ip -i ^^^3a|^'5sj!^ *,« "•"rfTlgf^,^. w,^v ^"7 /*/T^~TOo^ "li •i1'* 7 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, MAY 29, 1919 'AGE THUS room ever since Poor old fellow erating at Green Fancy were under OU tile liiail i, uccu the ruling family, one fn power, the definite orders. I It's hard, isn't it?" to this place. was on the point of other practically in exile. The state GREEN FANCY "It sure is. Seems like he'll never reporting to my superiors that was Mr. Sprouse came into the dining is a small one, but its integrity is of be able to walk ag'in. I was talkin' to room as he was taking his last swallow in no way associated with the the highest. Its sons and daughters his nurse only the other day. He says of coffee. sought-after crowa-cousin, and tii.it have married into the royal families it's a hopeless case." Green Fancy was as free from taint "Ah, good morning," was the bland of nearly all of the great nations of "Fortunately his sister can be here little man's greeting. "Up with the as the village chapel, when out of a the continent. The present—or I with him." clear sky and almost under my very lark, I see. Mind if I sit down here should say, the late ruler, for he died GEORGE MRR. "By gosh, she ain't nothin' like nose two men were mysteriously done and have my eggs?" He pulled out a on afield of battle not many months him," confided Peter. "She's all fuss chair opposite Barnes and coolly sat away with' at the very gates of the ago, had no direct heir. He was an' feathers an' he is. jest as simple down at the table. plnce. The killing of those two men young and unmarried. I am not permitted M£ CUTCHEQN as you er me. Nothin' fluffy about him, changed the aspect completely. You "You can't sell me a set of Dickens to state with what army he I c'n tell ye." He sighed deeply. "I'm I at this hour of the day," said Barnes will certainly agree with me after was fighting, nor on which front he jest as well pleased to go as not," he sourly. "Besides, I've finished my have explained to you that the one went on. "Mrs. Collier's got a lot o' known as Andrew Roon was no other breakfast. Keep your seat." He started Ml 11 «l money of her own, an' she's got highfalutin' to rise. than the equerry v.ho had undertaken Author "GRAUSTARK," THE New York ideas that don't to nnd the—young woman." "Sit down," said Sprouse quietly. tfv HOLLOW OF HER HAND.M THE seem to jibe with mine." Barnes drew a long breath. His Something in the man's voice and manner lS- Long before they came to the turnpike, PRINCE OF GRAUSTARK,r ETC struck Barnes as oddly compelling. mind 'was made up. He had decided Barnes had reduced his hundred to pool issues with the secret agent, He hesitated a second and then resumed and one suppositions to the following but not until he was convinced that his seat. "I've been investigating concrete conclusion: Green Fancy you, Mr. Barnes," said the little the result of their co-operation would Cmrifrkt DM. M*aimiC,mtm.'« was no longer in the hands of its original man, unsmilingly. "Don't get sore. in no way inflict a hardship upon the owner for the good and sufficient young woman who had appealed to There are a lot of things that you don't SYNOPSIS. reason that Mr. Curtis was dead. The know, and one of them is that I don't him for help. He was certain hat she word or a sign from him would be sufficient real master of the house was the man was the fair propagandist described sell books for a living. It's something to bring disaster upon the Irishman CHAPTER I—Thomas K. Barnes, known as Loeb. Through O'Dowd, he by Sprouse. of a side line with me." He leaned wealthy New Yorker, on a walking trip who had risked his own safety in through New England, Is caught In a had leased the property from the widowed "And the young woman, what of forward. "I shall be quite frank with a few irretrievable words. The more storm miles from his destination. At a daughter-in-law, and had established her? She would, in any case, be held crossroads point he meets a girl In the yon, sir. I am a secret service man. he thought of it, the, more fully convinced same plight. While they discuss the situation himself there, surrounded by for examination and—" Yesterday I went through your effects an automobile, sent to me«t the was he that there was nothing trustworthy henchmen, for the purpose I girl, arrives and Barnes is given a lift to "My dear sir. may as well tell you upstairs, and last night I took the liberty to fear from O'Dowd. Hart's tavern, while the girl is taken of carrying out some dark and sinister now that she is a loyal subject, and, of spying upon you, so to speak, on to her destination, which she tella Peter drove slowly, carefully over project. Barnes is a place called Green Fancy. while you were a guest at Green tar from being in bad grace court, the road down the mountain. Responding "I suppose Mrs. Collier has spent a Fancy." is an object of extreme solicitude to CHAPTER 'XT—At the tavern Barnes to a sudden impulse, Barnes lowered great deal of time up here with her the ambassador. From what I can falls in with a stranded troupe of "barnStorming" cried Barnes. "The deuce you say!" one of the side seats in the tonneau actors, headed by Lyndon brother." gather she has disappeared completely. "We get right down to tacks."said will and moved closer to the driver. Rushcroft, and becomes interested in "First time she was ever here, so them. Sprouse. "My government— Roon was sent over here for the "How long have yon been driving far as I know," said Peter, and Barnes sole purpose of finding her and inducing the way—sent which isn't yours, by CHAPTER Til—As the storm grows, for Mr. Curtis?" promptly took up his weaving once Barnes finds himself worrying over the me here five weeks ago on a certain her to return with him to Paris." up -j&*' "Ever since he come up here, more'n safety of the girl, traveling over the more. "And to take the treasure with her, undertaking. I am supposed to mountain roads at what he considers dan- two years ago. Guess I'm going to get f'ancy With one exception, he decided, the I suppose," said Barnes dryly. erous speed. He learns tnat Green find what is hatching up at Green out the G. B. 'fore long, though. Seems is something of a house of mystery. entire company at Green Fancy was "Naturally." Fancy. Having satisfied myself that Two mounted men leave the tavern that he's gettin* a new car an' wants involved in the conspiracy. The exception In a manner which arouses Barnes' curiosity. "Well," began Barnes, introducing a are not connected with the gang you an expert machinist to take hold of it S was Miss Cameron. It was harsh note into his voice, "I should up there I cheerfully place myself In from the start. I was good enough quite clear to him that she had been CHAPTER IV—He meets "Miss Thackeray," your hands, Mr. Barnes. You were at say that if she is guilty of receiving to fiddle around with this second-hand leading lady of the stranded theatrical misled or betrayed into her present this stolen properry she ought to he Green Fancy last night. So was I. troupe, who is acting as chambermaid. pile o* junk an' the one he had last position that a trap had been set for That night he is aroused by the punished. Jail is the place for her, You had an advantage over me, however, year, but I ain't qualified to handle bringing of a dying man to the tavern, her and she had walked into it blindly, Mr. Sprouse." for you were on the inside and one of the two who had ridden away a this here machine he's expectln', so he "Six Months Ago a Royal House Was trustingly. This would seem to establish, short time before. They tell of finding th» Sprouse put down his coffee cup I was not." says. I guess they's been some influence Despoiled of Its Crown Jewels, Seal dead body of the other man. Both had beyond question, that her capture rather suddenly. A queer pallor came "Confound your Impudence! I—" been shot. used against me, if the truth was and Charter." and detention was vital to the interests into his face. "One of my purposes in revealing known. This new see'etary he's got CHAPTER V—The wounded man, registered of the plotters otherwise she "You do not understand the situation. myself to you, Mr. Barnes, is to warn vas killed. It is only necessary to at the tavern as Andrew Paul, dies, cain't stummick me." and Barnes Is informed he must not leave would not have been lured to Green you to steer clear of that crowd. You day that his little state was gobbled Haven't I made it plain to you "Why don't you see Mr. Curtis and Until after the Inquest. O'Dowd and De Fancy under the impression that she up by the Teutonic allies. The branch that she is innocent of any intont to may find yourself in exceedingly hot Boto, guests at Green Fancy, visit the demand—" tavern, apparently much mystified over was to find herself among friends and do wrong?" water later on if you don't. Another of the family mentioned as being in "See him?" snorted Peter. "Might the affair. supporters. Supporters! That word exile lent its support to the cause of "You have said so, Mr. Sprouse, hut purpose, and the real one, is to secure, as well try to see Napoleon Bonyparte. started a new train of thought. He CHAPTER VI—Barnes advances Rushcroft Germany, not for moral reasons but your idea of wrong and mine may not if possible, your co-operation in beating Didn't you know he was a sick man?" money sufficient to release the company., jibe." could hardly wait for the story that the game up there. You can help in the hope and with the understanding, from Its embarrassing position, "Certainly. But he isn't so ill that thereby becoming its official backer. He was to fall from her lips. "There cannot be two vays of looking me, and in helping me you may be instrumental I am to believe, that the crown he can't attend to business, is he?" visits Green Fancy, and in the grounds "By the way. Peter, it has just occurred lands .would be the reward. The direct at it, sir," said Sprouse, after a in righting one of the ineets his acquaintance of the night before "He sure is. Parylised, they say." finding her a girl of surprising to me that I may be able to heir to the crown is a cousin of moment. "She could do no wrong." gravest wrongs the world has ever "What has Mr. Loeb against you, if beauty. give you a job in case you are let out Whereupon Barnes reached his hand known." the late prince. He is now a prisoner I may ask?" CHAPTER VII—She seems not to be by Mr. Curtis. I can't say definitely of war in Austria. Other members of across the table and laid it on "Will you be good enough, Mr. "Well, it's like this. I ain't in the desirous of recognizing htm, and turns until I have communicated with my the family are held by the Bulgarians Sprouse's. His eyes were dancing. away. 'O'Dowd appears and in apparently Sprouse, to tell me just what you are habit o' bein' ordered aroun' as if I I friendly fashion escorts Barnes (who feels sister, who has a summer home in the "That's just what want to be sure as prisoners of war. It is not stretching trying to get at? I know nothing whatever was jest nobody at all, so when he he is unwelcome) from the grounds. Berkshires." the imagination very far to picture about," he said. "It was my way of against Mr. Curtis and his starts in to cuss me about somethln' "I'll be much obliged, sir. Course I tinding out your intentions concerning CHAPTER VIII—Miss Thackeray warns them as already dead and out of friends. You assume a great deal—" a week or so ago, I ups and tells him Barnes that a man stopping at the tavern, won't say a word. Will I find you at her." the way. At the close of the war, if "Excuse me, Mr. Barnes. I'll admit ostensibly a book agent, had searched I'll smash his head if he don't take it the tavern if I get my walkin' papers his baggage in his absence. O'Dowd Germany is victorious, the crown will ""What do you mean?" that you don't know anything against back. He takes it back all right, but comes to the tavern and with Barnes and soon?" "Come with me to my room," said them, but you suspect a whole lot. To be placed upon the head of the pretender others goes over the scene of the previous the first thing I know I get a calldown night's shooting. Barnes is Invited to "Yes. Stop in to see me tomorrow if Barnes, suppressing his excitement. begin with, you suspect that two men branch. Are you following from Mrs. Collier. Course I dinner at Green Fancy. you happen to be passing." "I I me?" think can tell you where she is— were shot to death because they were couldn't tell her what I told the Barnes said good night to the man CHAPTER IX—His acquaintance of the and a great deal more that you ought in wrong with someone at Green "Yes," said Barnes, his nerves tingling. sheeny, seein' as she's a female, so I etorm is introduced as Miss Cameron. and entered the tavern a few minutes to know." Fancy. Now I could tell you who He was beginning to see a The makeup of the house party, particularly took it like a lamb. Then they gits a a man introduced to him as ".Loeb," later. Putnam Jones was behind the In the little room upstairs he told these two men really were and why great light. feller up here to wash the car. My and the number of menservants about the desk and facing him was the litjtle the whole story. The little man listened they were shot. But I sha'n't do anything "Almost under the nos£s of the place, somewhat astonishes Barnes. gosh, mister, the durned ole rattle-trap without so much as a single book agent. of the sort—at least not at present." forces left by the Teutonic allies to ain't wuth a bucket o' water all told. CHAPTER X—Miss Cameron Informs word of interruption or interrogation. "Hello, stranger," greeted the landlord. hold the invaded territory the crown him she is a prisoner in the house, appealing So I sends word in to Mr. Curtis that to him for aid and binding him "Been sashaying in society, hey? Somewhat breathlessly Barnes came Barnes was impressed. "Perhaps jewels, charter and so forth, heretofore if she has to be washed, I'll wash her. to secrecy. In conversation with the to the end. Meet my friend Mr. Sprouse, Mr. you will condescend to tell me who mentioned, as they say in legal chauffeur who drives him back to the Then's when I hears about the new tavern, Barnes becomes convinced there Barnes. Sic-em, Sprouse! Give him "And now, Mr. Sprouse, what do you are, Mr. Sprouse. I am very much parlance, were surreptitiously removed a at is conspiracy of moment hatching car. Next day Mrs. Collier send* fer the Dickens!" Mr. Jones laughed loudly you make of it all?" he inquired. Green Fancy. in the dark." from the palace and spirited away by me an' I go in. She says she guesses at his own jest. Sprouse leaned back in his chair, "I am a special agent—but not a persons loyal to the ruling branch of CHAPTER XI—At breakfast the sup- she'll try the new washer on the new Sprouse shook hands with his victim. Sprouse, osed book agent introduces himself as spy, sir—of a government that is the family. As I have stated, I am engaged suddenly relaxing. "I am completely machine when it comes, an' if I keer to a government secret agent. at sea," he said, and Barnes looked friendly to yours. I am known ia in the effort to recover them. stay on as washer in his place she'll Sprouse tells Barnes he is there to watch "I was just saying to our friend the party at Green Fancy, describing Washington. My credentials are not "Now We come to the present situation. at him in surprise. be glad to have me. I says I'd like to as them refugees from a country overrun Jones here, Mr. Barnes, that you look to be questioned. At present it would Some months ago a member of "By Jove, I thought It would all be by the Germans. He asserts that "Miss have a word with Mr. Curtis, if she like a more than ordinarily intelligent Cameron" Is a relative of the former rulei the aforesaid royal house arrived in be unwise for me to reveal the name as clear as day to you. Here is your don't mind, an' she says Mr. Curtis of the devastated country and that she or of my government. I dare say if I this country by way of Japan. He is man and also your woman, and the "Loeb" have with them the crown jewels, ain't able to see no one. So I guess of enormous value, which Sprouse would a distant cousin of the crown, and in traveling bag full of—" can afford to trust you, Mr. Barnes, I'm goin' to be let out." recover. you can afford to trust me.- There is a way remotely looked upon as the "Right you are," Interrupted Sprouse. An idea was taking root in Barnes' CHAPTER XII—Barnes agrees to accompany heir apparent. Later on he sequestered too much at stake for me to take the "That is all simple enough. But, my brain, but it was too soon to consider Sprouse on a nocturnal visit to himself in Canada. Our agents slightest chance with any man. I am dear Barnes, can you tell me what Mr. Green Fancy, Sprouse with the object of it fixed. securing the Jewels, and Barnes with the ready to chance you, sir, if you will in Europe learned but recently that Secretary Loeb's real name Is? Why "You say Mr, Loeb is new at his hope of rescuing "Miss Cameron." while he pretends to be loyal to the do the same by me." has he established himself so close to job?" CHAPTER XIII—They enter the grounds ruling house he is actually scheming "Well," began Barnes deliberately, the*Canadian line, and why the mobilization? "Well, he's new up^here. Mr. Curtis in safety, Sprouse overcoming two men "I guess you will have to take a against it. I have been ordered to I refer to his army of evidently on guard. Reaching the house, was down to New York all last Barnes sends up, by means of a fishing run him to earth, for there is every huskies." chance with me, Mr. Sprouse, for I refuse winter bein' treated, you see. He didn't rod carried by Sprouse, a note to "Miss W reason to believe that the men who Cameron," informing her of their intention to commit myself until I know "Heirs apparent usually have some come up here till about five weeks to enter the house. She tries to dissuade secured the treasure have been duped exactly what you are up to." sort of a bodyguard, don't they?" ago. Loeb was workin' fer him most them, but Sprouse climbs to her into regarding him as the avowed room and goes through it on a quest for "In the first place, Mr. Barnes," said Sprouse was staring thoughtfully at of the winter, gittin' up a book er the crown jewels and state papers. champion of the crown. Now, Mr. Sprouse, salting his eggs, "you have the ceiling. When he finally lowered somethin', I hear. Mr. Curtis' mind is Barnes, without telling you how I have CHAPTER XIV—Barnes becomes uneasy been thinking that I was sent down his eyes it was to favor Barnes with all right, I guess, even if his body at Sprouse's long absence and follows arrived at the conclusion, I am prepared from Green Fancy to spy on you. a deep, inscrutable smile. ain't." him, climbing by means of the ivy to state that I believe this man Isn't that so?" attached to the wall. While talking to "I dare say the first thing for me "I see. Mr. Loeb came up with him Miss Cameron" a commotion In the to be at Green Fancy, and that in time "I am answering no questions, Mr. to do is to advise the Canadian authorities house warns them that Sprouse has been from New York." the loot—to use a harsh word—will be detected. Barnes, with "Miss Cameron" Sprouse." to keep a sharp lookout along "Kereot. Him and Mr. O'Dowd and clinging to him, makes his escape to the delivered to him there. I am here to "You were wrong," said Sprouse, as the border." ground. He loses his sense of location Mr. De Soto brought him up 'bout the and they become lost, finally taking refuge get it, one way or another, when that if Barnes had answered in the affirmative. last o' March. They was up here visitin' in a small shed. "Miss Cameron" comes to pass. "I am working on my own. explains how she was decoyed to the CHAPTER XII. last spring an' tLe fall before. Mr. house, and was to be married against her "What led you to suspect that he You may have observed that I did not Curtis is very fond of both of 'em." will to the man "Loeb," whom.' she reveals is at Green Fancy, Mr. Sprouse?" accompany the sheriff's posse today. as a prince of the house to which The First Wayfarer Accepts an Invitation. "It seems to me that I .have heard she belongs. They are surprised in the "History. It is known that this Mr. I was up in Hornville getting the final darkness by O'Dowd. that his son married O'Dowd's sister." word from New York that you were on Curtis has spent a great deal of time Barnes insisted that the first thing "That's right. She's a widder now. the CHAPTER XV—O'Dowd demands in the country alluded to. As a matter the level. I telephoned to New York. to be considered was the release of Her husband was killed in the war jewels, which he thinks the fugitives have of fact, his son, who lived in London, Eleven dollars and sixty cuts. You in their possession, not knowing of Miss Cameron. between Turkey an' them other countries Sprouse's enterprise. Convinced neither were under suspicion until I hung up had rather extensive business interests "If we can't think of any other way "Miss Cameron" nor Barnes have them, four er five years ago." there. This son was killed in the receiver, I may say." O'Dowd puts them on the right road to to get her out of this devilish predicament, "Really?" the tavern, where Barnes gives his companion "Jones has been talking to you," the Balkan war several years ago. It Sprouse, I shall apply to Washington into the care of Miss Thackeray. "Yep. Him and Mr. O'Dowd—his said Barnes. "But you said a moment is said that the man I am looking for Next day O'Dowd tells Barnes Sprouse, for help." own brother-in-law, y' know—was whom he describes as an expert burglar, was a friend of young Curtis, who ago that you were up at Green Fancy "And be laughed at, my friend," said got away with the treasure, after killing fightin' on the side of the Boolgarians married a Miss O'Dowd in London— a guard in the house. O'Dowd and "Loeb" last night. Not by invitation, I tabe the secret agent. "It is not a matter and young Ashley Curtis was killed." Fancy. leave Greea It" the Honorable Miss O'Dowd, daughter for the government to meddle in at "Was this son Mr. Curtis' only "She's a Widder Now. Her Husband "I invited myself," said Sprease succinctly. of an Irish peer and sister of the chap CHAPTER XVI—Barnes tells "Miss all." Child?" Cameron" of Sprouse's treachery, and Was Killed in the War.'* you have met at Green Fancy. About "Are you inclined to favor "Well, something has to be done at she tells him the whole story of Green "So fer as I know. He left three llt,tle my proposition?" six weeks ago a former equerry In the Fancy. The man known as Loeb is her cousin, and he inveigled her to the houst kids. They was all here with their man and that if I had a chance to buzz with the object of possessing himself of once," said Barnes doggedly. "She Is mother jest after the house was finished." royal household arrived in New York. "You haven't made one." the jewels, which were in her custody. wiih you for a quarter of an hour I Through him I learned that the daughter depending on me. If you could have "By suggestion, Mr. Barnes. It Is could present a proposition—" CHAPTER XVII—O'Dowd returns and of the gentleman in whose hwise seen the light that leaped into her glorious "They will probably come into this quite impossible for me to get inside Informs Barnes of the identity of "Miss "Sorry, Mr. Sprouse, but it is halfpast eyes when I—" the senior Mr. Curtis was a frequent Cameron." She is of royal blood, he asserts, property when Mr. Curtis dies," said that house. You appear to have the Countess Therese Mara-Dafanda. eleven o'clock, and I am dog-tired. guest fiad been in the United States "Yes, I know. I've heard she Is entree. You are working in the dark, Barnes, keeping the excitement out of You will have to excuse me." quite a pretty girl. You needn't—" since some time prior to the beginning CHAPTER XVIII—Barnes visits Green guessing at everything. I am guessing Fancy to secure the wardrobe of the his voice. "Tomorrow morning will suit me," of the war. She was visiting friends "Quite a pretty girl!" exclaimed at nothing. By combining forces countess. He meets Sprouse. who tells "More'n likely.** said Sprouse $eerfully, "if it suits Barnes. "Why, she is the loveliest him Loeb got away with the jewels after in the States and has been unable to we should bring this thing to a head, killing the guard and accusing Sprouse you." "Was he very feeble when you saw return to her own land, for reasons thing that God ever created. She has of the murder and robbery and—" •A him last?" that must be obvious. I may as well the face of--" "Just a moment. You expect me to CHAPTER XIX—Barnes and the countess "I ain't seen him in more'n six CHAPTER XI. confess that her father was, by marriage, "I am beginning to understand abuse the hospitality of—" leave Hart's tavern with tH actors, months. He was fallln* then. That's and at Crowndale. where they are to an uncle of the late ruler. O'Dowd's interest in her, Mr. Barnes. "I shall have to speak plainly, I appear. Barnes again meets Sprouse. why he went to the city." Mr. 8prouM Abandons Literature at "Since the Invasion and overthrow He has probably fallen in love with see." He leaned forward, fixing "Oh, I see. You did not see him an Early Hour in the Morning. of her country by the Teutonic allies her with as little difficulty as you have CHAPTER XX—Sprouse tells Barnes Barnes with a pair of steady, earnest when he arrived the last of March?" Loeb it in hiding in Crowndale with his After thrashing about In his bed for she has been endeavoring to raise experienced, and almost as expeditiously. eyes. "Six months ago a certain royal and mistress^ promises to rob him of the "I was visltin* my sister up in Hornvllle jewels. so, seven sleepless hours, Barnes arose He does delivering the treasure money here for the purpose of equipping He has seen a little more of house In Europe was despoiled of its to as Barnes, agreed, at the same when he come back unexpectedlike. and gloomily breakfasted alone. He and supporting the remnants of her than you, but—" jewels, its privy seal, its most precious time tnfornfng him that ne would take .«•/•:( jjr This ijiot Loeb says he wrote me at It from him If b» could, the expiration was not discouraged over his failure the small army that fought so valiantly "Don't talk nonsense. I'm not In state documents and its charter. They of one week. to meet 'em at Spanish Falls but I to arrive at anything tangible in the In defense of the crown. These love with her." have been traced to the United States. never got the letter. Like as not the CHAPTER XXI—With the oountess, shape of a plan of action. It was Inconceivable men, a few thousand only, are at present "Can you speak with equal authorIty I am here to recover them. That is Barnes leaves Rushcroft and the rest and durn fool got the address wrong. I that he should not be able Interned In a neutral country. I for Mr. O'Dowd? He Is a very susceptible hurries to New Tork. There he leaves the foundation of my story, Mr. didn't know Mr. Curtis was home till I the jewels in a place of safety and Introduces in very short order to bring about the Irishman. I anvtold." leave you to guess what will happen If Barnes. the countess to his sister. come back from my sister's three days release of the fair guest of Green she succeeds in supplying them with Sprouse risks h|s life in a daring effort "Without divulging the name of the (To be continued next week.) later. I wouldn't 'a* had it happen fer to obtain the treasure, and failing taker Fancy. There was not the slightest arms and ammunition. Her work is house I will say 4:hat its sympathies his leave of Barnes in a characteristic fifty dollars." Peter's tone was convi doubt In his mind that international being carried on with the greatest secrecy. Brine your clean, soft cotton manner. With little prospect of an early rags have been from the outset friendly to in do return to her home in Europe, the countess 1 affairs of considerable importance To bring the story to a close, to this office. We will pay you 8 cents the entente allies—especially with yields to Barnes' pleading and agrees "And he has, beerl confined toj his were involved nnd that the agents op­ to become his wife. Ther»_are__two_ branches of I was instructed to keep close watch per pound. France.