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[SPEAKER_00]: The red headed league.
[SPEAKER_00]: Part two.
[SPEAKER_00]: We traveled by the underground as far as old as gate, and a short walk took us to Sax-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular story which we had listened to in the morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a pokey little shabby gentile place, where four lines of dingy two-storyed brickhouses looked out into a small railed in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three-gilt balls and a brown board with Jabez Wilson in white letters, upon a corner house, announced the place where our red-headed client carried on his business.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between puckered lids.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then he walked slowly up the street and then down again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Finally he returned to the porn brokers and having thumped vigorously upon the pavement with his stick two or three times.
[SPEAKER_00]: He went up to the door and knocked.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was instantly opened by a bright-looking clean-shaven young fellow who asked him to step in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Said Holmes, I only wish to ask you how you would go from here to the strand.
[SPEAKER_00]: The third right fourth left answered the assistant promptly closing the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: Smart fellow that observed homes as we walked away.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is, in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring I am not sure that he has not acclaimed to be third.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have known something of him before.
[SPEAKER_00]: Evidently, said I.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good deal in this mystery of the red-headed league.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am sure that you inquired your way merely in order that you might see him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not him.
[SPEAKER_00]: What then?
[SPEAKER_00]: The knees of his trousers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what did you see?
[SPEAKER_00]: what I expected to see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why did you beat the pavement?
[SPEAKER_00]: My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are spies in an enemy's country.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know something of Saxcoberg Square.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the corner from the retired Saxcoberg Square presented as great a contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the city to the north and west.
[SPEAKER_00]: The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, while the footpaths were black with the harring swarm of pedestrians.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line of fine shops and stately business premises that they really abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square which we had just quit it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me see, said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing along the line.
[SPEAKER_00]: I should like just to remember the order of the houses here, it is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is mortemers, the tobacconist, the little newspaper shop, the coberg branch of the city in suburban bank, the vegetarian restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building depot.
[SPEAKER_00]: That carries us right onto the other block.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now, Doctor, we've done our work so it's time we had some play.
[SPEAKER_00]: A sandwich and a cup of coffee and then off to violin land where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.
[SPEAKER_00]: My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a very capable performer, but a composer of no ordinary merit.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes, were as unlike those of homes the sleuth hound, homes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent as it was possible to conceive.
[SPEAKER_00]: In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself
[SPEAKER_00]: and his extreme exactness and a stuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.
[SPEAKER_00]: The swing of his nature took him from extreme anger to devouring energy, and as I knew well he was never so truly formidable as when for days on end.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his black letter additions.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition.
[SPEAKER_00]: Until those who are unaquainted with his methods would look as scancet him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I saw him that afternoon so enrapped in the music at St.
[SPEAKER_00]: James's Hall, I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want to go home, no doubt, Dr. He remarked as we emerged.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it would be as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I have some business to do, which will take some hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: This business at Coburg Square is serious.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why serious?
[SPEAKER_00]: A considerable crime is in contemplation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have every reason to believe that we shall be in time to stop it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But today being Saturday rather complicates matters.
[SPEAKER_00]: I shall want your help tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: At what time?
[SPEAKER_00]: Ten will be early enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: I shall be at Baker Street at ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: very well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I say, Dr, there may be some little danger, so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket.
[SPEAKER_00]: He waved his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the crowd.
[SPEAKER_00]: I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbors, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here I had heard what he had heard, I had seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that he saw clearly not only what had happened, but what was about to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well to me, the whole business was still confused and grotesque.
[SPEAKER_00]: As I drove home to my house in Kensington, I thought over it all.
[SPEAKER_00]: From the extraordinary story of the red-headed copier of the encyclopedia, down to the visit to Saxcoberg Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was this nocturnal expedition and why should I go armed?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where were we going and what were we to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: I had the hint from homes that this smooth, faced porn brokers assistant was a formidable man, a man who might play a deep game.
[SPEAKER_00]: I tried to puzzle it out but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside until night should bring an explanation
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a quarter past nine when I started from home and made my way across the park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker Street.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two handsomes were standing at the door, and as I entered the passage I heard the sound of voices from above.
[SPEAKER_00]: On entering his room I found homes in animated conversation with two men, one of whom I recognized as Peter Jones, the official police agent.
[SPEAKER_00]: While the other was a long, thin, sad, faced man, with a very shiny hat and a pressively respectable frock coat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ha!
[SPEAKER_00]: Our party is complete, said Holmes, butting up his pee jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack.
[SPEAKER_00]: Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones of Scotland Yard, let me introduce you to Mr. Merryweather who is to be our companion in tonight's adventure.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Said Jones in his consequential way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our friend here is a wonderful man for starting a chase.
[SPEAKER_00]: All he wants is an old dog to help him to do the running down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase, observe Mr. Maryweather gloomily.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes' sir," said the police agent, loftily.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has his own little methods, which are, if he won't mind by saying so, just a little toothed theoretical and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of the Shulto murder and the accurate treasure, he has been more nearly correct than the official force.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right, said the stranger with difference.
[SPEAKER_00]: Still, I confess that I miss my rubber.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is the first Saturday night for seven and twenty years that I have not had my rubber.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you will find, said Sherlock Holmes, that you will play for a higher stake tonight than you have ever done yet, and that the play will be more exciting.
[SPEAKER_00]: For you, Mr. Maryweather.
[SPEAKER_00]: The stake will be some thirty thousand pounds, and for you, Jones, it will be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a young man, Mr. Maryweather.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he is at the head of his profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on any criminal in London.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a remarkable man, his young John Clay.
[SPEAKER_00]: His grandfather was a royal duke and he himself has been to Eaton and Oxford.
[SPEAKER_00]: His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to find the man himself.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll crack a crib in Scotland when we can be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been on his track for years and have never said eyes on him yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay and I agree with you that he is at the head of his profession.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is past ten, however, and quite time that we started.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you two will take the first handsome, Watson and I will follow in the second.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in the afternoon.
[SPEAKER_00]: We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas lit streets until we emerged into Farrington Street.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are close there now, my friend Remarkt.
[SPEAKER_00]: This fellow Maryweather is a bank director and personally interested in the matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought it as well to have Jones with us also.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has one positive virtue.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we are, and they are waiting for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had found ourselves in the morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our cabs were dismissed and following the guidance of Mr. Maryweather, we passed down a narrow passage and through a side door which he opened for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Within there was a small corridor which ended in a very massive iron gate.
[SPEAKER_00]: This also was opened and led down a flight of winding stone steps which terminated at another formidable gate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Maryweather stopped to light a lantern.
[SPEAKER_00]: and then conducted as down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so after opening a third door into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all round with crates and massive boxes.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are not very vulnerable from above, homes remarked as he held up the lantern and gazed about him
[SPEAKER_00]: Nor from below, said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon the flags which line the floor.
[SPEAKER_00]: By dear me, it sounds quite hollow.
[SPEAKER_00]: He remarked, looking up in surprise.
[SPEAKER_00]: I must really ask you to be a little more quiet, said Holmes severely.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have already imperiled the whole success of our expedition.
[SPEAKER_00]: Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit down upon one of those boxes and not to interfere,
[SPEAKER_00]: The solemn Mr. Meryweather purged himself upon a crate, with a very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his knees upon the floor, and with the lantern and a magnifying lens began to examine my newtly the cracks between the stones.
[SPEAKER_00]: A few seconds suffice to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again and put his glass in his pocket.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have at least an hour before us.
[SPEAKER_00]: he remarked.
[SPEAKER_00]: For they can hardly take any steps until the good porn broker is safely in bed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then they will not lose a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the sooner they do their work the longer time they will have for their escape.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are at present, Doctor, as no doubt you have devined.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the cellar of the city branch of one of the principal London banks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Maryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at present.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is our French gold, whispered the director.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have had several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your French gold?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: We had occasions some months ago to strengthen our resources and borrowed for that purpose, thirty thousand Napoleon's from the Bank of France.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has become known that we have never had occasion to unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar.
[SPEAKER_00]: The crater upon which I sit contains two thousand Napoleon's pack between layers of lead foil.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our reserve of boolean is much larger at present than is usually kept in a single branch office and the directors have had misgivings upon the subject.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which were very well justified, observed homes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now it is time that we arranged our little plans.
[SPEAKER_00]: I expect that within an hour matters will come to a head.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the meantime, Mr. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sit in the dark.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am afraid so.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and I thought that, as we were a party curry, you might have your rubber after all.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I see that the enemy's preparations have gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light.
[SPEAKER_00]: And first of all, we must choose our positions.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are daring men.
[SPEAKER_00]: And though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us some harm unless we are careful.
[SPEAKER_00]: I shall stand behind this crate and do you conceal yourselves behind those.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then when I flesh a light upon them, close in swiftly.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they fire Watson, have no compunction about shooting them down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I placed my revolver cocked upon the top of the wooden case behind which I crouched.
[SPEAKER_00]: Homes shot the slide across the front of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness, such an absolute darkness as I have never before experienced.
[SPEAKER_00]: The smell of hot metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready to flash out at a moment's notice.
[SPEAKER_00]: To me, with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom and in the cold dank air of the vault.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have but one retreat, whispered homes.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is back through the house into Saxcoberg Square.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that you have done what I asked you, Jones.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we have stopped all the holes and now we must be silent and wait.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a time it seemed.
[SPEAKER_00]: From comparing notes afterwards it was but an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us.
[SPEAKER_00]: My limbs were weary and stiff for I feared to change my position.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yet my nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, heavier in breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sowing note of the back director.
[SPEAKER_00]: From my position I could look over the case in the direction of the floor.
[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly my eyes caught the glint of a light.
[SPEAKER_00]: At first it was but a lured spark upon the stone pavement.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then it lengthened out until it became a yellow line.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand appeared.
[SPEAKER_00]: A white almost womanly hand which felt about in the center of the little area of light.
[SPEAKER_00]: For a minute or more, the hand, with its writhing fingers protruded out of the floor.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all was dark again saved the single lurid spark which marked a chink between the stones.
[SPEAKER_00]: Its disappearance, however, was but momentary.
[SPEAKER_00]: With a rending tearing sound, one of the broad white stones turned over upon its side and left a square gaping hole through which streamed the light of a lantern.
[SPEAKER_00]: Over the edge there peaked a clean-cut boyish face which looked keenly about it, and then with a hand on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge.
[SPEAKER_00]: In another instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after him a companion, lie than small like himself, with a pale face and a shock of very red hair.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all clear, he whispered.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you the chisel in the bags?
[SPEAKER_00]: Great Scott.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jump Archie, jump and I'll swing for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar.
[SPEAKER_00]: The other dived down the hole and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: The light flashed upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone floor.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's no use John Clay, said Holmes, blindly.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have no chance at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I see the other answered with the utmost coolness.
[SPEAKER_00]: I fancy that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his coat tails.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are three men waiting for him at the door, said Holmes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh indeed, you seem to have done the thing very completely.
[SPEAKER_00]: I must compliment you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I, you, Holmes answered.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your red-headed idea was very new and effective.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's quicker at climbing down holes than I am, just hold out while I fix the derbies.
[SPEAKER_00]: I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands, remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have the goodness also, when you address me always to say, sir and please,
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, said Jones with a stare and a snigger.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, would you please sir?
[SPEAKER_00]: Much upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry your highness to the police station?
[SPEAKER_00]: That is better, said John Clay serenely.
[SPEAKER_00]: He made a sweeping bow to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the detective.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really, Mr. Holmes said, Mr. Maryweather, as we followed them from the cellar, I do not know how the bank can thank you or repay you.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. John Clay, said Holmes,
[SPEAKER_00]: I have been at some small expense over this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund.
[SPEAKER_00]: But beyond that, I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of the red-headed league.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see Watson?
[SPEAKER_00]: He explained in the early hours of the morning as we sat over a glass of whiskey and soda in Baker Street,
[SPEAKER_00]: It was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the league and the copying of the encyclopedia must be to get this not overbright porn broker out of the way for a number of hours every day.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a curious way of managing it but really it would be difficult to suggest a better.
[SPEAKER_00]: The method was no doubt suggested to clays in genius mind by the color of his accomplices hair
[SPEAKER_00]: the four pounds a week was a lure which must draw him, and what was it to them who were playing for thousands.
[SPEAKER_00]: They put in the advertisement.
[SPEAKER_00]: One rogue has the temporary office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and together they managed to secure his absence every morning in the week.
[SPEAKER_00]: From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive for securing the situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: But how could you guess what the motive was?
[SPEAKER_00]: Had there been women in the house I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigue?
[SPEAKER_00]: That, however, was out of the question.
[SPEAKER_00]: The man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his house which could account for such elaborate preparations and such an expenditure as they were at.
[SPEAKER_00]: It must then be something out of the house.
[SPEAKER_00]: What could it be?
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought of the assistance fondness for photography and his trick of vanishing into the cellar, the cellar.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was the end of this tangled clue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was doing something in the cellar, something which took many hours a day for months on end.
[SPEAKER_00]: What could it be once more?
[SPEAKER_00]: I could think of nothing, save that he was running a tunnel to some other building.
[SPEAKER_00]: So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action.
[SPEAKER_00]: I surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was ascertaining whether the cell has stretched out in front or behind.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was not in front.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I rang the bell and as I hoped the assistant answered it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have had some skirmishes, but we had never set eyes upon each other before.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hardly looked at his face, his knees were what I wished to see.
[SPEAKER_00]: You must yourself have remarked how worn wrinkled and stained they were.
[SPEAKER_00]: They spoke of those hours of burrowing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only remaining point was what they were burrowing for.
[SPEAKER_00]: I walked around the corner saw the city and suburban bank abutted on our friends' premises and felt that I had solved my problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you drove home after the concert, I called upon Scotland Yard and upon the Chairman of the Bank Directors with the result that you have seen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And how could you tell that they would make their attempt tonight?
[SPEAKER_00]: I asked.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, when they closed their league offices, that was a sign that they cared no longer about Mr. JB as Wilson's presence.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, that they had completed their tunnel.
[SPEAKER_00]: but it was essential that they should use it soon as it might be discovered or the bully and might be removed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Saturday would suit them better than any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape.
[SPEAKER_00]: For all these reasons, I expected them to come tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: You reasoned it out beautifully, I exclaimed in unfained admiration.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is so long a chain and yet every link rings true.
[SPEAKER_00]: It saved me from on me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He answered, yawning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alas, I already feel it closing in upon me.
[SPEAKER_00]: My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the common places of existence.
[SPEAKER_00]: These little problems help me to do so.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you are a benefactor of the race, said I. He shrugged his shoulders.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, perhaps after all, it is of some little use, he remarked.
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