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- 0:29Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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- 1:10but Announcer Prevention is now available and you can pick that up. All
- 1:15right, Well, now we're going to take a listen to Pursuit, and
- 1:22this is actually the second episode of Pursuit. The first episode aired in October
- 1:27of nineteen forty nine, and the second on November three, was preempted by
- 1:34a speech vi President Harry Truman. Now, the first episode of Pursuit was
- 1:42essentially in adaptation of You Take Ballistics. I still don't think that The Hunters
- 1:49was related at all to Pursuit because The Hunters was an anthology show I'll be
- 1:53that as it may. Pursuit hit the air in the fall of nineteen forty
- 1:59nine, focusing on typical Scotland Yard chases. The initial star of Pursuit was
- 2:06Ted Decortia. Mister de Courtia has often been described as a villain actor,
- 2:12and most of his film work was as villain's but his television and radio work
- 2:19tended to be much more diversified, just doing a lot of character roles.
- 2:23This is one of two starring radio roles he would have. The other was
- 2:30actually as Mike Heimmer. He would play Black for twenty nine weeks in nineteen
- 2:37forty nine, in nineteen fifty and we have four of those episodes surviving,
- 2:43and we'll take a listen to the first. So here now from November tenth
- 2:47of nineteen forty nine is the story three for all purshoot pursuit. A criminal
- 3:09strikes and fades quickly back into the shadows of his dark world. And then
- 3:15the man from Scotland Yard, the relentless dangerous pursuit when Man hunts Man.
- 3:25Now with Ted de Courtiers starred as the famous inspector Peter Black of Scotland Yard,
- 3:30we bring you tonight's story of violence and murder free for all. Sometime
- 3:46somewhere, somehow, every man touches another and leaves a scar. A word
- 3:53is said, indeed is done, and the model hate is planted, and
- 3:59sometimes hate can become death, violent death, murder. Then a man must
- 4:05be handed, a man must be stocked through a city's crowd, through the
- 4:11sunlit noon, through the twilight shadows, through a thousand places, and finally
- 4:16a man must be caught pursued at Scotland yard. That's our job, Inspector
- 4:25Black. Yes, Sergeant's expected half this once a si he said, please
- 4:29hurry, Oh, thank you mother, right away, Good morning Black,
- 4:34Come in, Come in, Dan, and thank you. Sergeant Moffatt made
- 4:39it sound very urgency. He may or may not be. I want your
- 4:43opinion on me on what's in this note him this morning's mail. It's made
- 4:48up of letters clipped from a newspaper, things addressed to me. And he
- 4:51says, a man Melvine Rogers will be found in today with a knife in
- 4:57him. It will be dead. Yeah, I see it, sir.
- 5:00Of course, have we found a man with a knife in him the day?
- 5:03Black? Not yet, sir. We've had many notes of this type
- 5:08before and nothing has come of him, however, Black, will you look
- 5:11into it? Of course he's here? What yes, and give me that
- 5:18address again, Grugus T shirt clone budget in the name Hi, thank you
- 5:25well Black. Yes, sir, they have found a man with a knife
- 5:28in him, man named Melville Rogers. You'll look into it, won't you?
- 5:41All right? All right? He moving a bunch of business and back
- 5:46please, that's way. Inspect Tom been here and thank you marm That one's
- 5:53Missus Kruger, the proprietor of the restaurant. I see. I shall want
- 5:57to talk to her in a few minutes. It is he was stabbed to
- 6:04death, as you see him sitting at this table looking out of the window.
- 6:08You've established his identification, yes, sir, names Melville Rodgers lived in
- 6:13Kensington, known to Missus Gruber over there, had his meals here every day.
- 6:16I see. And who are these other people? Those three customers said
- 6:21dining at the time mister Rogers was discovered dead. Tell me Martin who noticed
- 6:27that he was dead? Missus Goober one of the customers, this one,
- 6:30oh, I did all right? And who are you Charles Bennett, sir?
- 6:34Two ends in one team. I live in Quimby, street nearby.
- 6:39Did you get the name, sir, Charles Bennice, Yes, Charles Bennett.
- 6:42Tell me, mister Bennett, how did you happen to discover this man
- 6:45was dead. I'm not a position, sir, but that knife sticking in
- 6:48his side and he wasn't breathing. Yes, no, I'm not a position,
- 6:53but there are ways to tell when a man's dead. Naturally you noticed
- 6:58this as soon as you came into the restaurant. Oh no, sir.
- 7:00When I came in, the place was crowded, not a table, so
- 7:04I waited, even when there was a place to sit. I waited.
- 7:09You might wonder why I did that, sir, Yes, I might.
- 7:12Well you've noticed I have a withered arm, Yes I had. I don't
- 7:15guide it very well, do I? Oh, it's not that I'm asshined.
- 7:17It's not that you're tall them. You were waiting for this particular table
- 7:21why? Because well, it's obvious it's the only table near the window,
- 7:27so I might sit and none of the other customers would notice me my arm,
- 7:31sir. What do you do for a living, mister Bennett? Not
- 7:34much. I can do our jobs head of newspapers. What do you might
- 7:40say for a wage. Sometimes I do a painting job on our house.
- 7:44But you see, sir, it's my arm. It's withered. There's not
- 7:46much a man can do with an answer. And so it went a routine
- 7:58questions and answer is appearing in a handful of lives which had been thrown hard
- 8:03against violence, the important and impersonal data which would hit a new file at
- 8:09Scvlandyard labeled Melville Rodgers death by murder. Melville Rodgers a reclose, a bachelor,
- 8:18a man who drove a bus. And that is it the Kings,
- 8:22not in anyone in the world, his friends said, which cause is ridiculous?
- 8:28Oh thank you, Sergeant? Who is it? The caller won't say
- 8:31a metaurgency? Or it seems right? Inspector? Back here? Really?
- 8:37Now? Who is this? Can you hear me? Hello? Hello?
- 8:43Who is this? You're looking for me? Who are you? It's difficult
- 8:50to hear. I know I've arranged it that way. Did you find it
- 8:58that man? Inspector? Did you find Melville Rogers? I killed him,
- 9:03Sergeant Moffatt, trace this conkay? Did you ask him to trace this?
- 9:07Called? Inspector? I save you the trouble. I tell you where I
- 9:11am. Where are you on? Myers Street in a pub the Green Dot.
- 9:18But I won't wait. Listen, Inspector. There's a man here.
- 9:22His name is James Campbell. He's looking at me now and he's smiling.
- 9:30I'm going to stop talking with you, and then I'm going to take a
- 9:33walk with James Campbell. Then I'm going to stick a knife in and hello,
- 9:43Hello, Hello. Lyle Street lies across the face of London like an
- 9:58open It is a street that's well known to Scotland Yard. The brown stone
- 10:05buildings that line it present a facade of drab respectability, but within them is
- 10:11all that is depraved and vicious and corrupt. On Lyles Street, the essence
- 10:16of a man is measured in terms of his brutality. Here are the delicate
- 10:22refinements of crime, the long fingernails with railar blades beneath them, for their
- 10:28splitting of pockets or of throats, the smirk of death painted on the lips
- 10:31of women. The Green Dot was no different from other basement pubs on Lyle
- 10:37Street. It had a massive jaw with a people through which her face peered
- 10:43out at you. And then you were permitted to enter because you were known,
- 10:48and because you were known you were greeted with a litter silence. Anything
- 11:03we can do for you, Inspector. I'm looking for a man named James
- 11:07Campbell. Do you know him? Now there's a proper question, Inspector,
- 11:11and I'll give you a proper answer. No, I don't know James Campbell.
- 11:16Is any one of you James Campbell? It would be well to tell
- 11:22me if you are, because a man named James Campbell is going to be
- 11:24murdered. Oh now there's an interesting for the news, Inspector. And I'm
- 11:31sure all of us here appreciate someone here telephoned me at Scotland Yard. Who
- 11:35was it? Donold? Yeah, Now you know better than to ask me,
- 11:39that, inspector, all sorts of people how to all sorts of places.
- 11:43There's no accounted for tastes. You know. How long is it since
- 11:48you've been in prison? Donald? Yeah? So I don't rightly care to
- 11:54remember unpleasant things of that soul. It could be unpleasant again, Arnold.
- 11:58These were it quite easy, bigger problems picture yes in the phone, call
- 12:03for you for me in the move over there? Thank you? Like I
- 12:07say, inspect that all sorts of people found to all sorts of night A
- 12:16black yard. He back, Yes, I understand your dad. They're looking
- 12:20for a man named James Campbell. That's right saying. But I had a
- 12:24telephone call just now, person with a peculiar kind of voice said that James
- 12:28Campbell can be found a twelve clover crossing Whistle's and soho get over there at
- 12:31once, right, So, yeah it is, so it's room. This
- 12:52is the Campbell, James Campbell's love. Yes, sergeant, no, I'm
- 13:07here in the sitting room. There's some more room. Look in that room,
- 13:11and sergeant, look in the closets, in any place that might be
- 13:13big enough to hold a man's body. I'll sits the dedman. The steam
- 13:33boiled through the bathroom door of stowing everything. The whole place was a miasma,
- 13:37white enameled, hazy, drenched with birds of sweat. And in the
- 13:43shower stall a man face downward, fully closed, blood seep from a wound
- 13:50in his neck and mixing with the water washed away. And then I said
- 13:56a wilded piece of paper tacked to the door, a paper on which was
- 13:58blue words cut from a newspaper. Mister Campbell is dead, inspector. It
- 14:05said, there have been two tomorrow night at eight, there will be at
- 14:09third it cent. The second act of pursuit will follow in just a moment
- 14:22by first the shortest marathon in the world. That's the Arthur Godfrey Daytime Show
- 14:26on CBS every weekday, Monday through Friday. Your Man Godfrey entertains for seventy
- 14:31five whole minutes, an hour and a quarter and the times feed by nothing
- 14:35flat. Give a listen to Arthur Godfrey's daytime show every weekday on most of
- 14:39these same CBS stations. And now back to the second act of pursuit.
- 14:56Madder is a noven and pursued. It is a variation on the theme.
- 15:01But it so happened that this pursuit was in my domain, because all of
- 15:05London is Scotland Yard's domain. And in the morning, when the papers brought
- 15:11the news to London, there was a city which slackened its pace to allow
- 15:16the horror to settle, horror and fascination. It resolved itself into simple terms,
- 15:24a man hunt man, the hunted, man the hunter, and it
- 15:28was the hunted who absorbed the city's imagination, the hunted who had taken special
- 15:33pains to make it known that some obscure lust for violence possessed him that he
- 15:39would kill again this evening at eight Scotland Yard's pardon. It was not nearly
- 15:45so spectacular. All we had to do was find a man or a woman.
- 15:50Well, you can't say this murder hasn't given a fair warning if you
- 15:54called twenty four hours notice fair and more than twelve hours and then already run
- 15:56out. I tell you all of London's aroused about this. I know it,
- 16:00sir, but frankly I don't know how we can stop him. And
- 16:03if we don't, someone who's walking about alive in the noonday sun will be
- 16:07dead by eight o'clock. Well, you'd better get busy than men over day.
- 16:10Certain you haven't much time, Yeah, busy, he says, haven't
- 16:15much time, He says, Well what do you have, Marta. You
- 16:18better have a look for yourself, sir. Yeah. A live history is
- 16:22the two murdered men, that is from what information we've been able to obtain.
- 16:26I see, yes, first man who was murdered, Melville Rodgers born
- 16:33in Chichester. Second James Campbell born in Guernsey. You see, Inspector.
- 16:41Their pals never crossed until nineteen thirty nine. And it's the part that's important.
- 16:45Both joined the RAF as ground crewmen in thirty nine on the same day,
- 16:51trend in the same camp. I haven't had time to get their war
- 16:53record yet, if that's necessary. However, there's this. They were both
- 16:57discharged from the shipping of bedecks. Yes, according to this on the same
- 17:02day. Good work, sergeant, you say, Shafield Barracks near Huntington on
- 17:07the main road, Sir, as you approach it from the south, call
- 17:08them, tell them I'm on my way. Good Afternoon's host told to expect
- 17:25you. Good afternoon, Private. I want to see the service records of
- 17:27two men, now, Bill Rogers service records two men. I'm afraid that's
- 17:33impossible. Did they tell you I'm from Scotland? Yard? Hey, but
- 17:37I'm not alive in those files, sir? Well, who is is the
- 17:41father? Private? Corporal? Gentleman from Scotland? Yad or interesting? What?
- 17:48I'm in a great hurry, Corporal, I need some information. The
- 17:49man's life may depend on it. A man's life, You say, what
- 17:53man? Who is the officer in charge here? I mean George simple is
- 17:57sir? What do you want? The service records of two men, Melville
- 18:02Rodgers and James Campbell or are they serving in the barracks? Not now they
- 18:07then we wouldn't have such records. And I'm sorry they received their discharge after
- 18:11the war from this barracks. I see you see what? Look you?
- 18:15Now you'll have to see the personet officers? Who that door? Sir?
- 18:18It's flight Lieutenant more dear you want to see? Thank you, lieutenant,
- 18:27My dear, I'm Inspector Peter Black scoffan gard yea. I must see the
- 18:33service records of two men who were discharged from this barracks. He is Melville
- 18:37Rodgers and James Campbell are judging. It's a matter of life and death.
- 18:41A man's life may depend up when you're getting up from that chair, walking
- 18:44over to wherever you have such records on file, pulling them out and handing
- 18:47them, Why, sir, do it? Do it fast? Oh?
- 18:49It's quite impossible, though I don't know anything of the kind. Such matters
- 18:53must be cleared. S two must clear it intelligence. You'll know files are
- 18:59confidential. Who is the intelligence officer? Nature Browning? Right down the corridor,
- 19:03the last office on the left, all the way down. Thank him.
- 19:17I say that that's a good one. Just a minute. The chef
- 19:21Staddy girl wants to see me. I suppose yes, yes, yes,
- 19:25yeah, the same to you, buddie, But yes, what can I
- 19:30do for you? Then? I'm Peter Black, Inspector Scotland. Young Chu,
- 19:33I could ring for tea a little early? Or is it certain?
- 19:37No? Thank you? This is very urgent, nature? Well did you
- 19:40say good? Good, very good? Need? What's urgent? A man's
- 19:44life is desperately close to drawing to an enator violently. A man will be
- 19:49murdered if you don't help him. What man? Indeed? Huh Nature?
- 19:52There isn't that much time. I must have the files on two ex members
- 19:56of the RAF ground crew, two men who got sard this charge here,
- 20:00James Campbell and Melville Rogers. Well, familiar names, both of them?
- 20:04Familiar? How familiar? Familiar? How say something? How are these names
- 20:11familiar? Should be a court marshaled myself and Campbell and Rogers and the person?
- 20:15What the devil is that other fellow's name? Can't think of the compt
- 20:19Well think of it? You must think of it. Name name name ty
- 20:26third to tipathy herd Nmi no middle initial Timothy hand That's what I want.
- 20:32I won't need the files. If you can tell me why you remember them?
- 20:34Woh is it on and b the three rospels stole pasif absolutely celebrated,
- 20:41loaded to the ever On stile a ancorster for ram didn't fly badly for for
- 20:45ground crew men ran out of guests, bailed out, plane crashed into a
- 20:49house, killed a woman, Missus Edwards ted So that's it, motive rip.
- 20:57You say missus was killed? How about her husband? Don't tell you
- 21:03a thing about the hudd Edward Edward. His name was Edward Sedley. I
- 21:07tried to fight him, make an adjustment, tried everything to find him.
- 21:11Fuller seems to vanish from the phase of the earth. Unkenny one not rarely
- 21:15uncanny Major? Do you mind if I use your telephone to continue this though?
- 21:18If you want Timothy Hearn look cob god a busker, the can't miss
- 21:23colorful chapper. Where's a red polka dot muffler her colourful chappier? Thank you?
- 21:29Do you mind if I use your telephone? Yours? O boy operator,
- 21:33This is Inspector Black. Put me through the Scotland Yard. I want
- 21:37to talk with Sergeant Muffett. Hurry I, sail boy, while you're waiting,
- 21:41would you like me, He'll one body to tell me his funny robe.
- 21:45Adam morffatt inspector black speaking. Two things I want you to do.
- 21:51Trace a man named Edward Stanley whose wife was killed in an airplane accident on
- 21:56v E Day. Do you have that good? And I want you to
- 22:00keep your eye on a busker named Jimothy Hearn, Covent Garden. I'll meet
- 22:03you there, Sergeant mummat Hello. You will find anything on Edward Stanley,
- 22:21not a thing, so there's no place of any The busker Timothy Hearn,
- 22:23he's right over there. They're entitaining the crowd. A clown Dynasysen sings on
- 22:30a sunlit street, the grotesque shadows that then again got death. I want
- 22:37Timothy Hearn. The busker performed for the que waiting outside the theater. He
- 22:42was a little man with a clown's radium face. You are a soap pooka
- 22:48dot muffler, and tied Natalie around his throat. His clothes were traded,
- 22:52but somehow he managed to kind of regal them. He passed the crowd rattling
- 23:00a tambourine. Some drapped coins into some did Then he was standing in front
- 23:07of me. Did you like my page of mind? Sir? Always aim
- 23:10to please. I do, and you know I perform for the best.
- 23:12Him was fan Ynthing. Oh thank you, sir, thank you, I
- 23:18say, May I ask how you knew my name? It's not often we
- 23:22buskers are given any kind of billing from our beloved puplishes. Somewhere we could
- 23:26talk, Oh, I go on again in a few minutes to equal better
- 23:30dances. We could have a nice talk to other time. Good day.
- 23:33I am inspector black Strap and yard tithing. Oh, a fellow professional,
- 23:40you might say, with the sort of put a different light on it.
- 23:44We can talk over there by the vegetable soul inspector very well with It's true,
- 23:52I don't have a perform as permit, but I think KITT's got to
- 23:56do something. You know, what's the fine inspector? You once knew two
- 24:00men named Melville Rodgers and John Campbell. There was a long time ago,
- 24:07Inspector. I've already done penny for that Rogers and Campbell were murdered. Did
- 24:11you know that? If I did, how did it affect you? The
- 24:15name off our court mart who we never spoke to each other again. I'll
- 24:21guess it was the uglish shame of it. How did it affect you,
- 24:26Timothy? I try not to think about it, Sir Timothy, this is
- 24:30a hard thing to tell a man, but I must. The murderer has
- 24:34established a pattern. I believe you are part of that pattern, given you
- 24:41wants to kill me too. But why I've never armed anyone except except exactly
- 24:52except the woman who has killed in that unfortunate airplane incident, and someone who
- 24:56loved her very much. Is the man we're looking for. Before he murdered,
- 25:02he sent us a note. Each time there was a note announcing his
- 25:06victim's death. He announced yours would take place at eight to night. Would
- 25:11that doesn't give us much time? Me or you? What shall do,
- 25:15Inspector? Actually there's nothing for you to do. To act as you always
- 25:18act. One of our men will be with you all the time. You
- 25:22won't see him, and you're not to look for him. But I want
- 25:25you in your own home before eight to night, before I eight, write,
- 25:29Inspector, I say you catch him methole before. We will do our
- 25:33best. Timothy, I promise you will do our best. There was no
- 25:42turning back now I had made a choice, and accepted a responsibility, and
- 25:48if I were wrong, I was offering up a frightened busker named Timothy Ahern
- 25:52as a sacrifice to a madman. It was a setting for murder. Ground
- 26:00was precise, A dismal corner where Marlbron Road crosses Oxford Street, damped beneath
- 26:06an early evening drizzle, where the wetness had spread the reflection from the street
- 26:10lamps into a yellow film. A corner where Timothy Hearn lived, A corner
- 26:15of shadows and silence. At seven, a police cordon was lined around the
- 26:22block. A few minutes before eight, I was standing in the doorway next
- 26:26door to Timothy's waiting inspector. Yes, yes, certain, everything's ready good,
- 26:36All the intersections covered, yes, sir. No one can possibly get
- 26:40through except the busker, except Timothy hen and whoever might be following him.
- 26:42If it's a stranger, exactly all right off the street now, sergeant,
- 26:47in this doorway with me, Yes, satan, sir, the underground entrance.
- 26:53Look at it. I think that the busker, yes, on time,
- 27:00right downtown right, he seems to be drunk. He's not drunk.
- 27:06Let's go tithe. Timothy hen Chip specter dead Timothy hung Basker dead andered his
- 27:18mouth for But how on the earth ground, the one place in the world
- 27:22where he would be with thousands of other people in Sylvie alarm, What heck,
- 27:27boy, he's the officer detailed to follow Timothy her. Then why didn't
- 27:30he follow her? And why didn't he inspect her? Why didn't you men?
- 27:34If you've done your job, this followed, Sylvie alive. I followed
- 27:37my instruction, sir. He was only out of my sight for five seconds
- 27:41all afternoon. When was that? When he got off the underground train.
- 27:44He's walking towards the stairs when he turned suddenly dives through some people and bought
- 27:48a newspaper. Newspaper, yes, sir, the very one that's in his
- 27:51coat pocket. And certainly he wasn't wanted't till he got off the train,
- 27:55else he wouldn't have stopped for a paper. Side and come with me.
- 28:07I think we're finding fin But wait here, Saturon CONTI exits other than
- 28:11the other you just put in. You're sure there are no other exits,
- 28:15only the emergency want and thought that you will not let him get that far
- 28:18away, surgeon, and be careful. Our man is insane. I want
- 28:22no innocent people killed, Yes, sir inspector, Yes, sergeant. You'll
- 28:26take care, don't you? Oh? Thank you mother. Now I'm going
- 28:30to see a man above in use papers, save and standard, make this
- 28:33tradition, hypers. How long have you been selling papers here? Missus Stanley?
- 28:40You made a mistake. You have. My name's Charles Bennett, So
- 28:42you remember me, mister Stanley, Mister Edward Stanley. Your face does have
- 28:48it and the dear look, but you're very wrong about who I am.
- 28:51It's benefit I'm called. Everyone knows that Bennet, the one with a withered
- 28:55all. That's how they called me. Man of war work, that's me?
- 28:56And how is missus Stanley? Miss Stanley? Don't speak that name?
- 29:02But as I can tell you, your wife was killed, wasn't she,
- 29:04mister Stanley, by an airplane that crashed into your house by three tragic men
- 29:10who are celebrating the day. Isn't that how it was? Mister Stanley.
- 29:15I'll tell you. I'll tell you, and I'm not going to be used
- 29:18by stuff like you. They were all that to you, weren't they Rogers
- 29:22Campbell and now her dead as you wanted them dead. The circle is complete,
- 29:26isn't it, mister Stanley, No, no, not quite, not
- 29:30quite. Put away that gun. There are innocent people here. You're all
- 29:34guilty. Sodn Moffatt, cut him up. He's on the truck, Sandley,
- 29:45Sandley con back the horror, and thatunderground tube was a substance, a
- 30:03substance that pressed itself into my brain and down into my lungs. The body
- 30:07of a madman, like crushed and broken under the wheels of a train,
- 30:12and so a tragic shriek was ended, the life of a man. A
- 30:26man is hunted, a man is struck through a city's crowd, through shadows,
- 30:34through a thousand places, and finally a man is caught pursuit, and
- 30:41the pursuit is in Welcome Back. There actually was a story similar to this
- 30:56later on on Broadway as Mobby. Although we are missing the credits on this
- 31:03one, it's not a stretch to say the same writer wrote this an interesting
- 31:08episode. There was still I think some parts where the kind of working on
- 31:14developing the feel of the show, particularly when Peter Black got invited into his
- 31:19superior's office and I thought that they'd be uncivil, but it's just the way
- 31:29would you be a good chap and go and investigate that murder. Just not
- 31:33even a natural way of speaking. But other than that, there's a lot
- 31:38of suspense in here, and of course it's noteworthy that Black. But then
- 31:45I think a really big turnaround when Black is able to collar the suspect in
- 31:51short order. And it's one of those stories kind of lack a gkh Hesterton's
- 31:55Invisible Man, where you don't necessarily think of the guy who's talking newspapers as
- 32:01a suspect. But a good job by Black. I'm actually solving this all
- 32:06right. Well, on to some listener comments and feedback. Well, we
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- 32:38all of Dragnet, and have enjoyed most of the choices you've made over the
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- 32:52when we start Dragnet again in just a few weeks coming this August, and
- 32:59hope they all have more insightful commentary and better quality sound, which is always
- 33:04going to be a plus. All right, Well, that will do it
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