ‘grétin, ‘he ‘fell Smoky leaped to him, bent over. wea ! Hit tn the temple. Where'd thet ‘bullet conie from?” ” “Tet glanced from a rock. I kiow the Lid § Jim, the only safe place from thet “ig. hyar, buggin’ this corner,” deelgred ‘Siboky. “An’ ‘there ‘ain't ‘room. enough fer the two of us.” ( It, Smoky. I’m not going to get hit. This-is my day. I fee} something in my bones, but it’s not death.” “Buh. I feel somethin’ too—clear to ZANE. GREY COPYRIGHT W.NU. SERVICE It was-at-this moment that Jim relinquished the field glass to take up his vifle. With naked eyes through the aperture in the brush, he could see Hays finish loading his gun. This moment, to Jim’s avid mind, ber. He drew a bead on Hays’ breast. But he could not press the trigger. Lowering the hammer, Jim watched Hays stride up among the rocks, to disappear, s Jim leaped up out of the hole to have a better look. Far beyond the red ridge he discerned men running along the white wash. There were three of them, scattered. A fourth apt hand, which had slipped to his gun was the one in which to kill the rob. ‘plied. peared from behind. a bank, and ‘he was crippled. He waved frantically to for himself. They Were headed for the cove where the herses still ‘stood. And their precipitate flight attested to the end of that battle and as surely, . to the last of Heeseman's outfit. i CHAPTER XI Jini picked up ‘the ‘field glass and slinging it on his elbow, essayed a descent into the cave. On the shelf he hesitated and sat a moment locked in--thought.-A~ second time he started down, only. to halt straddling the notch. The battle had worked out fatefully and fatally.’ Would he see Smoky again? Yet nothing had changed the issue. The end was not yet. With his blood surging back to his heart, Jim leaped down to meet the robber chief. — “Where’s Smoky?” called Jim, his lynx eyes on Hay’s right hand. “Cashed in,” boomed Hays, fastening great hollow eyes of pale fire upon Jim, “He had cover. He plugged 1 don't know how oiany. But Morley’s outfit had throwed in with ‘Heeseman. Au’ when thet gatubler Stud ‘broke ‘an’ : ‘Ton Smoky had to ‘lieéad him off. They ‘Killed ‘each other.” a4 “Who ‘got away? I saw four men;: Otie érippled.” — “Mortey’ ‘an’ Montana fer two. 1 didn’t ‘recégnuize the others. They shore Tun, throwth’ ‘rifles “away.” “They ‘Were making for their horges, tied balf ‘a ‘niile back. Wleére’ll they; ‘0, Haysy “Fer more men. Morley is most as stubborn as Héeseman. ‘An’ nce tie’s seen this roost of ours—he’l) want it, ‘an’ to wipe out what’s left of us.” “Heeseman ?” may. Marrow—an’ it’s sickish an’ cold. ¢.+\4 Jima, TU sneak out an’ craw) back of them. Thet's my: dee, ‘I don't’ have wrong idees at this stage of a fight.” That was ‘the last he spoke to Jim. Mutteriig to w pa ‘he. laid “a ‘huge rel! of bills under the belt Hays ‘had ‘Gepoaitea ‘on ‘tie tittle “seit Of ‘foex.: Searcely bad be gotten.out of sight wheb Jit ' it Of the ‘field “giasa« pci sbould bave taken it, Jim “Boing “back ‘to his pack ‘to be cure it, . “had ‘the ‘Pin ‘of “dodgizig What *ad’ Becdtie of Haya? ‘Waitmed i these a pre wore on Jim's mood. He decided. to Peep Out of the hole again, ‘To this end be clitibed ‘to the ‘shelf, ‘rife in hand and the giass slung around his neck. : He could command every point with: the aid of the field glass, without ‘ex“his tiead. “Ae “thstant “tater “a -Par-off “shor @hrijied Jim. That might be Smoky. Suddenly a dark form ‘staggered up, flinging arms aloft, silhouetted black ppaieaey the sky. That must be the pehooter. Smoky had reached Mim. “Headiong he pitched off the cliff, to plunge sheer Into the wash below. Smoky had at least carried out his idea, ; \ Suddenly Jim espied Hays boldly mounting the slope. But it appeared that he had not been discovered yet. Those on top were facing the unseen peril to the -weat. Jim marveled at the Purpose of the robber chief. Still another shot from enough to see over. ‘Leveling the rifle he took deliberate aim. Then he fired. “Heeseman!” hissed Jim, as sure as Bays, working the lever of his rifle, back and aside. “Shots One knocked him to his A he was hit, or the rifle was, of it broke from his hands. Drawing fat down bédvily, ‘and ran bis his shirt the fingers were Stained red, he demanded, puzzled. square?” “Wal;~be “didn’t run, Jim. Haw? Haw! He's deal.” The ehief strode to ‘the mouth of j Sewers and stared around. Jim ‘re.Malned at the spot he had selected, to ‘one side, betwéen the robber and . Helen’s ‘cdvert. — im amaze. “How couie? ‘No mdfe ‘of thet outfit sneaked down in hyar.” of that hole in the eave. And Happy. Jack Btopped' a'giancing ‘bultet. There's ‘Just. two Of: us ‘left,‘Hays. By the’ way~you going to bury your dead?”, fer my gurl, Thew stiffs ain't a pretty “sight.” . If‘Sim ‘Wall néeded: atiy “galvanizing shock to ‘nerve kim 'to the deed he . body. ‘Phen as passion ‘gave plate to bad resolved upon, that single posses; Gesperate need and the ~sER aligned “sive ‘word was enough. , iteelt ‘with Jim, Jin’s thie-a@ shot’ “TW bury them later,” be said, “Good, I'm all in. I cHmbed more’n : a mile to-git to them fellers.” Hays . right hand inside his shirt to feel of the . bulge on his shoulder. Jim saw bim wihee. Blood had soaked through ‘his shirt. “You got hit, . ‘sée.” “Flesh wound. Nothin’ to fuss over this minnit. An’ I’ve got a crease an my head. Thet hurts like sixty. Half : an inch lower an’—”. “I'd have been teft lord of Robbers’ . Roost?” “You shore would, Jim. Lousy with . money, an’ a gurl to look after. But it Jest didn’t happen thet way.” “No; it didn’t. But it will!” That coo) statement pierced’ the robber’s lethargic mind. Up went his shaggy head and the pale eyes,” opaque, like burned-out furnaces, took on @ tiny, curious gleam. When his hand. came slowly down from inside “What kind of a crack Was thet?” “Hays, you forget.” “You're sore thet 1 didn’t divvy the comrades who had left him to fare { thet, an’ you ou for "you..:. out of. anything.” givin’ you all the best of the deal?” dered Jim. stricken. Through tered. he gasped. Jim, steadily, and it wass ‘tlie robber's eyes, pale fires no lomgzer, that le watched for thought enc will. quivering ‘which slowly diminished ‘to freeze into rigidity.” He had strudk the right chord. ‘Tn Whate wer way DOB. . sible, Hank Hays loved his .womahn. ‘ the conscious resol¥e to met and kill! shot “Jack ‘an’ Mac, too?’ he ejacuiated i breast. It ‘whirled him “aif around. His gun, spouting flame, gravel at Jim's feet. & terrible wound: ‘With lis agony, ‘a consciousness of its mortality, added to the owexrwhelming ‘ferocity of jealods nate, “gai-we‘tte man superhuman physical ‘activity. " 1 Whirled, bounding the otter Way, and “No. It: T do ‘anythin’ at’) It'll be . 80. , misied bit sitogetlier. “Eta a=" gun was, booming, but it the “sanie curves ‘and Jeelis ‘as his troyed “atm, forte ‘and coxtsciotanens “\Haly#’ demoniac face set ‘wroodenty. me same as you did -them,” a third of my money square me?” "NO; ; “It wouldn't, Wal, you: air aimin’ at a bargain. Say half then?” “No.” ; A tremor ran over the robber’s frame. That was &@ reZease of swift passion—hot blood that leaped again. But he controlled himse=if, © “Air you tryin’ to pick -a fight with me?” At this Jim laughed. “Cause if you air, I Jest won't fight. I'd be senseless. You am” me can git along. [ tike you. We" throw. together, hide somewhere a while, then bulld up another outiit.™” “It can’t be done.” “‘T'll give .you two-thirds of the money.” “Hays, . wouldn’t take another dol. lar from you—that you gave willingly.” tin had turned his lefr side slightly toward Hays, concealimg his eight butt, with his thumb om the hammer! For Jim, Hays was as zgeood as dead, “It'll all be mine, presently,” he re“Holdin’ me up, huh?’” rasped Hays, “Learned to be a shore-enough robber, trailin’ with me, hph?’ “Hays, I promised SSmoky I'd kill you—which he meant t@ do if he had lived to come back.” , The robber’s face grexwe a dirty white under his thin beard. -At last he understood, so much, at lezast. What volumes his stupidity spoke for‘his abSorption! It changed. Jim's posture, his unseen hand, sudGenly loomed with tremendous meaning. “Shore, Thet doesn’t surprise me,” admitted the robber. *<When men’s feelin's are raw, as’ im a time like this, they clash, But L Aid my share to clear the air. An’ if Smoky had come back he’d have seeaa it different, I could have talked him out of it. edie . Jim, you're shore smart enough to see. ghter be lonest enough to -admitit.” : “I. daresay you coul@ have won Smoky back. He had a fool worship But you can’t talk me “Why, fer Gawd’s sakcee—when I'm “Because I want the girl,” thunA great astonishment held Hays it realization fil“Thet! Thet was it—ma1l1l the time!” “All the time, Hank Hiays," replied Still he saw. the violemt musculdt However ‘it ship of the golden-haired sister of Herrick, Jim read this im the extraordinary betraying eyes; amd rend more —that It had been Helezs the robber had fought ‘for, not his test easte with, hfs ten, not the honor of thieves. It was this that accounted for the infernal blaze of unquencha ble hate, of courage that death itself @onldscarcely have stillea. 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~~ Smoky—the..Jast!. Rut-Hays had < @eached — bigh “Af he himself had held that gun. : knees, but he lunged up to fire again. “My sentiments exactly. . . Smoky, I saw something shine. Tip of a rifle. Right—to the right.. Ah!” “Take the first feller, Jim . . —two—three.” Phe rifles cracked in unison. Jim’s mark sprang convulsively ap, and plunged down to roll and weave.out of sight. The man Smoky had shot at sank flat and lay still. Next moment @ volley banged from the cliff and a storin of bnilets swept ‘hissing and spanbging uncomfortably ‘close. Jin, stid and leaped to the floor of the cave below. Smoky, by lying Gown, lowered the rifles to him, ano then came scrambling after. Bays had slouched back to them, followed by Happy. “Jack, gimme Jeff's gun an’ belt,” Hays said, and receiving them, he buckled them over his own. Next he opened his pack to take out a box of rifle shells, which he broke open to drop the contents in his coat pocket on the left side. After that he opened his shirt to strip off a broad, black . One money belt. This was what had madehim bulge so and give the impression : of -stontness,~ when in fact he was lean. He hung this belt over a project; ing point of’ wall. : “In case I don’t gitback,” he added. ~ “An? there’s a bundle of chicken-feed _ Change in my pack.” There was something gloomy and splendid about him then. Fear of God, or man, or death was not in him. Rifle in hand he crept to the corner on the left and boldly exposed himself, drawing a volley of shots from two quarters. Then he disappeared, “What's Hays’ idea?’ asked Jim. “He must know a way to sneak around on them.” A metallic, spanging sound accompanied rather than followed by a°shut, then a sodden thud right at band ~ choked further speech. Happy Jack had been cut short in one of hig low whistles. He dwayed’a ‘second tipright, then uttering an awfy) ‘grétin, ‘he ‘fell Smoky leaped to him, bent over. wea ! Hit tn the temple. Where'd thet ‘bullet conie from?” ” “Tet glanced from a rock. I kiow the Lid § Jim, the only safe place from thet “ig. hyar, buggin’ this corner,” deelgred ‘Siboky. “An’ ‘there ‘ain't ‘room. enough fer the two of us.” ( It, Smoky. I’m not going to get hit. This-is my day. I fee} something in my bones, but it’s not death.” “Buh. I feel somethin’ too—clear to ZANE. GREY COPYRIGHT W.NU. SERVICE It was-at-this moment that Jim relinquished the field glass to take up his vifle. With naked eyes through the aperture in the brush, he could see Hays finish loading his gun. This moment, to Jim’s avid mind, ber. He drew a bead on Hays’ breast. But he could not press the trigger. Lowering the hammer, Jim watched Hays stride up among the rocks, to disappear, s Jim leaped up out of the hole to have a better look. Far beyond the red ridge he discerned men running along the white wash. There were three of them, scattered. A fourth apt hand, which had slipped to his gun was the one in which to kill the rob. ‘plied. peared from behind. a bank, and ‘he was crippled. He waved frantically to for himself. They Were headed for the cove where the herses still ‘stood. And their precipitate flight attested to the end of that battle and as surely, . to the last of Heeseman's outfit. i CHAPTER XI Jini picked up ‘the ‘field glass and slinging it on his elbow, essayed a descent into the cave. On the shelf he hesitated and sat a moment locked in--thought.-A~ second time he started down, only. to halt straddling the notch. The battle had worked out fatefully and fatally.’ Would he see Smoky again? Yet nothing had changed the issue. The end was not yet. With his blood surging back to his heart, Jim leaped down to meet the robber chief. — “Where’s Smoky?” called Jim, his lynx eyes on Hay’s right hand. “Cashed in,” boomed Hays, fastening great hollow eyes of pale fire upon Jim, “He had cover. He plugged 1 don't know how oiany. But Morley’s outfit had throwed in with ‘Heeseman. Au’ when thet gatubler Stud ‘broke ‘an’ : ‘Ton Smoky had to ‘lieéad him off. They ‘Killed ‘each other.” a4 “Who ‘got away? I saw four men;: Otie érippled.” — “Mortey’ ‘an’ Montana fer two. 1 didn’t ‘recégnuize the others. They shore Tun, throwth’ ‘rifles “away.” “They ‘Were making for their horges, tied balf ‘a ‘niile back. Wleére’ll they; ‘0, Haysy “Fer more men. Morley is most as stubborn as Héeseman. ‘An’ nce tie’s seen this roost of ours—he’l) want it, ‘an’ to wipe out what’s left of us.” “Heeseman ?” may. Marrow—an’ it’s sickish an’ cold. ¢.+\4 Jima, TU sneak out an’ craw) back of them. Thet's my: dee, ‘I don't’ have wrong idees at this stage of a fight.” That was ‘the last he spoke to Jim. Mutteriig to w pa ‘he. laid “a ‘huge rel! of bills under the belt Hays ‘had ‘Gepoaitea ‘on ‘tie tittle “seit Of ‘foex.: Searcely bad be gotten.out of sight wheb Jit ' it Of the ‘field “giasa« pci sbould bave taken it, Jim “Boing “back ‘to his pack ‘to be cure it, . “had ‘the ‘Pin ‘of “dodgizig What *ad’ Becdtie of Haya? ‘Waitmed i these a pre wore on Jim's mood. He decided. to Peep Out of the hole again, ‘To this end be clitibed ‘to the ‘shelf, ‘rife in hand and the giass slung around his neck. : He could command every point with: the aid of the field glass, without ‘ex“his tiead. “Ae “thstant “tater “a -Par-off “shor @hrijied Jim. That might be Smoky. Suddenly a dark form ‘staggered up, flinging arms aloft, silhouetted black ppaieaey the sky. That must be the pehooter. Smoky had reached Mim. “Headiong he pitched off the cliff, to plunge sheer Into the wash below. Smoky had at least carried out his idea, ; \ Suddenly Jim espied Hays boldly mounting the slope. But it appeared that he had not been discovered yet. Those on top were facing the unseen peril to the -weat. Jim marveled at the Purpose of the robber chief. Still another shot from enough to see over. ‘Leveling the rifle he took deliberate aim. Then he fired. “Heeseman!” hissed Jim, as sure as Bays, working the lever of his rifle, back and aside. “Shots One knocked him to his A he was hit, or the rifle was, of it broke from his hands. Drawing fat down bédvily, ‘and ran bis his shirt the fingers were Stained red, he demanded, puzzled. square?” “Wal;~be “didn’t run, Jim. Haw? Haw! He's deal.” The ehief strode to ‘the mouth of j Sewers and stared around. Jim ‘re.Malned at the spot he had selected, to ‘one side, betwéen the robber and . Helen’s ‘cdvert. — im amaze. “How couie? ‘No mdfe ‘of thet outfit sneaked down in hyar.” of that hole in the eave. And Happy. Jack Btopped' a'giancing ‘bultet. There's ‘Just. two Of: us ‘left,‘Hays. By the’ way~you going to bury your dead?”, fer my gurl, Thew stiffs ain't a pretty “sight.” . If‘Sim ‘Wall néeded: atiy “galvanizing shock to ‘nerve kim 'to the deed he . body. ‘Phen as passion ‘gave plate to bad resolved upon, that single posses; Gesperate need and the ~sER aligned “sive ‘word was enough. , iteelt ‘with Jim, Jin’s thie-a@ shot’ “TW bury them later,” be said, “Good, I'm all in. I cHmbed more’n : a mile to-git to them fellers.” Hays . right hand inside his shirt to feel of the . bulge on his shoulder. Jim saw bim wihee. Blood had soaked through ‘his shirt. “You got hit, . ‘sée.” “Flesh wound. Nothin’ to fuss over this minnit. An’ I’ve got a crease an my head. Thet hurts like sixty. Half : an inch lower an’—”. “I'd have been teft lord of Robbers’ . Roost?” “You shore would, Jim. Lousy with . money, an’ a gurl to look after. But it Jest didn’t happen thet way.” “No; it didn’t. But it will!” That coo) statement pierced’ the robber’s lethargic mind. Up went his shaggy head and the pale eyes,” opaque, like burned-out furnaces, took on @ tiny, curious gleam. When his hand. came slowly down from inside “What kind of a crack Was thet?” “Hays, you forget.” “You're sore thet 1 didn’t divvy the comrades who had left him to fare { thet, an’ you ou for "you....:. out of. anything.” givin’ you all the best of the deal?” dered Jim. stricken. Through tered. he gasped. Jim, steadily, and it wass ‘tlie robber's eyes, pale fires no lomgzer, that le watched for thought enc will. quivering ‘which slowly diminished ‘to freeze into rigidity.” He had strudk the right chord. ‘Tn Whate wer way DOB. . sible, Hank Hays loved his .womahn. ‘ the conscious resol¥e to met and kill! shot “Jack ‘an’ Mac, too?’ he ejacuiated i breast. It ‘whirled him “aif around. His gun, spouting flame, gravel at Jim's feet. & terrible wound: ‘With lis agony, ‘a consciousness of its mortality, added to the owexrwhelming ‘ferocity of jealods nate, “gai-we‘tte man superhuman physical ‘activity. " 1 Whirled, bounding the otter Way, and “No. It: T do ‘anythin’ at’) It'll be . 80. , misied bit sitogetlier. “Eta a=" gun was, booming, but it the “sanie curves ‘and Jeelis ‘as his troyed “atm, forte ‘and coxtsciotanens “\Haly#’ demoniac face set ‘wroodenty. me same as you did -them,” a third of my money square me?” "NO; ; “It wouldn't, Wal, you: air aimin’ at a bargain. Say half then?” “No.” ; A tremor ran over the robber’s frame. That was &@ reZease of swift passion—hot blood that leaped again. But he controlled himse=if, © “Air you tryin’ to pick -a fight with me?” At this Jim laughed. “Cause if you air, I Jest won't fight. I'd be senseless. You am” me can git along. [ tike you. We" throw. together, hide somewhere a while, then bulld up another outiit.™” “It can’t be done.” “‘T'll give .you two-thirds of the money.” “Hays, . wouldn’t take another dol. lar from you—that you gave willingly.” tin had turned his lefr side slightly toward Hays, concealimg his eight butt, with his thumb om the hammer! For Jim, Hays was as zgeood as dead, “It'll all be mine, presently,” he re“Holdin’ me up, huh?’” rasped Hays, “Learned to be a shore-enough robber, trailin’ with me, hph?’ “Hays, I promised SSmoky I'd kill you—which he meant t@ do if he had lived to come back.” , The robber’s face grexwe a dirty white under his thin beard. -At last he understood, so much, at lezast. What volumes his stupidity spoke for‘his abSorption! It changed. Jim's posture, his unseen hand, sudGenly loomed with tremendous meaning. “Shore, Thet doesn’t surprise me,” admitted the robber. *<When men’s feelin's are raw, as’ im a time like this, they clash, But L Aid my share to clear the air. An’ if Smoky had come back he’d have seeaa it different, I could have talked him out of it. edie . Jim, you're shore smart enough to see. ghter be lonest enough to -admitit.” : “I. daresay you coul@ have won Smoky back. He had a fool worship

But you can’t talk me “Why, fer Gawd’s sakcee—when I'm “Because I want the girl,” thunA great astonishment held Hays it realization fil“Thet! Thet was it—ma1l1l the time!” “All the time, Hank Hiays," replied Still he saw. the violemt musculdt However ‘it ship of the golden-haired sister of Herrick, Jim read this im the extraordinary betraying eyes; amd rend more —that It had been Helezs the robber had fought ‘for, not his test easte with, hfs ten, not the honor of thieves. It was this that accounted for the infernal blaze of unquencha ble hate, of courage that death itself @onldscarcely have stillea. All thie immediately coz tesced into As the robber sprang we Jim's frat took him somewhere in the fore up tie: Be. ‘swittly. that Jim's second: shot was alsm describing. “Uh-huh, Wal, you Of me ina oor. ! ner, I reckon. Thar’S Gmly two of us . . left. I'd be crazy to quarrel, .. Would had Degtin, the’ ‘sordid, ’ brutal thing had ended fr3° Hays’ wor-: . 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Ph. 152 Nevada City Routes “Wednesday and Saturday ‘Tt ‘was here that he found it was ‘DWAR OLD SCHLITz Main St. Gress Vattey Nevada ‘City; California ‘Here you ‘will ‘tind hand which'held his*gun was so wet that he thought his blood ‘was flowing. But it: was sweat. “I wish—Smoky coulda—k sow,” muttered Jim, over’a convulsive Jaw. He shoved’ Hays off the wall. Wiping his face, Jim Stagzgered to } the rock and sat down. heaving he sat there, his wil} operating on a whirling mind. It weas over— the thing that had had to come. All dead! Alike.. What. to. do” now? Escape from that hellhole, besieged again! very hour and ride—ride @way with her. : the back of the cave. hoarsely. The gun, with hammer up. dropped ‘to Sih ; q 1 ‘ GC AND explode. And the robber lodged Get Your mob Metis against the ‘slant of wall. dead, with . f the awfulness of his morta} passion MATTRESSES CASH AND' CARRY Stamped upon his features. : . i ' j it ‘was over. Jim bressthed. 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