1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,679 The Miniature by J. Y Akerman. Calling one day on a friend who 2 00:00:05,759 --> 00:00:11,359 had amassed a large collection of autographs and other manuscript curiosities, he showed me 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,919 a small quarto volume which had been bequeathed to him by a relative, a 4 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:21,600 physician who for many years had been an extensive practice in London. He attended 5 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:27,199 the patients at a private asylum for insane persons of the better classes. Said 6 00:00:27,239 --> 00:00:30,640 my friend, and I have often heard him speak of the writer of that 7 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:35,719 beautiful manuscript, a gentleman of good family, who had been an inmate of 8 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,600 Blank House upwards of thirty years at the time he was first called to attend 9 00:00:40,679 --> 00:00:45,039 him. On looking over the volume, I found it filled with scraps of 10 00:00:45,079 --> 00:00:51,640 poetry, extracts from classic authors and even from the Talmudic writers. But what 11 00:00:51,759 --> 00:00:58,560 interested me most was a narrative of several pages which appeared so circumstantially related as 12 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,679 to leave little doubt of its being partly, if not wholly, founded on 13 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:07,400 fat. I beg permission to make a transcript, which was readily granted, 14 00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:11,280 and the result is before the reader. We laugh at what we call the 15 00:01:11,359 --> 00:01:18,120 folly of our ancestors and their notions of destiny and the malignant influences of the 16 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:23,519 stars. For what will our children deride us? Perhaps for dreaming that friendship 17 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:30,040 was a reality, and that constant love dwelt upon earth. I once believed 18 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,319 that friendship was not a vain name, and thought, with the antique sage 19 00:01:34,359 --> 00:01:38,719 that one mind sometimes dwelt in two bodies. I dreamt and woke to find 20 00:01:38,719 --> 00:01:44,599 that I had been dreaming. George s was my chum at school and my 21 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:49,280 inseparable companion at college. We quitted it at the same time, he to 22 00:01:49,319 --> 00:01:53,719 proceed to London, where he was in expectation of obtaining a lucrative appointment in 23 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,680 one of the English colonies, and I to return for a short period to 24 00:01:57,719 --> 00:02:02,719 the family mansion. When I reached Blank Hall, I found several visitors, 25 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:07,319 among whom was my cousin Maria d. She had grown a woman since I 26 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,280 had last met her, and I now thought I had never seen a more 27 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:16,000 perfect figure or a more bewitching countenance. Then she sang like a siren and 28 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:21,520 was an elegant horsewoman. Will those who read this wonder that I fell in 29 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,759 love with her, that I spent nearly the whole of the day in her 30 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,439 company, and that I could think of nothing in the world. Besides, 31 00:02:30,159 --> 00:02:36,120 something occurred to delay my friend George's departure from England, and as he was 32 00:02:36,159 --> 00:02:39,879 idling about town, I invited him to Blank Hall. Great as was my 33 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,719 regard for him, I now, however, discovered that I could live less 34 00:02:44,719 --> 00:02:49,319 in his company no marvel. I preferred the society of my lovely cousin, 35 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,719 upon whose art I had had the happiness to learn My constant attentions had already 36 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:59,400 made a sensible impression. I hesitated to make her an offer, though I 37 00:02:59,439 --> 00:03:05,159 had every reason to believe our attachment was mutual, partly perhaps from that excessive 38 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:09,360 delicacy which constantly attends on true love, and partly because I wished to do 39 00:03:09,439 --> 00:03:15,039 so. When my friend should have left us less exposed to intrusion, would 40 00:03:15,039 --> 00:03:17,319 that the deep sea had swallowed him up, or that he had wrought it 41 00:03:17,439 --> 00:03:23,159 under a tropical sun. Ere he had come to Blank Hall one morning, 42 00:03:23,199 --> 00:03:27,319 I rose earlier than usual, and was looking from my chamber window on the 43 00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:32,319 beautiful prospect which the house commanded wrapped in a delightful reverie of which my lovely 44 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:37,639 cousin was the principal subject. I paid, but little attention to the sound 45 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:42,960 of voices below. Suddenly, however, I awoke to consciousness for the sweet 46 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,319 tones of a woman in earnest conversation struck on my ear. Yes, it 47 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,960 was hers. It was Maria's. Who could have called her forth at so 48 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,520 early an hour. As I looked earnestly towards the walk which ran through the 49 00:03:54,560 --> 00:04:00,520 plantation, I saw emerge from it my cousin and my friend. My heart 50 00:04:00,599 --> 00:04:02,719 rose to my lips and choked my utterance, or I should have cried out 51 00:04:02,759 --> 00:04:08,159 at the sight, I withdrew from the window and threw myself on the sofa, 52 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:14,759 tormented with surmises a thousand times more painful even than realities. At the 53 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,360 breakfast table, I was moody and thoughtful, which my friend, perceiving attempted 54 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:23,839 a joke, but I was in no humor to receive it. When Maria, 55 00:04:23,879 --> 00:04:28,360 in a compassionating tone, remarked that I looked unwell and that I should 56 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,759 take a walk or a ride before breakfast, adding that she and George had 57 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,040 walked for an hour and more in a plantation near the house. Though this 58 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:42,439 announcement was certainly but ill calculated to afford perfect ease to my mind. It 59 00:04:42,519 --> 00:04:46,360 was yet made with such an artless air that my more gloomy surmises vanished, 60 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,279 and I rallied. But I wish my friend would take his departure right, 61 00:04:51,399 --> 00:04:58,879 truly, says the Italian proverb love's girden is jealousy. After breakfast, George 62 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,319 proposed a stroll on foot to the ruins of the Cistercian Abbey, about a 63 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,759 mile distant from the hall, to which I at once assented. As we 64 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:12,120 walked along the beautiful and shady lane which led to the ruin, George was 65 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,680 as loquacious as ever, talked of everybody and everything, and of his confident 66 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:20,720 expectation of realizing a fortune abroad. I was, however, in no humor 67 00:05:20,759 --> 00:05:25,759 for talking, and made few remarks in reply. But he appeared not to 68 00:05:25,759 --> 00:05:29,639 heed my taciturnity, and when he arrived at the spot, broke forth into 69 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,079 raptures at the sight of the noble ruin. And truly it was a scene, 70 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:38,000 the contemplation of which might have lulled the mines of most men. A 71 00:05:38,079 --> 00:05:42,199 thousand birds were caroling around us. The grass near the ruin was not long 72 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:46,040 in rank, but short, close studded with trefoil and soft as a rich 73 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:51,560 carpet. Luxuriant Ivy climbed the shattered walls bleached by the winds of centuries, 74 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:57,680 and the lizards basking in the sun darted beneath the fallen fragments at the sound 75 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,199 of our footsteps. As we approached the spot. We both sat down on 76 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:06,839 a large stone and surveyed the noble Oriole. I was passionately fond of Gothic 77 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,439 architecture and had often admired this window, But I thought I had never seen 78 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,959 it look so beautiful before. My moody thoughts fled, and I was wrapped 79 00:06:15,959 --> 00:06:21,439 in the contemplation of the exquisite tracery when I was suddenly roused by my friend, 80 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:27,040 who, patting me familiarly on the back, exclaimed, it is a 81 00:06:27,079 --> 00:06:31,160 beautiful ruined dick. How I wish thy sweet cousin Maria had accompanied us. 82 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:36,720 I was struck dumb by this declaration, but my look was sufficiently eloquent to 83 00:06:36,759 --> 00:06:41,879 be understood by him, and he did not fail to interpret it aright. 84 00:06:42,519 --> 00:06:46,079 He appeared confused, and I, regaining my self possession, arose from my 85 00:06:46,199 --> 00:06:53,240 seat with the laconic remark. Indeed, George attempted a laugh, but it 86 00:06:53,319 --> 00:06:59,920 failed. It was evidently as much disconcerted and disquieted as myself. How Lynx 87 00:07:00,519 --> 00:07:05,560 is love. We mutually read each other's hearts at the same moment. I 88 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:10,160 am sorry for you, Dick, said he, after a short pause, 89 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:15,920 affecting very awkwardly an air of indifference one my soul. I am, but 90 00:07:16,079 --> 00:07:19,600 I'm over head and ears in love with the girl, and should die at 91 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:25,120 the bare thought of her encouraging another. I wished, for the strength of 92 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:29,319 Milo that I might have dashed out his brains against the huge stone on which 93 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,399 she had been sitting. I felt my very blood seethe and simmer at the 94 00:07:32,439 --> 00:07:36,600 declaration, and with my clenched fist, I struck him a violent and stunning 95 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,879 blow, which, though it did not beat him to the ground, sent 96 00:07:40,959 --> 00:07:46,399 him staggering several paces backward. Liar, I screamed, frantically, take that 97 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,839 you dare not proceed with your folly. Recovering his feet, George laid his 98 00:07:49,879 --> 00:07:55,160 hand on his sword, which he half unsheathed, But as if conscious of 99 00:07:55,199 --> 00:07:59,720 there being no witness present, or wishing perhaps still further to convince me of 100 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:05,399 the bandage he possessed, he did not draw nay, said I out with 101 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,399 your weapon. Nothing less will do. I would rather lose my birthright than 102 00:08:09,519 --> 00:08:15,759 yield to thee one without whom life would be valueless. He smiled, bitterly, 103 00:08:15,879 --> 00:08:18,800 wiped his bruised and bloody face, and slowly drew from his bosom a 104 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:26,120 small miniature encircled with diamonds, which he held before my eyes. One glance 105 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,800 was sufficient. It was a portrait of Maria. It was that face which, 106 00:08:30,839 --> 00:08:35,799 sleeping or waking, has haunted me these thirty years. Pasted villain, 107 00:08:35,879 --> 00:08:39,440 I cried, clutching at the portrait with my left hand, while I snatched 108 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,000 with my right hand my sword from its sheath. You have stolen it with 109 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:48,559 assumed coolness, which it was impossible he could feel. He smiled again, 110 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,519 put the miniature in his bosom, and drew his sword. The next moment 111 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,320 our weapons crossed with an angry clash, and were flashing in the morning sun. 112 00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:00,960 My adversary was a perfect master of his weapon, and he pressed upon 113 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,039 me with a vigor which any attempt to retaliate would have rendered dangerous in one 114 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:11,320 so much inferior to him in skill. Maddened as I was, I yet 115 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:16,200 restrained myself and stood on my guard, my eyes fixed on his and watching 116 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:22,039 every glance. My desire to destroy him was intense. The fiend nerved my 117 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,000 arm, and while he warned with the conflict, I became more cool and 118 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:30,000 vigilant. At length he appeared to grow weary, and then I pressed upon 119 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,639 him with the fixed determination of taking his life. But he rallied instantly, 120 00:09:33,759 --> 00:09:37,480 and in returning a thrust which I intended for his heart, and which he 121 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,799 parried scarcely in time, his foot slipped and he fell on one knee, 122 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,960 the point of my sword entering the left breast by accident. It was not 123 00:09:46,039 --> 00:09:50,320 a deep wound, and perhaps he felt it not, for he attempted to 124 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,200 master my sword with his left hand, while he shortened his own weapon and 125 00:09:54,279 --> 00:09:58,279 thrust fiercely at my throat, making at the same time a spring to regain 126 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,080 his feet. But his his fate was sealed. As he rose. I 127 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:05,279 dashed aside the thrust intented for me, and sheathed my weapon in his left 128 00:10:05,279 --> 00:10:09,919 breast. I believe I must have pierced his heart, for he sank on 129 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,879 his knees with a gasp, and the next moment fell heavily on his face 130 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:18,240 with his sword still clutched tightly in his hand. Wearied and panting from the 131 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:22,600 efforts of the violent struggle, I threw myself on the large stone which had 132 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,120 so recently served us for a seat, and looked on the body of my 133 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:33,120 adversary. He was dead. That fatal thrust had destroyed all rivalry, but 134 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,039 at the price of a murder, the murder of one who had been my 135 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:41,519 friend from boyhood upwards. A thousand conflicting emotions rapped me as I beheld the 136 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:46,799 piteous sight. Hatrede was extinguished, and remorse succeeded. Yet I still thought 137 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:52,480 of the audacity of him who had provoked such deadly resentment. Fear, too, 138 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:58,000 fear of the consequences of this fatal encounter in a solitary spot without witnesses, 139 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,399 added to the intensity of my misery, and I groaned in anguish. 140 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,679 What was to be done. Should I go and deliver myself up to justice 141 00:11:05,759 --> 00:11:09,600 and declare the whole truth? Should I fly and leave the body of my 142 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:15,440 friend to tell the dismal tale? Or should I bury him secretly and leave 143 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,759 it to be supposed that he had been robbed and murdered? As each suggestion 144 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:24,000 was canvassed and rejected. In my despair, I even thought of dying by 145 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:28,799 my own hand. A miserable wretch, I exclaimed, what hast thou done? 146 00:11:28,759 --> 00:11:33,559 To what dire necessity? Has a fair and false face driven me? 147 00:11:33,799 --> 00:11:37,679 Yet? I will look once more on those bewitching features which had brought me 148 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,120 to this wretched pass. I stooped and turned the dead man on his back. 149 00:11:43,759 --> 00:11:48,039 His pallid face was writhen and distorted, his lips were bloody, and 150 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:52,240 his eyes, which were wide open, seemed still to glare with hatred and 151 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:56,159 defiance, as when he stood before me in the desperate struggle for life and 152 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:01,799 death. I tore open his vest and discovered the wound that had killed him. 153 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:05,000 It had collapsed and looked no bigger than the puncture of a bogkin, 154 00:12:05,759 --> 00:12:11,519 But one little round crimson spot was visible. The hemorrhage was internal. There 155 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,200 lay the miniature, which a few minutes before had been held up exultingly to 156 00:12:16,279 --> 00:12:20,600 my frantic gaze. I seized and pressed it to my lips forgetting in my 157 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:26,879 transports. How dearly I had purchased it. This delirium, however, soon 158 00:12:26,919 --> 00:12:31,000 subsided, and my next thoughts were of the dead body. I looked about 159 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,720 me for some nook where I might deposit it. There was a chasm in 160 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:39,120 the ground among the ruins a few yards off, where the vaulted roof of 161 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,679 the crypt had fallen in. It was scarcely large enough to admit the corpse, 162 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,919 but I raised it in my arms, bore it thither, and with 163 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,000 some difficulty, thrust it through the aperture. I heard it fall, as 164 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:54,360 if to some distance, with a dull, heavy sound, and casting in 165 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,679 after it, my adversaries had and sword. I hurried from the spot like 166 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:05,679 another came at dinner. One glance from Maria, as I replied in answer 167 00:13:05,759 --> 00:13:09,120 to her inquiry after George that he was gone to make a call a few 168 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:15,120 miles off. One glance, I say, thrilled through my very soul, 169 00:13:15,399 --> 00:13:20,639 and almost caused me to betray myself. All noticed my perturbed look, and 170 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,759 complaining of violent headache, I withdrew from the table. Ere the meal was 171 00:13:24,879 --> 00:13:28,360 ended, and betook myself to my chamber. How shall I paint the horror 172 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:33,559 of that evening, of the night that succeeded it, and the mental darkness 173 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,639 which fell upon my wretched self. Ere the morning dawned, night came I 174 00:13:37,759 --> 00:13:43,000 rang for lights and attempted to read, but in vain, and after pacing 175 00:13:43,039 --> 00:13:46,759 my chamber for some hours, overpowered by fatigue, I threw myself on the 176 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:52,320 bed and slept how long I know not. A succession of hideous dreams haunted 177 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,840 my slumbers. Still I was not awakened by them. The scenes shifted when 178 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,279 arrived at their climax, and a new ordeal of horror succeeded. Yet, 179 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,519 like him who suffers from nightmare, with a vague consciousness that all was not 180 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:11,039 real, I wished to awake. Last of all, I dreamt that I 181 00:14:11,159 --> 00:14:15,600 was arraigned for the murder of my friend. The judge summed up the evidence, 182 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:20,600 which, though purely circumstantial, was sufficient to condemn me, and amidst 183 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,080 the silence of the crowded court, broken only by the sobs of anxious and 184 00:14:24,159 --> 00:14:31,200 sympathizing friends and relatives, I received sentence of death and was hurried back to 185 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:35,919 my cell. Here, abandoned by all hope, I lay groveling on my 186 00:14:35,039 --> 00:14:39,919 straw bed and cursed the hour of my birth. A figure entered, and, 187 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:45,679 in gentle accents which I thought I recognized, bade me arise, quit 188 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:50,519 my prison house and follow The figure was that of a woman closely veiled. 189 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:54,679 She led the way and passed the jailers, who seemed buried in profound sleep. 190 00:14:56,559 --> 00:14:58,639 We left the town, crossed the common, and entered a wood. 191 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,399 When I threw myself at the feet of my deliverer and passionately besought her to 192 00:15:03,559 --> 00:15:09,440 unveil. She shook her head, mournfully, bade me wait awhile till she 193 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:15,039 should return with a change of apparel, and departed. I cast myself down 194 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:18,720 at the foot of an aged oak, drew from my bosom the portrait of 195 00:15:18,799 --> 00:15:22,360 Maria, and wrapped in the contemplation of those lovely features, I did not 196 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,279 perceive the approach of a man, the ranger of the forest, who, 197 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:31,320 recognizing my prison dress, darted upon me, exclaiming, villain, you have 198 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:37,159 escaped from jail and stolen that miniature from the hall. I sprang to my 199 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,879 feet, thrust the fatal portrait into my bosom, and would have fled, 200 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,960 but he seized and closed with me, and the struggle which followed we both 201 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,960 fell. I undermost. At that moment I awoke, I was in reality 202 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,759 struggling with some one, but whom I could not tell. For my candle 203 00:15:52,799 --> 00:15:56,919 said burnt out, and the chamber was in total darkness. A powerful, 204 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,440 bony hand grasped me tightly by the throat, while another was thrust into my 205 00:16:02,519 --> 00:16:06,679 bosom, as if in search of the miniature which I had placed there previous 206 00:16:06,679 --> 00:16:11,440 to lying down. With a desperate effort, I disengaged myself and leaped from 207 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,320 the bed. But I was again seized, and again my assailant attempted to 208 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,000 reach my fatal prize. We struggled violently. At one time I seemed to 209 00:16:19,039 --> 00:16:23,039 be overpowering him, and for several moments there was a pause during which I 210 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:29,000 heard my own breathing and felt my own heart throbbing violently. But he with 211 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:33,080 whom I contended seemed to breathe, not nor to feel like a warm and 212 00:16:33,159 --> 00:16:38,120 living man. An indescribable tremor shook my frame. I attempted to cry out, 213 00:16:38,159 --> 00:16:44,360 but my throat was rigid and incapable of articulation. I made another effort 214 00:16:44,399 --> 00:16:48,039 to disengage myself from the grasp of my assailant, and in doing so drew 215 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:52,440 him as I found by the curtains near to the window. Again the hand 216 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:56,360 was thrust into my bosom, and again I repelled it, panting with the 217 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,919 violence of the struggle, while a cold sweat burst out at every pore. 218 00:17:00,639 --> 00:17:06,079 I disengaged my right hand, and determined to see whom I was contending with. 219 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:10,440 I dashed aside the curtain. The dim light of the waning moon shone 220 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:15,039 into the chamber. It fell upon the face of my antagonist, and one 221 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:18,960 glance froze the blood in my veins. It was he. It was George, 222 00:17:19,559 --> 00:17:23,599 he whom I had murdered, glaring upon me with eyes which no mortal 223 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,440 could look upon. A second time my brain whirled. A sound like the 224 00:17:27,559 --> 00:17:33,119 discharge of artillery shook the place, and I fell to the ground, blasted 225 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:38,079 at the sight. Here follows a few incoherent sentences which I have not deemed 226 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:45,119 it necessary to transcribe. The reader will probably supply the sequel to this sad 227 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,240 story. End of the miniature.