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CHAPTER vi.
Believing in Ghosts.

~ Ut even as / stood there, staring
x DULY at the thing that lay in the
u palm of my hand, and glowed
duly back at me, with the i'm
renetrabie look OF mystery Jade always
las, the door from the reception room
'pened from behind me- l put the hand
With the earring into my trousers
socket. turned and faced jeffrey.
Did you meet Crow l asked. Hes
ust this minute gone"
He shook his head. II heard sou
alking in here as l came by the door,
o 1 waited. He made you quite visit.
Had he anything to say?'
oh, he wanted to see the portrait,
aid |. He said Miss Meredith was
Waiting for 1t with a mixture Of anN-
ETY. and dread"
She'll probably have it in a few
Ie thinks he knows where il is"
Where does ne think 1t is?' / asked.
Jeffrey shook his head. He didn't
ell me. He asked me a few questions
ouIdn't fellow him. It's the first time
nything like that ever happened TO me.
o be outguessed by policeman! I'm
osing M wits, l suppose. or course L
idn't ask him"
He walked moodily across to his Nor
IL tflcI anu uiOpptu ihNI ~ VAN Oil
ir OF utter iassitude and fatigue.
| hated to begin asking him questions.
'oor Jeffrey, If the inextricable tan
Ie Of coincidence, in which we were in
olYed already, terrified and bewildered
i'm what would his condition be when
3 heard the rest-when l told him the
hole story of my conversation with DR..
row. and when / showed him the thing
mad just put in my pocket. The thing
ad TO be done. however.
Jeffrey" said /, Miss Meredith and
ne doctor were terribly puzzled by tr,t
ortrait.''
.'PuzzIed?"
nodded. Jeffrey, it's more like the
riginal than the photograph was.
expected his eyes TO widen at tf2t,
nd his body to grow tense. 1nstea..
nswered indifferentIy enough.
What Of il? II ought to be
Ike it,
You mean, I suppose, that any really
Teat artist sees beneath the surface
things-depicts an inner truth that
Inner truth be blowed-' interrupt
4 jeffrey. Its surfaces I'm talking
bout. A photograph of anything but
fat object is never by any possibility
ofrect- You can photograph an etch-
* or the page out of a book. or a set
working drawings, with absolute ac-
uracy, but never anything in the
ound- There Is only one plane in q
photograph that Is in true focus. Every
iing that comes nearer than that plane
too big. Everything behind that
lane is too small. Any competent
raftsman can correct photograph
nd any competent portrait painter can
Amt from . photograph a portrait that
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NEW YORK STOCKS
RECEDE SLIGHTLY

NEW YORK, April 2.-The New York
stock market receded somewhat from
It's strong position of yesterday, but
there were many stocks that still ad-
vanced. and the losses of those stocks
that receded were small. Steel was
down only quarter a point; Union
three-Quarters. and Reading three
eighths around l O'clock The same
decline was seen in Copper Rubber
was one of the strongest issues on the
and made a net gain of a point and
three-Quarters. Brooklyn was another
strong ones making an advance Of one
and three-eishths. Other gamers were
General Electric, Gas. Railway Steel
Corn Products. Great Western, Third
Avenue. Bethlehem Steel, preferred; !;
Interboro, preferred. and Lenigh Valley.
Money eased off to AZ per cent
The bears made what they could of
house of Gustav Purse, but it was
little noticed in Berlin.
The St Paul road has arranged to
extend G,l55,Oco of Milwaukee and
Northern first mortgage bonds and
so.os2.o 900 consolidated mortgage bonds
to June l, 1884. at ~ per cent interest
rate.
The Subtreasury has transferred an
additional 100000 to Cincinnati for ac-
count of local banks. Transfers to that
treasury gained 81 .2S7. 600 from the banks
yesterday, and since Friday has gained
$3.50 200.
The Anaconda Copper Mining Com
pany's March output OF smelters was
$500 600 pounds of copper. compared
with q, 80. 900 pounds in February, and
q. 900 pounds in January.
The next dividend on Greene-C Cananea
will probably be passed. The mine is
closed and there are no Southern Pacific
trains.
James A. Patten, a director Of the
Rumely Company. says that the COM
mon dividend will probably be discon-
tinued.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
ordered 1,500 freight cars
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Wholesale Produce MARKET

Eggs-Nearby fresh. Isc per doz.: South.
ern. 16izc-
Cheese-New York. new. lsc lb.; nat. PC.
Butter-Elgin print. 31a3sc; tub. asq3sc !b.
process, Ac ID.
Live Poultry-Hens. lsc h.; roosters, Sd1ot
per h.: turkeys. 1sa2oc per H.: chickens
large, 23@24c per H.; medium, 21c per Ib.
Dressed Poultry-Turkeys. ez922tc per Ib.
hens. 2oa2ec per h.: ducks. 17c lb.; chickens
lsc per lb.
Green Fruits-CaIifornia oranges, s. 0Od3 0
per box; lemons. 500 per box: pineapples per
crate, $500; Florida grapefruit. $50 per
box; tangerines. se.10026o per box: apples.
81 coal. Is per Dbl.
Meats Dressed-Lghtweisht pork. nq12c
per lb.: heavier. lie per ID.
Observation-Disclosures. So per bu.: celery, &c
s5c per crate; cabbage, sl.ts per 100 lbs
lettuce. Sl-sodL7o per basiee.: beets. s.. 80
G1. 10 per 100 punches: squash, $1-25 bbl. swee,
potatoes. Sl-o0 per bu.: lima beans, lIc per
ct: caulifower. S.ooa2.oc Der bbl.
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Copyright. 1912. Frank A. Munsey Co.

, Left it, Crow"
"Oh, quite involuntarily. He had his
gloves on and he was fishing in his card
| case for a card with his address on it.
Il had his address, said jeffrey.
His confidence In you as a letter
writer is very limited said /. and he
said he really wanted an explanation of
| that green streak in the shadow under
the ear. He relied on me to get II for
him. The earring must have been In
his card he dropped It. That's a very
soft. thick rug, and didn't make any
noise"
Grow" said jeffrey thoughtfully.
Grow. ] wonder If he will turn out to
be the beginning. / wonder If the first
step In our mystery lies his way"
The first step I cried. Then You
haven't solved It,
Solved it, cried Jeffrey. 81 haven't
tried to solve it-haven't tried to
| solve it-haven't begun to solve it,
But" l protested, up there in the
studio you said you had had a bad
scare. but 1t was over
Yes said Jeffrey. The scare was
over and the mystery begun. Can't you
! see what a relief II is to know that II is
! a mystery? What do you suppose 1t
was that / was afraid of? That | had
seen a ghost?'
Why. something like that" said ].
81 am perfectly willing TO see ghost -
odiQ JShitS' IL can pt convinced tnat
II is Shost-an outside ghost-some-
body elses ghost AS well as mine. The
thing that terrified me was that
couldn't prove, even to myself. that 1t
was anything more than kink In my
own mind-a bunch or hallucinations
and obsesstons of my own producing the
sort Of things that make the alienists
rich.
But now | know that what I saw
on the bridge that night in Paris was
I'm going to find out which II was
Was So curious about tets me out. No
mania. and lie - evidently as curious
about the thing that wore the earring
. rs | am
He or Miss Meredith" said !.
Yes, he or the mysterious Miss
Meredith" Jeffrey assented. For the
| present we'll consider them one person,
and that one person DR.. Crow. Now let
us try to figure out Crows position
/ This is going to be logic, which IS your
! department. So YOU Will have to correct
me if go wrong.
Grow gets mt to paint a portrait
We don't know why he came to me- I
didn't want to paint II. and he insisted.
The question is Had he any reason for
! insisting beyond the fact that his client
was rich and that ! was fashiuna Die ?
/ We have no means of answering that
question yet. / didn't tell him where
nv studio was the last time ] spent a
winter IN Paris. but he might have
found u out from some one else"
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is more like than the photograph itself"
His manner nettled me a little: all the
more because il was SO rare with him.
OF course. he had some excuse for
remembered that any sort of culture
talk about Art. with a big A. always
made him impatient. But he had made
II easier than 1 had expected, to speak
about the earring.
"All right" said /. We'll let the in
ner truth be blowed as far as you like
and get down to facts. Did you do
anything besides correcting the drawing
in the photograph"
"Besides?'
Did you paint anything in it that
wasn't there? Did you make up any
thing and slap II in, just to make the
picture look better-or harmonize-or
compose better-or. well. for any other
He was looking at me keenly enough
! now.
! What do you mean?" he asked
What are you talking about?"
DIR: Crow" said ], expressed some
streak in the shadow under the ear lie
wondered If 1t had been meant to rep
resent an earring-say Jade earring:
Jeffrey was on his feet now. and his
ewes were blazing DID db ne ask ina a.
| demanded.
Just that way, Jeffrey" His excite
| ment had infected me now. and my
question asked itself jerkily. Jeffrey.
was there a jade earring in the other
portrait-the one you found in your
studio when you came back from
Etaples?''
He didn't answer for a full minute.
! And all the while his unseeinS eyes
never left my face. All the power of
his mind was concentrated in the strug-
gle to reproduce and perfect a memory.
No., he said at last. 1T wasn't in
the portrait. But / can tell you where
| it was. Drew. II was in the ear of the
girl who stood beside me on the bridge
that night at Paris"
What did II look like?" l asked
! breathlessly
Once more ne took his time about an
| swering. His eyelids narrowed to Sits.
| and the contracted pupils were no big
Der than pin points.
There was tiny ring which pierced
| the lobe of the ear" he said. land be-
low that. a small. perfect sphere Of
| jade: below that was long. rounded,
| tapertng pendant. It's as clear to me
as II had It In my hand
Like this?" ] asked. and I took my
! palm lay the thing he had described.
The moment ] uncovered IL I regretted
| having sprung this last mine I'm so the
| atricsl a fashion. Had ] not been as
| excited as ne ] should't have done 1t.
! Because I really feared that the shock
| of this last-colld ] call II a coinci-
dence might do him a serious injury.
NV own brain was reeling with the
! weird. incredible extravaganza of II,
J and to me the whole thing came al sec
| ond hand. What would II be to him who
! had felt the unknown. undiscoverabls
T, presence in his Paris studio who had seer
the photograph Of the same face. and
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Sales Today on the
Local Exchange
Washington Gas SIS, s1.oood1oS.

Washington Gas SIS, s1.OoOd1osS.
Washington Railway and Electric fs,
sJo0aS4st
NorfOik and Washington Steamboat
SIS, $1.000I104Iz.
Washington Railway and Electric pre-
ferred. 1d91, 1d90ls.
Washington Gas, 3dS43.. sass. 2as5.
Lanston, 2CaS5. 20dS5.
Union Trust, 1oal35ls. 1odl35h.
After call-Washington Railway and
Electric As, $l,000dS3l2. sl,0O0IS3h
s1.OOOds31s. s1,Oooas3Ia. 81. l.O00dS3ls, $4,000
S3it.
Washington Gas SIS. s1.oO0G1Osla
S1.co0d 1857.
Lanston, 10Gso.
Metropolitan Railroad SIS. Sl,oo0d105.
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Weds Army Lieutenant.

ASHEVILLE, N. c.. April 2.-The
wedding here today Of Miss Emma
Gudger and Lieut.. Robert L. Eichelber-
ger, U. S. A., was attended by a num-
ber of persons Of prominence in mill
tary and official circles. The bride is
the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Gudger.
OF the Canal Zone. and a niece OF Con-
gressman James NJ. Gudger.
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PROPOSALS

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF
THE DISTRICT Of COLUMBIA. WASH
lngton March 20. 1915. Sealed proposals will
be received at this office until TWO o'clock.
D. m Thursday April 10. 1918. for furnish
ing and delivering nve 5I motor lAtrol
wagons. fo- use IN the Police Department.
this city. Specifications and form Of pro-
rosal may be obtained from the Purchasing
officer, ID. e. CUNO n. RUDOLPH. JOHN
A. JOHNSTON. CHESTER HARDING. Com
missioners n. c.
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The Safest Investments
PUBLIC NOTICES.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. WASH
inston. March 81. 1919. NOTICE Is hereby
given that. In accordance with provision
contained in Public Act No. <3S, approved
March 1. 1918. authorizing changes in the
permanent system of Highways plan for
that part Of the District Of Columbia lying
outside Of cities. the Commissioners Of the
District of Columbia will give public
hearing In the Board Room Of said COM
missloners on April 18th, 1913. At lo:L o'clock
A. Vi. to all parties interested or owning
land within and surrounding the territory
lying between Iowa Avenue and lIth Street.
Buchanan Street and Decatur Street. north
west. A plan Of the proposed change. aban-
doning Crittenden Street between Arkansas
Avenue and lith Street. will be displayed.
and the Commissioners Will consider any
suggestions or protests concerning the pro-
posed change as shown or the above-men-
toned plan. CCSO II. RUDOLPH. JOHN
A. JOHNSTON. CHESTER HARDING. Com
missoners Of the District OF Columbia
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A Continuation Of This story VIII
be Found In Tomorrow
Issue Of The Times.
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BURGLARS PENALTY
THREE YEARS IN JAIL
Sentenced on Two Charges, for
Same Length Of Time, Terms
to Be Concurrent.

ROCKVILLE. Md. April 2.-Edward
J. Whitley. who pleaded guilty to en-
tering the home of Mrs. Sarah L. Kelley
and p. Hicks Ray, near Colesville, sew
cral weeks ago. and stealing numerous
articles, was sentenced by Judge Peter
to three years In the Maryland peniten-
tiary for each case. the sentences to
run concurrently.
Oiney over the announcement of tile
presence of a Yell-defined case of small
poX in that section. Arthur Sc Iby.
colored, thirty-iive years old, became
i'll about Il week ago and his case has
been diagnosed by his physician, the
county hea. tn officer and a representa-
tive of the State health department as
genuine smallpox. He and The membe5r
of his household have been quarantined
and every precaution has been taken 10
prevent spread of the disease. For
several days after becoming Ill, Selby
went about the neighborhood as usual,
and A with whom he is known to
have come n contact with have been
vaccinated.
Josia J. Hutton has reconsdered mis-
determination to be a candidate for
county commissioner from the First
will not allow his name to 20 before
the Democratic primaries to be he'd In
September His withdraw leaves three
candidates for the Democratic nomin-
ation-Wiliam Fl. Griffith, Robert z.
Kanode, and Crittenden II. Waller.
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New York Curb Market.

Furnished to The Washin4ton Times b.
Hartman 4 Co. New York: q. B. ChiDnas
nnnassr local branch. Ssisrsdo Building.
Rld cod
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Investment in local securities was
seen again in today's session of the
Washington Stock Exchange. This
was distributed over Gas SIS, Washing
ION Railway As, Steamboat 5 S, and Met
copolitan Railroad SIS A total of $500
Of Railway As were sold at SS1t for
all except a $500 lot, and that brought
,4h The stock trading was light. Mer-
genthaler was stronger, but none of
The stock came out.
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Prof. Charles A. Douglas will deliver
he sixth lecture in the series on the
sw of negotiable instruments before the
Washington Chapter. American Insti-
lte of Banking. tonight at the chapter
boms.- 1914 F street northwest
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HELP WANTED-MAl.E

A NO. MAN Tor small farm. SO mo. and
board. Write v. ALG1RE. BerSyn, No
AGENTS wanted; very good proposition Ap-
mis- at cC3 Mass ave y. W.
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The next meeting of the Bankers
Association of the District of Columbia
will be held at the New Willard Hotel
IN Monday evening, April p. at 8
o'clock. No definite program has yet
,eep outlined
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-01-18
STRENGTHENING Levees.

Contractor r. Il. Stewart, of this
city, has been awarded the contract
Tor building al concrete reyetment on
the river side of the leVee extend
ing from the Bayou Lafourche dam to
ehe head of 5Hounas street. The
work will be done under the supervi-
sion of the Iafourehe Basin Levee
Board, and approximately $4,000
square yards Of concrete will be re-
CURED. The .reVetment will extend
from the top Of the levee to the
base, where twill be sunk four feet
into the ground. Mr. Stuart began
work on the. contract Thursday,
That portion Of the leFee just be-
low DonaldsonFiile extending from
Capt. Joseph Constantine residence
to the lower line of the Sims proper
" is also being strengthened By the
application Of concrete apron. :
The work Is being done by the United
States government, and has been I'M
der way since Monday
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-01-18
4 cAsEFoR PROMPT ACTION

TWenty-seVen more of the New Or
leans election officers who served
last November were indicted this
week for miscounting and falsely re-
turning the vote on the constitution
al amendments. This makes total
Of seVentg-tWo of these officials IN
der Indictment, and the grand jury
inquest is not yet at an end.
Two patches of the persons against
whom true bills were found have
been arraigned and entered pleas CT
not guilty. and an early trial Of the
cases is promised. It is due botn
TO the accused and the people OF
Louisiana tIaa this promise be Kept,
Those commissioners and clerks VINO
may be innocent are entitled TO
speedy aequittal and yindioation, while
The VOTERS Of the city of New Orie-
ans and state at large are no less
entitled to know whether their bal
lots have been miscounted and Il
SO, who committed the offense.
The people are further deeply IL
Jerested in having such penalties I'M
posed as will best tend to extirpate
this persistent and dangerous praG-
tice of pilfering and multiplying their
votes and rendering popular elections
farcical. If the machinery of the
law fails to bring about a reforma-
ton in this direction, the conclusion
must be unavoidable either that the
machinery is defective or the off
Gals charged with its operation fail
to come up Ito the standard of their
public duty and obligation.
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Everybody Boosting Race Track.

The movement to establish a race
track here is assuming definite shape
and it begins to look as though the
project will be realized. A survey
of the proposed site will be made to-
morrow forenoon by R. L. Stewart,
the well-knoWn local contractor, and
if it is found Of sufficient area to
permit the construction of a half
mile track steps will be taken at once
to organize stock company to
launch the venture. Few movements
started here have met with such I'M
qualified Endorsement as the race
track proposition, and the opinion is
general that the enterprise will be q
success from the start and a means
of bringing a large amount of bust
ness to this city.
With practically perfect train con-
nections, ample accommodations for
any number OF visitors, and an ex-
tensive drawing territory, Donaldson
vile is undoubtedly the logical
point for the location of an amuse-
lnent enterprise of this sort, and in
view CT the enthusiasm manifested at
the outset Of the movement, it's pop
ularity is evident and its success
therefore assured.
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Road Committee Meets.

The committee appointed by the po-
lice Jury to devise ways and means
for building gravel roads in the first
road district, comprising all the
wards on the west bank of the river,
met at the courthouse Thursday night
and discussed methods Of financing
the project. Several plans were con-
sidered, and it was finally decided
to hold another meeting at II o'clock
Sunday forenoon, when decisive ac-
ton will be taken and a definite prop
osition draned to be submitted to
the police jury. There We're present
at the conference President Adolphe
Meter and Secretary c. G. Weber OF
the police jury, Mayor Charles Maui
rim, Alex. Bloomenstiel, DIR. E. K.
Sims, c. H. Landry, T. B. Lemann,
Waller Lemann and G. D. Bentley.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-01-18

In connection with the proposed
construction of graveled roads In
this parish, the police jury at its
next meeting will adopt resolutions
requesting the State Highway De-
partment to make an inspection OF
the gravel roads in IberVille parish,
with a view to having these high
ways recognized as standard, for
this section of the state at least.
The highway department has ignored
the IberYille roads and failed to
inspect them, although invited TO
do so. The police jury Of Assump-
ton, and perhaps of other parishes
in this section, may be asked to
join in the petition. The good
roads movement has taken firm hold
here, and the construction of per-
manent ,hard-surfaced highways is
assured.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-01-18
Contract for New PoWerhouse
Awarded,

At meeting of the Municipal
Light and Water Commission We'd
nesday night, the contract for the
erection of the new poWerhoase
building was awarded to r. L. Stew
art, of this city, for $4,000 The only
other bidder was E. T. Elan, the
Alexandria contractor who is erect
ing the Elss, home here whose pre-.
posaI exceeded $4,000 The build
ing will be one story high, VITA
pressed brick front and ends, cement
floor, steel Orders and corrugated
iron roof. The foundations for the
machinery viii be built of concrete,
and the structure viii be absolutely
fireproof throughout, At viii be Of at
tractiEa appearance enthusiastically,
and one Of the bast-designed and
most modern power plant buildings in
the state, Construction work viii be
commenced aI once.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-01-18
r. and p, Demonstration Train.

The special agricultural demonstra-
ton train to be operated over its
lines IN Louisiana by the Texas and
Pacific Railroad, mention of which
was made in this paper several weeks
ago. will start from Port Allen satur-
day morning, Jan. rs, and arrive at
DonaldsonVille the following after
noon. The train will be opened
to visitors at 2 o'clock Monday morn
ing, Jan. u, and will remain here IN
til 10 a. M, when it will depart for
Plaquemine. The exhibits will en-
brace two carloads of fine stock, with
lectures upon their breeding, feed
ing and marketing, by men success
fully engaged I'M the business; a COM
prehensiye display Of agricultural and
horticultural products, with lectures
upon their growing and marketing,
BY successful growers; and a good
roads car fitted with good roads and
terrace models, upon which lectures
will be delivered by expert road
builders. An entire coach will be. de-
voted to the science of good house
keeping, with exhibits, demonstra-
tons and lectures upon home eco
nomics by the lady members of the
State University faculty
Cooperating with the T. and P.
Railroad in the operation Of this
splendid agricultural school on
wheels are the Louisiana State Uni
yersity, the State Department Of
Agriculture, the Farmers Co-opera-
tive Demonstration Bureau of the
~, 49, A .i,11l-
ture, and the Fort Worth Stock
Yards Company. The general public,
and farmers especially, are cordial
ly invited to visit the train, inspect
the exhibits, and listen to the vari-
Gus lectures, which can not fail to-
prove interesting and instructive.
Special rates to Donaldsonville from
nearby points will be offered by the
T. and Railroad on the day
the train visits this city
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-01-18
THE SUGAR HEARING AT
WASHINGTON

Domestic sugar interests had their
innings before the ways and means
committee of the house of represent
atives at Washington on Wednesday,
and while the time allotted for the
hearing was necessarily brief and
inadequate, there. seems to be much
reason for qualification by reason OF
the manner in which the spokesman
of the countryss cane and beat sugar
producers acquitted themselves. The
presentation of the case from the
two-fo1d standpoint of supplying the
governments needed revenues and
allowing valuable and deserving
home industry a living chance to
maintain itself was terse, forceful,
and to our Judgment convincing.