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: » eae sagen The Evening World Daily Mayvazine, Monday, July 17, 1916 SS eae _ PUOUTOSTTTS THT VCVETT OTT TT -|20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA LOVEE LALOR SA AIDR DISD 1T BEATS THE absorbing interest the skill of man There is no story of such timely and s this wonderfully pro- phetic, world-famous classic relat strange, thrilling adventures concerned with a craft of the deep conceived by writer in the hist of fiction years before uced the terrible U-boat. DEUTSCHLAND ! the most imaginative CHAPTER 1. A Shifting Reef. HV, your 1866 wos wmnail and inexplicable phen wot Not to t lation, and excite nents, eeafaring ation rum officers of all countries, an For some tim by & remarkable incident, @ mye menon, which dout the public 0 were particularly excited. Merchants, com. mon sailors, captaine of vessels, shipper the governments of several states on the two were deoply interested in the matter, past vessels had been “ hae yet for maritime popu of contt re which «agitated t ind even In the tntert both of Kurope and Amertea, naval t by “an enormous thing.” @ long object, mpindic shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and Infinitely larger © rapid in ite movements th 1s relating to th a whale. apparition (entered in vartous logbooks) agreed in most respects us to the shape of the ob; o © in question, the untiring rapidity of tts movements, Its surprixing power of locomotion and the peculiar life with which Ht ecemed endowed, If it was @ cetacean, It pure passed in size all those hitherto classified in science, Taking tato considera. jon the means of observations made estimate of those who assigned to this equally with the exaggerated opinions and three in length —we might fairly at divers times—rejecting the timid ject & length of two hundred feet, Which set It down as @ mile tn width conclude that Uiis mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the ichthyologists of the day, 1€ tt existed at all, And that it did extet w # the human mind in favor of the marvello | that tendency which disp an undeniable fact; and, with we can understand the excitement produced in the entire world by this super- » natural of the question, On the 20tb of July, 1866, the steamer Gov. Higginson, of the Calcutta and Hurnach Steam Navigation Gompany, had met this moving mass five miles off the east coast of Australia, Capt. Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown sand- bank; he even prepared to determine ite exact position, when two columns of water, projected by the tnexplica- ble object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the alr, Now, unless the sand-bank had i] been submitted to tne intermittent } eruption of @ geyser, the Gov, Hig- ginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, un- known until then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapor. y 4 Similar facts were observed on the : 22d of July io the same year, in the na Pacific Ocean, by the Columbus, of the West India and Pacific Steam } Navigation Company. But this ex- | traordinary cetaceous creature could y transport itself from one place to another with eurprising velocity; as in an interval of three daya, the Gov. Higginson and tbe Comumous had ob- served at two different points of the " chart, eeparated by @ distance of more than seven hundred nautical leagues. Fifteen days later, two thousand miles further off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shan- non, of the Royal Mail Steamship ™, Company, sailing to windward in that portion of the Atlantic lying be- tween the United States and Kuro Tespectively signalled the monster to each other in 42 degrees 15 minutes north latitude and 60 de- %5 minutes on longiind: inae bese simultaneous observa’ thought themselves justified tn ‘esti- mating the minimum length of the mammal at more than three hundred } and fifty feet, as the Shannon and Helvetia were of smaller dimensions than it, though May measured three feet over all, oe the largest whale shen Me requent those parts of 5 etek the Aleutian, Kulanimak, 4 and Umgullich Islands, have — exceoded ne sng of sixty yards, ttain that. mnese ‘eports, with fresh observa- i tions, atly influenced public opin- Bgl uring the frat months of the year 1867 the question seemed buried never to revive, when new facts were | Drought before the public, It wa then no longer @ scientific problem to be solved, but a real danger seri~ ously to be avoided, The question took quite another sho The mon ster became # small asiand, a rock, a reef, but a reef of Indefinite and shift~ ‘oportions, bit CaN Sth of March, 1867, the Mo- ravian of the Montreal Ocean Com- pany, fluding herself during the night in 27,80 latitude and 72.15 longttude, struck on her starboard quarter a rock, marked in no chart for that part of the sea, Under the coin- ): bined efforts of the wind and its 400 horse power, it was going at the rate of 18 knots, Had it not been for the superior ongth of the hull ef the Moravian 6) would have been broken by the shock and gone down with the 287 passengers she Was bringing home from Canada, 2 The accident happened about 5 i as the day was o'clock in Wie morn breaking. The officers of the quar- terdeck hurried to the after part of the vessel, They examined the sea 2ivh the most scrupulous attention, Shey waw nothing but a strong eddy D about three cables’ length dis ‘a if the surface ‘ tated, The be taken exactly, and the n con- tinued its route without apparent damage. Had it struck on a sub- ‘ merged rock or on an enormous They could not tell; but on unination of the ship's bottom when undergoing repairs tt was found that part of her keel was broken, >» This fact, so grave in Itself, might perhaps have been forgotten liké many others if three weeks after it had not been re-enacted under sim lar clreumstances, But anks to the nationality of the v n of the shock, thanks to the reputation of the sompany to which the vessel be- longed, the circumstance became extensively circulated The 13th of April, bein; the Mine found herself in 15 degrees 13 min- 1867, pparition. As to classing It tm the list of fablos, the idea was out tutes longitude and 45 degrees 37 min- utes latitude, She Was golug at the 1 of thirteen knots and a half, venteen minutes past four tn While the passengers at lunch In the great saloon, a slight shock was felt on hull of the Scotia, on ber quarter, a Little aft of the port paddle. The Scotia had not struck, but she had been struck, and seemingly by something rather sharp and penetrat- ing than blunt. The shock had been wo slight that no one had been alarmed had it not been for the shouts of the carpenter's watch, who rushed on the bridge, exclaiming, ‘e are sinking! we are sinking!” At first the passengers were much frightened, but Capt, Anderson has- tened to reassure them, The danger could not be imminent. The Scotia, divided into seven compartments by strong partitions, could brave with impunity any leak, Capt, Anderson went down immediately into the hold. He found that the sea was pouring inty the Ofth compartment; and the rapidity of the influx proved that the force of the water was considerablo, Fortunately this compartment did not hold the boilers, or the fires would have been immediately extinguished, it. Anderson ordered the engin to be stopped at once, and one of the men went down to ascertain the extent of the injury. Some minutes afterward they discovered the ex- istence of a large hole, of two yards in diameter, in the ship's bottom. Such a leak could not be stopp and the Scotia, her paddles half sub- merged, was obliged to continue her course, She was then 300 miles from Cape Clear; and after three days’ delay, which caused great wu sinesa in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company, The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock, ‘They could scarcely believe it possible: at ‘two rds and a half below water mark was a regular rent, in the form of an isosceles triangle. The broken place in the tron plates was so per- fectly defined, that it could not have been more neatly done by a punch, It was clear, then, that the instru- ment producing the perforatgmn was not of a common stamp; and after having been driven with prodigious strength, and piercing aa iron plate 1% inches thick,’had withdrawn kaself by @ retrograde motion truly inex- plicable. Such waa tho last fact, which re- sulted In exciting once more the tor= rent of public opinion, From the mos ment, all unlucky casualties which 1d not be otherwise accounted for ro put down to the monster, Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these ship- wrecks, which unfortunately ® considerable; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually corded at Lloyds’, the number of sail- ing and steamships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to not loss than two hundred. Now, it was the “monster” who, unjustly, was accused of their dis- appearance, and, thanks to it, com- munication between the different ¢ tinents became more and more dan- gerous, The public demanded per- emptorily that the seas sheuld at any price be relieved from this formidable catacean, CHAPTER I. Pro and Con, T the period when these events took place [ had just returned from a scientific research In the disagreeable territory of Ne a, in the United States, In virtue of my office fessor in the Museum as assistant prot of Natural History in) Paris the French Government had attached me to that expedition. After six months in Nebraska I arrived In New York toward the end of March, laden with @ precious collection. My departure for France was fixed for the first days in May. Meanwhile | was occupying myself In classifying my mineralogi- cal, botanical and zoological riches, when the accident happened to tne Beotia I was perfectly up in the subject which was the question of the day T had read and re-read ail the Amer can and Buropean papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion c my rival at New York the question was at its height. ‘he bypo- THE MONSTER, THROWING OUT AN INTENSE, RADIATING LIGHT, RUSHED SUDDENLY TOWARDS THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ster did not appear, For two monthe ho one heard it spoken of, No ship met with it, thesis of the floating isiand and the unapproachable sandbank, supported by minds little competent to form a judgment, was abandoned, And, in- deed, unless this shoal had a machine in its stomach, how could It change {ts position with such astonishing kinds, or even of new species, of an inhabit the oundings, and which an accldent of some sort, either fantastical or capricious, has brought at long intervals to the upper level of “You see, my friend, it has to do with the monster—the fuimous nar- We are going to purge it from The author of the work In quarto, in two volumes, on the the Great Submarine can not forbear embarking with Commander Farragut. dangerous one! We can not tell where we may go; this animal can Bot we will go whether or no; ‘aptain who is pretty the frigate had been armed for a long campaign, and pro- vided with formidable fishing appar- atus, no one could tell what course Impatience grew a when, on the 2d of June, they lea! that the steamer of th: “If, on the contrary, we do know all living things, we must necessarily the “animal amongst those marine beings already classed; and, in that case, I should disposed to admit the existence otic narwhal, common narwhal, or untoorn of the sea, often attains a length of Increase its size fivefold or tenfold, give it strength propor- lengthen its de structive weapons, and you obtain the animal required, It will have the pros portions determined by the officers of the Shannon, the dnstrument required by the perforation of the Scotia, and necessary to pierce the From the same cause the idea of « Veit ortabt we floating hull of an enormous wreck n the animal three weeks North Pacific Oe The excitement caused by this news The ship was revict- ualled and well stocked with coal, Three hours before the Abraham Lincoln left Brooklyn pler [ a letter worded as follows: “To’ M, Aronnax, of Paris, Fifth Avenue fotel, New York, consent to foin the Abraham Lincoln in this exnedition, the Government of the United States he, mire nee France repre- Commander bin at your disposal, RB, HORSON, ‘Secretary of Marine.” CHAPTER III. I Form My Resolution. HIER seconds before the ar- TR. Hobson's tet- I no more thought pursuln® the unteorn than of attempting the Three seconds ding the letter of the Hon- orable Socretary of Marine, I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my efore In the wide awake,’ d ® credit account for Babi. possible solutions ' of which created two distinct parties who were for monster of colossal strength; on the those who were for @ sub- of enormous the question, ‘ ty Our luggage was d to the deck of the frigate One of the sailors oon- me to the poop, where I found resence of a good looking officer, who held out his hand on one side, But this last hypothesis, plausfole as it was, could not stand against in- quiries made In both worlds, private gentleman should hav @ machine at his Where, when “Monsieur Plerre Aronnax?" will with ple rented In the enterprise, replied 1; “Commander rommand was not and how was it built? and how could its construc. tion have been’kept secret? Certainly @ government might pos destructive machine. disastrous times, when the Inge of man haw muitiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that, without the knowledge of others, a state might try to work such a for- midable engine. the torpedoes, pedoes the submarine rams, At least, I hope #0, But the hypothesis’ of a war ma- before the declaration As public interest was and transatlantic tholr veracity But how ad- onstruction of this sul had escaped the pu For a private gentleman ep the secret under such circum= very dittioult, § “Indeed the narwhal ls armed with a sort of ivory sword, a halberd, ac- cording to the expression of certain The principal the hardness of ateel. tusks have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn always attacks with suc ou are welcome, Professor; your cabin is ready for you.” The Abraham In had been and equipped for her new was a frigate of 1, fitted with hich pressure 4 which admitted 1 pressure of atmoapheres, Lincoln attaine speed of neart: third an hour but, neverthel ple'with the gigantic Some of these n knots and & which they had pierced thr through, as @ gimiet piere um of the Faculty of Med- aris possesses one of tt pons, two yards and a quarter in length, and fifteen inches diameter at the base, “Very well! stppose this weapon to be wix times atronge lent to grap- ments of the Ita nautical well satisfied the reaction, defensive wi corresponded governments, in question, ne gun room. quay of Brooklyn, of New York River, was crowded wit nree cheers burst su 10,000 throats; hiefa were waved at the rate of twenty miles could not b and you obtain a shock capable of mit that the marine boat Tatil further information, therefore, [ shall maintain it to be a se; "Consell,” L called tn an Impatient stances would ne Abraham Lincoln, CHAPTER IV. Ned Land. FARRAGUT not with halberd, spur, as the arme: my servant, ed frigates, or the Hassiveness and motive power it would Thus inay this inex~ ntiy watohed by powerful rivals, companied me in all my travels, for saying that I was forty years old? But Conseil had one fault, he was eremonious to a degree, a in the third was sometimes pro- . Russia, Prussia, Spain, Italy re be sumething over has ever conjec- m, perceived or experienced; iy just within the possibility.” These last words were cowardly on up to @ certat point, above all that one frigate he commanded. His vessel and he were one Ho was the soul of it, cetacean there mind, and he would not allow the existence of the isputed on board, ertain good women in the leviathan-by faith, 1 monster did ex- st, and he had sworn to rid the seas Upon my arrival in New York se sald T again, with feverish hands to mak tions for my’ departure, "Did you call, sir?” sald he, enter- consulting me on th the question 4 work in two volumes entitled laughter to th who laugh well when th L reserved for myself a way of encape. itted the ex. make preparations We leave la animal to be for me and yourself too. two hours.” “As you please, sir,” replied Con- was called u however, I lstence of the ‘mon. I spoke for want of power discussed the Hite forma, poliucally hot by reason, commerclal. pa- pers treated the question chiefly from this point of ling utensils, without count- as many a8 you can, and make oMcers on board shared pinion of thelr chief. ublic Opinion shirts and stoc. a carefully studied are It ran as follows? examining one by one the hyphotheses, other sugwestions, They watched In New York they 1 Of @ certain sum whoever should preparations red to pursue "We are not then?" said Conseil “Oh! certainty, lv. “by making a curve, Vill the curve it will be nothing; 00, wet apart fo first might the mor man or offleer, becomes neces: thin, narwhal the Abraham Lincoln I answered evas- rine animal of enormous pow rtha of the oc please you, sir?” arsenala were opened to Com- who hastened the ully provided his shi apparatus for cat: mander Farragut con not reach them. depths——what twelve or fifteen our passage in the Abraham Lincoln,” " think proper, sir," coolly replied Conseil, better armed. every Known engine, from the moment it was de. elded to pursue the monster the mon- in the organization of these animals However, th problem submit svlution of the may modify TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION So that you will not miss any of the weekly novels and & breeoh-loading gun, v' the breach and very bore, the model of which had by the Exhibition of 1867 of American throw with eas cunds to @ mean distance which people our planet, or we do not know them all may continue to enjoy the daily magazine, comic and other special features, Include them in your summer reading. Order the Evening World Matled to Your Summer Address ence of Hshes, ur cviaceans of other Thus thé Abraham Lincoln wanted «4 Hie war about believe ia the we end the only One 08 board why did Hot share (het Universal comvietion “Wei, “te it possible tue ehisience of thie coinceae (hai we are foliewtng? Have you perewar Fearon for being 0 imeredulous? t looked at me Axedly {with he asit ul, Ned, you, @ whaler by pre tosivn, fa wat marine ma you, whose imag: ination might ily aeoept the by- pothesia of Me cotaceane -you Ougst to be the inet to doubt under euch eiroumst “That le ju iat deceives you, Professor,” replied Ned. “That the Vulgar should believe im extraordinary mets traversing space, and im the existence of antediluvian monsters in ata lying miles bei face of the water, it Possess an organisatio Of which would defy all comparison.” "And why this powerful organiaa- ton?” demanded Ned, “Because it requires incalculable @rength to keep one’s self dn those orate and resist their pressure, Lat ua adinit that tho pressure of the at- mosphere is represented by the weight of a column of water thirty. two feot hith, In reality the column S of water would be shorter, as we are apeaking of sea water, the density of Which 4@ greater than that ef freah water, Very weil, when you dive, Ned, as many Umes thirty-two feet of water an there are above you, so many times does your body boar a Preasure equal to that of the atmoa- Phere, that is to aay, 16 pounds for gach aquare inch of its surface, It follows, then, that at 320 fost thie Pre seemed of 10 atmospheres, of 00 atnoapheres at 3,200 feet, and of 1,000 atr~-“heres at 32,000 feet, that is, about aix miles; which is equiva: lent to saving that, 1f you could at- tain this depth in the ocean, each square % of an inch of tho surface of your body would bear a pressure of 6,000 pounds, Ah! my brave Ned, do you know how many square inches you carry o@ the eurfuce of your body?” have no {dea, Mr. Aronnaz.” ‘About 6,600; and, as in reality the atmospheric pressure is about 16 pounda to the square inch, your 6,600 square inches bear at thia moment a pressure of 97,600 pounds,” Without my perceiving it? ‘Without your perceiving it, And if you are not crushed by euoh a pressure, it 1s because the alr per trates the interior of your body with equal pressure, Hence perfect equi librium between the interior and ex- terior pressure, which thus neutral- {ses each other, and which allows you to bear it without inconvenience, But in the water is another thing.” “You, I understand,” replied Ned, becoming more attentive; “because the water surrounds me, but does not penetrate.” “Proolsely, Ned; so that at 32 feet beneath the a ce of the sea you would undergo 4 pressure of 97,600 Pounds; at $20 feet, ten times that pressure; at 00 feet, a thousand Umea that pressure would be 97,600,- 000 pounds—that la to say, that you would be flattened If you had been drawn from the plates of # hydraulic machine!" “The devil!" exclaimed Ned, “Very well, my worthy harpooner, if some vertebrate, several hundred yards long, and large in proportion, can maintain itself in such deptha,—of thone whose surface In represented by millions of square inches, that la, by tena of millions of pounds, we must estimate the pressure they undergo. Conaider, then, what must be the re- sistance of thelr bony structure, and the strength of their organ tion to withstand suoh pressure! “Why!” exclaimed Ned, “they must be made of iron plates el@ht inches thick, like the armored frigates.” As you say, Ned. And think what Cestruction such a mass would cause, if hurled with the speed of an express train against the hull of a vessel.’ Yes—certainiy—perhapa,” — replied the Canadian, shaken by these figures, but not yet willing to give In “Well, have T convinced you? ou have convinced me of one thing, sir, whieh is, that If such ant mals do exist at the bottom of the sous, they must necessarily be as strong as you say," “Tut if they do not emtat, mine ob- stinate harpooner, how explain the ac- eldent to the 8 CHAPTER V. At a Ventur. HE voyage of the Abraham Lincoln was for a long time marked by no special inct- dent But one otroum- stance happened which showed the wonderful dexterity of Ned Land, and proved what conft- dence we might place in him. The 30t of June the fri wate spoke some American whalers, from ‘whom we learned that they knew nothing tthe narwhal, Hut one of them, the captain of the Monroe, knowing that Ned Land hi he Abraham Lin. pped on board axed for bis vn, help in whale they had in sight, ¢ vader Farragut, desi rous of secing Ned Land at) work, Rave him permission to yo on board the Monroe, And fate served our Canadian so well that, Instead of on: why he harpooned two with a dou ow, siriking one straight to the heart and catching che other after some minutes! pursuit, Decidedly if the monster ever had to do with “) Land's harpoon would not bet in its favor. The frigate skirted the southeast const of America with great rapiW we Were at the opens sits of Mo n. lever With Cape Vierged Sub Commander Farragut woud not tehe © torteone Pepecee, bul dyubied « Tae bite of Jub tae ope fre wee ow hongivde ond the Ftb af oh Fe Tamed the equator 11) meridian = This cory tuum (perbape (here was bot ew: water top ovnewind the greater part of ver) The frigate passed af © fom (he Matuucaae Mendwich Islands, crossed the of Cancer, and made for the none We were on last diversion Yor th furrowed ai the watere of the here Vacite, running at has makiog ob devistions from course, tack at the rink her machinery; and not one point the Japanese or American coast was left aplored. The warmest partioane of the en lerprise now became ile most ardent detractors, Reaction mounted the erew to the captain bimeeif, certainly, had it not been for determination on the part Pad Farragut, ¢ frigate would uscleas headed due southward, This search could not last much longer, ‘i ere remained nothing but te fe« urn. If In three days the monat: appear the manu at the hel sive three turne of the wheel the Abraham Lincoln would make for the Kuropean seas, This promise was made on the ad of November, Two days passed, the steam at half pressure, : ‘The frigate was then in 31 de * 18 minutes ndrth latitude and th dogreca 42 iminutes east longitude, The coast of Japan attll remained lean than two hundred miles to leeward, Night waa approaching, They bad struck etght bell nvell,”” anid T, “this te the leat chanes of pocketing the two theu- and dollars. “May I be permitted to say, alr,” “that [never reck- oned on getting the prise; and, the Government of the Union @ hundred thousand doll: have been none the poorer. “You are foolleh affair, “When one has honor of being & savant as you are, sir, one shoul! NOt expose one's self to”— Conseil had not time to finish his compliment. In the midat of general eee & voice had just been héaril, i the voice of Ned Land showt- ‘Look out there} The very thing we are look! foro we bl ing mn our joapher, CHAPTER VI. At Full Steam. v this cry the whole ship's crew hurried toward tha harpooner, ‘The order to stop her had been given and the frieate how simn!v went on by her own mo- mentum. The darkness was thei profound, and however good the Can adian's eyes were, I asked myself how had managed to seo ani what he had been able to see. Buy Ned Land was not mistaken, and v0 all perceived the object he pointe: i to. At two cables’ lengths from thy Abraham Lincoln, on the starboar! t quarter, the sea seemed to be illumi. nated all over, It was not a met i phosphoric phenome: . The mon- 1! ater emer some fathoms from tho =. | water, and then threw out that very ~ intense but inexplicable light menq tioned in the report of several tains, This magnificent irradiat must have been produced by an agent of great shining power, The lb = nous part traced on the sea an im- © mense oval, much elongated, the gep- = tre of which condensed a burning heat, whose overpowering brilliapey died out by successive jations. “It ts only an agglomeration of hotaheris particles,” cried one, of office: I replied. nn ari certainly no } “Never Pholades or salpae prv- duce such a powerful light. Pai brightness ie of an essentially , trical nature. Besides, see, see! tt moves; it ts moving forward, back- ward, it Is darting toward us!" } A general cry arose from the fri- gate. “Silene sald the captain; “up with the helm, reverse the engines.” The steam was shut off and the Abraham Line: beating to port, dexeribed a semicircle, “Right the helm, go ahead,” cried iq the captain, ‘These orders were executed, and tho frigate moved rapidly from the burn- bs | light. was mistaken, She tried to sheer j off, but the supernatural animal ap- } proached with a velocity double her | | own, We gasped for breath. Stupefaction more than fear made us dumb and motionless. ‘The animal gained ou us, sporting with the waves, It made t! round of the frigate, which was th making fourteen knots, and envel it with its electric rings like lumin~ 1 ous dust, Then it moved away twé or ; three miles, leaving a phosphores- ‘ cent track, like tho volumes of steam that the express trains leave \ behind, All at once from the dark line of the horigon whither it retired to gain Its momentum, the monster f rushed suddenly toward the Abraham } Lincoln with alarming rapidity, stopped suddenly about twenty feet H from the hull! and died out--not div- ing under the water, for its brilllancy i did not abate—but suddenly, and. aa { if the source of this brilliant ones tion was exhausted, ‘Then it +. i eared on the other side of the vespel, \ as if It had turned and slid under the hull. Any moment a collision might have oceurred which would have been fatal to us. However, [ was aston ished at the maneouvres of the trigate, She fled and did not attack, On the captain's face, generally 30 impassive, was an expression of Ua~ accountable astonishment, ‘ » “Mr. Arronax,” he said, “T do pot know with what formidable being C have to deal, and T will not \mpeu dently risk my frigate in the 5 'y of this darkness, Bestdea, how atthex | this unknown. thing, how defend ome # self from it?’# Wait for dayltgb “Ra the scene wilt change.” (ta ¢* Continued) ! +e :