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THE MEADVILLE SAT UllD AY "NIGHT, JUNE 29, 1889. PERSONAL MENTION. ANOTHER CRIME E. C. Morris is more than haR selfishness in me," Bhe added.

"It would give me some right to rely on you. I should not feel go lonely." 'However this may turn out, always know that you may rely on me," the judge returned, with deep feeling. "Our friendship began long and doesn't need any other tie to bind it. If Pauline, when the question is put before her, decides against me and I am fully aware how easily that may be her verdict I shall accept it like a man, and you will remember that, so far as I am concerned, it will involve not the slightest change in my devotion to you and yours. I shall leave no honorable means untried to win her; but, above all things, I desire to avoid forcing her inclination, either by any act of my own, or through That you should approve of my purpose is all I ask.

Leave the rest to Providence, and to her." "I Understand," said Mrs. Nolen, "and, indeed, if I wished to help you, I should not do it by singing your praises to her. You being what you are, the best thing to do is to leave her to find you out for herself." "If Mr. Martin be my rival," resumed the judge, "let have his chance and defeat me if ho can. If he be the better man it will appear; and God forbid that 1 should make her my wife knowing that she would have been happier with another.

But love go for anything, I love her well, and in all my life she is the first and only woman I have loved." "You might have rivals more dangerous than Mr. Martin," returned the mother, with another smile, and so the interview came to a close. to be continued. LOCAL, BREVITIES. the'kincfof pride that would prompt him rather to die than betray signs of human weakness.

On the other hand he is clever and quick, and could easily pick up an honest livelihood in other ways than by pursuing his project of mining should he find it necessary to forego that. But my own anticipation is, my dear Mary, that he is too lazy, and that his habits of application, such as they were, have become too much broken up to mako that course likely. What I do expect is that he will come back to you and ask you to provide for him." "That is all I ask!" Mrs. Nolen exclaimed. "I have no doubt of it, my dear," answered the judge with a smile.

"But in this connection there is something that I wish to impress upon you very strongly. Do not, as you value his ultimate welfare, not to speak of your own, give him any money without first consulting me. If you fail to observe this precaution, depend upon it you will got into trouble. I know what young men are, and how they regard their mothers as just 60 much indulgent soft heartedness- to be take: advantage of! No, it isn't cynicism; the truth; and so you will find it. l'-ow, what Percy needs is the conviction that there is no choice for him but to work.

So long-as he thinks that he can be supported without working he will remain idle. It may bo hard for you to refuse him, but unless you do you will only work him an ill turn. You are not a rich woman by any means. Bartemus it is as well you should know.it now lost a large part of his fortune by injudicious investments; and when you take out of that the sum secured to Pauline as her dower a sum which, fortunately, neither you nor she can touch for three years to come you will have left barely enough to live comfortably on. As for Percy's twenty thousand, we may look upon that as being as good as gone; it is only a question of time, and no very long time.

Until it js gone it is no use attempting to influence him. So much for that! But now, my dear Mary," continued the judge, changing his tone, "1 wish to speak to you on another matter of no small moment to you, to myself and to Pauline!" CHAPTER LT. "Ije seemed a frank, straightforward young man, not one you would suspect of doing anything underhand." The judge laughed; a very low, pleasant laugli he had, which made those who heard it disposed 'iat once to like him. "You are more like a nun, in your un-suspiciousness and unworldliness, than like a married woman who goes in New York society," said he. "Let me assure you, my dear, that a man in love is not to be held a criminal, or everia.

hypocrite, if he uses some strategy toiget near the object of his affection. I slKSuld forgive Mr. Martin even if he went so far as to pretend a cordiality for Percy that he did not really feel, if so he might induce Percy to admit him to the intimacy of your household. No, if we are to take exceptions to him, it must be from another standpoint. 'What do you know about his personal history and his social standing in his own country?" "I suppose it must be good," said Mrs.

Nolen. VI think he said that his family owned a large estate in Cumberland." "Is he the eldest son?" "The next to the eldest, I believe." "And what is his business in America?" "I don't know. But a great many English people come hero nowadays, you know. It is a part of their education." "Yes; but some of them are pretty well educated before they get here," remarked the judge dryly, "and occasionally they manage to teach us something before they leave. There is in England the same difference an eldest son and the other sons that there is between a rich man and a pauper.

By tho law of primogeniture the estates, and generally the bulk of the money, goes to the first born; the other boys get positions, if they can, in the army, the civil service or the church. They are seldom fitted to enter the learned professions, and it is not considered good form for a gentleman's son to go into trade. Of course the army and the church don't afford accommodation for all applicants, and the consequence is that every year a number of young Englishmen are thrown on the world, who by training and inclination are good for nothing but to be idle and ornamental, and who nevertheless have no means for honestly leading such a life. They form a class of gentleman adventurers. They are men of agreeable manners and culture, talk well, look well, are excellent at cards and billiards, and live no one knows how.

Some of them come over here for reasons known only to themselves; they are very pleasant acquaintances, but it is well not to trust them too far. They have no fixed place in the world and no responsibility." "You don't mean that Mr. Martin is an adventurer?" demanded Mrs. Nolen, virtues could not save him from being and feeling a good deal poorer than he was before. He owned the house he lived in, and continued to live in it; but he curtailed his expenses, and by strict economy contrived to render them less than his income.

His sons would soon be through college, and would then, it was to be supposed, take care of themselves. It was for his daughter that he was saving, and he hoped to leave her at least a decent fortune after his death. But other misfortunes were in 6tore for him. His oldest 6on, Jerrold Nolen, had graduated from college, and came to New York to study medicine, living, meanwhile, at his father's house. He was a young fellow of ability and agreeable manners, and was popular among his fellows.

His father was proud of him, and treated him with partiality. It soon became apparent that Jerrold was rather inclined to dissipation; his sociable nature had its detrimental side. This was the more unfortunate, inasmuch as ho had a tendency to heart disease, and was of an excitable temperament. As this matter will be dwelt on hereafter, it is enough to say here that Jerrold died under tragic circumstances in the second year of his medical studies. His death, besides bringing bitter grief to his father and mother, led to legal proceedings against a person supposed to have been instrumental in compassing his destruction-proceedings which led to no good results, and involved a large expense.

Mr. Nolen never recovered from the shock and disappointment of his eldest son's sudden end; and in little more than a year afterwards the morning papers contained respectful but brief notices of his decease. His will was admitted to probate; it devised twenty thousand dollars to his son Percy Nolen when the latter should come of age; the remainder was settled upon Mrs. Nolen, with certain provisos in the event of Pauline's marrying with her mother's approval. Percy's bequest was intended to start him in business, he having shown a tendency to take up mining engineering as a pursuit.

He too was an intelligent boy, and left college in good standing as to scholarship, biii his character resembled Jerrold's in its lack of firmness and persistent, energy; while, unlike Jerrold, he was of a selfish disposition. After graduating and coming into possession of his patrimony, he announced his intention of postponing for a while his professional studies and seeing a little of metropolitan life. This made his mother anxious, remembering the unhappy career of her older son, but she interpreted Percy's design in the manner most favorable to him, as simply a wish to become practically familiar with the ways and manners of good society. Percy's original purposes may, indeed, have contemplated no more than that; but that was far from being the limit of what he actually did. His advances towards the best society were neither considerable nor prolonged.

For a few months ho went to dinners and receptions and danced at balls, but it soon became evident that he was getting intimate with a class of people who, by no stretch of courtesy, could be counted among the upper ten. These were chiefly young men who dressed well, had dash and assurance of manner and were commonly to be met with on fashionable thoroughfares, in the corridors and billiard rooms of the best hotels, on baseball grounds and race tracks, and, towards the small hours of the night, at certain restaurants and other places of resort more remarkable for brilliance and liveliness than for respectability, in which the company ceased to be exclusively masculine and was yet not improved by the alteration. Percy had his choice, and this was the class with which he chose more and more to associate. They were, as a class, not wealthy; nevertheless to be with them was not neces Captain M. R.

Rouse, of TitusviUe, had business at the County seat yesterday. Miss Mary Long departed on train 3 yesterday for Greenville, where she will visit friends. Miss Anna Hunter, of MosiertowD, is the guest of her friend Miss Maud Clark, Baldwin Street. Mr. and Mrs.

Theo. Sigler, of Lines-ville, were in the city yesterday and registered at the Colt House. Mrs. L. L.

Graham, of Oil City, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Barnes, 573 Green Street.

Mr. J. L. Swickard arrived home yesterday, after a pleasant visit at his old home in Monongahela City. Mr.

Fred A. Miles, foreman of the Tkibcne news room, departed on train 1 this morning for a brief visit in Cleveland. "Mat" Forker, after a brief but pleasant visit with Meadville friends, departed on train 3 yesterday to. return home to Birmingham, Ala. Mr.

and Mrs. James Maxwell and Mr. and Mrs. A. Nunn left on train 3 yesterday for Cleveland.

Mr. Maxwell is the Nypano's engine despatcher and Mr. Nunn general foreman of the shops, this city, and while in Cleveland both gentlemen will give some attention to inspecting the newly fitted shops of the company in that city. Joseph Lenhart and sisters, the Misses Ada and Lydia Lenhart, left on train 3 yesterday for Cleveland, from where they will go by steamer to Duluth. The ladies take the trip for their health and will return after a brief visit in Duluth, Mr.

Lenhart going on to Minneapolis, where he will remain. Prof. Joseph Apple, of the department of mathematics in the State Normal School at Clarion, arrived in the the city by way ef the Franklin Branch, last evening, and went home to Saegertown on train 4, where he will spend summer. Prof. Apple is to be congratu-loted on having given such excellent satisfaction at Clarion that he was not only re-elected, but at an increased salary.

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SAFE i Ji FROM THE DIARY OF INSPECTOR BYRNES. By JULIAN HAWTHORNE, Author of "The Great Bank Bobbery," "An American Penman," Etc. Copyright by O. M. Dunham, and published, through special arrangement by the American Press Association with Cassell New York and London.

CHAPTER I. THE NOLENS. YOU could put on the cap of invisibility and sit for twenty-four hours in the private room of Inspector Byrnes at police headquarters you would see many strange sights. RepreJ through those mysterious por tals during the day. All sorts and conditions of men, from the depraved pickpocket to the cultured millionaire; all varieties of the daughters of Eve, from the poor vulgar trull to the refined and lovely queen of society.

Here meet youth and age, virtue and vice, industry and idleness, wise and foolish, good and evil. Strange events are there brought to light; life histories, fantastic, tragic, comic, pathetic, romantic, crimes startling or sordid; human passions are there unfolded of every species love, hate, revenge, avarice, self abnegation, ambition and despair, which is the death of all passion, good or bad. And what a gallery of faces follow one another, in endless succession, across the 'threshold beautiful, hideous, sorrowful, joyful, contented, wretched, cultivated, degraded, spiritual, bestial. And all who come have some story to tell, some accusation te bring, some defense to oppose, some ejid to gain. Having said their say tiiey disperse again some to liberty, some to trial; some to death, some to victory; some to prisons, some to palaces.

All the contrasts of human existence, all its lights and shadows, appear in the inspector room, and disappear again, while you look on in your cap of invisibility. And there, at his desk, sits the inspector, examining, weighing, deciding, investigating, advising, reproving, encouraging; cheerful or grave, as the case may be, even tempered, firm, suave, stern, penetrating, impenetrable; the depository of all secrets, the revcaler of cone; the man who is never hurried, yet never behindhand; never idle, yet never weary; always patient, and always prompt. No position under the municipal government requires more tact than his, more energy, more courage, more experience. Ho must be pliant, yet immovable: subtle, yet straightforward; keen, yet blunt. He must know all the frailties of human nature, and yet be not too cynical to comprehend its goodness; he must be an advocate, and at the same time a judge.

In short, he must bo a chief of New York detectives; and, whatever else his office may be, it is certainly no sinecure. Of the countless dramas and episodes that comb to his knowledge, many cannot be told again; and many, if told, would not be credited, so different from the strangeness of fiction is the strangeness of real life. On the other hand, not a few of these tales can be repeated without indiscretion, and, in all substantial respects, precisely as they actually came to pass. Such narratives have one advantage over the conceptions of the imagination, that they are a record of facts, not fancies, and carry the authority and impressiveness of fact. But they also labor under a disadvantage which, perhaps, more than balances the gain of reality; for facts are stubborn, and accommodate themselves but awkwardly to the rules of artistic construction and symmetry.

Like rocks in a New England farm, they are continually cropping up where they are least wanted. And yet it will sometimes happen that nature so nearly accommodates herself to art that the story assumes a tolerable grace and proportion; and such a one is contained in the pages that follow. But, although the sequence and character of the events has been adhered to, the names of the persons are changed; for the affair took place but a short while since, and nearly all the actors in it are still alive, and several of them moving in the best society in New York. Mr. Bartemus Nolen was a representative of a good New York family, and was possessed of comfortable means; by profession he was a lawyer.

lie was a member of the Episcopalian church, and he married, at the outset of his career, a lady of the same persuasion, a woman jf excellent education and gentle and benevolent disposition. The first twenty years of their married life passed happily and prosperously; two sons were born to 'them, and a few vears later a daughter, Pauline. Sir. Nolen achieved honor and eminence in his profession; the boys did well in school and afterward at college, and the daughter gave promise of singular intelligence and beauty a promise which was afterward fulfilled. But at length the current of luck took a turn, and began to set against the honest lawyer.

He was affected with a cataract in one of his eyes, which had not proceeded far, when the other also showed signs of being affected; this misfortune was a serious drawback to his practice, and finally compelled him to abandon it almost entirely. Of course, practice meant money, and the cessation frcu it diminution of income. There was still enough left, however, to live upon with comfort, if not luxuriously; but vuifortuuatcly Mr. Nolen, being deprived of his customary mental employment, took to thinking of other things; and one of the subjects of his meditation was the feasibility of getting larger returns from his invested property. Among his acquaintance were many men whose trade was finance, and Bartemus got in the habit of counseling with them upon financial matters.

No doubt they gave him the best advice at their disposal; but when one begins to buy stocks, advice is of little use; and Mr. Nolen, after several ups and clowns, came down with somewhat of a thump, to the extent of about a third part of his total possessions. At this juncture ho proved his exceptional irood sense a ml self coutrol; for he never risked another dollar in speculation. Neither did he reveal the faetof his losses. which was at least prudent.

But these From this morning's edition. A small detachment of United States troops passed through on train 3 yesterday, en route west. Travel on. the Nypano was so heavy yesterday that an extra car had to be put on train 3 in this city to accommodate the exodes of students and Commencement visitors. The funeral of the late James Brandon took place at the stricken home in Mead township yesterday forenoon, in the presence of a large number of friends.

Appropriate services were conducted by Rev. H. H. McCl'intock and the remains were laid to rest in Kiser Cemetery. Yesterday's dolinquentsat Police Mag-IstratePentz'sCourt were JohnLong and his deg.

The principal chargeagainstthe dog was that he got into bad company, but he looked ashamed and sorry and was let go with a reprimand. John whacked up three dollars and costs and also departed. Rev. Marshall's easy way of making two persons one is evidently taking. Mr.

John Campbell and Miss Lydia Newton, both of Jamestown, were made one on June 13th. Mr. Charles B. Calvin and Miss Mary Bgeman were united at the Baptist Church Wednesday, June and on the evening of June 27th Mr. George F.

Dunbar and Miss Elizabeth Turner united dostinies through words spoken by Rev. Marshall. And still we are told there are more to come. Base ball at Amusement Park, Wednesday and Thursday. The attraction will be the Meadvilles vs.

"Our Boys," of Pittsburg, and the series will comprise three games, two of which will be played on the 4th. From the fact that both are strong clubs, and there will be no other attraction in this city on the Fourth, the two games on that day will probably draw an immense attendance. Those who expect to go away on the Fourth can see the Wednesday game. About 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon Andrew McCarty met with a painful fall at the rear of Wallace Flynn's store. He was on a high load of rags and when the driver, after being warned, carelessly stated his team with a jerk, some of the top sacks began to roll.

Mr. McCarty, who was on the back end of the load, saw that he was bound to fall and attempted to save himself by jumping. He struck partially on one side on the cobble stones and for a few minutes it was thought he was badly hurt. With assistance he was able, in a short time, to get up and walk away, but evidently suffered severely from the wrench. According to reports the driver was extremely careless in the way he started his team.

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NOLEN'S face, which had assumed an expression of pensive and brooding sadness, brightened at her daughter's name, and she looked up at the judge with an expectant air. "Pauline is now eighteen years old," the latter observed. "As I look back, it seems impossible, but so it is. I re member her as an infant lying in your arms; and it does not seem to me that I have changed much since then. And yet Pauline is a woman, and has more character and substance, too, than many r.

woman of twice her age. What miracles time works!" "She is the best girl in the world!" said the mother tenderly. "I am much inclined to agree with you," responded the judge. "She is so strong, so clear sighted, so faiSiful and upright," pursued Mrs. Nolen.

"And yet there is nothing cold or unsympathetic about her. When her emotions aro touched, she seems all fire and spirit. I am sure no sister ever loved her brother, nor any daughter her mother, as Paulino loves Percy and me." "I can well believe it. And have you ever seen signs in her of another sort of love not that of the daughter or the sister?" "Oh, I am afraid to think of that!" re turned Mrs. Nolen, pressing her white hands nervously together.

"It is so easy for a girl to make a mistake; and for her a mistake would be fatal! "I think she has good sense enough not to fall into any serious error," said the judge, "though I am no less per suaded that, if she loved a man who in himself was worthy of her, she would allow no considerations of merely selfish prudence to prevent her union with him. But I was going to ask you," he added, with a certain subdued anxiety in his deep toned voice, "whether it has come to your knowledge whether you have any reason to think that she has already met any one who whom she would be likely to prefer to any one else?" "I have not thought of it it has not occurred to me!" said Mrs. Nolen. with an accent of apprehension, looking at the judge with wide open eyes. "It is hardly too soon to take such a possibility into consideration," lie returned.

"Pauline is mature for her age; and it is not too much to say that she is one of the most beautiful young women in New York. You take her a good deal into society; she can hardly fail to meet with admiration." "Yes, yes, you right," said the mother. "Now that you speak of it, I see that such a thing may But she has spoken to me of no one, and I am sure she would have spoken if "Do not trust too inuoh to that," he interposed. "A young girl, with a mind as healthy and pure as hers, does not readily ask herself if she he in love; she may become so before she is aware of it, and only the avowal of her lover will open her eyes. Till then you cannot expect her to speak of it to you.

And then, if she have made up her mind, it would be too late to speak." "But would you advise me to question her? Might it not suggest to her something which she otherwise would not have thought of?" "That is not improbable. But why not approach the matter from the other side? Is there no or uong the young men who know her viio have shown signs of any particular interest in "They all seem to admire her," said Mrs. Nolen. "But I can think of no one in particular unless it lie Percy's friend, Mr. Martin." "Valentine Martin the young Englishman?" "Yes.

Percy sometimes brings him here. But his being-a friend of Percy makes a difference between him and the others." "How so?" "In the fact of his being here oftener. I mean, if it were not for that I should think his visits had some further significance." "I am not altogether convinced that his being a f-iiml of Percy would deprive visits of significance," said the judge. "It is conceivable, at any rate, that he nii'iht havo made a friend of Percy in order to facilitate hiii access to Pauline." in a voice of faint consternation. "So far as I know he may be the best fellow in England.

But I know nothing about him one way or the other. How did Percy become acquainted with him?" "He met him somewhere at some club, I imagine." "That may be all right, or it may not. At all events, you will see that you should proceed with some circumspection. The rules that apply to our young men do not necessarily apply to foreigners. Mr.

Martin may be much better educated, and have more polished and quiet manners, than nine out of ten of your American acquaintances; and yet it might be better that Pauline should marry the least attractive of the latter than Mr. Martin." "I wish you would see him and find out whether he is nice," said Mrs. Nolen, with anxious earnestness. "I would willingly do so, but for one reason," the judge replied, "and that is that the peculiar circumstances might disqualify me from forming an unbiased opinion." "Oh, I am not afraid of that. My husband used to say that there could be no one more impartial and just than you." "Even assuming that judgment of his to have been impartial, I should nevertheless be disqualified from presiding at a trial where, for instance, the prisoner was charged with the murder of some friend of my own." "I do not uuierstand.

Mr. Martin has surely not urdered any one?" "Bless me, no! I was only using an extreme illustration. But Mr. Martin might wish to obtain something which I had set my own heart on possessing. There was a manifest embarrassment in the judge's manner.

Mrs. Nolen looked puzzled. She began to suspect there was something behind all this, but she could not divine what it was. "I began life pretty early, as you know," continued he, after a pause. "Since the age of 14, I believe, I have supported myself.

Measuring my existence by that standard, I might be called an old man. But though, in the matter of years, I am not exactly a boy, yet I am but 43 years old, and you will admit, my dear, that men have been known to live a good deal longer than that." "I am sure you will live to be twice 43," put in Mrs. Nolen kindly. "Half that is all I would ask, if I might realize the happiness that I hope for," returned the judge, with a faint smile. "And is tliis happiness anything that I can help'to insure you?" "I can hardly say that.

In fact, it is essential in one way that it should come, if come at all, as freely and spontaneously as the sunshine from heaven. Nevertheless, I am under obligation to speak to you of my hopes, that you may appreciate my position and understand my conduct." He stopped, and the color mounted to his face. "I love Pauline," he said, a strong emotion vibrating in his voice. "I hope to make her love me and to accept me for her husband." "Oh, judge!" exclaimed Mrs. Nolen, taken wholly by surprise.

She looked at him intently for a few moments, and then the startled look in her face softened, and she began to smile. She left her chair, and, coming to where he sat, put a hand upon his shouldcx-; and as he looked up at her she bent down and kissed him upon the forehead. She was still sniihng, but there were tears in her eyes. "Do you think me absurd?" said the judge. "I think you are right," was her reply.

"At first I could not believe I liad always looked up to you as to a sort of elder brother I could not imagine you as the husband of my little daughter my own son-in-law. But I think you are right. Pauline is a little girl no longer; in almost everything but years she is older than she is fitted to be the wife of a man even so much older than herself as you are. No one of her own age would suit her as well." "Then you will not be against me?" he said, starting up. "Indeed, I will not.

All that I do shall be done for She pat her hands in his, and he grasped them warmly. "It sarily to be economical; neither did it involve regular habits or early hours. Before long Percy was convinced that the sort of life he was leading was not compatible with making a home under his mother's roof; so he took bachelor rooms on the west side of the city and went to bed and got up at what o'clock it best pleased him. He did not keep away from home altogether; he would drop in now and then, when nothing else was going on, sometimes to lunch, some times to dinner, sometimes to accompany his sister to the opera or theatre, but ho had cut loose from his mother apron strings and showed no present signs of meaning to come back to them. He was living a fast life, and not the best kind of fast life either.

One of the executors of Mr. Bartemus Nolen's will was Judge Odin Ketelle, a gentleman who had at one period been a partner of Nolen's, and had always remained on intimate and friendly terms with the family. He was a man of position and influence, and was quietly and steadily amassing a large fortune. Mrs, Nolen, in her anxietv about Percy, nat urally turned to this friend for counsel; and probably she could not have done better if she were to do anything. The judge heard her timid and fond complaints, in which she tried to shield the son whose misdeeds she was forced tc exriose.

When she had finished ho sat wit his hands folded on the table and his eyes under their thick eyebrows fixed in iioughtful contemplation as he had been wont to sit on tho bench when considering some point of law advanced by counsel. "If a hoy wants to lie a fool he mostly succeeds in his wish," he remarked after a while. "Percy has a good deal of untamed blood in his composition, and he will probably work it off in his own fashion. His father gave him his money without conditions or restrictions, hoping that the sense of responsibility would sober him; but it will need more than that. He will spend it: that is, throw it into the gutter and then we may look for the dawning of reason in him." "I am sure he is a good boy," said his mother.

"He is only full of life and thoughtless." "There is no reason to suppose him actually vicious," the judge replied, "and, that being the case, we may expect that the want of money will bring him to terms. I do not look to see his father's son commit any act thift will bring him under the cognizance of the law; he is, I take it, incapable of any dishonesty; consequently, when he lecoiiies bankrupt, he must do one of three things; either he will sit down and starve like a gentleman, or he will find some employment that will give him a living, or he will come back to you. like his prodigal prototype in Holy Writ." "Percy starve! Oh, judge!" faltered Mrs. Nolen. "Do not be Percy will not starve," returned he, with a slight flavor of irony in his tone, "lie is not naturally disposed to asceticism, nor has lie.