Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the AccessToTrader.com Nightly Wrap-Up Show. Hope everybody is doing okay. Hope everybody is having a good trading day. Some pretty good action. We'll talk about that in a second. So, you know, you've got a linear market, right? You have a very, very aggressive linear market. And the one thing that I've noticed, and not necessarily in the live webinar, I think everybody is pretty much, you know, pretty much focused at the task at hand. But I'm starting to see a lot of signs of reckless thinking, okay? And, you know, for all of us in the live, we know, we trade ranges. It doesn't make a difference to me. Tesla to the upside, Tesla to the downside. It doesn't make a difference. So when you have a linear market like this, right, very, very big linear move, and again, now you have the last, you know, two, three months, the market's really been numb to these China headlines. So for example, like this afternoon, there was a headline that, well, China, US, phase one, you know, there's a lot of sticking points not going as smoothly as possible. The market dipped for like 30 seconds and they came right back up, because again, there is no fear and the market's gotten numb to it. So when you get into this linear market, right, this really, really big aggressive linear market, and you have a lot of the, a lot of the really aggressive names just doing their thing. It's like the stairway to heaven. You got your Teslas going nuts, and now your Disney's with their, you know, 100 billion, or at least 10 million subscribers and Roku just an absolute monster. What's happening is a lot of the new traders, they're sipping the Kool-Aid, okay? And the one thing they are avoiding at all costs is the, you know, the main idea of gravity. We'll talk about that more during the weekend update. You could see it. You could see it brewing. It's like, for example, if I posted a pivot on anything, right, to the downside on Twitter, for example, on Amazon yesterday, I posted a, I figure it was either on Twitter or Stocktwits, a pivot to the downside. Blasphemy. What are you nuts? Black Friday. I'm like, dude, it's just the trade. Relax. You know, Amazon sells you a 15, but the key is, again, you have that mental, you have that crowd mentality of, oh, nothing is going to go down ever, ever, ever. And again, the market's amazing, amazing market. Again, I don't care if this market goes up or down, but once it starts going really, really linear, you're falling into a lot of bad habits. Okay. You're buying stocks at levels that forget about the word pivot. You're buying at stocks at levels that momentum is three days ago, four days ago. And now it's just on major, major fumes. So when you see the polls, some of the polls in Shredan, some of these names, a lot of people will turn around and say, oh, it's a big deal. It's just a buying opportunity. But when you see the aggressive nature of these polls, you kind of see there's something more to it. And if you look at the NASDAQ 100, and again, I'm not calling for a destruction of equity prices. If you're watching this for the first time, look, I trade ranges, man, I trade ranges, I trade sentiment. It doesn't make a difference to me. I had one short trade thing. I think it was that Tesla scalp in the morning or anything else, three upside. So it doesn't make a difference. But again, I'm a realist. Okay. And when you see the NASDAQ 100, and again, we'll use it as a barometer. Just keep on going up and up and up and up and up. And again, you can make it argument with me and say, well, Danny said it's up. This is the traditionally most aggressive time of the year. You got your Thanksgiving coming up in two weeks to follow by the Santa Claus rally in the January effect. And everything's all great. And everybody grows, you know, exponentially and everybody's much more handsomer and more prettier and more smarter. And then the food tastes better. Right. Everything's great. Again, technical analysis and gravity is also something that you have to understand is real. Okay. And when you look at the last three days of the NASDAQ 100, again, we're going to use this as a barometer. You can go through all the other indexes in your own time. But you can see something happening, right? You have three days in a row of lower highs and lower lows, right? And today the bulls did a great job. Fantastic job defending the 10-day moving average. Great job. Okay. And equity prices rebounded, the buy the dips came in, all the people that believe the market will never go down.  So all of that stuff, right? So the bulls are doing a great job. Phenomenal job. The sentiment is off the charts. And I tweeted today that I said I believe that the fear, the greed factor is off the charts. Okay. It's off the charts. It's not good anymore making a dollar, two dollars on a move. People want five, people want 10. Well, you know, I want to be six or five and dump the ball backwards, but okay. So we're getting to that point of the rose-colored glasses are starting to get tattooed on a lot of traders. And the problem is, and we talk about this a lot of times, the market's just not going to tap you on the show and say, hey, we're going to yank you and everything you made in two weeks, we're going to yank from your account in one day. It's just going to do it. And it's something that we really have to pay attention to. Again, I'm giving the bulls the benefit of the doubt every day. This is the most childish way. If I explain it to a six-year-old, I would explain it this way. Okay. It's a bull market till it's not. And what does that mean? Until technical damage starts to occur and prices start to confirm. The one part I want to watch, whether it's tomorrow, whether it's Monday, Tuesday, whatever it is going forward, I want to see how the bulls continue to defend this area. You can see night the $200 level on the queues. The low is here. Today's low was $200 and 22 cents. So as long as the queues are defending, the bulls are defending this $200 area on this rising support, it's all good in the hood, baby. It's all good in the hood, everything, all good. Once we start confirming and there's a buyer's strike and we start going lower in stocks that are traditionally really aggressively rallying, they can't rally anymore. For example, like Amazon, I guess they was in a really, really aggressive pivot yesterday, right? The yesterday that pivot 1767 went to the 50s, right? When stocks like this are supposed to rally and they can't, that's a problem. Okay. So again, we're just talking here. Don't lose your minds. Nobody's preparing for Armageddon. We're just having a discussion like adults, the worst case scenario of all the things. Again, if you're trading with rose-colored glasses, you're going to get run over. So you have to know what happens if, right? And what happens if we start making that rolling top, right? Rolling top and again, not saying it will. We got to watch and they start losing that $200 area. The sentiment will change very, very quickly. If you're a new trader, you might not recognize it in time. And again, there might be a very, very aggressive pull below that $200 area into the 197 and the Q's. Now again, before you turn around and say, well, what's the big deal is it's only $3 move on the Q's. Listen to what I'm saying. It could be a $3 pull on a Q's and that happens in literally on one interval. You're going to feel it. You're going to feel it very, very aggressively. Until then, again, bulls have the right to dance, bears, they're just literally stepping on ice, waiting for it to crack. So something has to give here. Again, does it need to pull back? Nothing needs to happen. Again, fairer value is the last trading price. That's exactly what they think. There's no such thing as oversold rallies continue, sellouts continue. Nothing needs to happen. But again, until it does, this 200 level is going to be very, very important. So going into tomorrow, again, Fridays have been traditionally a really, really good premium day. People are putting in speculation money bets, especially in the weeklies and the option markets. And whatever is strong is probably going to be strong. Whatever is weak, well, there's nothing weak because we're in a linear bull market. So that's that. So going into tomorrow, again, I have to give the bulls the benefit of the doubt. I am conscious of this 200 level. I'm also conscious of three days in a row of lower highs, lower lows. So I want to see what happens next. But again, if you believe in the theory and if you watch the workshop in many, many times, you know that the 10 day moving average is the birth of the trade, right? It's the birth of the trade. So if it loses the 10 day moving average, well, I guess it's the death of the trade, right? I don't know, maybe possibly. So it could get down all the way down to 197. Good action today, right? Good action today, both mostly long, right? Mostly long. Here are the pivots today in the room. I feel so dirty. I traded now BYND three times three days in a row to the long side. It's I feel dirty, but it's been working. It's actually been very, very, it's working today. I kind of didn't like that it didn't defend the upper Bollinger man. We had that trade perfectly debt to rights. And I knew it was going to trade that 83 and a quarter supply. We'll talk about that in a second. I just don't like the fact that it's sold way back down. So again, we might have to start looking at the bottom of the range. So here it is. Here's the day Tesla 344 several times. It builds below conflush. And I said this and you guys will watch this on the, on the, on the webinar recording tonight. You'll see it. I said, I'm not going any size. We're a bull market.  But if this thing starts breaking down below 344, it could be a decent trade. Again, here's a 344, 344, 344, 344, 344. You get the point. It broke 344 and went down like a dollar and change. I didn't do any size in this thing. Again, I'm just scared of this, but it was a nice little scalp. A trader right to the bottom of the support. I want to watch them next couple of days. Again, Tesla is a machine. I love it. It's awesome. We've done great with this thing. Okay. I'm just waiting for clues just like everybody else for an exhaustion, a backside move, all that good stuff. And again, you can see how Tesla defended the five day moving average. So again, if Tesla starts losing the five day moving average, again, if you believe in the theory stocks go from supply to supply and demand to demand, well, here's demand and here's demand, right? You have a lot of room down. So again, might not happen tomorrow, but I am watching for the backside move. It's just called gravity. Don't lose your minds. I love Tesla. I love the stock. I love the car. I just don't care which way I trade it on Netflix. Again, did a great job today. Yesterday was a nice pivot from the 283 to 281 50 day moving average. It held today. Obviously we're waiting for that 281 that never came. BY&D was good, man. Three days in a row trading this thing to the long side, right? So here was BY&D, right? Here was BY&D. Here was the 8150, right? Here's the one 8150. And I knew it was going to go right to supply at 83 and change because, well, again, stock straight supply to supply and demand to demand. So beautiful trade. Nothing wrong with BY&D. Scalp the perfect one, okay? Shop, excuse me, not shop. Roku, again, I put two pivots in Roku. One to the long side, one to the short side, because again, pivots play no favorites. They just don't care. Here was the long side pivot 14290, 143 needs to build. No, there is a little bit of supply in 14330, so it needs to get through that and build as well. If it does, it can get to 14540s, right? So, yeah, it did that. So it did that. So here's the 140, where are we? Here was the 14290s, right? 14290s, 143. It traded to supply, right? It traded to supply, and then it got through and just kept on going as well. So really, really big move on Roku. But again, the point of the pivots are it doesn't make a difference which way. Before it confirmed, right? Before it confirmed, and I said, oh, nice, right? Nice spike earlier, right? That was the first spike early into supply. And then I wrote, oh, hell, if it turns around in 141, it held twice. If it builds below, they could flush. Obviously, they get to that area. But that's the point. We don't care which side of the pivot it confirms as long as it confirms. So nice move. Definitely, definitely nice move on Roku to the upside, obviously. Shop, nice trade there. I didn't take shop. I wasn't just watching it. Shop needs a new base, 31550, 316 to go more. I said there's a shot against the 319. Again, it was just an interval trade. It wasn't supposed to be anything magnificent. So here is the build right here off this 1550. And it traded right into supply of 319.89. So nice job there for you guys who took it. Reda, obviously, well, expanded today had nothing to do with that. Walmart pre-market highs never got there. Roku, Roku, Roku, Roku, just a machine, Roku, Roku, Roku shop. Like I said, first supply 319 went to 319.89. So nice move there. Huge area coming up, right? That's the pivot we took. Huge area coming up. Nice. Give us a quick dollar and change. And I said pretty, very aggressive start to the day. Very, very aggressive. I also saw the news about who the hell downgraded. Was it Maxim? Maxim downgraded Apple pre-market. I saw that news very, very quickly. Shorted it. I missed the hardest cover when it flushed down into, I thought it would push down to 162.50. So I thought it was going to get down to 162. I was shorting it at 163.30s or 40s. I forgot. But nevertheless, I kind of missed my last big pull, but it was a pretty good trade. Nevertheless, a pretty good start to the day. Roku, again, 64.40 supply. Just went right through that as well. And that's it. And that's it. And that's it. So the moral of the story, right? Moral of the story. VRNS was also good off the last night's watch list. And again, this was last night's watch list. Pretty good area. Again, dips on Roku, Disney. They worked pretty well as well. BYND, we had to pay a little higher for it. But the moral of the story is, again, you're only as good as your research. So going into tomorrow, guys, I am bullish until I'm not. I'm bullish until I'm not. And the most important part is let's wait, right? Let's wait for confirmation. So let me give you guys some ideas for tomorrow's. Let me give you guys some ideas for tomorrow's session. I'm not going to give you the beta ones just because, again, I just can't have artificial flow into these names. I need to see them flow pretty nicely. So I'm going to give you guys a couple ideas that are not beta-related. DDOG, beautiful chart. Beautiful, beautiful chart. Had a huge move yesterday, rested today. Keep an eye on this thing. This thing starts building 42. It could really, really go. DTIL looks pretty good as well. I have no idea what the hell this is, but it doesn't really make a difference. Huge expansion channel today right through supply. If this thing starts building above 12 bucks tomorrow, right? If it starts building above 12 bucks tomorrow, you can have a nice second day move there. CNST was a big, big move a couple of days ago. It finally busted out above this channel here. Stop that supply. Again, stocks don't stop randomly. They stop into supply. And if it starts reclaiming supply tomorrow over 39, who knows, man? Again, in this market, anything's possible. You could get a move. Again, anything can happen. You could get a move into the 46 area. And one chart I really like. We'll talk about obviously Tesla tomorrow and NVIDIA and all that good stuff. But look at this serious logic chart, man. This is a gorgeous, gorgeous chart. Serious logic. If it can reclaim tomorrow 73 bucks, man, this is a beautiful, beautiful chart. It could go. It's just like VRNS that some of you guys started buying. Again, this one's way too thin for me. But again, it's the same chart. So VRNS, nice little breakout. I think the stock goes higher in the next couple of weeks. But you can see here CRUS, but starts reclaiming that 73 law level. It can go. So guys, have a great night, everybody. Tomorrow is Friday. Thank God my brain is completely shot. I'm exhausted. I'm going to relax a little bit watching football. I'll have some dinner. And with God's help, I'll see you all tomorrow. Take care guys. Have a great night.


I don't have to prove everything to everyone. I have called for a six-week stopping of the military action. And so in order to deal with the hostage issue and in order to deal with getting humanitarian assistance in a very robust way. Well, we need a permanent ceasefire. Well, we have to have it sweet. Well, but you need to deal with the military action and on Israel's part to stop that at the moment. The issue at the moment is let's get humanitarian assistance in. Let's deal with settler violence. Let's move to a two-state solution, which we can do. People are agreeable to doing that. And to move the Israeli government to doing that. And in the meantime, I hope internally in Israel that there will be a change of government and that we will have other people other than Prime Minister Netanyahu in charge. Well, we certainly would like to see a change of government, but we really feel like you're not giving enough emphasis to the horrific attacks that have left over 30,000 people dead. My friend, I'm working every day to get humanitarian assistance in, to stop innocent people from being killed. Stop the bombing. And did you hear what I said about stopping the military effort at this moment? But not to stop it. To stop it. Along with my friend. You have to negotiate a ceasefire. It's never going to be a negotiation with Hamas. Never. Hamas cannot be part of a day after. And that is not the partner in this. Hamas is a terrorist organization that says annihilate Israel and kill Jews. That's not somebody that you negotiate with. But there are others. There are the moderate Arab states to deal with. There's the Palestinian Authority, which I believe needs to be strengthened. We don't want to be supporting the Israeli government, whether it's Netanyahu or wherever it comes. This is 75 years of oppression. This is not just Netanyahu. My friend, Israel has every right to defend itself, as they did. Killing innocent civilians and starving them to death is not defending oneself. No, my friend, if you see my statement, read it. I am doing briefings with UNRWA to talk about them. We met with them. Are you about refunding UNRWA? We're talking about UNRWA needs to have guardrails as well. UNRWA, they found 12 people. Well, you say no. There's no evidence. Well, but others. Even if there were thousands of people that worked for UNRWA. There's more criminals in Congress than others. Time out, my friends. Time out. I'll listen to you on a lot of things. Don't talk about criminals in the Congress. They've had broken laws in America? Listen, let's just deal with the current issues. And you don't even know about my work with UNRWA. So you don't know of... I know that you didn't sign the letter from last week that 50 representatives did sign. Talk to you about how important UNRWA is and that we should fund it because people are dying due to lack of humanitarian aid. I don't have to prove everything to everyone. I need to know what it is that I'm doing, how I am doing it, and the strengths of my feelings about doing that. We just were lucky enough to be able to have some interaction with Congresswoman Rosa DeLora who is very important because she's the highest ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee and she told us that she just came back from talking to Blinken and others in the White House. And she's got this colonial mentality that the U.S. can decide who are the good Palestinians and who are the good Israelis. We want to get rid of Netanyahu, somebody else should be in there, and then we'll be able to work with both the Israeli government and the good Palestinians. And it's such a crock of crap because the U.S. cannot determine who are the Palestinians who are gonna be in charge, who are the Palestinians that have support of the Palestinian people, and they also can't determine who is gonna be in charge in Israel. What we can do is withdraw our support, which is what we asked her to do. Stop giving the Israelis weapons, but she wasn't going in that direction.


From Times Square, in the heart of New York City, it's theCUBE, covering Imagine 2018. Brought to you by Automation Anywhere. Welcome back everybody, Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're Automation Anywhere in Midtown Manhattan, 2018. Excited to have our next guest, he's Kevin Crow and he's partner of Financial Services Intelligent Automation Leader at PWC. Kevin, great to see you. Thank you. So Financial Services seems to be a theme, we're here in Manhattan. Why is Financial Services an early adopter or maybe a frequent adopter or an advanced adopter of the RPA technology? Sure, so I think as we see our Financial Services clients and their agendas, there's been a huge focus on productivity and simplifying their overall operating model over the past couple of years. Banks in particular have gone through several years of having to focus a lot of their spending on non-discretionary manners like regulatory compliance and risk management. And what that's generated is a need as they start looking towards the next generation to really start thinking about what they're gonna look like in a post-regulatory environment and automation is quickly risen to the top of that. That's gonna bring in a post-regulatory environment. Yes. Why a post-regulatory environment? Well, I mean, if you look through what banks have had to deal with in terms of Dodd-Frank, in terms of C-CAR and other regulation from the Federal Reserve, these are things that took a lot of spending both on implementing operational processes and on implementing technology. A lot of that work is starting to, the banks are putting that behind themselves. And so what, as they look forward and look at how they're going to gain more profitability in the future, the challenge becomes there's not necessarily a new set of product innovation coming in. And so you have to really look at the expense line. And so because of that, automation has risen to the top of that agenda. And so this continues to be one of the top areas of interest that we're getting from our clients. So in each day post-regulatory, you mean like a new regulation that they have to respond to, not that there's suddenly not gonna be a regulation. There's not a lot of new regulations coming in right now. Especially. I said that pesky one last week, GDRP. Yeah, but in the U.S., we're in an environment right now. I mean, we just, you know, there was just, you know, the revisions to the Dodd-Frank bill that were passed a lot of regulatory rules are actually being loosened. So, you don't necessarily have an increase in dollars that are going to be going into that. Right, right. So it just always fascinates me, right? I thought ERP was supposed to ring out all the efficiency in our systems. But that was not the case, not even by a long shot. And now we continue to find these new avenues for more efficiency. And clearly this is a big one that we stumbled upon. Yeah, you know, I think it's interesting when you look at kind of big technology investment over the last decade or two, you could argue a lot of effort's been focused at what I call the kind of core infrastructure and core plumbing. So, you know, how do I consolidate data into a single location? How do I make sure that data records house the different parts of my organization? But that like kind of last mile of what someone does as part of their day-to-day business process was never really addressed, you know, or was only addressed in pieces. And so I think as you start looking at the productivity term and how you actually start getting efficiency, we have very few clients that are saying, I want to take on that next big ERP type implementation, you know, or I'm ready to spend $300 million on a new project. They're looking to try to get the most value out of what they already have and they're actually looking to look at that last mile and how can they actually get some benefit off of it. So, you know, RPA technologies, I think we're one of the catalysts of just being the perfect technology in the right place at the right time from a current business environment and current technology spend perspective. Yeah, it's pretty interesting. We here was talking about, you know, one of the big benefits is that you can take advantage of your existing infrastructure.  Yeah, and I think that's, you know, it's quick, it's fast, it's, you know, it could be implemented in an agile manner and, you know, our clients are continuously telling us over and over again, they're willing to invest, but they want to invest where they're going to see a tangible payback immediately. But I think when you start to talk the concept of digital transformation, it can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but there are big picture changes that could be made, those that may be longer term trends, but there are more immediate things and more immediate benefits that could be gained. And I think that's really the sweet spot of where RPA and Automation Anywhere fall into. I love, I was just looking up, Jeff N. Milton's keynote said, this is the easiest found money of any digital transformation project. I think that was the quote that you'll ever do. That's a pretty nice endorsement. Yeah, and it's, you know, as we go out, we talk to CFO, COO, CIOs, you know, it's, the value proposition is really attractive because, you know, there's a track record of failed, technology projects failed, big transformation projects, and no one wants to necessarily risk their career on creating the next big failure. And so I think, you know, using technology like RPA almost as an entry point or kind of a gateway drug into the digital world, see the benefits, you know, start to understand what are some of the business problems and historical kind of, you know, things you're trying to untangle in your infrastructure, attack that, and then, you know, start to layer on additional things on top of that once you get good with RPA. And then you can start figuring out, okay, that's the gateway into artificial intelligence. Okay, now how do I start to apply AI across my organization as you get beyond AI? Okay, how do I get into, you know, more advanced data infrastructure? And you can start thinking about this world where you're just going to, you know, rather than do the big five-year project or you're going to try to solve world hunger, it gives you a chance to kind of incrementally go digital over time. And I think that's definitely the direction we see a lot of our clients wanting to go in. Kevin, I want to get your feedback on another topic that came up again in the keynote was just security.  Financial services obviously security is number one. It's baked into everything that everyone's trying to do now, it's no longer this big moat and wall. It's got to be everywhere. So I'm just curious from the customer adoption point of view, where's security come up in the conversation? Has it been a big deal? Is it just assumed? Is there a lot of good stuff that you can demonstrate to clients? How does security fit within this whole RPA world? You know, it's security and I would just say the broader kind of risk management pieces to RPA infrastructure are one of the first questions that get asked in a highly regulated environment like financial services. You know, the technology is easy and powerful with RPA, but you also have to take a step back and say okay, I can program a bot to go do anything in my infrastructure and that could mean running a reconciliation or it could mean going to our wire system and trying to send money out the door. So there's a lot of concern around not only understanding the technical aspects to, you know, how the tools work with different types of security technologies, but more looking at your approach to entitlements and your approach to how you actually manage who has access to code bots, to put bots into production, to, you know, over time understand what happens. You know, we did a presentation to a board of directors a couple months ago on kind of automation more broadly and, you know, this is, you know, senior level executives. The first question we got was, you know, okay, how do I prevent the 22 year old kid that just came off of campus from building a bot that no one knows about, setting it loose in our infrastructure and it going rogue, right? And so, I mean, and this group was pretty sad, they caught on to it very quickly and, you know, the CIO of this client was sitting next to me and she kind of, it didn't have an immediate answer to that and so I think that was kind of the aha moment. This is something we really need to put some thought into around, you know, who are we gonna let build bots? What policies are going to be set around how bots get deployed into our production environment? How are we going to monitor what happens? You know, how are we going to get our auditors, our operational risk folks, our regulators? How are we going to get all of our different stakeholder groups comfortable that we have a well-controlled, well-functioning bot, you know, bot infrastructure that exists?  We have clients that have literally had to set bots up as new employees, like they get onboarded, they have a, you go to the corporate directory and you can see a picture of R2D2, right, like and it's the way they get around, you know, how they get a bot intelligence system but it's still, it's not a human, right, so you still have to have a policy for how you actually will get code that uses that bot entitlement to function, right, so that has to be done in a well-disciplined, well-controlled manner. Right, because to give them the ability to provide information to help a person make a decision is very different than basically enabling them to make that decision and take proactive action. Exactly. Yeah, it's funny, we talked to Dr. Robert Gates at a show a little while ago and he said the only place in the US military where a machine can actually shoot a gun is in the Korean border, but every place else, you know, they can make suggestions but ultimately it's got to be a person that makes a decision to push the button.   Right. I think the other challenge too is, you know, RPAs is getting the gateway drug into this. You know, going back to my previous point, as you start to layer additional technologies into this, you might have less transparency over understanding clearly what's happening, especially as artificial intelligence takes a much broader role in this. And so there's going to be a lot of scrutiny, I think, over the next couple of years really put into like, how do I understand the models that are created, you know, by artificial intelligence technologies in those decisions that are being made?  You have to be able to explain it as the supervisor of that intelligent bot. Right. You can't just say, oh, it's because it's what the machine told me to do. Right, right. So that's, yeah, it'll be one of the interesting challenges that's ahead of us. Yeah, it's good. I mean, it's part of the whole scale conversation, that interesting conversation the other day where they got, you know, talking about really opening up those AI boxes, you know, so that you have an auditable process, right? You can actually point to why it made the decision, even if you're not the one that made it in real time and is doing it really, really quickly. So, really important piece. Yeah, and as PWC, it's one of our challenges. As a consultant, I'm helping clients implement this. My, you know, my colleagues in our audit practice are now grappling with that same question because we're increasingly being asked to audit that type of infrastructure and have to, you know, prove that something did what it was supposed to have done. Right, right. All right, Kevin, well, nothing but opportunities for you ahead. Yes. Thanks for taking a few minutes to stop by. Okay, thank you for having me. All right, he's Kevin. I'm Jeff. Thank you for Automation Anywhere Imagine 2018 in Manhattan. Thanks for watching.


CHAPTER XV PART I With a heart of furious fancies, whereof I am commander, with a burning spear and a horse of air, to the wilderness I wander. With the night of ghosts and shadows I summoned Am to turny, ten legs beyond the wide world's end, me thinks it is no journey. TOM A BEDLAM SONG Good-bye, Bess, I promised you fifty, here's a hundred, all that I've got for my furniture from Beton, that will keep you in pretty frocks for some time. You've been a good little girl, all things considered, but you've given me and Torpenhau a fair amount of trouble. Please, Mr Torpenhau, my love, if you see him, won't you? Of course I will, dear. Now take me up the gangplank and into the cabin. Once aboard the Lugger, and the maid is—and I am free, I mean—who look after you on this ship? The head's duet, if there's any use in money. The doctor, when we come to Port Said, if I know anything of P&O doctors. After that the Lord will provide, as he used to do. Once found Dickie's cabin in the wild-term wall of a ship full of leaf-takers and weeping relatives, then he kissed her and laid himself down in his bunk until the deck should be clear. He who had taken so long to move about his own darkened rooms well understood the geography of a ship, and the necessity of seeing to his own comforts was a wine to him. Before the screw began to thrash the ship along the docks he had been introduced to the head's duet, had royally tipped him, secured a good place at table, opened out his baggage, and settled himself down with joy in the cabin. It was scarcely necessary to feel his way as he moved about, for he knew everything so well. Then God was very kind, a deep sleep-awareness came upon him just as he would have thought of Macy, and he slept till the steamer had cleared the mouth of the Thames and was lifting to the pulse of the channel. The rattle of the engines, the reek of oil and paint, and a very familiar sound in the next cabin, roused him to his new inheritance. Oh, it's good to be alive again. He yawned, stretched himself vigorously, and went on deck to be told that they were almost abreast of the lights of Brighton. This is no more open water than Trafalgar Square is a common. The three levels begin at Euchant. But nonetheless it could feel the healing of the sea at work upon him already. A boisterous little crosswell swung the steamer disrespectfully by the nose, and one wave breaking far aft spattered the quarter deck and the pile of new deck chairs. He heard the foam fall with a clash of broken glass, was stung in the face by a cupful, and sniffing luxuriously, felt his way to the smoking-room by the wheel. There a strong breeze found him, blew his cap off and left him bare-headed in the doorway, and the smoking-room's steward, understanding that he was a voyager of experience, said that the weather would be stiff in the chops of the channel, and more than half a gale in the bay. These things fell as they were foretold, and Dick enjoyed himself to the utmost. It is allowable and even necessary at sea to lay firm hold upon tables, stanchions, and ropes in moving from place to place. On land the man who feels with his hands is patently blind. At sea even a blind man who is not seasick can jest with the doctor over the weakness of his fellows. Dick told the doctor many tales, and these a coin of more value than silver if properly handled. Smoked with him till unholy hours of the night, and so one he short-lived regard that he promised Dick a few hours of his time when they came to port, said. And the sea roared, or were still as the winds blew, and the engines sang their song day and night, and the sun grew stronger day by day, and Tom the laska barber shaved Dick off a morning under the open hutch-grating, where the cool winds blew, and the awnings were spread, and the passengers made merry, and at last they came to port, said. Take me, said Dick to the doctor, to Madame Benart's, if you know where that is. Few, said the doctor, I do, there's not much to choose between them, but I suppose you're aware that that's one of the worst houses in the place, they'll rob you to begin with a knife you later. Not they, take me there, and I can look after myself. So he was brought to Madame Benart's and filled his nostrils with a well-remembered smell of the east, that runs without a change from the canal head to Hong Kong, and his mouth with a villainous lingua franca of the Levant. The heat smote him between the shoulder blades with the buffered of an old friend. His feet slipped on the sand, and his coat sleeve was warm as new-baked bread when he lifted it to his nose. Madame Benart smiled with a smile that knows no astonishment when Dick entered the drinking-shop, which was one source of her gains. But for a little accident of complete darkness, he could hardly realise that he had ever quitted the old life that harmed in his ears. Somebody opened a bottle of peculiar strong she-dumb. The smell reminded Dick of Montréal Benart, who, by the way, had spoken of art and degradation. Benart was dead. Madame said as much when the doctor departed, scandalised so far as the ship's doctor can be, at the warmth of Dick's reception. Dick was delighted at it. They remember me here after a year. They have forgotten me across the water by this time. Madame, I want a long talk with you when you're at liberty. It is good to be back again. In the evening she set an iron-topped café table out on the sands, and Dick and she sat by it, while the house behind them filled with riot, merrimints, oaths, and threats. The stars came out, and the lights of the shipping in the harbour twinkled by the head of the canal. Yes, the war is good for trade, my friend, but what dost thou do here? We have not forgotten thee. I was over there in England, and I went blind. But there was the glory first. We heard of it here, even here. I am Benart, and thou hast used the head of Yellow Tina. She is still alive, so often and so well that Tina laughed when the papers arrived by the mail-boats. It was always something that we here could recognise in the paintings, and then there was always the glory and the money for thee. I am not poor. I shall pay you well. Not to me. Thou hast paid for everything. Under her breath. Monde jewell to be blind, and so young. What horror!  He did not feel the need of pity. He was too anxious to get to the front once more, and explained his desire. And where? The canal is full of the English ships. Sometimes they fire as they used to do when the war was here. Ten years ago, beyond Cairo there is fighting. But how canst thou go there without a correspondence passport? And in the desert there is always fighting. But that is impossible also, said she. I must go to Suakin. He knew, thanks to Elf's readings, that Torp and Howe was at work with a column that was protecting the construction of the Suakin-Berber line. P&O steamers do not touch at that port. And besides, Madame Bernard knew everybody whose help or advice was worth anything. They were not respectable folk, but they could cause things to be accomplished, which is much more important when there is work toward. But at Suakin they are always fighting. That is, it breeds men always, and always more men. And they are so bold. Why to Suakin? My friend is there. Though friend? Though friend is death, then.  There was no need that he should bow his head in a scent and say, No, he is a man. But if it should arrive, blame us, thou. I blame, she laughs shrily. Who am I that I should blame anyone, except those who try to cheat me over their consummations? But it is very terrible. I must go to Suakin. Think for me. A great deal has changed within the year, and the men I knew are not here. The Egyptian lighthouse steamer goes down the canal to Suakin, and the post boats. And even then—do not think any longer, I know, and it is for me to think. Thou shalt go, thou shalt go, and see, though friend, be wise. Sit here until the house is a little quiet. I must attend to my guests, and afterwards go to bed. Thou shalt go, in truth, thou shalt go. Tomorrow? As soon as may be, she was talking as though he were a child. He sat at the table listening to the voices in the harbour and the streets, and wondering how soon the end would come, till Madame Benart carried him off to bed and ordered him to sleep. The house shouted and sang, and danced and reveled, Madame Benart moving through it with one eye on the liquor payments and the girls, and the other on Dick's interests. To this latter end she smiled, upon scowling and furtive Turkish officers of fellow hen regiments, and more than kind to camel agents of no nationality whatever. In the early morning, being then appropriately dressed in a flaming red silk-ball dress, with a front of tarnished gold embroidery and a necklace of play-glass diamonds, she made chocolate and carrot into Dick. It is only I, and I am of discrete age, eh? Drink and eat the roll, too. This in France mothers bring their sons, when those behave wisely, the morning chocolate. She sat down on the side of the bed whispering, It is all arranged. Thou wilt go by the lighthouse boat. That is a bribe of ten pounds English. The captain is never paid by the government. The boat comes to Siouken in four days. There will go with thee, George, a Greek mule tear. Another bribe of ten pounds. I will pay. They must not know of thy money. George will go with thee, as far as he goes with his mules. Then he comes back to me, for his well-beloved is here. And if I do not receive a telegram from Siouken saying that thou art well, the girl answers for George. Thank you. He reached out sleeply for the cup. You are much too kind, madame. If there were anything that I might do, I would say, stay here and be wise. But I do not think that would be best for thee. She looked at her liquor-stained dress with a sad smile. Nay, thou shalt go, in truth, thou shalt go, it is best so. My boy, it is best so.  That is for good morning, she said, going away. When thou art dressed, we will speak to George and make everything ready. But first we must open the little trunk. Give me the kiss. The amount of kissing lately has been simply scandalous. I shall expect Torpe to kiss me next. He is more likely to swear at me for getting in his way, though. Well, it won't last long. Oh, madame, help me to my toilet off the guillotine. There will be no chance of dressing properly out yonder. He was rummaging among his new campaign kit, and rolling his hands with the spurs. There are two ways of wearing well-oiled ankle-jacks, spotless blue bands, khaki coat and breeches, and a perfectly pipe-clade helmet. The right way is the way of the untired man, master of himself, setting out upon an expedition, well-pleased. Everything must be very correct, Dick explained.  But now it is good to feel well-dressed. Is everything as it should be? He patted the revolver neatly hidden under the fullness of the blouse on the right hip and fingered his collar. I can do no more, madame said, between laughing and crying. Look at thyself. But I forgot. I am very content. He stroked the creaseless spirals of his leggings. Now, let us go and see the captain and George and the lighthouse boat. Be quick, madame. But thou canst not be seen by the harbour walking with me in the daylight. Figure to yourself if some English ladies—there are no English ladies, and if there are, I have forgotten them. Take me there. In spite of his burning impatience, it was nearly evening ere the lighthouse boat began to move. Madame had said a great deal, both to George and the captain, touching the arrangements that were to be made for Dick's benefit. Very few men, who had the honour of her acquaintance, cared to disregard madame's advice. That sort of contempt might end in being knifed by a stranger in a gambling hall upon surprisingly short provocation. For six days two of them were wasted in the crowded canal. The little steamer worked her way to Suakin, where she was to pick up the superintendent of the lighthouse, and Dick made it his business to propitiate George, who was distracted with fears for the safety of his light of love, and half-inclined to make Dick responsible for his own discomfort. When they arrived George took him under his wing, and together they entered the red hot sea-port encumbered with the material and wastage of the Suakin burger-line, from locomotives in disconsole at fragments, to mounds of chairs and pot-sleepers. "'If you keep with me,' said George, nobody will ask for passports or what you do. They are all very busy.' "'Yes, but I should like to hear some of the Englishmen talk. They might remember me. I was known here a long time ago, when I was someone, indeed. A long time ago is a very long time ago here. The graveyards are full.' "'Now listen, this new railway runs out so far as Tanei al-Hassan. That is seven miles. Then there is a camp. They say that beyond Tanei al-Hassan the English troops go forward, and everything that they require will be brought to them by this line.' "'Ah, base camp, I see. That's a better business than fighting fuzzies in the open.' Before this reason even the mules go up in the iron train.' "'Iron what?' It is all covered with iron, because it is still being shot at.' "'An armored train? Better and better. Go on, faithful George. And I go up with my mules to-night. Only those who particularly require to go to the camp go out with the train. They begin to shoot not far from the city. The deers they always used to. It snuffed the smell of parched dust, heated iron, and flaking paint with delight. Certainly the old life was welcoming him back most generously.' "'When I have got my mules together I go up to-night. But you must first send a telegram to Port Said, declaring that I have done you no harm.' "'Madame, has your well in hand.  She is there with that woman.' "'I see. It's a bad thing to be divided between love of woman and the chance of loot. I sympathise with you, George.' They went to the telegraph office unquestioned, for all the world was desperately busy and had scarcely time to turn its head. And Suikin was the last place under sky that would be chosen for holiday ground. On their return the voice of an English Ableton asked Dick what he was doing. The blue goggles were over his eyes, and he walked with his hand on George's elbow as he replied. "'Egyptian Government, mules. My orders are to give them over to the ACG at Tanaelhassen. Any occasion to show my papers?' "'Oh, certainly not. I beg your pardon. I have no right to ask. But not seeing your face before, I go out in the train to-night, I suppose,' said Dick boldly. "'There will be no difficulty in loading up the mules, will there?' You can see the horse-platforms from here. You must have them loaded up early.' The young man went away wondering what sort of broken-down wave this might be who talk like a gentleman and consorted with Greek mule tears. Dick felt unhappy. To out-face an English officer is no small thing, but the bluff looses relish when one plays it from the utter dark and stumbles up and down roughways, thinking and eternally thinking of what might have been if things had fallen out otherwise, and all had been as it was not. George shared his meal with Dick and went off to the mule lines. His charge sat alone in a shed with his face in his hands.  There was a great bustle and clamour about him. He grew afraid and almost called for George. "'I say, have you got your mules ready?' It was the voice of the sub-altern over his shoulder. My man's looking after them. The fact is, I've a touch of ophthalmia and can't see very well. "'By Jove, that's bad. You ought to lie up in hospital for a while. I've had a turn of it myself. It's as bad as being blind.' "'So I find it. When does his armour train go?' "'At six o'clock it takes an hour to cover the seven miles.' "'Are the fussies on the rampage here?' "'About three nights a week. The fact is, I'm acting command of the night train. It generally runs back empty to T'nai for the night.' "'Big camp at T'nai, I suppose?' "'Pretty big. It has to fit our desk at Colm somehow. Is that far off?' "'Between thirty and forty miles in an infernal thirsty country. It's the country quiet between T'nai and our men. More or less, I shouldn't care to cross it alone, or with a sub-altern's command for the matter of that. But the scouts get through it in some extraordinary fashion.' "'He always did.' "'Have you been here before, then?' "'I was through most of the trouble when it first broke out.' "'In the service and cash-eared,' was the sub-altern's first thought. So he refrained from putting any questions. "'There's your man coming up with the mules. It seems rather queer.' "'That I should be mule-leading?' said Dick. "'I didn't mean to say so, but it is. Forgive me. It's beastly impertinence, I know. But you speak like a man who has been at a public school. There's no mistaking the tone. I am a public schoolman. I thought so. I say. I don't want to hurt your feelings.   And that's why I spoke. Thanks. I'm about as thoroughly and completely broke as a man need be.' "'Suppose I mean I'm a public schoolman myself. Couldn't I perhaps take it as a loan, you know? And you're much too good, but on my honour I have as much money as I want. I tell you what you could do for me, though, and put me under an everlasting obligation. Let me come into the bogey-truck of the train. There is a four-truck, isn't there? Yes. How'd you know? I've been in an armored train before. Only let me see—hear some of the fun, I mean. And I'll be grateful. I go at my own risk as a non-combatant.' The young man thought for a minute. "'All right,' he said.  CHAPTER XVII George and a horde of yelling amateur assistants had loaded up the mules, and the narrow gauge armored train, plated with three-eighths inch boilerplate till it looked like one long coffin, stood ready to start. Two bogey trucks running before the locomotive were completely covered in with plating, except that the leading one was pierced in front for the muzzle of a machine gun, and the second at either side for lateral fire. The trucks together made one long iron-volted chamber in which a score of artillery men were rioting. WHITE CHAPEL LAST TRAIN "'Ah, I see you kissing in the first class there,' somebody shouted, just as Dick was clamouring into the forward truck. "'Lordy is a real-life passenger for the queue, to-night, actant, and eel-and-train. "'Here, co-sir, special edition, star-sert. "'Shall I get you a foot warmer?' said another. "'Thanks, I'll pay my footing,' said Dick, and relations off the most amiable were established as solans came with the arrival of the subaltern, and the train jolted out over the rough track. "'This is an immense improvement on shooting the unimpressionable fussy in the open,' said Dick from his place in the corner. "'Oh, but he's still unimpressed?' "'There he goes,' said the subaltern, as the bullet struck the outside of the truck. "'We always have at least one demonstration against the night train. "'Generally, they attack the rear-truck, where my junior commands. He gets all the fun of the fare.' "'Not tonight, though, listen,' said Dick. A blight of heavy-handed bullets was succeeded by yelling and shouts. The children of the desert valued their nightly amusement, and the train was an excellent mark. "'Is it worth giving them half a hopperful?' the subaltern asked of the engine, which was driven by a lieutenant of Zappers. "'I should think so. This is my section off the line. They'll be playing old Harry with my permanent way if we don't stop them.' "'Right, oh,' said the machine-gun through all its five noses, as the subaltern drew the lever home. The empty cartridges clashed on the floor, and the smoke blew back through the truck. There was indiscriminate firing at the rear of the train, and returned fire from the darkness without an unlimited howling. Dick stretched himself on the floor, wild with delight at the sounds and the smells. "'God is very good. I never thought I'd hear this again. Give him hell, men. Oh, give him hell,' he cried. The train stopped for some obstruction on the line ahead, and a party went out to reconnoiter, but came back cursing for spades. The children of the desert had piled sand and gravel on the rails, and twenty minutes were lost in clearing it away. Then the slow progress recommenced. To be varied with more shots, more shouting, the steady clack and kick of the machine-guns, and a final difficulty with a half-lifted rail, ere the train came under the protection of the roaring camp at Tenai Elhassen. "'Now you see why it takes an hour and a half to fetch her through,' said the subaltern, unshipping the cartridge-hopper above his pet-gun. It was a lark, though. I only wish it had lasted twice as long. Our superb it must have looked from outside,' said Dick, sighing regretfully. "'It pulls after the first few nights. By the way, when you've settled about your mules, come and see what we can find to eat in my tent. I'm Bennell of the Gunners, in the artillery lines, and mind you don't fall over my tent ropes in the dark.' But it was all dark to Dick. He could only smell the camels, the hay bales, the cooking, the smoky fires, and the tan canvas off the tents as he stood, where he had dropped from the train, shouting for George. There was the sound of light-hearted kicking on the iron skin of the rear trucks, with squealing and grunting. George was unloading the mules. The engine was blowing off steam nearly in Dick's ear, a cold wind of the desert danced between his legs. He was hungry, and felt tired and dirty, so dirty that he tried to brush his coat with his hands. That was a hopeless job. He thrust his hands into his pockets, and began to count over the many times that he had waited in strange or remote places for trains or camels, mules or horses, to carry him to his business. In those days he could see, few men more clearly, and the spectacle of an armed camp at dinner under the stars was an ever-fresh pleasure to the eye. There was colour, light, and motion, without which no man has much pleasure in living. This night there remained for him only one more journey through the darkness that never lives, to tell a man how far he has travelled. Then he would grip Torpenhout's hand again. Torpenhout, who was alive and strong, and lived in the midst of the action that had once made the reputation of a man called Dick Helder, not in the least to be confused with a blind, bewildered vagabond, who seemed to answer to the same name. Yes, he would find Torpenhout, and come as near to the old life as might be. Afterwards he would forget everything.  That irrational being who had offered him love and loyalty for nothing, but had not signed her name, and most of all Macy, who, from her own point of view, was undeniably right in all she did. But oh, at this distance, so tantalisingly fair. George's hand on his arm pulled him back to the situation. And what now? said George. Oh, yes, of course, what now? Take me to the camelmen. Take me to where the scouts sit when they come in from the desert.  Take me there. The camp was rough and rutty, and Dick stumbled many times over the stumps of scrub. The scouts were sitting by their beasts, as Dick knew they would. The light of the dung fires flickered on their bearded faces, and the camels bubbled and mummled beside them at rest. It was no part of Dick's policy to go into the desert with a convoy of supplies. That would lead to impertinent questions. And since a blind non-combatant is not needed at the front, he would probably be forced to return to Suwakin. He must go up alone, and go immediately.  The watchful George stared him to the circle of the nearest fire. The heads of the camel sheiks bowed gravely, and the camels, senting a European, looked sideways curiously like brooding hands, half ready to get to their feet. A beast and a driver to go to the fighting-line tonight, said Dick. A malade, said a voice, scornfully naming the best baggage-breed that he knew. A bishorin returned Dick with perfect gravity. A bishorin without saddle-galls, therefore no charge of thine, shock-head. Two or three minutes passed, then, we be knee-holtered for the night, there is no going out from the camp. Not for money? Hmm, ah, English money? Another depressing interval of silence. How much? Twenty-five pounds English paid into the hand of the driver at my journey's end, and as much more into the hand of the camel sheik here, to be paid when the driver returns. This was royal payment, and the sheik knew that he would get his commission on this deposit stirred in Dick's behalf. It was scarcely one night's journey, fifty pounds, land and wells and good trees and wives to make a man content for the rest of his day. Who speaks? said Dick. I, said a voice, I will go, but there is no going from the camp. Fool, I know that a camel can break his knee-holter, and the sentries do not fire if one goes in chase. Twenty-five pounds and another twenty-five pounds, but the beast must be a good bishorin. I will take no baggage camel. Then the bargaining began, and at the end of half an hour the first deposit was paid over to the sheik, who talked in low tones to the driver. Dick heard the latter say, a little way out only, any baggage beast will serve. Am I a fool to waste my cattle for a blind man? And though I cannot see, Dick lifted his voice a little, yet I carry that which has six eyes, and the driver will sit before me. If we do not reach the English troops in the dawn, he will be dead. But we are in God's names are the troops, unless thou knowest let another man ride. Doth thou know? Remember it will be life or death to thee. I know, said the driver sullenly, stand back from my beast, I am going to slip him. Not so swiftly. George, hold the camel's head a moment. I want to feel his cheek. The hands wandered over the high till they found the branded half-circle that is the mark of the Biharin, the light-built riding camel. That is well. Cut this one loose. Remember no blessing of God comes on those who try to cheat the blind. The men chuckled by the fire at the camel driver's discomforture. He had intended to substitute a slow, saddle-gold baggage colt. Stand back, one shouted, lashing the Biharan under the belly with a word.  Elaha! Ahoh! He is loose! With a roar and a grunt the Biharan rose to his feet and plunged forward toward the desert, his driver following with shouts and lamentation. George caught Dick's arm and hurried him, stumbling and tripping past a disgusted sentry who was used to stampeding camels. What's the round now? He cried.   The outcry ceased when the camel had disappeared behind a hillock, and his driver had called him back and made him kneel down. Mount first, said Dick, then climbing into the second seat and gently screwing his pistol-muscle into the small of his companion's back. Go on in God's name and swiftly. Goodbye, George. Remember me to Madame and have a good time with your girl. Get forward, child of the pit. A few minutes later he was shut up in a great silence, hardly broken by the creaking of the saddle and the soft pad of the tireless feet. Dick adjusted himself comfortably to the rockin' pitch of the pace, girthed his belt tighter and felt the darkness slide past. For an hour he was conscious only of the sense of the rapid progress. A good camel, he said at last. He was never underfed. He is my own and clean bread, the driver replied. Go on. His head dropped on his chest and he tried to think. But the tenor of his thoughts was broken because he was very sleepy. In the half-dose it seemed that he was learning a punishment him at Mrs. He had committed some crime as bad as sabbath-breaking, and she had locked him up in his bedroom, but he could never repeat more than the first two lines of the hymn. When Israel of the Lord believed out of the land of bondage came, he said them over and over thousands of times. The driver turned in the saddle to see if there were any chance of capturing the revolver and ending the ride.  Somebody hidden in a clump of camel-thorn shouted as the camel toiled up rice and ground. A shot was fired and the silence shut down again, bringing the desire to sleep. Dick could think no longer. He was too tired and stiff and cramped to do more than nod uneasily from time to time, waking with a start and punching the driver with the pistol. Is there a moon? He asked drowsily. She is near her setting. I wish that I could see her. Halt the camel! At least let me hear the desert talk. The man obeyed. Out of the utter stillness came one breath of wind. It rattled the dead leaves of a shrub some distance away and ceased. A handful of dry earth detached itself from the edge of a rail trench and crumbled softly to the bottom. Go on. The night is very cold. Those who have watched till morning know how the last hour before the light lengthens itself into many eternities. It seemed to Dick that he had never since the beginning of original darkness done anything at all save jolt through the year. Once in a thousand years he would finger the nail heads of the saddle front and count them all carefully. Centuries later he would shift his revolver from his right hand to his left and allow the ease-darm to drop down at his side. From the safe distance of London he was watching himself thus employed, watching critically. Yet whenever he put out his sand to the canvas that he might paint the tawny yellow desert under the glare of the sinking moon, the black shadow of a camel and the two bowed figures atop, that hand held a revolver and the arm was numbed from wrist to collarbone. Moreover he was in the dark and could see no canvas of any kind whatever. The driver grunted and Dick was conscious of a change in the air. I smell the dawn, he whispered. It is here and yonder are the troops. Have I done well? The camel stretched out its neck and roared as there came downwind the pungent reek of camels in the square. Go on, we must get there swiftly. Go on. They are moving their camp. There is so much dust that I cannot see what they do. Am I in better case? Go forward. They could hear the hum of voices ahead, the howling and the bubbling of the beasts and the hoarse cries of the soldiers girthing up for the day. Two or three shots were fired. Is that a us? Surely they can see that I am English, Dick spoke angrily. Nay, it is from the desert, the driver answered, cowering in his saddle.  Well, it is that the dawn did not uncover us an hour ago. The camel headed straight for the column and the shots behind multiplied. The children of the desert had arranged that most uncomfortable of surprises, a dawn attack for the English troops, and were getting their distance by snapshots that the only moving object without the square. What luck! What stupendous and imperial luck! said Dick. It's just before the battle, mother. Oh, God has been most good to me. Only the agony of the thought made him screw up his eyes for an instant. Macy. Alohu, we are in, said the man, as he drove into the rear guard and the camel knelt. Who the Jews are you? Dispatchers or what? What's the strength of the enemy behind that ridge? How did you get through? asked a dozen voices. For all answers Dick took a long breath, unbuckled his belt, and shouted from the saddle at the top of a wearied and dusty voice. Top and how? Oe, top, cooe, top and how? A bearded man raking in the ashes of a fire for a light to his pipe moved very swiftly towards that cry as the rear guard facing about began to fire at the puffs of smoke from the hillocks around. Gradually the scattered white cloudlets drew out in the long lines of banked white that hung heavily in the stillness of the dawn before they turned over, waved like, and glided into the valleys. The soldiers in the square were coughing and swearing as their own smoke obstructed their view, and they edged forward to get beyond it. A wounded camel leapt to its feet and roared aloud. The cry ending in a bubbling grunt. Someone had cut its throat to prevent confusion. Then came the thick sob of a man receiving his death wound from a bullet. Then a yell of agony and redoubled firing. There was no time to ask any questions. Get down, man. Get down behind the camel. No, put me, I pray, in the forefront of the battle. Dick turned his face to Torpenhau and raised his hand to set his helmet straight, but miscalculating the distance knocked it off. Torpenhau saw that his hair was grey on the temples, and that his face was the face of an old man.  And Dick came obediently, but as the tree falls, reaching sideways from the Bisharan saddle at Torpenhau's feet, his luck had held to the last, even to the crowning mercy of a kindly bullet through his head. Torpenhau knelt under the lee of the camel with Dick's body in his arms. End of Section 24 End of The Light That Failed by Rudjud Kipling


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