It is not the tailor alone who is the ninth part of a man; it is as much the preacher, and the merchant, and the farmer. I never in all my walks came across a man engaged in so simple and natural an occupation as building his house. Where is this division of labor to end? We belong to the community.

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The third day afterwards we rode the horse, without any ill effects. April 13th.--After three days' travelling we arrived at Socego, the estate of Senhor Manuel Figuireda, a relation of one of our party. The house was simple, and, though like a barn in form, was well suited to the climate. In the sitting-room gilded chairs and sofas were oddly contrasted with the whitewashed walls, thatched roof, and windows without glass.


No one thought about it; but Margaret’s tall, finely made figure, in the black silk dress which she was wearing as mourning for some distant relative of her father’s, set off the long beautiful folds of the gorgeous shawls that would have half-smothered Edith. Her aunt asked her to stand as a sort of lay figure on which to display them, as Edith was still asleep.


Are you wondering what you will have for breakfast? In the second case, I will give you some tea to compose your spirits, and do all a woman can (which is very little, by-the-bye) to hold my tongue.” or are you surprised at my careless way of talking? In the first case, I advise you, as a friend, to have nothing to do with that cold ham at your elbow, and to wait till the omelette comes in.


She had a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw; prominent, piercing, resolute brown eyes; and thick, coal-black hair, growing unusually low down on her forehead. Never was the old conventional maxim, that Nature cannot err, more flatly contradicted—never was the fair promise of a lovely figure more strangely and startlingly belied by the face and head that crowned it. To see such a face as this set on shoulders that a sculptor would have longed to model—to be charmed by the modest graces of action through which the symmetrical limbs betrayed their beauty when they moved, and then to be almost repelled by the masculine form and masculine look of the features in which the perfectly shaped figure ended—was to feel a sensation oddly akin to the helpless discomfort familiar to us all in sleep, when we recognise yet cannot reconcile the anomalies and contradictions of a dream. The lady’s complexion was almost swarthy, and the dark down on her upper lip was almost a moustache.

Her expression—bright, frank, and intelligent—appeared, while she was silent, to be altogether wanting in those feminine attractions of gentleness and pliability, without which the beauty of the handsomest woman alive is beauty incomplete.


Very different to my business, which is the real true law business. “Ah, I knew how you would be amused to find us all so occupied in admiring finery. Their prices are very perfect, too. She received him with a smile which had not a tinge of shyness or self-consciousness in it.

“Well, I suppose you are all in the depth of business—ladies’ business, I mean. But really Indian shawls are very perfect things of their kind.” By-and-by he came. He liked and disliked pretty nearly the same things that she did.

The gentlemen came dropping in one by one, and the buzz and noise deepened in tone. Playing with shawls is very different work to drawing up settlements.” I think after this evening we shall feel at rest, which I am sure I have not done for many weeks; at least, that kind of rest when the hands have nothing more to do, and all the arrangements are complete for an event which must occupy one’s head and heart. “I have no doubt they are.

Margaret’s face was lightened up into an honest, open brightness. Nothing wanting.”


Because I know no one there, and no one knows Helstone, or can ever talk to me about it.” Only help me to tell your mother. “You shall be told all, Margaret. “Bread for your family!

“Because there I can earn bread for my family. I thought you and mamma had”—and then she stopped, checking her natural interest regarding their future life, as she saw the gathering gloom on her father’s brow. “To Milton-Northern,” he answered, with a dull indifference, for he had perceived that, although his daughter’s love had made her cling to him, and for a moment strive to soothe him with her love, yet the keenness of the pain was as fresh as ever in her mind. But he, with his quick intuitive sympathy, read in her face, as in a mirror, the reflections of his own moody depression, and turned it off with an effort.


One day I went to the Botanic Garden, where many plants, well known for their great utility, might be seen growing. The leaves of the camphor, pepper, cinnamon, and clove trees were delightfully aromatic; and the bread-fruit, the jaca, and the mango, vied with each other in the magnificence of their foliage. Before seeing them, I had no idea that any trees could cast so black a shade on the ground. It may be observed, that the houses within the tropics are surrounded by the most beautiful forms of vegetation, because many of them are at the same time most useful to man.

The landscape in the neighbourhood of Bahia almost takes its character from the two latter trees. Both of them bear to the evergreen vegetation of these climates the same kind of relation which laurels and hollies in England do to the lighter green of the deciduous trees.


Some I have seen, sixty or a hundred feet long and thirty feet broad.... I have often lodged in their wigwams, and found them as warm as the best English houses.” The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former.... Gookin, who was superintendent of the Indians subject to the Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, “The best of their houses are covered very neatly, tight and warm, with barks of trees, slipped from their bodies at those seasons when the sap is up, and made into great flakes, with pressure of weighty timber, when they are green....

A comfortable house for a rude and hardy race, that lived mostly out of doors, was once made here almost entirely of such materials as Nature furnished ready to their hands.


The glorious thought that I have caught my opportunity at last, and that my grateful service for my dearest friend in the world is as good as done already, flies up into my head and makes me drunk. Although I myself was gratefully sensible of the kindness of Pesca’s motives, my spirits were hardly so much elevated as they ought to have been by the prospect of future employment now placed before me. “If the familiar little man treats my mother in that way, how will he treat ME?” “I am sure we are very much obliged to Professor Pesca, for Walter’s sake,” added Sarah.

She half rose, while she spoke, as if to approach the arm-chair, in her turn; but, observing that Pesca was rapturously kissing my mother’s hands, looked serious, and resumed her seat. How I pull my young Misses and myself out of our Infernal Region again, how my other business is done afterwards, how my little bit of dinner slides itself down my throat, I know no more than a man in the moon. right-right-right-all-right!” Faces sometimes tell truth; and that was unquestionably the thought in Sarah’s mind, as she sat down again.

When the Professor had quite done with my mother’s hand, and when I had warmly thanked him for his interference on my behalf, I asked to be allowed to look at the note of terms which his respectable patron had drawn up for my inspection. She caught the little man warmly by both hands. Here the Professor waved the memorandum of terms over his head, and ended his long and voluble narrative with his shrill Italian parody on an English cheer. My mother rose the moment he had done, with flushed cheeks and brightened eyes.

“My dear, good Pesca,” she said, “I never doubted your true affection for Walter—but I am more than ever persuaded of it now!” Enough for me, that here I am, with the mighty merchant’s note in my hand, as large as life, as hot as fire, and as happy as a king!


Or was she still capable of controlling her own actions; and were we two following our widely parted roads towards one point in the mysterious future, at which we were to meet once more? Where had she stopped the cab? The delay occasioned by this accident caused me to be too late for the branch train, by which I was to have gone on immediately. In the disturbed state of my mind, it was useless to think of going to bed, when I at last got back to my chambers in Clement’s Inn.

Other thoughts followed, on which it was less harrowing to dwell. Had she been traced and captured by the men in the chaise? It was a relief when the hour came to lock my door, to bid farewell to London pursuits, London pupils, and London friends, and to be in movement again towards new interests and a new life. That was my first thought, though I shrank selfishly from confronting it.

What had become of her now? I turned sick at heart when the question occurred to me, and when I felt self-reproachfully that it was asked too late. My travelling instructions directed me to go to Carlisle, and then to diverge by a branch railway which ran in the direction of the coast. Had the forlorn creature come to any harm?

I had to wait some hours; and when a later train finally deposited me at the nearest station to Limmeridge House, it was past ten, and the night was so dark that I could hardly see my way to the pony-chaise which Mr. I sat down and tried, first to sketch, then to read—but the woman in white got between me and my pencil, between me and my book. As a misfortune to begin with, our engine broke down between Lancaster and Carlisle. Even the bustle and confusion at the railway terminus, so wearisome and bewildering at other times, roused me and did me good.

Before many hours elapsed it would be necessary to start on my journey to Cumberland.


I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine.” It is not a month since the bishop offered me another living; if I had accepted it, I should have had to make a fresh declaration of conformity to the Liturgy at my institution. He shook his head as he went on. said he, drawing her closer, “think of the early martyrs; think of the thousands who have suffered.”

But worse, far worse, will be the parting from my dear people. “I suffer for conscience’ sake, my child,” said he, with a dignity that was only tremulous from the acute sensitiveness of his character; “I must do what my conscience bids. dear, dear papa!” “I have written to the bishop—I dare say I have told you so, but I forget things just now,” said Mr.

“But, father,” said she, suddenly lifting up her flushed, tear-wet face, “the early martyrs suffered for the truth, while you—oh! Margaret, I tried to do it; I tried to content myself with simply refusing the additional preferment, and stopping quietly here,—strangling my conscience now, as I had strained it before. There is a curate appointed to read prayers—a Mr. They are but what I have tried upon myself, without avail.

He has been most kind; he has used arguments and expostulations, all in vain—in vain. I shall have to take my deed of resignation, and wait upon the bishop myself, to bid him farewell. Hale, collapsing into his depressed manner as soon as he came to talk of hard matter-of-fact details, “informing him of my intention to resign this vicarage. “Your poor mother’s fond wish, gratified at last in the mocking way in which over-fond wishes are too often fulfilled—Sodom apples as they are—has brought on this crisis, for which I ought to be, and I hope I am thankful.

God forgive me!” That will be a trial. “Margaret, dear!”


No circumstance of importance, from the beginning to the end of the disclosure, shall be related on hearsay evidence. When his experience fails, he will retire from the position of narrator; and his task will be continued, from the point at which he has left it off, by other persons who can speak to the circumstances under notice from their own knowledge, just as clearly and positively as he has spoken before them. Thus, the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness—with the same object, in both cases, to present the truth always in its most direct and most intelligible aspect; and to trace the course of one complete series of events, by making the persons who have been most closely connected with them, at each successive stage, relate their own experience, word for word. It was the last day of July.

When the writer of these introductory lines (Walter Hartright by name) happens to be more closely connected than others with the incidents to be recorded, he will describe them in his own person. The long hot summer was drawing to a close; and we, the weary pilgrims of the London pavement, were beginning to think of the cloud-shadows on the corn-fields, and the autumn breezes on the sea-shore. During the past year I had not managed my professional resources as carefully as usual; and my extravagance now limited me to the prospect of spending the autumn economically between my mother’s cottage at Hampstead and my own chambers in town. The evening, I remember, was still and cloudy; the London air was at its heaviest; the distant hum of the street-traffic was at its faintest; the small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison, languidly and more languidly, with the sinking sun.

Let Walter Hartright, teacher of drawing, aged twenty-eight years, be heard first. For my own poor part, the fading summer left me out of health, out of spirits, and, if the truth must be told, out of money as well.


Or was she still capable of controlling her own actions; and were we two following our widely parted roads towards one point in the mysterious future, at which we were to meet once more? As a misfortune to begin with, our engine broke down between Lancaster and Carlisle. It was a relief when the hour came to lock my door, to bid farewell to London pursuits, London pupils, and London friends, and to be in movement again towards new interests and a new life. Fairlie had ordered to be in waiting for me.

I had to wait some hours; and when a later train finally deposited me at the nearest station to Limmeridge House, it was past ten, and the night was so dark that I could hardly see my way to the pony-chaise which Mr. Where had she stopped the cab? We drove away slowly through the darkness in perfect silence. It was, by my watch, nearly an hour and a half from the time of our leaving the station before I heard the sound of the sea in the distance, and the crunch of our wheels on a smooth gravel drive.

The driver was evidently discomposed by the lateness of my arrival. My travelling instructions directed me to go to Carlisle, and then to diverge by a branch railway which ran in the direction of the coast. He was in that state of highly respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants. Had the forlorn creature come to any harm?

What had become of her now? The delay occasioned by this accident caused me to be too late for the branch train, by which I was to have gone on immediately. The roads were bad, and the dense obscurity of the night increased the difficulty of getting over the ground quickly. That was my first thought, though I shrank selfishly from confronting it.

Had she been traced and captured by the men in the chaise? Even the bustle and confusion at the railway terminus, so wearisome and bewildering at other times, roused me and did me good. Other thoughts followed, on which it was less harrowing to dwell.


We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcæ, but Fashion. When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, “They do not make them so now,” not emphasizing the “They” at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates, and I find it difficult to get made what I want, simply because she cannot believe that I mean what I say, that I am so rash. I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. While one thick garment is, for most purposes, as good as three thin ones, and cheap clothing can be obtained at prices really to suit customers; while a thick coat can be bought for five dollars, which will last as many years, thick pantaloons for two dollars, cowhide boots for a dollar and a half a pair, a summer hat for a quarter of a dollar, and a winter cap for sixty-two and a half cents, or a better be made at home at a nominal cost, where is he so poor that, clad in such a suit, of his own earning, there will not be found wise men to do him reverence? Of what use this measuring of me if she does not measure my character, but only the breadth of my shoulders, as it were a peg to hang the coat on? When I hear this oracular sentence, I am for a moment absorbed in thought, emphasizing to myself each word separately that I may come at the meaning of it, that I may find out by what degree of consanguinity They are related to me, and what authority they may have in an affair which affects me so nearly; and, finally, I am inclined to answer her with equal mystery, and without any more emphasis of the “they,”—“It is true, they did not make them so recently, but they do now.”


Hale got up, and stood with his elbow on the chimney-piece, leaning his head on his hand, musing over something, and from time to time sighing deeply. “I am not so indifferent to her as she believes,” thought he to himself. His visitor was a different man to what he had seen him before at the wedding-breakfast, and at dinner to-day; a lighter, cleverer, more worldly man, and, as such, dissonant to Mr. Her mother came into the room before this whirl of thoughts was adjusted into anything like order.

Then she took it into her head that, after all, his lightness might be but assumed, to cover a bitterness of disappointment which would have been stamped on her own heart if she had loved and been rejected. Hale, smiling faintly,—“trying to steal some of their bravery; but it is of no use—no use—I cannot help feeling it acutely.” “You could not understand it all, if I told you—my anxiety, for years past, to know whether I had any right to hold my living—my efforts to quench my smouldering doubts by the authority of the Church. They proceeded to the house to find Mrs.

“I have been reading to-day of the two thousand who were ejected from their churches,”—continued Mr. She forgot that he had not made them an offer. At the last moment, Henry Lennox’s real self broke through the crust. He was gone.

Hale, whose whereabouts had been quite forgotten by them. “But, papa, have you well considered? He made her take a chair by him; he stirred the fire, snuffed the candles, and sighed once or twice before he could make up his mind to say—and it came out with a jerk after all—“Margaret! Margaret could not bear the sight of the suspense, which was even more distressing to her father than to herself.

Yet, after all, Margaret had to wait a long time in the drawing-room before her mother came down. As a proof of it, I believe I love you more than ever—if I do not hate you—for the disdain with which you have listened to me during this last half-hour. But she soon felt it was not about anything, which having only lately and suddenly occurred, could have given rise to any complicated thoughts, that her father wished to speak to her. She felt a tinge of contempt mingle itself with her pain at having refused him.

“Is that tapestry thing of immediate consequence? He was almost as anxious to take his departure as she was for him to leave; but a few minutes light and careless talking, carried on at whatever effort, was a sacrifice which he owed to his mortified vanity, or his self-respect. No more deep blue skies or crimson and amber tints. I will answer any questions this once, but after to-night let us never speak of it again.

He glanced from time to time at her sad and pensive face. Hale sipped his tea in abstracted silence; Margaret had the responses all to herself. how she could have loved him if he had but been different, with a difference which she felt, on reflection, to be one that went low—deep down. Margaret had to shake off the recollections of what had been done and said through the day, and turn a sympathising listener to the account of how Dixon had complained that the ironing-blanket had been burnt again; and how Susan Lightfoot had been seen with artificial flowers in her bonnet, thereby giving evidence of a vain and giddy character.

After tea Mr. Lennox’s proposal. it seems so terrible, so shocking,” said Margaret, suddenly bursting into tears. Margaret felt stunned, and unable to recover her self-possession enough to join in the trivial conversation that ensued between her father and Mr.

Margaret could not tell what to say; it seemed to her as terribly mysterious as if her father were about to turn Mahometan. How different men were to women! Her beautiful lip curled in a slight disdain. Hale, at last, in a sort of sudden desperate way, that made her start.

It is all myself. “Margaret, don’t despise me; I have a heart, notwithstanding all this good-for-nothing way of talking. She showed it by brushing away viciously at Margaret’s hair, under pretence of being in a great hurry to go to Mrs. Margaret went up to dress for the early tea, finding Dixon in a pretty temper from the interruption which a visitor had naturally occasioned on a busy day.

“Very serious to us all.” Hale, and wish her good-bye. Hale was puzzled. The whole tone of it annoyed her.

She was grave, and little disposed to speak; full of wonder when Mr. “Cast me upon some naked shore, Where I may tracke Only the print of some sad wracke, If thou be there though the seas roare, I shall no gentler calm implore.” Good-bye, Margaret—Margaret!” It was like the story of the eastern king, who dipped his head into a basin of water, at the magician’s command, and ere he instantly took it out went through the experience of a lifetime.

She sat by herself at the fire, with unlighted candles on the table behind her, thinking over the day, the happy walk, happy sketching, cheerful pleasant dinner, and the uncomfortable, miserable walk in the garden. Lennox would go, and allow her to relax into thought on the events of the last quarter of an hour. He played with some papers on the table in a nervous and confused manner, opening his lips to speak several times, but closing them again without having the courage to utter a word. The one staid foundation of her home, of her idea of her beloved father, seemed reeling and rocking.

Margaret, I will tell you about it. Margaret, how I love the holy Church from which I am to be shut out!” Lennox said that he must go directly if he meant to catch the five o’clock train. Lennox had never had the opportunity of having any private conversation with her father after her refusal, or else that would indeed be a very serious affair.

I can meet the consequences of my painful, miserable doubts; but it is an effort beyond me to speak of what has caused me so much suffering.” I mean, can you leave it and come into my study? It seemed to touch on and call out all the points of difference which had often repelled her in him; while yet he was the pleasantest man, the most sympathising friend, the person of all others who understood her best in Harley Street. “I do not give up hope.”

He could not go on for a moment or two. Here was she disturbed and unhappy, because her instinct had made anything but a refusal impossible; while he, not many minutes after he had met with a rejection of what ought to have been the deepest, holiest proposal of his life, could speak as if briefs, success, and all its superficial consequences of a good house, clever and agreeable society, were the sole avowed objects of his desires. The house was shut up for the evening. In the first place, Margaret felt guilty and ashamed of having grown so much into a woman as to be thought of in marriage; and secondly, she did not know if her father might not be displeased that she had taken upon herself to decline Mr.

It was well that, having made the round of the garden, they came suddenly upon Mr. She wondered how her father and mother could be so forgetful, so regardless of their companion through the day, as never to mention his name. “It is nothing about Frederick; the bishop would have nothing to do with that. Before a quarter of an hour was over, he had fallen into a way of conversing with quiet sarcasm; speaking of life in London and life in the country, as if he were conscious of his second mocking self, and afraid of his own satire.

I am going to leave Helstone.” He had not yet finished the pear, which he had delicately peeled in one long strip of silver-paper thinness, and which he was enjoying in a deliberate manner. Hale did not answer for a minute or two. Hale went out to consult with Dixon about some winter clothing for the poor.

Margaret was preparing her mother’s worsted work, and rather shrinking from the thought of the long evening, and wishing bed-time were come that she might go over the events of the day again. I want to speak to you about something very serious to us all.” It was a relief to all three when Mr.


I was too tired and out of spirits to eat or drink much, especially with the solemn servant waiting on me as elaborately as if a small dinner party had arrived at the house instead of a solitary man. The delay occasioned by this accident caused me to be too late for the branch train, by which I was to have gone on immediately. I sat down and tried, first to sketch, then to read—but the woman in white got between me and my pencil, between me and my book. I looked from the table to the window farthest from me, and saw a lady standing at it, with her back turned towards me.

The instant my eyes rested on her, I was struck by the rare beauty of her form, and by the unaffected grace of her attitude. Assisted the victim of the most horrible of all false imprisonments to escape; or cast loose on the wide world of London an unfortunate creature, whose actions it was my duty, and every man’s duty, mercifully to control? She turned towards me immediately. She must have gone away in the clothes she wore when she came to us.

The driver was evidently discomposed by the lateness of my arrival. Other thoughts followed, on which it was less harrowing to dwell. We drove away slowly through the darkness in perfect silence. Don’t forget; a woman in white.

I had seen nothing, in her language or her actions, to justify it at the time; and even with the new light thrown on her by the words which the stranger had addressed to the policeman, I could see nothing to justify it now. We had passed one gate before entering the drive, and we passed another before we drew up at the house. I thought to myself, as I put out the candle; “the woman in white? I was received by a solemn man-servant out of livery, was informed that the family had retired for the night, and was then led into a large and lofty room where my supper was awaiting me, in a forlorn manner, at one extremity of a lonesome mahogany wilderness of dining-table.

“What shall I see in my dreams to-night?” But the idea of absolute insanity which we all associate with the very name of an Asylum, had, I can honestly declare, never occurred to me, in connection with her. Although the woman in white was still in my mind, the image of her seemed to have grown dull and faint already. or the unknown inhabitants of this Cumberland mansion?”

Where had she stopped the cab? She moved forward a few steps—and I said to myself, The lady is young. Some of the strange questions put to me by the woman in white, after my ill-considered promise to leave her free to act as she pleased, had suggested the conclusion either that she was naturally flighty and unsettled, or that some recent shock of terror had disturbed the balance of her faculties. Pesca’s quaint announcement of the means by which he had procured me my present employment; the farewell evening I had passed with my mother and sister; even my mysterious adventure on the way home from Hampstead—had all become like events which might have occurred at some former epoch of my existence.

Before many hours elapsed it would be necessary to start on my journey to Cumberland. It was a relief when the hour came to lock my door, to bid farewell to London pursuits, London pupils, and London friends, and to be in movement again towards new interests and a new life. A little before nine o’clock, I descended to the ground-floor of the house. The view was such a surprise, and such a change to me, after my weary London experience of brick and mortar landscape, that I seemed to burst into a new life and a new set of thoughts the moment I looked at it.

My travelling instructions directed me to go to Carlisle, and then to diverge by a branch railway which ran in the direction of the coast. What had I done? That was my first thought, though I shrank selfishly from confronting it. In a quarter of an hour I was ready to be taken up to my bedchamber.

I cannot say with truth that the terrible inference which those words suggested flashed upon me like a new revelation. I’ll pay all expenses, and a fair reward into the bargain.” It was a strange sensation to be sleeping in the house, like a friend of the family, and yet not to know one of the inmates, even by sight! My first glance round me, as the man opened the door, disclosed a well-furnished breakfast-table, standing in the middle of a long room, with many windows in it.

The lady’s complexion was almost swarthy, and the dark down on her upper lip was almost a moustache. She left the window—and I said to myself, The lady is dark. Or was she still capable of controlling her own actions; and were we two following our widely parted roads towards one point in the mysterious future, at which we were to meet once more? It was, by my watch, nearly an hour and a half from the time of our leaving the station before I heard the sound of the sea in the distance, and the crunch of our wheels on a smooth gravel drive.

Circumstances that were but a few days old faded back in my memory, as if they had happened months and months since. The solemn man-servant of the night before met me wandering among the passages, and compassionately showed me the way to the breakfast-room. He was in that state of highly respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants. A woman in white.”

In white, policeman. She has escaped from my Asylum. “If you or any of your men meet with the woman, stop her, and send her in careful keeping to that address. She approached nearer—and I said to myself (with a sense of surprise which words fail me to express), The lady is ugly!

“The clothes we gave her were found on her bed. Had the forlorn creature come to any harm? I had to wait some hours; and when a later train finally deposited me at the nearest station to Limmeridge House, it was past ten, and the night was so dark that I could hardly see my way to the pony-chaise which Mr. A confused sensation of having suddenly lost my familiarity with the past, without acquiring any additional clearness of idea in reference to the present or the future, took possession of my mind.

In the disturbed state of my mind, it was useless to think of going to bed, when I at last got back to my chambers in Clement’s Inn. I turned sick at heart when the question occurred to me, and when I felt self-reproachfully that it was asked too late. She had not heard my entrance into the room; and I allowed myself the luxury of admiring her for a few moments, before I moved one of the chairs near me, as the least embarrassing means of attracting her attention. The roads were bad, and the dense obscurity of the night increased the difficulty of getting over the ground quickly.

As a misfortune to begin with, our engine broke down between Lancaster and Carlisle. Never was the old conventional maxim, that Nature cannot err, more flatly contradicted—never was the fair promise of a lovely figure more strangely and startlingly belied by the face and head that crowned it. Even the bustle and confusion at the railway terminus, so wearisome and bewildering at other times, roused me and did me good. Had she been traced and captured by the men in the chaise?

When I rose the next morning and drew up my blind, the sea opened before me joyously under the broad August sunlight, and the distant coast of Scotland fringed the horizon with its lines of melting blue. Fairlie had ordered to be in waiting for me. The solemn servant conducted me into a prettily furnished room—said, “Breakfast at nine o’clock, sir”—looked all round him to see that everything was in its proper place, and noiselessly withdrew. What had become of her now?

The easy elegance of every movement of her limbs and body as soon as she began to advance from the far end of the room, set me in a flutter of expectation to see her face clearly. Her figure was tall, yet not too tall; comely and well-developed, yet not fat; her head set on her shoulders with an easy, pliant firmness; her waist, perfection in the eyes of a man, for it occupied its natural place, it filled out its natural circle, it was visibly and delightfully undeformed by stays.


I can’t say who lives at Limmeridge now. And now, when she was seated inside, I entreated her to let me see her set down safely at her destination. I hardly knew where I was going, or what I meant to do next; I was conscious of nothing but the confusion of my own thoughts, when I was abruptly recalled to myself—awakened, I might almost say—by the sound of rapidly approaching wheels close behind me. Don’t forget; a woman in white.

From time to time, being forbidden to make any more inquiries, I stole a look at her face. “Cumberland!” I cannot say with truth that the terrible inference which those words suggested flashed upon me like a new revelation. Fairlie’s place of residence, on the lips of my strange companion, staggered me with astonishment.

I want to shut myself in and be driven away.” We had hardly proceeded a third of the way down the Avenue Road when I saw a cab draw up at a house a few doors below us, on the opposite side of the way. It was always the same; the lips close shut, the brow frowning, the eyes looking straight forward, eagerly and yet absently. she repeated the word tenderly.

She seemed about to say more; but while she was speaking, we came within view of the turnpike, at the top of the Avenue Road. “My horse is dead beat, and I can’t get him no further than the stable.” “If you or any of your men meet with the woman, stop her, and send her in careful keeping to that address. “Are you a man of rank and title yourself?”

I’ll pay all expenses, and a fair reward into the bargain.” you DON’T know him,” she said, with a sigh of relief. There was an unmistakable tone of suspicion in the strange question. “I can’t—I daren’t—I forget myself when I mention it.”

“Many men of rank and title?” not my people. The horse was instantly pulled up, a few yards beyond the dark place where I stood. “I can’t take you, sir, if you’re not going towards Tottenham Court Road,” said the driver civilly, when I opened the cab door.

“Many”—she came to a full stop, and looked me searchingly in the face—“many men of the rank of Baronet?” Ten minutes or more had passed. You will be kinder than ever, if you will walk on fast, and not speak to me. I was still on the same side of the way; now mechanically walking forward a few paces; now stopping again absently.

If you are a gentleman, remember your promise. “Don’t ask me: don’t make me talk of it,” she answered. She spoke loudly and almost fiercely, raised her clenched hand in the air, and shook it passionately; then, on a sudden, controlled herself again, and added, in tones lowered to a whisper “Tell me which of them YOU know.” “No, no,” interposed the second man.

On the opposite and lighter side of the way, a short distance below me, a policeman was strolling along in the direction of the Regent’s Park. I had assured myself that the man was sober as well as civil before I let her enter the vehicle. Let him drive on till I stop him. We had reached the first houses, and were close on the new Wesleyan college, before her set features relaxed and she spoke once more.

I was only struck by the name of Limmeridge House. thank you, thank you!” As I answered, it struck me that she might have formed some intention of appealing to me for assistance or advice, and that I ought to spare her a possible disappointment by warning her of my approaching absence from home. I could hardly refuse to humour her in such a trifle, and I mentioned three names.

I don’t remember any lakes. I explained to her that we must walk a little further to get to a cab-stand, unless we were fortunate enough to meet with an empty vehicle; and then tried to resume the subject of Cumberland. I had seen nothing, in her language or her actions, to justify it at the time; and even with the new light thrown on her by the words which the stranger had addressed to the policeman, I could see nothing to justify it now. “I’m not fit now.

In white, policeman. I am going into the country.” At one moment I found myself doubting the reality of my own adventure; at another I was perplexed and distressed by an uneasy sense of having done wrong, which yet left me confusedly ignorant of how I could have done right. I hailed the cab, as the driver mounted the box again.

I am tired and frightened. “Do you see any carriage I can get? A gentleman got out and let himself in at the garden door. I heard it mentioned by some Cumberland people a few days since.”

I may trust HIM.” I’m going that way—I’m going that way.” “No,” she answered. Fairlie is dead; and her husband is dead; and their little girl may be married and gone away by this time.

We moved forward again at a quick pace; and for half an hour, at least, not a word passed on either side. “No, no, no,” she said vehemently. I had hitherto contrived to master my curiosity out of consideration for my companion; but it got the better of me now. I was once happy in Cumberland.”

“I am afraid you have serious reason to complain of some man of rank and title?” I hesitated about answering it. But the idea of absolute insanity which we all associate with the very name of an Asylum, had, I can honestly declare, never occurred to me, in connection with her. So I added, “But to-morrow I shall be away from London for some time.

I was on the dark side of the road, in the thick shadow of some garden trees, when I stopped to look round. she asked, looking up and down the road affrightedly, the instant I stopped. “I am afraid the baronet, whose name you are unwilling to mention to me, has done you some grievous wrong? I have been cruelly used and cruelly wronged.

She must have gone away in the clothes she wore when she came to us. “This is London,” she said. She caught it in hers, kissed it, and pushed it away. Some of the strange questions put to me by the woman in white, after my ill-considered promise to leave her free to act as she pleased, had suggested the conclusion either that she was naturally flighty and unsettled, or that some recent shock of terror had disturbed the balance of her faculties.

Thank you—oh! That idea of shutting herself in, and being driven away, had now got full possession of her mind. Fairlie’s sake.” When we crossed the road, my companion’s impatience increased to such an extent that she almost forced me to run.

Two, the names of fathers of families whose daughters I taught; one, the name of a bachelor who had once taken me a cruise in his yacht, to make sketches for him. He was not looking out; no one else was near the place when we passed through the gate. “Did you hear anybody calling after us?” The sight of the gas-lamps and houses seemed to agitate her, and to make her impatient.

Is he the cause of your being out here at this strange time of night?” The cab drove off at the same moment—I started into the road, with some vague idea of stopping it again, I hardly knew why—hesitated from dread of frightening and distressing her—called, at last, but not loudly enough to attract the driver’s attention. She spoke with breathless eagerness, and pressed by me into the cab. It was my turn now to stop suddenly.

In the excited state of my curiosity, at that moment, the chance reference to Mr. “The clothes we gave her were found on her bed. She has escaped from my Asylum. A woman in white.”

My hand was on the cab door. “I’m quite safe, and quite happy now. She could think and talk of nothing else. That will do for me.

Her hand tightened round my arm, and she looked anxiously at the gate before us. The sound of the wheels grew fainter in the distance—the cab melted into the black shadows on the road—the woman in white was gone. I wish I was going there too. “Not a man of rank and title,” she repeated to herself.

As the reply passed my lips—a little bitterly, perhaps—she took my arm with the abruptness which characterised all her actions. I sadly want to quiet myself, if I can.” It was useless. “I was born in Hampshire; but I once went to school for a little while in Cumberland.

It’s Limmeridge village, and Limmeridge House, I should like to see again.” If any more are left there of that name, I only know I love them for Mrs.


I was too bewildered—too conscious also of a vague sense of something like self-reproach—to speak to my strange companion for some minutes. she said, still quietly and rapidly, and without the least fretfulness or impatience. I was rather startled by your sudden appearance in the road; and I am, even now, quite unable to account for it.” The one thing of which I felt certain was, that the grossest of mankind could not have misconstrued her motive in speaking, even at that suspiciously late hour and in that suspiciously lonely place.

Remember that I was young; remember that the hand which touched me was a woman’s. Will you promise?” I don’t know. I trace these lines, self-distrustfully, with the shadows of after-events darkening the very paper I write on; and still I say, what could I do?

Is it too late? If you could show me where to get a fly—and if you will only promise not to interfere with me, and to let me leave you, when and how I please—I have a friend in London who will be glad to receive me—I want nothing else—will you promise?” We moved forward again at a quick pace; and for half an hour, at least, not a word passed on either side. I did my best to reassure her.

“I heard you coming,” she said, “and hid there to see what sort of man you were, before I risked speaking. John’s Wood and the Regent’s Park. You will be kinder than ever, if you will walk on fast, and not speak to me. and looked hard in my face, with a pleading fear and confusion that it troubled me to see.

It was like a dream. “You don’t think the worse of me because I have met with an accident?” I have met with an accident—I am very unfortunate in being here alone so late. Can I get a fly, or a carriage of any kind?

and I tremble, now, when I write it. We set our faces towards London, and walked on together in the first still hour of the new day—I, and this woman, whose name, whose character, whose story, whose objects in life, whose very presence by my side, at that moment, were fathomless mysteries to me. “Many men of rank and title?” “You don’t suspect me of doing anything wrong, do you?

The loneliness and helplessness of the woman touched me. I doubted and feared about it till you passed; and then I was obliged to steal after you, and touch you.” “I am afraid the baronet, whose name you are unwilling to mention to me, has done you some grievous wrong? I have no right to ask you for any explanations.

“Did you hear me?” “If it troubles you to explain your strange situation to me, don’t think of returning to the subject again. She looked anxiously up and down the road; shifted her bag again from one hand to the other; repeated the words, “Will you promise?” you DON’T know him,” she said, with a sigh of relief.

Had I really left, little more than an hour since, the quiet, decent, conventionally domestic atmosphere of my mother’s cottage? She held a small bag in her hand: and her dress—bonnet, shawl, and gown all of white—was, so far as I could guess, certainly not composed of very delicate or very expensive materials. Was this the well-known, uneventful road, where holiday people strolled on Sundays? I had hitherto contrived to master my curiosity out of consideration for my companion; but it got the better of me now.

“Are you a man of rank and title yourself?” Why not call to me? “I want to ask you something,” she said suddenly. “You may trust me for any harmless purpose,” I said.

I could hardly refuse to humour her in such a trifle, and I mentioned three names. “I am afraid you have serious reason to complain of some man of rank and title?” “Do you know many people in London?” “Yes,” I replied, “that is the way: it leads to St.

The natural impulse to assist her and to spare her got the better of the judgment, the caution, the worldly tact, which an older, wiser, and colder man might have summoned to help him in this strange emergency. There was nothing wild, nothing immodest in her manner: it was quiet and self-controlled, a little melancholy and a little touched by suspicion; not exactly the manner of a lady, and, at the same time, not the manner of a woman in the humblest rank of life. Two, the names of fathers of families whose daughters I taught; one, the name of a bachelor who had once taken me a cruise in his yacht, to make sketches for him. Strange, to say the least of it.

“Quite sure. She spoke loudly and almost fiercely, raised her clenched hand in the air, and shook it passionately; then, on a sudden, controlled herself again, and added, in tones lowered to a whisper “Tell me which of them YOU know.” It was her voice again that first broke the silence between us. I only wondered at your appearance in the road, because it seemed to me to be empty the instant before I saw you.”

I may trust HIM.” “You are very kind, and I am very, very thankful to have met you.” She turned, and pointed back to a place at the junction of the road to London and the road to Hampstead, where there was a gap in the hedge. Steal after me and touch me?

I hesitated about answering it. I have done nothing wrong. From time to time, being forbidden to make any more inquiries, I stole a look at her face. I sadly want to quiet myself, if I can.”

“Not a man of rank and title,” she repeated to herself. Her figure was slight, and rather above the average height—her gait and actions free from the slightest approach to extravagance. This was all that I could observe of her in the dim light and under the perplexingly strange circumstances of our meeting. The first touch of womanly tenderness that I had heard from her trembled in her voice as she said the words; but no tears glistened in those large, wistfully attentive eyes of hers, which were still fixed on me.

I have been cruelly used and cruelly wronged. No house was near; no one was passing whom I could consult; and no earthly right existed on my part to give me a power of control over her, even if I had known how to exercise it. Here was a stranger utterly and helplessly at my mercy—and that stranger a forlorn woman. She spoke with unnecessary earnestness and agitation, and shrank back from me several paces.

As she repeated the words for the third time, she came close to me and laid her hand, with a sudden gentle stealthiness, on my bosom—a thin hand; a cold hand (when I removed it with mine) even on that sultry night. She stopped in confusion; shifted her bag from one hand to the other; and sighed bitterly. “May I trust you?” There was an unmistakable tone of suspicion in the strange question.

Tell me how I can help you; and if I can, I will.” The voice, little as I had yet heard of it, had something curiously still and mechanical in its tones, and the utterance was remarkably rapid. “I have only been in London once before,” she went on, more and more rapidly, “and I know nothing about that side of it, yonder. As the reply passed my lips—a little bitterly, perhaps—she took my arm with the abruptness which characterised all her actions.

What I did do, was to try and gain time by questioning her. Why do you suspect me of doing wrong?” “Don’t ask me: don’t make me talk of it,” she answered. “Many”—she came to a full stop, and looked me searchingly in the face—“many men of the rank of Baronet?”

Only say you will let me leave you when and how I please—only say you won’t interfere with me. You must excuse my not answering you before. “I can’t—I daren’t—I forget myself when I mention it.” Was I Walter Hartright?

Is he the cause of your being out here at this strange time of night?” “I asked if that was the way to London.” What could I do? “I’m not fit now.

What sort of a woman she was, and how she came to be out alone in the high-road, an hour after midnight, I altogether failed to guess. “Are you sure that your friend in London will receive you at such a late hour as this?” The little familiar word that is on everybody’s lips, every hour in the day. “Pray don’t suppose that I have any idea of suspecting you,” I said, “or any other wish than to be of assistance to you, if I can.


Project Anchor-6 — Status Report
Date: 2025-09-26  |  Author: Daniel Marchetti  |  Department: Information Technology  |  Team size: 12

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $85,000, spent $47,301
   Q2: budget $92,000, spent $52,102
   Q3: budget $78,500, spent $52,640
   Q4: budget $41,500, spent $34,860

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2026-09-15)
   - Design freeze: 2026-06-11
   - Tooling completion: 2026-07-12

3. Suppliers
   - Zielinski Dynamics (Oslo): glass substrate, unit price $48.20, quantity 50, lead time 63 days
   - Devereux Systems (Dubai): lithium cell, unit price $73.10, quantity 890, lead time 46 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Trace UUID: 5f412149-cbcf-47ae-1f26-07dda679deee
   Audit URL: https://hub.example.net/report/32257

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated medium. The team will review progress against the 2026-09-15 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "uuid": the value labelled "Trace UUID"
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Quartz-16 — Status Report
Date: 2025-08-26  |  Author: Dmitri Delacroix  |  Department: Quality Assurance  |  Team size: 10

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $30,000, spent $26,683
   Q2: budget $59,000, spent $46,426
   Q3: budget $91,000, spent $73,760
   Q4: budget $28,000, spent $23,709

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2026-05-12)
   - Safety inspection: 2025-10-15
   - Tooling completion: 2025-12-03

3. Suppliers
   - Okafor Group (Oslo): laser diode, unit price $34.10, quantity 140, lead time 61 days
   - Nakamura Group (Sydney): titanium bracket, unit price $28.25, quantity 160, lead time 56 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Firmware version: v8.2.11
   Commit hash: 55c12aa8

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated medium. The team will review progress against the 2026-05-12 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "version": the value labelled "Firmware version"
- key "commit": the value labelled "Commit hash"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Willow-9 — Status Report
Date: 2026-02-06  |  Author: Omar Fairbanks  |  Department: Compliance  |  Team size: 45

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $30,000, spent $19,541
   Q2: budget $49,500, spent $32,354
   Q3: budget $88,000, spent $80,560
   Q4: budget $37,000, spent $33,778

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2026-05-27)
   - Design freeze: 2026-03-17
   - Launch review: 2026-05-03

3. Suppliers
   - Nakamura Materials (Dubai): steel fastener, unit price $26.65, quantity 310, lead time 65 days
   - Kowalski Systems (Oslo): titanium bracket, unit price $61.50, quantity 290, lead time 36 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Commit hash: ea0e8f2c
   Firmware version: v8.4.24

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated low. The team will review progress against the 2026-05-27 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "commit": the value labelled "Commit hash"
- key "version": the value labelled "Firmware version"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Summit-15 — Status Report
Date: 2026-04-28  |  Author: Naomi Njoroge  |  Department: Industrial Design  |  Team size: 20

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $28,000, spent $21,852
   Q2: budget $84,500, spent $65,869
   Q3: budget $65,500, spent $42,948
   Q4: budget $28,500, spent $17,777

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2026-12-04)
   - Pilot production run: 2026-05-28
   - Field trial start: 2026-11-23

3. Suppliers
   - Vance Industrial (Dubai): pressure valve, unit price $70.10, quantity 650, lead time 7 days
   - Zielinski Materials (Paris): membrane filter, unit price $71.30, quantity 870, lead time 58 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Order ID: PO-I486O5
   Firmware version: v3.16.0

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated high. The team will review progress against the 2026-12-04 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "order_id": the value labelled "Order ID"
- key "version": the value labelled "Firmware version"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Compass-8 — Status Report
Date: 2026-03-24  |  Author: Omar Petrov  |  Department: Data Analytics  |  Team size: 12

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $79,500, spent $56,919
   Q2: budget $35,500, spent $22,159
   Q3: budget $93,500, spent $60,933
   Q4: budget $58,000, spent $43,625

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2027-01-15)
   - Design freeze: 2026-06-24
   - Certification audit: 2026-12-01
   - Pilot production run: 2026-12-03

3. Suppliers
   - Sorensen Works (Berlin): membrane filter, unit price $83.40, quantity 610, lead time 79 days
   - Nakamura Industrial (Chicago): carbon panel, unit price $10.45, quantity 690, lead time 87 days
   - Iyer Industrial (Bangkok): copper coil, unit price $8.90, quantity 660, lead time 30 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Trace UUID: 480479dc-5f06-edc7-5314-963319051ce9
   Audit URL: https://ops.example.com/audit/batch/84401?id=115d278d
   Commit hash: a7be472ce1f405ab
   Access token: demo_SSRO58Br8S1EZR6SMSWZ

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated low. The team will review progress against the 2027-01-15 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "uuid": the value labelled "Trace UUID"
- key "commit": the value labelled "Commit hash"
- key "token": the value labelled "Access token"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Prairie-2 — Status Report
Date: 2026-05-10  |  Author: Lucia Delacroix  |  Department: Logistics  |  Team size: 38

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $46,500, spent $29,099
   Q2: budget $78,000, spent $63,892
   Q3: budget $55,000, spent $50,470
   Q4: budget $67,500, spent $53,026

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2027-01-30)
   - Launch review: 2026-10-08
   - Supplier onboarding: 2026-12-04
   - Field trial start: 2026-12-10

3. Suppliers
   - Devereux Industrial (Mumbai): titanium bracket, unit price $70.25, quantity 790, lead time 57 days
   - Castellanos Dynamics (London): servo motor, unit price $13.00, quantity 350, lead time 19 days
   - Silva Systems (Paris): hydraulic pump, unit price $34.10, quantity 550, lead time 57 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Trace UUID: 520a069d-b56f-7dac-466e-0f790ddc170c
   Audit URL: https://hub.example.net/report/audit/98539?id=692b752c
   Order ID: PO-1LYIOO21V
   Serial number: Xl0RH-AQQB2-BMCTm

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated medium. The team will review progress against the 2027-01-30 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
- key "order_id": the value labelled "Order ID"
- key "serial": the value labelled "Serial number"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Prairie-4 — Status Report
Date: 2026-04-24  |  Author: Lucia Marchetti  |  Department: Compliance  |  Team size: 35

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $29,000, spent $20,332
   Q2: budget $40,500, spent $38,130
   Q3: budget $84,500, spent $57,282
   Q4: budget $63,000, spent $59,383

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2026-06-27)
   - Tooling completion: 2026-05-04
   - Firmware sign-off: 2026-05-13
   - Prototype delivery: 2026-06-22

3. Suppliers
   - Petrov Systems (Dubai): copper coil, unit price $29.40, quantity 670, lead time 35 days
   - Zielinski Dynamics (Paris): optical sensor, unit price $27.75, quantity 270, lead time 86 days
   - Castellanos Dynamics (Tokyo): membrane filter, unit price $68.00, quantity 580, lead time 10 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Trace UUID: 6ada1d4b-0a54-3690-ebbd-648caa0f5c2f
   Commit hash: 32a37b7e86b54705
   Serial number: 0NU20-nLK6r-853m1
   Order ID: PO-V8GZWSGRO

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated high. The team will review progress against the 2026-06-27 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "uuid": the value labelled "Trace UUID"
- key "serial": the value labelled "Serial number"
- key "order_id": the value labelled "Order ID"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Summit-14 — Status Report
Date: 2025-04-30  |  Author: Yuki Kowalski  |  Department: Security  |  Team size: 36

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $62,000, spent $50,075
   Q2: budget $57,500, spent $46,698
   Q3: budget $46,500, spent $29,784
   Q4: budget $34,000, spent $25,359

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2025-07-10)
   - Design freeze: 2025-05-05
   - Launch review: 2025-05-12
   - Pilot production run: 2025-07-05

3. Suppliers
   - Lindqvist Materials (London): optical sensor, unit price $19.00, quantity 890, lead time 87 days
   - Devereux Materials (Zurich): polymer gasket, unit price $68.90, quantity 140, lead time 7 days
   - Castellanos Works (Singapore): steel fastener, unit price $86.90, quantity 140, lead time 23 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Order ID: PO-69BKX8Q3r
   Audit URL: https://hub.example.net/report/ledger/45526?id=791b5d7f
   Trace UUID: 0f9f9d3e-afd4-5887-ba97-5b735b16bc78
   Serial number: G490n-JIJO8-I9VIF

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated high. The team will review progress against the 2025-07-10 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "order_id": the value labelled "Order ID"
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
- key "uuid": the value labelled "Trace UUID"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Falcon-7 — Status Report
Date: 2025-01-20  |  Author: Daniel Castellanos  |  Department: Research  |  Team size: 42

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $36,500, spent $29,142
   Q2: budget $55,500, spent $48,652
   Q3: budget $71,000, spent $48,302
   Q4: budget $69,500, spent $61,441

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2025-09-23)
   - Certification audit: 2025-03-24
   - Design freeze: 2025-08-08
   - Field trial start: 2025-08-18

3. Suppliers
   - Delacroix Works (Beijing): polymer gasket, unit price $2.80, quantity 410, lead time 16 days
   - Ashworth Systems (Singapore): steel fastener, unit price $70.60, quantity 680, lead time 40 days
   - Devereux Dynamics (Nairobi): servo motor, unit price $50.90, quantity 740, lead time 38 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Firmware version: v1.22.11-rc.3
   Commit hash: cd5f8bf9c960bc33
   Order ID: PO-SBBNXIU39
   Access token: demo_ZTSS08FVUBmZXMSKDTNT

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated low. The team will review progress against the 2025-09-23 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "version": the value labelled "Firmware version"
- key "commit": the value labelled "Commit hash"
- key "token": the value labelled "Access token"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Aurora-7 — Status Report
Date: 2025-02-13  |  Author: Victor Beaumont  |  Department: Marketing  |  Team size: 19

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $28,000, spent $23,809
   Q2: budget $58,500, spent $52,216
   Q3: budget $74,500, spent $62,072
   Q4: budget $82,000, spent $45,195

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2025-06-16)
   - Supplier onboarding: 2025-04-16
   - Pilot production run: 2025-04-20
   - Prototype delivery: 2025-04-23
   - Logistics dry run: 2025-05-13

3. Suppliers
   - Delacroix Group (Toronto): titanium bracket, unit price $41.95, quantity 100, lead time 34 days
   - Delacroix Dynamics (Berlin): steel fastener, unit price $8.20, quantity 600, lead time 58 days
   - Iyer Works (Madrid): laser diode, unit price $7.10, quantity 530, lead time 62 days
   - Kowalski Industrial (Sydney): hydraulic pump, unit price $37.25, quantity 430, lead time 38 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Trace UUID: f8f0ffc5-6c78-2f1d-0a90-bcf5deba7a99
   Audit URL: https://data.example.org/report/export/batch/27877?id=6c665ece&sig=LISS50PIKZ
   Serial number: GrB0O-52lBO-QBn5N-IlSBm
   Access token: demo_OZ2P2VTOV1S8O1I1rnB01WSBS0lBLLmm
   Commit hash: da8a2a21a883ad4dea5fe235de2e6532dd537d9b
   Order ID: PO-2l2YNUmE8Z01

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated medium. The team will review progress against the 2025-06-16 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
- key "token": the value labelled "Access token"
- key "commit": the value labelled "Commit hash"
- key "order_id": the value labelled "Order ID"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Aurora-17 — Status Report
Date: 2025-08-11  |  Author: Naomi Whitfield  |  Department: Facilities  |  Team size: 9

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $28,000, spent $23,688
   Q2: budget $73,500, spent $50,903
   Q3: budget $56,000, spent $38,488
   Q4: budget $32,500, spent $30,628

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2026-01-11)
   - Pilot production run: 2025-10-01
   - Logistics dry run: 2025-10-25
   - Field trial start: 2025-11-08
   - Design freeze: 2025-12-27

3. Suppliers
   - Sorensen Materials (Amsterdam): cooling manifold, unit price $57.05, quantity 480, lead time 64 days
   - Silva Works (Singapore): steel fastener, unit price $77.15, quantity 570, lead time 84 days
   - Okafor Dynamics (London): ceramic bearing, unit price $91.60, quantity 430, lead time 18 days
   - Petrov Systems (Nairobi): hydraulic pump, unit price $81.45, quantity 110, lead time 75 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Access token: demo_8631EISQF42nl152nJNH6G0ZBH2lIRRl
   Commit hash: 062aea5ce17dc3d863162506f0ead15d228f0ac4
   Trace UUID: 91a99803-b05b-a0e1-0987-86409c24d83f
   Order ID: PO-0l2XDIr0K51N
   Audit URL: https://data.example.org/manifest/trace/export/58073?id=d44400aa&sig=BRTlYNl8NS
   Firmware version: v5.11.6-rc.1+build.8730c27

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated medium. The team will review progress against the 2026-01-11 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "token": the value labelled "Access token"
- key "commit": the value labelled "Commit hash"
- key "uuid": the value labelled "Trace UUID"
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Willow-7 — Status Report
Date: 2025-04-28  |  Author: Stefan Vance  |  Department: Data Analytics  |  Team size: 23

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $80,000, spent $75,867
   Q2: budget $64,500, spent $52,260
   Q3: budget $55,500, spent $48,990
   Q4: budget $88,000, spent $58,219

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2025-12-10)
   - Logistics dry run: 2025-05-30
   - Supplier onboarding: 2025-06-24
   - Tooling completion: 2025-08-02
   - Design freeze: 2025-08-13

3. Suppliers
   - Sorensen Industrial (Amsterdam): lithium cell, unit price $40.15, quantity 430, lead time 41 days
   - Fairbanks Works (Toronto): membrane filter, unit price $73.15, quantity 790, lead time 65 days
   - Beaumont Industrial (Lima): optical sensor, unit price $61.80, quantity 200, lead time 64 days
   - Nakamura Industrial (Dubai): hydraulic pump, unit price $78.25, quantity 290, lead time 51 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Trace UUID: 54e2b122-c0a2-efdb-3a06-2e5fe40bc505
   Serial number: UHGII-rOIZ0-Z80OS-B9BE1
   Audit URL: https://ops.example.com/export/ledger/batch/24824?id=7a6949aa&sig=ISO142G0Pn
   Commit hash: 87eb9734d2e6d9fe5c12471916b427b7faef1b49
   Access token: demo_r5lO5I15ElG6KlDG2BUBTTrZlS4rSBNO
   Order ID: PO-81mrnU5IS2m5

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated medium. The team will review progress against the 2025-12-10 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "uuid": the value labelled "Trace UUID"
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
- key "commit": the value labelled "Commit hash"
- key "token": the value labelled "Access token"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Prairie-8 — Status Report
Date: 2025-09-13  |  Author: Amara Zielinski  |  Department: Training  |  Team size: 42

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $46,500, spent $29,426
   Q2: budget $37,500, spent $28,029
   Q3: budget $28,500, spent $27,528
   Q4: budget $38,000, spent $26,190

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2026-01-09)
   - Firmware sign-off: 2025-09-13
   - Supplier onboarding: 2025-09-24
   - Safety inspection: 2025-10-19
   - Design freeze: 2025-11-22

3. Suppliers
   - Kowalski Dynamics (London): signal relay, unit price $79.15, quantity 70, lead time 90 days
   - Njoroge Systems (Berlin): glass substrate, unit price $21.45, quantity 210, lead time 26 days
   - Njoroge Systems (Amsterdam): copper coil, unit price $19.00, quantity 610, lead time 55 days
   - Petrov Industrial (Oslo): pressure valve, unit price $45.70, quantity 190, lead time 33 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Order ID: PO-B1LMO018SSZI
   Firmware version: v3.7.14-rc.9+build.43da136
   Access token: demo_lXrOZ5UESrrNB8SOJ5580lm6RmA881QF
   Trace UUID: ea730b5f-f430-12e8-f730-c0aa99fb3fb9
   Commit hash: a90369936e81a9ac1220d4826124593e31b34b50
   Audit URL: https://ops.example.com/audit/manifest/trace/5964?id=058c3d2f&sig=V8ZNUFZ0BO

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated medium. The team will review progress against the 2026-01-09 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "order_id": the value labelled "Order ID"
- key "version": the value labelled "Firmware version"
- key "token": the value labelled "Access token"
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Granite-11 — Status Report
Date: 2025-05-09  |  Author: Daniel Iyer  |  Department: Data Analytics  |  Team size: 22

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $70,000, spent $38,971
   Q2: budget $73,000, spent $67,322
   Q3: budget $78,500, spent $62,545
   Q4: budget $91,000, spent $68,634

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2025-12-18)
   - Launch review: 2025-05-22
   - Safety inspection: 2025-07-17
   - Pilot production run: 2025-07-25
   - Field trial start: 2025-11-08

3. Suppliers
   - Delacroix Works (Chicago): steel fastener, unit price $44.70, quantity 170, lead time 54 days
   - Whitfield Works (Toronto): copper coil, unit price $48.90, quantity 630, lead time 7 days
   - Fairbanks Industrial (Dubai): lithium cell, unit price $75.55, quantity 720, lead time 42 days
   - Vance Materials (Bangkok): carbon panel, unit price $69.25, quantity 160, lead time 73 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Order ID: PO-Ol8E19OBS582
   Firmware version: v6.14.4-rc.6+build.7462ace
   Audit URL: https://data.example.org/trace/batch/export/73691?id=1edb9d37&sig=2KZFB6SZPS
   Serial number: 70B82-8B3rI-rVTBl-BBI2I
   Access token: demo_MIRr8SI4nS0UXlBS0r0mINZn2nAn7W6I
   Trace UUID: 2c4c9389-d1ad-2c12-1898-e60a27d32840

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated high. The team will review progress against the 2025-12-18 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "version": the value labelled "Firmware version"
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
- key "serial": the value labelled "Serial number"
- key "uuid": the value labelled "Trace UUID"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Anchor-9 — Status Report
Date: 2026-06-12  |  Author: Dmitri Hartmann  |  Department: Legal  |  Team size: 27

1. Budget and spend (USD)
   Q1: budget $57,500, spent $42,567
   Q2: budget $93,500, spent $77,001
   Q3: budget $46,000, spent $37,266
   Q4: budget $89,000, spent $85,818

2. Schedule (final deadline: 2027-03-01)
   - Certification audit: 2026-09-09
   - Field trial start: 2026-12-16
   - Tooling completion: 2027-01-13
   - Firmware sign-off: 2027-01-16

3. Suppliers
   - Ashworth Dynamics (Dubai): ceramic bearing, unit price $8.45, quantity 150, lead time 88 days
   - Nakamura Works (Paris): titanium bracket, unit price $58.00, quantity 860, lead time 19 days
   - Iyer Systems (Sydney): optical sensor, unit price $49.60, quantity 370, lead time 82 days
   - Lindqvist Dynamics (Seoul): copper coil, unit price $86.25, quantity 560, lead time 10 days

4. Reference identifiers
   Audit URL: https://hub.example.net/audit/ledger/batch/5065?id=9ec625dc&sig=E152ZOGZ1B
   Trace UUID: 63e22ddd-1cee-ee74-ba63-0812166d5871
   Access token: demo_8MBRn2m25m1BrZ485Z2VP61BS025BX54
   Firmware version: v22.7.22-rc.7+build.442003b
   Commit hash: 96318d709ab10b8d266cfaa97bd8638652de447c
   Order ID: PO-8Zn8DXr0F5mm

5. Assessment: overall delivery risk is rated low. The team will review progress against the 2027-03-01 deadline at the next steering meeting.

The provided document lists labelled reference identifiers. Extract the exact value of each field below and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
- key "token": the value labelled "Access token"
- key "version": the value labelled "Firmware version"
- key "order_id": the value labelled "Order ID"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Summit-3 — Quarterly Operations Dossier
Date: 2026-01-06  |  Compiled by: Hannah Sorensen  |  Final deadline: 2026-04-29

Section 1. Executive overview
This dossier consolidates reports from 4 departments, a register of 8 suppliers, the milestone schedule, and the incident log for the period. Where the Errata section at the end of this document revises a figure, the revised figure is authoritative.

Section 2. Milestone schedule
   - Safety inspection: 2026-02-01 (owner: Stefan Iyer)
   - Prototype delivery: 2026-03-02 (owner: Yuki Whitfield)
   - Supplier onboarding: 2026-03-05 (owner: Amara Hartmann)
   - Field trial start: 2026-03-11 (owner: Nathan Delacroix)
   - Firmware sign-off: 2026-03-28 (owner: Stefan Marchetti)
   - Logistics dry run: 2026-04-11 (owner: Elena Sorensen)

Section 3. Department reports
 3.1 Security — head: Felix Fairbanks; base: Singapore; headcount: 196
      Budget (USD): Q1 $33,000 / Q2 $61,500 / Q3 $86,500 / Q4 $53,500
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $27,888 / Q2 $54,923 / Q3 $53,293 / Q4 $34,297
      Note: The Strategic Planning office reported that warehouse utilisation in Chicago reached 18.70% after the steel fastener consignment arrived.
 3.2 Training — head: Victor Nakamura; base: Singapore; headcount: 14
      Budget (USD): Q1 $77,000 / Q2 $32,500 / Q3 $90,000 / Q4 $34,500
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $72,815 / Q2 $19,099 / Q3 $55,228 / Q4 $23,646
      Note: An audit dated 2025-05-08 credited the Customer Support team with recovering $207,000 in duplicate charges linked to the membrane filter contract.
 3.3 Industrial Design — head: Lucia Whitfield; base: Mumbai; headcount: 213
      Budget (USD): Q1 $94,500 / Q2 $78,000 / Q3 $51,500 / Q4 $54,500
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $83,263 / Q2 $68,492 / Q3 $37,999 / Q4 $46,948
      Note: A batch of carbon panel inspected on 2025-06-16 showed a defect rate of 59.15%, prompting a follow-up review by Naomi Beaumont.
 3.4 Engineering — head: Rafael Zielinski; base: Bangkok; headcount: 46
      Budget (USD): Q1 $52,000 / Q2 $41,500 / Q3 $28,000 / Q4 $35,000
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $30,559 / Q2 $34,984 / Q3 $21,206 / Q4 $25,458
      Note: An audit dated 2026-03-25 credited the Quality Assurance team with recovering $132,750 in duplicate charges linked to the pressure valve contract.

Section 4. Supplier register
   - Hartmann Dynamics (Bangkok) — supplies steel fastener to Security; unit price $47.65; qty 580; lead time 33 days
     contract P0mOE-NZUrI-817Z8; renewal 2026-03-14
   - Delacroix Materials (Singapore) — supplies servo motor to Training; unit price $2.50; qty 240; lead time 10 days
     contract 183F4-l21MZ-6M2BK; renewal 2026-03-15
   - Hartmann Industrial (Dubai) — supplies lithium cell to Industrial Design; unit price $40.55; qty 120; lead time 60 days
     contract 8L1Y6-1WQE5-3lMm9; renewal 2026-04-03
   - Whitfield Industrial (Berlin) — supplies lithium cell to Engineering; unit price $23.85; qty 120; lead time 25 days
     contract A8U8O-4RQ0L-57r14; renewal 2026-01-09
   - Okafor Systems (London) — supplies signal relay to Security; unit price $68.10; qty 470; lead time 48 days
     contract OO84W-1QPWX-FNHnL; renewal 2026-03-30
   - Lindqvist Dynamics (Paris) — supplies copper coil to Training; unit price $24.60; qty 890; lead time 47 days
     contract H45L4-QUnOZ-E6Y2O; renewal 2026-01-06
   - Castellanos Group (Tokyo) — supplies cooling manifold to Industrial Design; unit price $74.00; qty 230; lead time 28 days
     contract OBOS0-1YmRT-n16J2; renewal 2026-02-09
   - Devereux Materials (Lima) — supplies copper coil to Engineering; unit price $5.30; qty 190; lead time 46 days
     contract GlJFr-lNZGZ-lCNEY; renewal 2026-01-13

Section 5. Incident log
   - 2025-10-19 [Security] power dip affecting line 22; downtime 19 hours
   - 2025-10-26 [Industrial Design] forklift collision at gate 26; downtime 32 hours
   - 2025-10-26 [Industrial Design] coolant leak near dock 21; downtime 48 hours
   - 2025-11-04 [Security] power dip affecting line 4; downtime 29 hours
   - 2025-12-07 [Training] power dip affecting line 3; downtime 33 hours
   - 2025-12-07 [Security] sensor drift detected on unit 23; downtime 16 hours
   - 2025-12-10 [Industrial Design] coolant leak near dock 24; downtime 18 hours
   - 2025-12-14 [Security] cooling failure in bay 6; downtime 4 hours
   - 2025-12-18 [Security] forklift collision at gate 7; downtime 8 hours
   - 2025-12-19 [Engineering] firmware rollback on controller 24; downtime 12 hours
   - 2025-12-21 [Engineering] sensor drift detected on unit 21; downtime 47 hours
   - 2025-12-28 [Engineering] firmware rollback on controller 23; downtime 39 hours

Section 6. Operational notes

Deliveries routed through Berlin now clear customs in 201 days on average, down from earlier in the quarter. Dmitri Delacroix noted that 219 of the sampled components fell within tolerance, a result the Engineering group described as encouraging. Staff in London completed 633 maintenance checks during the week ending 2025-03-28, closing out the backlog. On 2025-08-01, Victor Nakamura confirmed that the Logistics team in Bangkok had assembled 394 units of the carbon panel ahead of schedule.

A batch of titanium bracket inspected on 2025-05-13 showed a defect rate of 46.05%, prompting a follow-up review by Yuki Marchetti. According to Alice Beaumont, renegotiated terms will reduce the landed cost per hydraulic pump to roughly $219,000. Turnaround time for repairs fell to 933 hours after technicians in Shanghai adopted the new inspection checklist. An audit dated 2026-05-12 credited the Training team with recovering $206,250 in duplicate charges linked to the laser diode contract.

Marcus Petrov cautioned that humidity control in the London facility must improve before additional laser diode stock is stored there. Forecast demand for the hydraulic pump stands at 496 units for the coming period, according to figures compiled in Shanghai. A survey returned on 2026-05-21 found that 40.45% of partner sites had adopted the updated handling guidance for the laser diode. The committee approved a provision of $1,500 on 2025-04-01, earmarked by the Research department for spare titanium bracket inventory.

The revised estimate of $67,000 covers freight, insurance, and the calibration of every copper coil shipped through Mumbai. The Facilities office reported that warehouse utilisation in Singapore reached 26.40% after the copper coil consignment arrived.

Appendix A. Reference identifiers
   Firmware version 1: v15.12.0-rc.4
   Access token: demo_0Zl0SOQKU0AX5BVJOZ8T
   Trace UUID: c5555cab-800f-c8dd-7e9b-dff085ac2e09
   Audit URL: https://data.example.org/export/trace/80995?id=e1c615a7
   Commit hash: c6acb8fc99da9c3e
   Order ID: PO-S0l0r0B2Y
   Serial number: ZOmM8-ISJR1-HAZCG
   Firmware version 2: v11.10.1-rc.3

Errata
   E1. The Q4 budget stated for the Industrial Design department in Section 3 is superseded; the correct figure is $61,000.
   E2. The Order ID listed in Appendix A is invalid; the correct value is PO-SKW0EJTQO.

The provided document is a multi-section operations dossier. Appendix A lists labelled reference identifiers, and the Errata section at the very end supersedes some of them. Extract the authoritative value of each field below — where an erratum corrects a value, you must return the corrected value, not the one printed in Appendix A. Return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "token": the value labelled "Access token"
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
- key "commit": the value labelled "Commit hash"
- key "order_id": the value labelled "Order ID"
- key "serial": the value labelled "Serial number"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Aurora-15 — Quarterly Operations Dossier
Date: 2025-08-08  |  Compiled by: Alice Vance  |  Final deadline: 2026-08-18

Section 1. Executive overview
This dossier consolidates reports from 4 departments, a register of 8 suppliers, the milestone schedule, and the incident log for the period. Where the Errata section at the end of this document revises a figure, the revised figure is authoritative.

Section 2. Milestone schedule
   - Field trial start: 2025-08-24 (owner: Elena Silva)
   - Firmware sign-off: 2025-10-08 (owner: Elena Fairbanks)
   - Tooling completion: 2025-10-28 (owner: Ingrid Marchetti)
   - Logistics dry run: 2026-01-08 (owner: Lucia Vance)
   - Certification audit: 2026-03-25 (owner: Felix Fairbanks)
   - Launch review: 2026-05-31 (owner: Yuki Okafor)

Section 3. Department reports
 3.1 Procurement — head: Priya Fairbanks; base: Sydney; headcount: 216
      Budget (USD): Q1 $34,500 / Q2 $42,500 / Q3 $71,500 / Q4 $94,000
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $24,444 / Q2 $29,429 / Q3 $60,954 / Q4 $71,461
      Note: Stefan Nakamura noted that 183 of the sampled components fell within tolerance, a result the Security group described as encouraging.
 3.2 Security — head: Marcus Ashworth; base: Amsterdam; headcount: 91
      Budget (USD): Q1 $79,000 / Q2 $66,500 / Q3 $95,500 / Q4 $75,500
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $44,003 / Q2 $60,753 / Q3 $56,285 / Q4 $50,931
      Note: Deliveries routed through Shanghai now clear customs in 71 days on average, down from earlier in the quarter.
 3.3 Quality Assurance — head: Alice Hartmann; base: Seoul; headcount: 116
      Budget (USD): Q1 $68,000 / Q2 $71,000 / Q3 $39,000 / Q4 $59,500
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $57,948 / Q2 $68,673 / Q3 $33,502 / Q4 $57,378
      Note: A survey returned on 2025-08-10 found that 3.05% of partner sites had adopted the updated handling guidance for the pressure valve.
 3.4 Industrial Design — head: Amara Iyer; base: Madrid; headcount: 61
      Budget (USD): Q1 $64,500 / Q2 $29,500 / Q3 $24,000 / Q4 $41,000
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $49,711 / Q2 $23,187 / Q3 $13,662 / Q4 $32,524
      Note: According to Elena Iyer, renegotiated terms will reduce the landed cost per hydraulic pump to roughly $135,750.

Section 4. Supplier register
   - Whitfield Materials (Dubai) — supplies titanium bracket to Procurement; unit price $48.80; qty 530; lead time 61 days
     contract ABFm5-5OIII-540W1; renewal 2025-08-31
   - Delacroix Industrial (London) — supplies polymer gasket to Security; unit price $44.90; qty 750; lead time 60 days
     contract CR1HI-I8GlH-NHB4T; renewal 2026-01-20
   - Vance Industrial (Amsterdam) — supplies lithium cell to Quality Assurance; unit price $70.55; qty 630; lead time 59 days
     contract XEOTB-EJG8A-ZV9FO; renewal 2026-06-01
   - Beaumont Group (Zurich) — supplies hydraulic pump to Industrial Design; unit price $22.10; qty 80; lead time 25 days
     contract I21OH-OV08N-B81OH; renewal 2025-11-06
   - Nakamura Industrial (Dubai) — supplies cooling manifold to Procurement; unit price $10.55; qty 150; lead time 7 days
     contract 5T3SZ-A885D-9nJ8Z; renewal 2026-01-17
   - Petrov Dynamics (Lima) — supplies polymer gasket to Security; unit price $92.10; qty 420; lead time 11 days
     contract TR8PX-DMnY7-FrZI8; renewal 2026-07-03
   - Njoroge Systems (Singapore) — supplies servo motor to Quality Assurance; unit price $63.40; qty 750; lead time 47 days
     contract 5Sn1O-8ICBI-JFDU5; renewal 2026-08-10
   - Beaumont Works (Tokyo) — supplies glass substrate to Industrial Design; unit price $36.05; qty 540; lead time 75 days
     contract 5FVVE-SLIGP-0Jm5K; renewal 2026-03-17

Section 5. Incident log
   - 2025-06-09 [Security] conveyor jam at station 28; downtime 20 hours
   - 2025-06-09 [Security] calibration fault on rig 22; downtime 37 hours
   - 2025-06-10 [Security] conveyor jam at station 5; downtime 23 hours
   - 2025-06-15 [Security] cooling failure in bay 24; downtime 6 hours
   - 2025-06-18 [Industrial Design] cooling failure in bay 15; downtime 9 hours
   - 2025-06-30 [Quality Assurance] calibration fault on rig 18; downtime 40 hours
   - 2025-07-05 [Procurement] sensor drift detected on unit 1; downtime 6 hours
   - 2025-07-08 [Industrial Design] cooling failure in bay 30; downtime 33 hours
   - 2025-07-11 [Security] cooling failure in bay 17; downtime 41 hours
   - 2025-08-05 [Procurement] firmware rollback on controller 8; downtime 45 hours
   - 2025-08-05 [Industrial Design] firmware rollback on controller 16; downtime 43 hours
   - 2025-08-05 [Quality Assurance] firmware rollback on controller 2; downtime 2 hours

Section 6. Operational notes

The Maintenance office reported that warehouse utilisation in Lima reached 13.90% after the optical sensor consignment arrived. Turnaround time for repairs fell to 150 hours after technicians in Nairobi adopted the new inspection checklist. Felix Zielinski noted that 432 of the sampled components fell within tolerance, a result the Industrial Design group described as encouraging. The committee approved a provision of $152,750 on 2025-10-09, earmarked by the Compliance department for spare lithium cell inventory.

An audit dated 2025-09-18 credited the Data Analytics team with recovering $186,500 in duplicate charges linked to the laser diode contract. On 2025-12-30, Rafael Devereux confirmed that the Procurement team in Berlin had assembled 127 units of the hydraulic pump ahead of schedule. A batch of signal relay inspected on 2026-01-12 showed a defect rate of 42.45%, prompting a follow-up review by Naomi Lindqvist. Forecast demand for the laser diode stands at 454 units for the coming period, according to figures compiled in Beijing.

Staff in Tokyo completed 510 maintenance checks during the week ending 2025-10-26, closing out the backlog. A survey returned on 2025-07-06 found that 46.25% of partner sites had adopted the updated handling guidance for the membrane filter. Sofia Whitfield cautioned that humidity control in the Mumbai facility must improve before additional cooling manifold stock is stored there. Deliveries routed through Shanghai now clear customs in 645 days on average, down from earlier in the quarter.

The revised estimate of $83,000 covers freight, insurance, and the calibration of every cooling manifold shipped through Mumbai. According to Naomi Lindqvist, renegotiated terms will reduce the landed cost per steel fastener to roughly $121,000.

Appendix A. Reference identifiers
   Firmware version 1: v5.15.20-rc.4
   Order ID: PO-5Z2YSY7I9
   Audit URL: https://ops.example.com/manifest/ledger/85317?id=b49237d5
   Serial number: mnZA5-68G01-8QDQB
   Commit hash: c4a6306d8f39dba2
   Trace UUID: 62374c30-e742-7cdf-4b00-6f927d18542a
   Access token: demo_0l8U3FY2WYmOWI802KUP
   Firmware version 2: v23.21.3-rc.9

Errata
   E1. The Q1 budget stated for the Security department in Section 3 is superseded; the correct figure is $63,500.
   E2. The Order ID listed in Appendix A is invalid; the correct value is PO-G9lVO96EG.

The provided document is a multi-section operations dossier. Section 4 is the supplier register; each supplier line states a contract identifier. Extract the exact contract identifier for each supplier named below, and return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "contract_1": the contract of supplier "Vance Industrial"
- key "contract_2": the contract of supplier "Beaumont Group"
- key "contract_3": the contract of supplier "Nakamura Industrial"
Copy each identifier exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.


Project Granite-8 — Quarterly Operations Dossier
Date: 2026-06-10  |  Compiled by: Victor Zielinski  |  Final deadline: 2026-10-29

Section 1. Executive overview
This dossier consolidates reports from 4 departments, a register of 8 suppliers, the milestone schedule, and the incident log for the period. Where the Errata section at the end of this document revises a figure, the revised figure is authoritative.

Section 2. Milestone schedule
   - Logistics dry run: 2026-06-11 (owner: Dmitri Petrov)
   - Pilot production run: 2026-06-21 (owner: Yuki Lindqvist)
   - Supplier onboarding: 2026-08-17 (owner: Rafael Fairbanks)
   - Tooling completion: 2026-08-18 (owner: Lucia Marchetti)
   - Design freeze: 2026-09-05 (owner: Elena Sorensen)
   - Safety inspection: 2026-10-10 (owner: Hannah Delacroix)

Section 3. Department reports
 3.1 Logistics — head: Stefan Zielinski; base: Lima; headcount: 52
      Budget (USD): Q1 $50,500 / Q2 $69,500 / Q3 $52,500 / Q4 $80,500
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $39,721 / Q2 $67,731 / Q3 $31,824 / Q4 $67,004
      Note: On 2025-08-13, Dmitri Beaumont confirmed that the Facilities team in Paris had assembled 36 units of the carbon panel ahead of schedule.
 3.2 Data Analytics — head: Omar Hartmann; base: Tokyo; headcount: 23
      Budget (USD): Q1 $83,000 / Q2 $65,000 / Q3 $67,500 / Q4 $38,500
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $81,129 / Q2 $52,440 / Q3 $44,364 / Q4 $30,213
      Note: According to Lucia Marchetti, renegotiated terms will reduce the landed cost per cooling manifold to roughly $217,250.
 3.3 Maintenance — head: Marcus Iyer; base: Bangkok; headcount: 232
      Budget (USD): Q1 $76,500 / Q2 $62,500 / Q3 $56,500 / Q4 $85,000
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $62,710 / Q2 $56,925 / Q3 $34,026 / Q4 $79,754
      Note: Naomi Sorensen cautioned that humidity control in the Nairobi facility must improve before additional laser diode stock is stored there.
 3.4 Industrial Design — head: Rafael Okafor; base: London; headcount: 61
      Budget (USD): Q1 $54,000 / Q2 $65,500 / Q3 $81,000 / Q4 $27,500
      Spend  (USD): Q1 $42,023 / Q2 $54,093 / Q3 $63,375 / Q4 $16,689
      Note: The revised estimate of $6,500 covers freight, insurance, and the calibration of every laser diode shipped through London.

Section 4. Supplier register
   - Nakamura Systems (Madrid) — supplies hydraulic pump to Logistics; unit price $87.30; qty 880; lead time 53 days
     contract OlnFr-Y0rUn-3Y5X0; renewal 2026-08-20
   - Iyer Dynamics (Dubai) — supplies optical sensor to Data Analytics; unit price $59.35; qty 510; lead time 59 days
     contract C38EI-OI375-nMKL0; renewal 2026-08-05
   - Beaumont Group (Shanghai) — supplies lithium cell to Maintenance; unit price $94.70; qty 140; lead time 30 days
     contract 1MrrH-RSG0E-PSV5X; renewal 2026-10-07
   - Okafor Works (Lima) — supplies laser diode to Industrial Design; unit price $77.70; qty 470; lead time 77 days
     contract 52A2X-9X8YH-RZ1K5; renewal 2026-08-30
   - Vance Group (Bangkok) — supplies carbon panel to Logistics; unit price $4.15; qty 890; lead time 64 days
     contract XLL15-lZE4R-JDW1J; renewal 2026-09-09
   - Petrov Industrial (Bangkok) — supplies hydraulic pump to Data Analytics; unit price $25.55; qty 240; lead time 16 days
     contract CCOBR-A0nNL-0NXH1; renewal 2026-09-22
   - Nakamura Materials (Lima) — supplies glass substrate to Maintenance; unit price $63.90; qty 670; lead time 41 days
     contract LMP5R-51m08-40ZDX; renewal 2026-08-13
   - Delacroix Works (Tokyo) — supplies membrane filter to Industrial Design; unit price $80.60; qty 450; lead time 16 days
     contract 9KS38-5YMCS-PIII4; renewal 2026-08-28

Section 5. Incident log
   - 2026-03-23 [Logistics] power dip affecting line 15; downtime 37 hours
   - 2026-04-06 [Logistics] firmware rollback on controller 24; downtime 15 hours
   - 2026-04-08 [Data Analytics] conveyor jam at station 6; downtime 1 hours
   - 2026-04-08 [Logistics] cooling failure in bay 25; downtime 47 hours
   - 2026-04-26 [Data Analytics] sensor drift detected on unit 6; downtime 37 hours
   - 2026-05-06 [Maintenance] power dip affecting line 7; downtime 33 hours
   - 2026-05-08 [Logistics] calibration fault on rig 21; downtime 20 hours
   - 2026-05-12 [Maintenance] calibration fault on rig 16; downtime 9 hours
   - 2026-05-14 [Data Analytics] calibration fault on rig 20; downtime 11 hours
   - 2026-05-18 [Maintenance] sensor drift detected on unit 25; downtime 41 hours
   - 2026-05-18 [Industrial Design] forklift collision at gate 3; downtime 6 hours
   - 2026-06-08 [Data Analytics] power dip affecting line 27; downtime 2 hours

Section 6. Operational notes

Turnaround time for repairs fell to 383 hours after technicians in Beijing adopted the new inspection checklist. An audit dated 2025-05-19 credited the Strategic Planning team with recovering $188,750 in duplicate charges linked to the titanium bracket contract. The revised estimate of $105,500 covers freight, insurance, and the calibration of every glass substrate shipped through Dubai. Naomi Beaumont noted that 515 of the sampled components fell within tolerance, a result the Procurement group described as encouraging.

According to Ingrid Beaumont, renegotiated terms will reduce the landed cost per cooling manifold to roughly $190,500. On 2026-02-01, Sofia Lindqvist confirmed that the Marketing team in Beijing had assembled 556 units of the optical sensor ahead of schedule. A survey returned on 2026-01-01 found that 77.70% of partner sites had adopted the updated handling guidance for the ceramic bearing. Staff in Paris completed 357 maintenance checks during the week ending 2025-11-06, closing out the backlog.

Forecast demand for the titanium bracket stands at 505 units for the coming period, according to figures compiled in Sydney. The committee approved a provision of $194,750 on 2026-04-12, earmarked by the Maintenance department for spare lithium cell inventory. The Operations office reported that warehouse utilisation in Oslo reached 62.70% after the pressure valve consignment arrived. Alice Petrov cautioned that humidity control in the Toronto facility must improve before additional laser diode stock is stored there.

A batch of polymer gasket inspected on 2025-05-22 showed a defect rate of 62.65%, prompting a follow-up review by Stefan Kowalski. Deliveries routed through Chicago now clear customs in 794 days on average, down from earlier in the quarter.

Appendix A. Reference identifiers
   Access token 1: demo_2YlDLlBROOBV8n1G2Dm2
   Order ID: PO-I170ArTS3
   Audit URL: https://data.example.org/ledger/batch/31462?id=613e1e28
   Firmware version: v5.6.1-rc.1
   Trace UUID: ef6f8aa4-a6d8-c9cf-7d4f-9a1072d329a5
   Commit hash: 0d720f912b854c8d
   Serial number: GZD8X-mY2UE-Sn7Am
   Access token 2: demo_8rPRFBX1PZ0mB1I7OQX1

Errata
   E1. The Q2 budget stated for the Logistics department in Section 3 is superseded; the correct figure is $87,000.
   E2. The Firmware version listed in Appendix A is invalid; the correct value is v8.16.23-rc.9.

The provided document is a multi-section operations dossier. Appendix A lists labelled reference identifiers, and the Errata section at the very end supersedes some of them. Extract the authoritative value of each field below — where an erratum corrects a value, you must return the corrected value, not the one printed in Appendix A. Return a single JSON object with exactly these keys:
- key "order_id": the value labelled "Order ID"
- key "url": the value labelled "Audit URL"
- key "version": the value labelled "Firmware version"
- key "uuid": the value labelled "Trace UUID"
- key "commit": the value labelled "Commit hash"
Copy each value exactly as it appears, character for character. Return only the JSON object, with no other text, no explanation, and no code fences.