Chapter 21. Mr. Terrence Kirkwood Patton of New York There is Luray, I said, pointing with my whip to the scattered houses of the village as they lay in the valley at our feet. Terry stretched out a hand and pulled the horses to a standstill. Wow! Just a minute till I get my bearings. Now, in which direction is the cave? It extends all along underneath us. The entrance is over there in the undergrowth about a mile to the east. And the woods extend straight across the mountain in an unbroken line. Pretty much so, there are a few farms scattered in. How about the farmers? Are they well to do around here? I think on the whole they are. Which do they employ mostly to work in the fields? Negroes or white men? As to that, I can't say. It depends largely on circumstances. I think the smaller farms are more likely to employ white men. Let me see, said Terry. This is just about planting time. Are the farmers likely to take on extra men at this season? No, I don't think so. Harvest time is when they are more likely to need help. Farming is new to me, laugh Terry. Eastside problems don't involve it. A man of Moses' habits could hide pretty effectively in those woods if he chose. He scanned the hills again and then brought his eyes back to the village. I suppose we might as well go on to the hotel first. I should like to introduce some of the people there. And by the way, he added, it's as well not to let them know I'm a friend of yours. Or newspaper man either. I think I'll be a detective. Your young man from Washington seems to have made quite a stir in regard to the robbery. We'll see if I can't beat him. There's nothing that so impresses a rural population as a detective. They look upon him as omnipotent and omniscient.  Terry laughed in prospect, introduced me as a detective by all means. Anything new like I laughed in return. I'll introduce you as the Pope if you think it will do any good. There was no keeping Terry suppressed. And his exuberance was contagious. I was beginning to feel light-hearted myself. The hotel at Lou Ray was a long, rambling structure, which had been casually added from time to time. It was painted a sickly mustard yellow, a colour which the landlord assured me would last forever. But its buoyancy was somewhat toned by a thick coating of dust.  The veranda was furnished with a railing and the railing was furnished at all times of the day, except for a brief nooning from twelve to half past, with a line of boot soles in assorted sizes. We drew up with a flourish before the wooden steps in front of the hotel, and I threw the lines to the stable boy who came forward to receive us with an amusing air of importance. His connection with the Lou Ray tragedy conferred a halo of distinction, and he realised the fact. It was not everyone in the neighbourhood who had had the honour of being cursed by a murderer. As we alighted, Terry stopped to ask him a few questions. The boy had told his story to so many credulous audiences that by this time it was well nigh unrecognisable. As he repeated it now for Terry's benefit, the evidence against Radner appeared conclusive. A full confession of guilt could scarcely have been more damning.  Take care, young man, he warned. You'll be eating your words one of these days, and some of them will be pretty hard to swallow. As we mounted the steps, I nodded to several of the men whom I remembered having seen before, and they returned and entrusted, how do you do? Pleasant day, as they cast a reconautering glance at my companion. Gentlemen, I said with a wave of my hand toward Terry, let me introduce Mr Terrence Kirkwood Patton, the well-known detective of New York who has come down to look into this matter for us. The chairs which were tipped back against the wall came down with a thud and an awed and somewhat uneasy shuffling of feet ensued. I wished to go through the cave, Terry remarked, in the crisp incisive tones, a detective might be supposed to employ, and I should like to have the same guide who conducted Mr Crosby the time the body was discovered. That's Pete Moser, he's out in the back like plowing. A half-dozen voices responded, ah, thank you, will someone kindly call him? We will wait here. Terry proceeded with his usual ease to make himself at home. He tipped back his hat, inclined his chair at the same dubious angle as the others, and ranged his feet along the railing. He produced cigars from various pockets, and the atmosphere became less strained. They were beginning to realise that detectives are made of the same flesh and blood as other people. I gave Terry the lead. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he took it, but it did not thrive me that he said about his interviewing in a very business life manner. He did not so much as refer to the case we had come to investigate, but chatted along pleasantly about the weather and the crops and the difficulty of finding farm hands. We had not been settled very long when, to my surprise, Jim Madison strolled out from the bar room. What he was doing in Luray I could easily conjecture. Madison's assumption of interest in the case all along had angered me beyond measure. It is not, ordinarily, a part of the Sheriff's duties to assist the prosecution in making out a case against one of his prisoners. Allowing to the peculiar relation he bore to Radner, his interference was not only bad law, but excruciatingly bad taste. My dislike of the man had grown to such an extent that I could barely be civil to him. It was only because it was policy on my part not to make him an active enemy that I tolerated his presence at all. I presented Terry, though Madison took his calling more calmly than the others. Still, I caught several side-wise glances in his direction, and I think he was impressed. Happy to know you, Mr. Patton, he remarked as he helped himself to a chair and settled it at the general angle. This is a pretty mysterious case in some respects. I rode over myself this morning to look into a few points, and I shall be glad to have some help, though I'm afraid we'll not find anything that'll please you. Anything pleases me so long as it's the truth, Terry threw off, as he studied the Sheriff with a gleam of amusement in his eyes. He was thinking, I knew a polymathus. I hope, he added, assuming a severely professional tone, that you haven't let a lot of people crowd into the cave and cramp up all the marks. The landlord, who was standing in the doorway, chuckled at this. There aren't many people that could drive into that their cave at the point of the pistol. He is shortest. They think it's haunted. Least ways, the niggers do. Have niggers been in the habit of going in much? Oh, more or less, the Sheriff returned, when they want to make themselves inconspicuous for any reason. I had a horse thief hide in there for two weeks last year, while we were scouring the country for him. There are so many little holes, it's almost impossible to find a man. Tramps occasionally spend the night there in cold weather. Do you have many tramps around here? Not a great many. Once in a while, a nigger comes along and asks for something to eat. More often, he takes it without asking. One of the men broke in. A week or so ago, my old woman had a cheese and a hand and two whole pies that she'd got ready for a church social, just disappeared without a word. Out of the pantry window. If that ain't the mark of a nigger, I miss my guest. Terry laughed. If that happened in the north, we should look around the neighborhood for a sick small boy. It wasn't no boy this time. Least ways, not a very small one. The man affirmed, for that same day, a pair of my boots that I'd left in the woodhouse just naturally walked off by their selves, and I found them the next day at the bottom of the pasture. It would take a pretty sizable fellow that my boots was too small for. He finished with a grin. They are a trifle conspicuous. One of the others agreed with his eyes on the feet in question. I caught an interested look in Terry's glance as he mentally took their measure, and I wondered what he was up to. But as our messenger and Pete Moser appeared around the corner at that moment, I had no time for speculation. Terry let his chair slip with the bang and rose to his feet. Ah, Mr. Moser. I'm glad to see you. He exclaimed with an air of relief. It's getting late, he added, looking at his watch, and I must get this business settled as soon as possible. I have another little affair waiting for me in New York. Bring plenty of calcium life, please. We want to see what we're doing. As for the four of us, we're preparing to start. Terry paused on the top step and nodded pleasantly to the group on the veranda. Thank you for your information, gentlemen. I have no doubt that it will be of the greatest importance.  The sheriff and I were equally puzzled. I should have suspected that Terry, in the role of detective, was playing a joke on them. Had he not very evidently got something on his mind, he was, of a sudden, in a frenzy of impatience to reach the cave. And he kept well ahead of us most of the way. I suppose, said Madison, as he climbed a fence with tantalising deliberation, we were going by way of the fields as that was shorter. I suppose that you are trying to prove that Radnor Gaylord had nothing to do with this murder. That will be easy enough. Terry threw back over his shoulder. I dropped him long ago. The one I'm after now is the real murderer. Madison scowled slightly. If you can explain what it was that happened in that cave that upset him so mightily, I'd come a little nearer to believing you. Terry laughed and fell back beside him. It's the thing which I imagine may have happened to one or two other young men at this neighbourhood, not inconceivably yourself included. Madison, seeing no meaning in this sally, preserved a salty silence and Terry added, the thing for us to do now is to bend all our energies toward finding cat-eye moes. I doubt if we can completely explain the mystery until he is discovered. And that, said the sheriff, will be never. You may mark my words.  It's possible, said Terry, with an air of sadness, but I hope not. I came all the way down from New York on purpose to see Moes, and I should hate to miss him. End of Chapter 21 Chapter 22 of The Four Pools Mystery This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The Four Pools Mystery by Jean Webster Chapter 22 The Discovery of Cat-eye Moes Having lighted our candles, we descended into the cave and set out along the path I now knew so well. When we reached the pool, the guide lit a calcium light which threw a fierce white glare over the little body of water and the limestone cliffs and even penetrated to the stalactite drape roof far above our heads. For a moment, we stood blinking, our eyes scarcely able to see. So sudden was the change from the semi-darkness of our four flickering candles. Then Terry stepped forward. Show me where you found the body and point out the spot where the struggle took place. He spoke in quick, eager tones, so excited that he almost dutted. It was not necessary for him to act the part of detective any longer. He had forgotten that he had ever was a reporter. He had forgotten almost that he was a human being. From where we stood, we pointed out the place above the pool where the struggle had occurred, the spot under the cliff where the body had lain and the jagged piece of rock on which we had found the coat. Moza even laid down upon the ground and spread out his arms in the position in which we had discovered the colonel's body. Very well, I see, said Terry. Now the rest of you stay back there on the boards. I don't want you to make a mark. He stepped forward carefully to the edge of the water and bent over to examine the soft yellow clay which formed the border of the pool on the lower side. Instantly he straightened up with a sharp exclamation of surprise. Did any Negroes come in with you to recover the body? He asked. No, return the sheriff.  They say they can hear something wailing around the pool and they think his ghost is haunting it. They can hear something wailing, can they? Terry repeated clearly. Well, I begin to believe they can. What is the meaning of this? He demanded, facing around at us, how do you account for these peculiar footprints? What prints? I asked as we all pressed forward. At the moment the calcium light with a final flare died out and we were left again in the flickering candle light which seemed darkness to us now. Quick, touch off another calcium, said Terry, with suppressed impatience. He laid a hand on my shoulder and my arm ached from the tightness of his grip. There, he said pointing with his finger as the light fled up again. What do you make of those? I bent over and plainly traced the prints of bare feet, going and coming and overlapping one another, just as an animal would make in pacing a cage. I shivered slightly. It was a terribly uncanny sight. Well, said Terry sharply. The place was beginning to get on his nerves too. Terry, I said uneasily. I never saw them before. I thought I examined everything thoroughly, but I was so excited, I suppose. What did you make of them? He interrupted, whirling about on medicine, who was looking over our shoulders. I didn't see them, Madison stammered. The heaven-sake men, said Terry impatiently, do you mean they weren't there or you didn't notice them? The sheriff and I looked at each other blankly and neither answered. Terry stood with his hands in his pockets frowning down at the marks, while the rest of us waited silently, scarcely daring to think. Finally he turned away without saying a word and motioning us to keep back, commenced examining the part which led up the incline. He mounted the three stone steps and with his eyes on the ground, slowly advanced to the spot where the struggle had taken place. How tall a man did you say Mose was? He called down to us. Little short fellow, not more than five feet high, returned the sheriff. Terry took his ruler from his pocket and bent over to study the marks at the scene of the struggle. He straightened up with an air of satisfaction. Now I want you men to look carefully at those marks on the lower borders of the pool and then come up here and look at these. Come along up in single file please and keep to the middle of the path. He spoke in the tone of one giving a demonstration before a kindergarten class. We obeyed him silently and ranged in a row along the boards. Come here he said. Bend over where you can see. Now look at those marks. Do you see anything different in them from the marks below? The sheriff and I gazed intensely at the prints of bare feet which marked the entire vicinity of the struggle. We had both examined them more than once before and we saw nothing now but what had already appeared. We straightened up and shook our heads. There the prints of bare feet said Madison stolidly. But I don't see that they're any different from any other bare feet. Terry handed him the ruler. Measure them he said. Measure this one that's flat on the ground. Now go down and measure one of those prints by the borders of the pool. Madison took the ruler and complied. As he bent over the marks on the lower border we could see by the light at the candle the look of astonishment that sprung into his face. Well what do you find? Terry asked. The marks up there are nearly two inches longer and an inch broader. Exactly. Terry I said. You can't blame us for not finding that out. We examined everything when we took away the body and those marks below were simply not there. Someone has been in since. So I conclude. Now Madison he added to the sheriff come here and show me the marks of Radnor Gaylord's riding boots. Madison returned and pointed out the mark which he had produced at the inquest but his assurance I noticed was somewhat shaken. That said Terry half contemptuously is the mark of Colonel Gaylord. You must remember that he was struggling with his assailant. He did not plant his foot squarely every time. Sometimes we have only the heel mark sometimes only the toe. In this case we have more than the mark of the whole foot. How do I account for it? Simply enough. The Colonel's foot slipped sideways. The mark is you see exactly the same in length as the others. But disproportionately broad at the heel and toe it is smudged and on the inside where the weight was thrown it is heavier than on the outside. The thing is easy enough to understand. You ought to have been able to deduce it for yourselves. And besides how did you account for the fact that there was only one mark? The one who was engaged in a struggle must have left more than that behind him. No, it is quite clear. At this point on the edge at the bank there was no third person. We are dealing with only two men Colonel Gaylord and his murderer and the murderer was barefooted. Moes, I asked. No, said Terry patiently not Moes. Then who? That remains to be seen. I will follow him up and find out where he comes from. Terry held his candle close to the ground and followed along the path at the entrance to the little gallery at the broken column it diverged one part leading into the gallery and the other into a sort of blind alley at one side. Terry paused at the opening give me some more calcium life he called to the guide I want to look into this passage and just hand me some of those boards he added it's very necessary that we keep the marks clear. The rest of us stood in a hurl group on the one or two boards he had left us and watched him curiously as he made his way down the passage he paused at the end and examined the ground we saw him stoop and pick up something then he rose quickly out of triumph and came running back to us holding his hands behind him it's just as I suspected he said his eyes shining with excitement Colonel Gaylord had an enemy he did not know what do you mean we're us crowding around here's the proof and he held out towards us a well-nored hand bone in one hand he pretended for the church social the pies I fancy have disappeared we stared at him a moment in silent wonder the sheriff was the first to assert himself what have these to do with the crime he asked fueling the trophies with an air of disgust everything the man who stole those is the man who robbed the safe and who murdered Colonel Gaylord with a low laugh of incredulity and the guide and I stared open mouth and what's more I will tell you what he looks like he is a large very black negro something over six feet tall when last seen he was dressed in a blue and white check flowers and ragged overalls his shoes were much the worse for wear and have since been thrown away he was barefooted at the time he committed the crime in short Terry added he is the chicken thief whom Colonel Gaylord whipped a couple of days before he died and he briefly repeated the incident I had told him you mean I asked that he was the hand yes said Terry he was the second hand he has been hiding for two or three weeks in the spring hole at four pools keeping hidden during the day and coming out at night to prowl around and steal whatever he could lay his hands on he doubtless deserved punishment but that fact would not make him the less bitter over the Colonel's beating when I heard that story I said to myself there is a man who would be ready for revenge if Chance put the opportunity in his way but I expostulated what happened to be in the cave as to that I cannot say after the Colonel's beating he probably did not dare to hang about four pools any longer he took to the woods and came in this direction being engaged in petty thieving about the neighbourhood it was necessary to find a hiding place during the daytime and the cave was his most natural refuge we know that he is not afraid of the dark the spring hole at four pools is about as small a place as a man could find he established himself in this passage in order to be near the water see here in the corner are drops of candle grease and the remains of a fire on the day of the Mathers picnic he doubtless saw the party pass through and recognised Colonel Gaylord it brought to his mind the threshing he had received while he was still brooding over the matter the Colonel came back alone and it flashed into the fellow's mind that this was his chance he may have been afraid at first or he may have hesitated through kindly motives at any rate he did not attack the Colonel immediately but retreated into the passage and the old man passed him without seeing him and went on into the gallery and got the coat in the meantime the Negro had made up his mind and as the Colonel came back he crept along behind him it is hard to trace the marks for another barefooted man has walked over them since but see in this place at the edge of the path there's the mark of a palm showing where the assassin's hand rested when he crouched on the ground he sprung upon the old man from the rear and they struggled together over the water touch up a light please you see how the clay is all trampled over on both sides of the path way out to the brink of the pool there is no second set of marks here to obliterate it we are dealing with just two people my lord and his assassin Terry bent low and picked up from a crevice what looked like a piece of stone covered with clay here you see is the end of the Colonel's candle he probably dropped it when the man first sprung and in the darkness he could not tell who or what had attacked him in his frenzy to have a light he snatched out his matchbox and that too was dropped in the scuffle now even if the original motive of the crime were not robbery but revenge as I fancy it was at any rate the murderer being a tramp and a thief would have robbed the body but he did not why was that? because he saw or heard something that frightened him and what could that have been his master's assistance Terry strayed over to the steps which led to the incline and motioning us to follow pointed out some marks on the sloping bank at the side of the path see here are Moses tracks he was in such a hurry that he could not wait to come up by the steps he tried to take a crosscut he scrambled up the slippery bank so fast that he fell on his hands and knees in this place and slid back that accounts for those long dragging marks which none of you appear to have noticed Moses did his best but he could not reach his master in time the murderer seeing or rather hearing him for it must have been dark was seized with sudden fear and with a convulsive effort he threw the old man into the rock wall here where his head struck on this broken stalactite if you look carefully you can see the marks of blood he then hurled him into the pool and fled it sounds plausible enough said the sheriff slowly but there are one or two points which I am afraid will not bear examining suppose your man did throw the kernel into the water and run for it I should like to know has become a cat-eye-mose that said Terry knitting his brows is still a mystery and a fairly deep one there is something uncommonly strange about those tracks on the lower borders of the pool and I confess they puzzle me only one explanation occurs to me now and that is not pleasant to think of we have some clues to work with however and we ought not to be long in getting at the truth if I had had your chance of examining the cave on the day of the crime he added I think I should know you might and again you might not said Madison it's easy enough for you fellows to come down here and make up a story about a lot of people you've never seen but I'll tell you one thing and that is that you need the truth as the men who've been brought up in the country in the first place it comes natural to niggers to be whipped and they don't mind it in the second place if your tramp did want to take it out on kernel why should he be scared by mose who was a little bit of a sword of cuss that I could lift with one hand tied behind me you may be able to impress your jury with a hand bone and a cheese rind but I can tell you sir that Virginia Dury wants witnesses we shall do our best to provide some said Terry Cooley and perhaps you can tell added Madison with the triumphant air of clinching the matter what has become of the $5,000 in bonds you can never make me believe that any nigger oh, they're back in the safe at four pilbs I found them this morning in the spring hole where the man had thrown them away now gentlemen he added with a touch of impatience I want to try a little experiment before we leave the cave will you all please put out your lights I want to see how dark it really is in here we blew out our candles and stood a moment in silence at first all was black around us but as our eyes become accustomed to the darkness we saw that a faint light filtered in from somewhere in the roof above our heads we could make out the pale blur at the white rock wall on one side and the mirrors glimmer at the pool below no Terry begun he could have seen nothing he must have and gripping my arm whispered out what's that where? I asked up there straight ahead I looked up and saw two round eyes which glittered like a wild beast staring at us out of the darkness a cold chill ran up my back and I instinctively huddled closer to the others for a moment no one spoke and I heard the click of Terry's revolver as he cocked it then it suddenly came over me what it was and I cried out it's cat eye most good lord he can see in the dark strike a light someone Terry said huskily the sheriff struck a match we lit our candles with trembling hands and pressed forward in a body to the spot where the eyes had appeared crouched in a corner of a little recess half way up the irregular wall we found moes shivering with fear and looking down at us with dumb animal eyes we had to drag him out by main force the poor fellow was nearly famished and so weak he could scarcely stand what little sense he had ever possessed seemed to have left him and he jabbered in a tongue scarcely English we bolstered him up with a few drops of whiskey from Madison's flask and half carried him out into the light the guide ran ahead to get a carriage spreading the news as he ran the cat eye moes had been found half the town of Loure came out to the cave to escort us back had not been time enough to collect a brass band End of Chapter 22 Chapter 23 of the Four Pools Mystery this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information all to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org The Four Pools Mystery by Jean Webster Chapter 23 Moes tells his story we took Moes back to the hotel shut out the crowd and gave him something to eat he was quite out of his head and it was only my dint of the most patient questioning that we finally got his story it was in substance as Terry had sketched it in the cave Moes had gone back after the coat not knowing that the colonel was before him suddenly as he came near the pool he heard a scream and looked up in time to see a big negro the one my uncle had struck with his crop spring upon the colonel with the cry it's my turn now you wut me and I'll let you see what it feels like the colonel turned and clinched with his assailant and in the struggle the light was dropped Moes with a cry ran forward to his master's assistance but when the negro saw him climbing up the bank he suddenly screamed and hurling the old man from him turned and fled the fella must have taken him for the devil when he saw those eyes and I don't wonder what he had contemplated at this point after the colonel's murder it seems that Moes crazed by grief and fear had watched us carry the body away and then had stayed by the spot where his master had died this accounted for the marks on the border of the pool knowing all of the intricate passages and hiding places as he did it had been an easy matter for the party that had searched for his body he ate the food the murderer had left but this being exhausted he would, I haven't a doubt have died there himself with the unreasoning faithfulness of a dog when he finished his rambling and in some places scarcely intelligible account we sat for a moment with our eyes upon his face fascinated by his look every bit of repugnance I had ever felt toward him had vanished and there was left in its place only a sense of pity Moes' cheeks were hollow his features sharper than ever and his face was almost pale from underneath his straight black matted hair his eyes glitter feverously and their expression of uncomprehending anguish was wonderful to see he seemed like a dumb animal that has come into the contact with death for the first time and asks the reason Terry took his eyes from Moes' face and looked down at the table with a set jaw I do not think that he was deriving as much pleasure from the sight as he had expected we all of us experienced a feeling of relief after appeared at the door we turned Moes over to him with instructions to do what he could for the poor fellow and take him back to four pools as the door shut behind them the sheriff said with a sigh I thought this business proves one thing it's never safe to lynch a man until you are sure of the facts it proves another thing said Terry dryly which is a thing you people don't seem to have grasped and that is that Negroes are human beings and have feelings like the rest of us poor old Colonel Gaylord paid a terrible price for not having learned it earlier in life we pondered this in silence for a moment then the sheriff voiced a feeling which to a slight extent had been lurking in the background of his own consciousness in spite of my relief at the denouement it's kind of disappointing when you got your mind worked up to something big to find in the end that there was nothing but a chance nigger at the bottom of all that mystery seemed sort of a let down Terry eyed him with an air of grim humour then he leaned across the table and spoke with a ring saying you are mistaken Madison the murderer of Colonel Gaylord was not a chance nigger there was no chance about it Colonel Gaylord killed himself he committed suicide as truly as if he had blown out his brains with a gun he did it with his uncontrollable temper the man was an egoist he has always looked upon his own desires and feelings of supreme importance he has tried to crush the life and spirit and independence from everyone about him that once too often he reaped his anger upon an innocent person at least upon a person that for all he knew was innocent and at one stroke his past injustices were avenged it was not chance that killed Colonel Gaylord it was the inevitable law of cause and effect way back in his boyhood when he gave way to his first fit of passion he sentenced himself to some such end as this every unjust act in his afterlife piled up the score against him oh I've seen it a hundred times it's character that tells I've seen it happen to a political boss a man whose business it was to make friends with every voter high and low I've seen him forget just once and turn on a man humiliate him wound his pride crush him under foot and think no more of the matter than if he had stepped on a worm and I've seen that man the most insignificant of the politicians followers work and plot and scheme to overthrow him succeed the big man never knew what struck him he thought it was luck chance a turn of the wheel he never dreamed that it was his own character hitting back I've seen it so often I'm a fatalist I don't believe in chance it was Colonel Gaylord who killed himself and he commenced it 50 years ago it's God's own truth Terry I said so long the sheriff had listened to Terry's words with an anxiously reminiscent air I wondered if he were reviewing his own political past to see it by chance he also had unwittingly crushed a worm he raised his eyes to Terry's face with a gleam of admiration you've been pretty clever Mr. Patton in finding out the truth he acknowledged generously but you couldn't have expected me to find out he added for I didn't know any of the circumstances I had never even heard that such a man existed as that chicken thief and as to there being two ghosts instead of one there wasn't a suggestion of it brought out at the inquest Terry looked at him with his usual slowly broadening smile he opened his mouth to say something but he changed his mind and with a visible effort shut it again Terry I asked how did you find out about the chicken thief I confess I don't understand it he shrugged his shoulders and laughed nothing simpler the trouble with you people was that you were searching for something lurid little commonplace things which in a case like this are the most suggestive you overlooked as soon as I read the story at the crime in the papers I saw that in all probability Rad was innocent his behaviour was far too suspicious for him really to be guilty unless he were a fool he would have covered up his tracks there was of course the possibility that Moe's had committed the murder but in the light of his past devotion to the Colonel it did not seem likely I had already been reading a lot of sensational stuff about the ghost of four pools and when the murder followed so close on the heels of the robbery I commenced to look about for a connecting link it was evident that Radner had nothing to do with it but whether or not he suspected someone was not so clear his reticence in regard to the hand made me think that he did I came south with pretty strong suspicions against the elder son but with the mind still open to conviction the telegram showing that he was in Seattle at the time of the murder proved his innocence of that that he might still be connected with the hand I tried the suggestion on Radner and his manner of taking it proved pretty conclusively that I had stumbled on the truth the hand business I dare say was started as a joke and was kept up as being a convenient method of warning of Eve's droppers why Jefferson came back and why Radner gave him money are not matters that concern us if they prefer to keep it a secret that's their own affair Jeff helped himself pretty freely to cigars roast chicken jam, pyjamas, books, brandy and anything else he needed to make himself comfortable in the cabin but he took nothing of any great value in the meantime though other things commenced disappearing things that Radner knew his brother had no use for and he supposed the workers about the place were stealing and laying it to the ghost as a convenient scapegoat but as a matter of fact they were not a second ghost had appeared on the scene this tramp Negro had taken up his quarters in the spring hole and was prowling about at night seeking what he might devour he ran across Jeff the ghost in a sheet and decided to do some masquerading on his own account sheets were no longer left on the line all night so he had to put up with lap robes as a result the spring hole shortly became haunted by a jet black spirit nine feet tall with blue flames and sulfur and all the other accessories this made little impression at the house until mose himself was frightened then Radner saw that the hoax had reached the point where it was no longer funny and he determined to get rid of Jeff immediately while he drove him to the station he left mose behind to straighten up the lot and mose coming into the house to put some things away met ghost number two just after he had robbed the safe if mose's eyes looked as they did today I fancied the fright was mutual the ghost in his excitement dropped one package of papers that bolted with the rest he made freeze lair in the spring hole and examined his booty the bonds were no more than old papers he tossed them aside but the pennies and five cent pieces were real he lit out for the village with them the robbery was not discovered till morning and by that time the fellow was at Jake's place on his way toward then the drunkest nigger in the county he stayed at the corners a week or so until the money was gone then he came back to the spring hole but he made the mistake adventuring out by daylight the stable men caught him and took him to the colonel and you know the rest as soon as I heard the story of the beating I decided to follow it up and when I heard of a jet black spirit rising from the spring hole I decided to follow that up too at daylight this morning I routed out one of the stable men and we went down and examined the spring hole at least I examined it while he stood outside and shivered an even bigger thine than I had hoped for chucked off in a corner and trampled with mud I found the bonds a pile of clothing and carriage cushions formed the bed there were the remains of several fires and of a great many chickens the whole place was drawn with feathers and bones he had evidently raided the roosts more than once after finished with the spring hole it still lacked something of six o'clock and I rode over to the village hoping to get an answer to my telegram I wanted to get Jeff's case settled Miller's door was not open but jade's place was and it was not long before I got on the track of my man there was no doubt that I had him accounted for up to the time after that I could only conjecture he had not appeared in the village again the supposition was that he had taken to the woods now he might or he might not have come in the direction of Lou Ray all the facts I had to go upon were a man of criminal proclivities who owed Colonel Gaylord a grudge and who was used to hiding in caves it was pure supposition that he had come in this direction and it had to be checked at every point by fact I didn't mention my suspicions because there was no use in raising false hopes and because well you wanted to be dramatic I suggested oh yes certainly that's my business well anyway I felt and I came over here this morning with my eyes open ready to see what there was to see the first thing I unearthed was this story of the church social provisions there had then been a feat of some sort in the neighbourhood just at that time of Colonel Gaylord's murder the further theft of the boots fitted very neatly into the theory if the fella had been tramping for a couple of days his shoes already worn had given out and been discarded the new ones as we know were too small he left them at the bottom of the pasture and went barefooted the marks therefore in the cave which everyone ascribed to Moes were in all probability not the marks of Moes at all actual investigation proved that to be the case the rest I think you know the four pools mystery has turned out to be a very simple affair as most mysteries unfortunately do I reckon you're a pretty good detective Mr Patton said Madison with a shade of envy in his voice Terry bowed his thanks and laughed as a matter of fact I am not a detective of any sort at least not officially I merely assume the part once in a while when there seems to be a demand officially he added I am the representative of the New York Post Dispatch a paper which you may know has solved good many mysteries before now in this case the Post Dispatch will of course take the credit once a little more than that it wants to be the only paper tomorrow morning to print the true details we four are the only ones who know them I should perhaps have been a little more circumspect and keep the facts to myself but I knew that I could trust you his eye dwelt upon the sheriff a moment and then wandered to Pete Moser who had sat silently listening throughout the colloquy would it be too much Terry inquired to ask you to keep silent until tomorrow morning you can trust me to keep quiet said Madison holding out his hand me too said Moser I reckon I can make up something that I'll satisfy the boys about as well as the real thing thank you Terry said I guess you can alright there doesn't seem to be anything that matter with your imaginations down here and now said Madison rising I suppose the first thing is to see about Radner's release though I swear I don't know yet what was the matter with him on the day of the crime I believe you have the honour of Miss Polymath's acquaintance perhaps she will enlighten you suggested Terry look with the illumination flashed over Madison's face Terry laughed and rose I have a reason for suspecting that Miss Mathis has changed her mind and if it is not too irregular I should like by way of payment to drive her to Kennersburg jail myself and let her be the first to tell him I want to give her a reason for remembering me End of Chapter 23 Chapter 24 of the Four Pools Mystery this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org The Four Pools Mystery by Jean Webster Chapter 24 Poly makes a proposal I was dropped in Kennersburg to attend to the legal formalities respecting Radner's release while Terry appropriated the horses and drove to Mathis Hall his last word to Madison and me was not to let a whisper reach Radner's ear as to the outcome of the investigation he wanted a spectacular denouement the sheriff ascended very soberly the truth had at last forced itself upon him that his chances with Polly were over Terry reappeared two hours later with a very excited young woman beside him they joined us in the bare little parlour of the jail and if Madison needed any further proof that the end had come Polly's greeting furnished it an embarrassed flush rose to her face as she saw him but she shook hands studiously in personal way and asked immediately for Radner Madison met the situation with a dignity I had scarcely expected he called a deputy and turned us over to him and with the remark that his services were happily no longer needed he bowed himself out I saw him two minutes later recklessly galloping down the street Polly's eyes also followed the rider and for a second I detected a shade of remorse as we climbed the stairs Terry fell back and whispered to me I tell you I laid down the law coming over here we'll see if she's gone as the door of the cell was thrown open Rad raised his head and regarded us with a look a bewildered astonishment Polly walked straight in and laid her hand on his shoulder Radner she said you told me you would never ask me again to marry you did you really mean it Rad still stared confusedly from her to Terry and me well Polly sigh if you did mean it then I suppose I'll have to ask you will you marry me Radner I laid a hand on Terry's arm and backed him much against his will into the corridor Joe you don't suppose he's going to refuse her he inquired in a stage whisper no such luck I laughed we took a couple of turns up and down the corridor and cautiously presented ourselves in the doorway Polly was telling between laughing and crying the story of Moses discovery he came to meet us he's left arm still around Polly his right hand extended to Terry will you shave hands Patton he asked I'm afraid I wasn't very decent but you know oh that's no matter said Terry easily I wasn't holding it up against you but I hope you realise Gaylord that it's owing to me you've won Miss Maters to ask you if yes I should flash Polly I wanted him too much ever to let him slip through my fingers again Terry's voice came through and Radner dined at four pills plantation that night the news of his release had in some way preceded us and as we drove up to the house all the Negroes came crowding out on the portico to welcome home young Mars rate but the one person who whatever the circumstances had always been first to welcome him back was missing and the poor boy felt his homecoming a very barren festival Terry was steadfast in the assertion that he had an engagement in New York the next day and as soon as supper was over I drove him to the station he was in an ecstatically satisfied frame of mind do you know I'm a pretty all round fellow he observed in a burst of confidence I've always known better than the proprietor how the paper ought to be run and I can give the police points about detective work I'm something of a cook and I can play the hand organ like Padda Whiskey but this is the first time I ever tried my hand at matchmaking and it comes as easy as a murder mystery you think that their engagement is due to you but isn't it if it weren't for me they'd have to all to go over again from the beginning and there's no telling how long they take about it I hope they appreciate your services Terry you're so modest that what you do is in danger of being overlooked they appreciate me fast enough return Terry impertably I promise Polly to spend my first vacation with them after they're married oh you'll see I'll make a farmer one of these days I laughed and then said seriously whether you made the marriage or not you have cleared Radner's name from any suspicion of dishonour and I don't know how we can ever sufficiently show our gratitude that's alright said Terry with a deprecatory wave of his hand I enjoyed it never did anything just like it before I've arranged a good many funerals of one sort or another but this is the first time I ever arranged a marriage and joke but I could make a story out of it he added regretfully if she'd only let me tell the truth the events which I have chronicled happened a number of years ago and four pools has never since figured in the papers I trust that it's public life is ended in spite of the most far-reaching search the murderer of Colonel Gaylord was never found Radner and I have always believed that he was lynched by a mob in West Virginia some two years later the description of the man tallied exactly with the appearance of the tramp my uncle had thrashed and something he said in his anti-mortem statement made us very sure of the fact Mose and till the time of his death was an honoured member of the household but he did not long outlive the Colonel the memory of the tragedy he had witnessed me an unreasoning terror looked from his eyes and he started and shivered at every sound the poor fella had lost what few wits he had ever possessed but the one rational gleam that stayed with him to the end was his love for his old master when he knave dying Radner tells me he roused after hours of unconsciousness to call the Colonel's name I have always felt that this devotion spoke equally well for both of them the old man must have had some splendid traits underneath his crusty exterior to awaken such unquestioning love in a person of Mose's instinctive perceptions perhaps after all half idiot though he was Mose could see clearer than the rest of us he now lies in the little family burying ground on the edge of the plantation a stone's throw from the grave of Colonel Gaylord there has never been any further rumour of a hat at four pools and we hope that the family ghost is laid forever the deserted cabins have been torn down and the fourth pool dredged and confined roughly enough within its banks its mysterious charm is gone but it yields every season some 15 barrels of watercress it was the following April a year from the time of my first visit that Terry and I snatched a couple of days from our work purchased new frock coats and served as ushers at Polly's wedding Radner have been living happily at four pools ever since and the house with a young mistress is a very different place from the house as it used to be marriage and responsibility have improved Radner immensely he has developed from a recklessly headstrong boy into a keen, rational upright man I am sure that Polly has never for a moment regret her choice when the estate was settled Radner very justly insisted on breaking his father's will and giving to Jeff his rightful share of the property Jeff has since become middle age and respectable he owns a raisin ranch in Southern California with 50 Chinaman to run it when he comes back to four pools plantation on an occasional visit he occupies the guest room End of chapter 24 End of The Four Peels Mystery by Jean Webster Read for Libra Box by 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Okay, so welcome back. So we'll start with Lucy's question. How do we encourage present day Roman Catholics to come out of their situations? Okay, so assuming that people are part of, let's say, Roman Catholic Church and they are not saved, right? That is based on that. She's asked that question. So the thing is obviously, lead them back to the uniqueness of Christ, lead them back to the centrality of God's Word. You know, why do we believe what we believe? It's because of our, you know, what is written in the Word of God. So that's very important for, because for a person from that kind of a worldview, they might believe because that's what tradition says. I believe in this because this is what my family always believed in. I was born into this, so I believe and I don't find anything wrong with it. Or people could say, you know, they could be a very all-inclusive worldview saying, okay, I believe in this. Someone else believes in that. They could believe in that. So it's all fine. So we need to bring them back to the centrality of God's Word. You know, if we believe sincerely, does that make it the truth, right? So how do we know truth? Can we go back to the Word of God, which is the truth? Can we go back to the words of Jesus, who is the, who said, who introduced himself as the way, the truth and the life, right? So going back to the Word of God will really enable that person to see, okay? Because they're very sincere, right? They love Jesus. And so take them back to the words of Jesus. What did Jesus say? And then that can be the start of a beginning of journey. So I know that a lot of people are in the Catholic Church, but they are born again, right? They are born again, spirit filled, moving in the caves and so on. But they stay back in that environment to minister to the others. It's a difficult thing, right? No, having known the truth to continue to be in that kind of, you know, environment to minister to others. So, yeah, so that would be, that would be my answer, right? Yeah, very strong people, very strong sense of community, etc. But once they know the truth and their eyes are open to the truth, then they continue to be strong with the conviction that this is the truth. Okay, so let's move on to Chapter 7, right? Any questions based on what we saw, what we learned in Chapter 6? So like I said, you know, that book, Revivals, Visitations and Moves of God, I don't know in what all languages we have it in, but definitely we have it in English, right? You can download the PDF or take permission and take any of these books here. It's there on the bookshelf, Revivals, Visitations and Moves of God. So you could, yeah, you could read that. Very useful. It's a compilation, which means that it's a compilation putting together of various articles and also studies that have been done about church history, right? Okay. Okay, any questions? Any doubts? I think? No? Okay, right, so let's move on. Okay, Chapter 7, okay, which is the work of the Holy Spirit towards the sinner. Okay, so the Holy Spirit is moved through church history. The Holy Spirit sheds light on what is the truth. The Holy Spirit elevates Jesus. So in all this, how does the Holy Spirit move in the life of a sinner? Okay, if you look at John Chapter 16, when the Lord Jesus taught about the Holy Spirit to his disciples, right? He said this in verse 8, and when he has come, he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, of sin, because they do not believe in me, of righteousness, because I go to my father and you see me no more, of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. So when he, the Holy Spirit has come, he will bring in this. So he talks about three things. He will convict the world of sin. He will also, he will convict the world of righteousness and of judgment. Okay, so let's look at the first thing. We see that he convicts the world of sin. He brings conviction in the hearts of people about sin. Okay, so the Holy Spirit does that. That's his work, right? So he, people hear the truth, and because of the work of the Holy Spirit, if they're open to it, their hearts are convinced, convicted. They come to this realization, what I'm hearing is the truth, and they come to this realization, the way I'm living is not right. Okay, so he brings conviction about sin. We are looking at a person who is a sinner, meaning one who is not accepted Christ. Okay, so he brings that conviction to that person. Okay, so that which is amazing, which is wonderful, because sometimes we think that we are the ones who are supposed to bring conviction into another person's life, maybe as ministers of God, as people who are sharing the gospel evangelism, we think that, no, I have to do something to bring conviction into their lives. I have to bring them to a place of making them feel guilty, making them feel all shameful about the kind of life they're living. I need to do that work. But God is saying, no, no, that's not your work. You simply share, you simply share the truth, speak the truth, and I will do the work of convicting. Okay, so the Lord is saying the Holy Spirit, he convicts the world of sin. Then the second thing is that he convicts the world or brings a conviction about the righteousness of God, righteousness of Christ. He convicts the world of righteousness, meaning that there is a conviction that this is something right. This is wrong and this is right. So he convicts the world of righteousness. Okay, what is right? What is all the nature of God, which is righteousness? So he convicts the world of that, brings conviction about that. The third thing that we see is that the Holy Spirit brings a conviction about judgment, brings conviction about judgment, like knowing that, bringing the truth that things cannot continue as it were or as it is. There is a holy God, there is a righteous God who will one day judge the world. There is judgment. So he brings conviction on our heart about this judgment. He brings conviction that humans left to themselves, they are condemned, they cannot save themselves from this God who is holy and righteous and who brings judgment, who will come back as a judge. So he gives that conviction that, I need to be saved. And lastly, we see that the Holy Spirit testifies of Jesus. And these are some verses when we look at the Holy Spirit and the Lord Jesus taught about the Holy Spirit. He said, this is what the Holy Spirit will do. This is what He will do. John 15 verse 26, but when the helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of me. So the thing is when we look at missions, when we look at evangelism, it is a privilege for us to partner with God. It is a privilege for us to partner with the Holy Spirit. He already has a plan. He already knows what to do. So we find out and we partner with him. So that takes a lot of burden off. That burden off in the sense, a lot of unnecessary pressure or unhealthy pressure off where we can come to God and say, Lord, I'm available. What is it that you want to do? What is it that you're doing so that I can partner with you so that you can move in and through me? So it says that He testifies about Jesus. He testifies. We saw what testifying is. We see what witnessing is or testifying is. It's talking to someone saying that this I can vouch for this. I can testify that this is the truth. So the Holy Spirit testifies to a person about Jesus and brings that truth. Yes, Jesus is who He said He is. This is truth about Jesus. So He testifies about Jesus. Okay, Acts chapter 5 and verse 32 says, And we are His witnesses to these things. So also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him. So the disciples are saying that we are witnesses to these things. So also is the Holy Spirit who is also witness to these things. And then 1 Corinthians 12 verse 3, Paul says, Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus a cursed. And no one can say that Jesus is a Lord except by the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit causes this when He testifies about Jesus. He brings that understanding revelation and the conviction that yes, Jesus is Lord. So no one who has that revelation and understanding and conviction can actually, Paul, Jesus are cursed. And no one without that understanding can call Jesus as Lord in the true sense by saying that Jesus, you are Lord. So this is from Paul. Paul has that revelation already when he had an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. The first question he asks is, Who are you Lord? So Paul, same Paul, God is using to write, minister to the Corinthians. So Paul writes and says, No one can call him Lord except by the Spirit of God. So he called him, which means he had the encounter and by the Spirit of God he called him Lord. So the Holy Spirit causes all this in a person and brings about this in a person. So then we can say, sometimes we just think that, Okay, God will somehow do it. God will take care. Okay, God will do it sovereignly. Let Him. I don't need to. But the thing is invitation is for each one of us as disciples of the Lord Jesus to partner with what God is doing. The Holy Spirit is the one who brings change, right? Conviction of sin, conviction of righteousness, conviction of judgment. He's the one. But we have the privilege of partnering with him to be a spokesperson for Jesus. Who's a spokesperson? Who's an ambassador? When you say a spokesperson, yeah, so who is an ambassador? Generally speaking, how do you call somebody an ambassador or spokesperson? What do they do? Who are they? They represent, okay, so when you call somebody an ambassador, normally in political terms, it means that person is actually representing a nation, a country. Okay, so here's the ambassador of India who's in, let's say Canada. Okay, so what nation does he represent? He represents India. And whatever he speaks, he speaks on behalf of India. So whatever, you know, so he's the voice of India to that nation. He represents India. He's one person, but he's the ambassador, right? So he represents. So whatever he speaks, he has to be very careful, right? Because he is actually talking about this nation of India. Whatever he signs, he needs to be careful. He cannot just sign something and say, okay, India will take care of this. No, because he's representing India. So he's an ambassador, right? So we are called ambassadors for ambassadors of Christ. We are a spokesperson for Christ. Okay, so we have the privilege to be spokesperson. We have the privilege to be ambassadors for the sake of the kingdom of God. Okay, and the Holy Spirit, he does the work of transformation, even as we represent God, even as we represent Christ, even as we speak on his behalf, what do we speak? We speak the truth, we speak the word, we bring the word, but the Holy Spirit takes that and brings it real, makes it real or convicts people, testifies of Jesus to their hearts, right? So that's the beauty of the work of the Holy Spirit, right? Let's move on to the next one, which is the work of the Holy Spirit in a believer's life. Yeah, representative, that's right Sanjay. Okay, so let's look at the work of the Holy Spirit in a believer's life. So all of us, we've come to follow Christ. So for us to understand that, well, this is how it all began, right? This is how it began. John chapter three, the Lord Jesus is teaching Nicodemus, John chapter three and verse eight, sorry, verses one onwards. He says about this whole issue of being born again, right? Let me just, the whole thing of addressing this whole topic of being born again. So the Lord has this conversation with Nicodemus and Nicodemus is talking about, he's thinking, you know, how can a human being be born again? How can he enter into a mother's womb after he's fully grown, etc. You know, maybe, you know, if you're having a conversation, we'll think like this, maybe we'll never ask that question, right? But Nicodemus, he blurts it out. He says, how can a man get into a, you know, womb and be born again, right? It seems so foolish. So he, and the Lord answers in verse five, you know, if you look at John chapter three and verse five, the Lord Jesus is saying that, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. So he's talking about a spiritual birth. So water represents natural birth and it could also signify new birth, right? Because water represents the water of the Word of God. Ephesians five, 26 talks about that. So we see that the Lord is saying that this born again experience is by the Spirit of God, is by the Holy Spirit. So for the journey really starts for the believer with the Holy Spirit, this whole born again experience is by the Holy Spirit. Let's look at Titus chapter three versus four and five. Titus three, Titus three, verse four. But when the kindness and love of God are savior towards man appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. But he saved us, we were born again through this regeneration or washing of the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit actually brought us that new life. Okay, well, we know that the Word of God also, the Word of God also is referred to as the incorruptible seed of God by which we are born again. So it's the Word and the Spirit of God, right? And then Galatians four versus six and seven. Let's look at Galatians four verse six. Okay, Galatians four, six says, And because you are sons of God, God has sent forth the Spirit of his son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father. Okay, the Holy Spirit in our hearts causing us to cry out, God has sent the Spirit into our hearts to cry out, Abba, Father. Okay, and Acts chapter eight declares it even more plainly. And it says, sorry, Romans eight, Romans chapter eight. Okay, it says verse 15, right, says, For you did not receive the Spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father. Verse 16, The Spirit himself bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God. Okay, the Holy Spirit, but because of the Holy Spirit, we cry out, Abba, Father. Okay, so no one really, you know, taught us or said, No, you have to do this.   Right, so the Holy Spirit gave us the revelation, the Holy Spirit gave us the assurance, right, verse 16 says, The Spirit bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God. Okay, so there is an assurance that we receive in our hearts. What does assurance mean? When you say, Okay, I'm assured, assurance, sorry, guarantee. Okay, it's a guarantee, it is what else, it's like a promise, like it's just, I think guarantee is a better word, like we feel assured. That means we are confident, we are made strong on the inside about this fact that we are children of God. So he gives us the assurance. So we know on the inside of us that we are somehow children of God. Now, we may not understand the mechanics of it, not all, but we know that we are children of God.  There is a deep assurance because we have received Christ as Lord and Savior, because of the work of the Holy Spirit in us, testifying, witnessing to our hearts that we are children of God, we have this assurance. And that is brought about by the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, we will not have that assurance. Without the Holy Spirit, we will not, it will not be, this won't be possible. So it is the work of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes we might have that, do I have the Holy Spirit or not?  Okay, so we are born of God. We are given that assurance that we are sons and daughters of God by the work of the Holy Spirit. And if you see, we're going to look at a few things that are in everyday life, in ministry, in all these things how the Holy Spirit works in the life of a believer. So which means that without the Holy Spirit playing this active role in our lives, we cannot actually function as believers. So we realize that, hey, I need to be, I'm so dependent on the Holy Spirit. We need Spirit of God. And that is why Jesus said, it's important that I go to the Father, that I will send another helper that he will be with you forever, John chapter 14. That's why he said, okay, I need to send the Holy Spirit so that he can be with you forever. And because we as believers, we need the Holy Spirit. And just like the Lord said, man shall not live by natural sustenance, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. So as important as the word of God is, every reema that comes from the mouth of God, so also the work of the Holy Spirit who will lead us back to the Word. Okay, let's look at a few things here. The Bible says that we are sealed by the Holy Spirit, 2nd Corinthians 1 and verse 22, 2nd Corinthians chapter 1, verse 22, now verse 21. Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. So as a guarantee for what? He's given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. What we saw was that he gives us the assurance that we are children of God. That could be one thing. But we also see that if we turn to let's say Ephesians chapter 1, Ephesians chapter 1 and verses 13 and 14.  So it says in whom we trusted after you heard the word of the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. So what does that mean? You believed, you put your faith in Christ and something happened to you. You were sealed. There was a mark that was made on or in you by the Holy Spirit. You were sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise. Verse 14, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession to the praise of his glory? A lot is back there and that was. It says who is again that word? Guarantee. 2 Corinthians 1 also we saw the same thing. Who is the guarantee? So it says he's the guarantee of our inheritance. In other words, suppose you want to take a bike, buy a bike on let's say EMI. What bike do you want to buy? What bike do you want to buy? Yamaha MTB 50. What cc is it? It's a 1000 cc bike. Okay, so Moses, right? What's his name? Sorry. Okay, I want to buy Yamaha MT 50 bike. So it goes to the showroom and says, okay, I want to buy a bike. The person says, fine, we have this easy scheme. Everything you just signed these papers, bank loan, everything is sorted and you need to make a down payment. How much is that bike? Sorry, $1,00,000, $2,000,000, $2,049,000, $2,050,000, okay, so the sorted, $2,050,000. Okay, so the dealer says, okay, now you make a down payment of $1,00,000 and then monthly installment is how much? $5,000 to $7,000 every month. But you make that, you're not paid that $5,000 to $7,000, right? You're not paid that $5,000. They're saying you make that payment of $1,00,000.  Then surprisingly, he's not waiting till you pay those, pay off those installments. He gives you the key and says, so you choose which bike do you want the same? He gives you the bike key, registration, everything done and Aman is driving back, riding back on an empty, hopefully you're wearing a helmet and all that, right? So, yeah, $0,200 and how many minutes? How many seconds? Eight seconds, okay, so he says, ripping, okay, going down Kottanur road. So the thing is this, he's got the bike, he was handed the bike, though he did not pay that entire full thing. So the word used there is earnest or guarantee. The Holy Spirit is the guarantee of the full inheritance. So he's saying, the Holy Spirit has come to dwell in you, you're not fully, what is the thing? He's saying, you're not guarantee of an inheritance until the redemption, right? The final redemption happens when we, now we have born again in our spirit, then we will have glorified bodies. So until the redemption of that inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession. So who's the honest? The down payment, the Holy Spirit. So that is what he's saying, the Holy Spirit has come to dwell in you. If the Holy Spirit is dwelling, you know, that means that there is something that's going to happen where the redemption is going to be complete. So you have great hope, right? The life that you live as a believer is the life of hope, which means that it's not just for the here and today and here and now, but there is going to be the completion of redemption in the time to come, right? And it says here, it's the guarantee of our inheritance. He's the guarantee, he's the down payment. There is an inheritance that is awaiting and he's the down payment, right? So the Holy Spirit is our inherit. So we are sealed by the Holy Spirit. He's come and dwells in us as the guarantee, right? Okay, so this is an amazing truth. This is a great news, right? So we have, first of all, the fact that the Holy Spirit indwells us itself is an amazing revelation. Just think about it, right? Who is the Holy Spirit? Holy Spirit is God. He was there right from creation. He was there. Genesis talks about that.  When the waters were parted, when there was water from the rock, he was there. When he was there in the early church, outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Acts chapter 2 and, you know, all that, he was there. The same Holy Spirit, he indwells us, right? So that's an amazing revelation. Wow, it's not like someone who's a new version, version, you know, version 2023, no, the same Holy Spirit, he indwells us. So when we turn back, when we turn, when we turn to God and when we say, Lord, I want to receive from you, teach me, remind me, guide me into all truth, he does that. Now, sometimes we think, okay, will the Holy Spirit know this, you know, really know some of these things about business, about finance, about, you know, about technology? Does he know? Of course he knows, right?  He's our wisdom. So we can actually receive from him. He resides in us and many times we don't speak, right? We don't speak, we don't ask or it is, it is not in faith. So we can, we can receive, there's so much that we can draw from the presence of God, from the presence of the Holy Spirit and he's with us to help us, that's a, that's the best thing, but he's not there to resist us, he's there to help us and that is why he's called the helper. Lord Jesus said he's coming to help you, help you to live a sanctified life, help you to live an overcoming life, right? Okay, let's move on. So when we see sanctifying work, you know, that's to crucify the work of the flesh, to live according to the leading of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit enables us to do that, okay? Actually, you can read through the entire chapters, Romans chapter 6, 7 and 8. I just want to, you know, look at chapter 8, okay? Chapter 8 and verse, so let's look at verses 12 onwards or 13 onwards, right? It says, for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. If by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. So many of us have this idea, you know, I'm not holy enough for the Holy Spirit to work in me, right? I must be a little more holy and then the Holy Spirit will speak to me or work in me, right? I have to be holy because the Holy Spirit is holy, I have to be a little more holy. But look at this verse, what does it teach you? If you live according to the flesh, you will die, okay? So that means that if you live according to the appetites of the flesh, according to the leading of the flesh, right? What does flesh mean? Bodily appetites, right? Fleshly appetites, unrenewed mind is also referred to as a flesh, unrenewed thinking.   But if by the Spirit, you put to death, okay? By the Spirit, who? The Holy Spirit. By the Holy Spirit, which means that with the help of the Holy Spirit, with the help of his power, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live, okay? So which means that we should shift our thinking, okay? The Holy Spirit has come so that I can put to death the things of the flesh, put to death, meaning bring an end, bring an end, permanent end to the things of the flesh, to the appetites of the flesh. So the Holy Spirit is going to help me, empower me, to put to death, to bring an end to the, to that kind of a life living according to the flesh. So Paul is writing and he's saying, if by the Spirit, you put to death the things of the flesh, you will live, okay?    I can say Holy Spirit, this is how I am, this is where I am, you know, struggling maybe in certain things, certain areas, you come help me, help me. I want to put to death the things of the flesh. I want to live, right? The Holy Spirit is more than willing to do that. In fact, that's, that's his ministry, okay? Romans 1, 4 says that perfecting Holy, perfecting Holiness according to the Spirit of Holiness. I declare to be Son of God with power according to the Spirit of Holiness by the resurrection of the dead. So he is the Spirit of Holiness. So it enables us to bring to completion or maturity, sanctification and holiness in us, okay? Another scripture, 1 Corinthians 3 verses 16, okay? And we're not going through all the verses listed there. We're just going through a few verses, right? 1 Corinthians 3 verse 16 says, do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?   Our body, very specifically it says, do you not know, 1 Corinthians 3 says, you are the temple of the Holy Spirit, okay? In 1 Corinthians 6, if you see 1 Corinthians 6 and verse 19 and 20 says, do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, okay?  For you were bought at a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are Gods, which belong to God, okay? Which we were bought at a price. We are Christ's possessions, which means we are His property. So you're saying glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which actually don't belong to you, but belong to Jesus because He has purchased us, right? And we are, our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, okay?  So we can depend, we can ask and so this is the thing. Sometimes we say, okay, Holy Spirit make me holy, okay? I prayed. I know He will make me, I don't know when He'll make me holy, but, you know, I prayed. He'll make me holy, okay? But Romans 8 verse 13 it says, if by the spirit, who puts to death? Read that verse again, Romans 8, Romans 8 and verse 13, right? Okay, read that verse. If by the spirit, so I prayed to the Holy Spirit, okay? He has filled me with power. He is giving me ideas. Who puts to death the deeds of the body? Yeah, okay? Who puts to death? It's you, right? You have a, you and I, you know, we have to personally do something. The Holy Spirit will enable us. The Holy Spirit will give us that desire. The Holy Spirit will empower us, right? But I have to make a decision. I have to make a choice and I have to, sometimes it's a series of decisions being led by the Spirit, right? So by the Spirit, I need to do something. I need to put to death the deeds of the body. It's very important, right? Because we think, okay, Holy Spirit is in us. Holy Spirit, I prayed to the Holy Spirit, nothing is working. I've been praying for years for things to change. It's not working. Things are not changing. You become very frustrated. Holy Spirit, where are you? God, where are you? Right? I've been praying, I've been asking and nothing is changing in my life, no transformation. So here, saying, if by the Spirit you put to death, okay, the Holy Spirit will give you ideas, you have to say yes. The Holy Spirit will probably say, hey, don't do that. I have to say, okay, fine, I will not. It depends on my response. But the Holy Spirit will empower us, empower us, right? To say yes. He will empower us. He will give us the, sometimes we don't, emotionally, we don't feel like it. We don't feel like saying yes to the Holy Spirit, right? We feel like saying no to the Holy Spirit. Or when the Holy Spirit says, okay, you need to say no to this, you feel like saying yes. The opposite of what the Holy Spirit is leading, right? Emotionally, we may not feel it. But if by faith, you know, we see that Holy Spirit is with me, Holy Spirit is strengthening me. Therefore, I will make a choice. I will make that choice. That choice can be so very powerful, very powerful. That, you know, for example, if you see the study, we learn about the parable of the prodigal son, right? He went, he wasted all the money. He was eating that.  Then he came to himself. He made a choice. He made a decision. What did he say? I'm going back. I'm going back to my father's house. He made a decision. He made a choice and that choice changed his life, right? So the Holy Spirit will give us conviction. The Holy Spirit will give us the, also the ability, but we need to make that choice. And when we make that choice and then we make the decision, follow through, this will be life changing, right? There'll be transformation. Okay, so that's what we see here. If by the Spirit you put to death, you will live. If you put to death the needs of the body, you will live. It's, it's as different or it's as drastic as death and life, just you will actually live, right? Okay, what else? When we walk in the Spirit or when we walk as led by the Spirit of God, you know, we can walk in love. Just want us to look at Galatians 5. Okay, Galatians chapter 5. Okay, Galatians 5 and verse 16. Okay, it says, I say then, walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Okay, verse 17 it says, the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary or opposite to each other, so that you do not do the things that you wish, but if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. So you use a certain words like walk in the Spirit, led by the Spirit. Okay, so what does it mean to walk in the Spirit? Any idea? Walk in the Spirit, because it's a very important thing. It says, if you walk in the Spirit, then you shall not look at the verse. What did it say? Verse 16. Galatians 5 verse 16. Yeah, so it's, it's an end to all frustration. It's an end to, you know, living a very defeated life, which is walking in the Spirit, according to the Holy Spirit. So, so it's an important thing. We need to understand what is this walking in the Spirit? Okay, so this walking is to be led by, to be taught by, and in living in obedience to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Right, so you're saying you walk in this way. When you walk or live your life, okay, the Bible uses words like walk, run, referring to the way we conduct our lives, right? Like in other words that we see in Hebrews, right? Say, run with endurance, looking unto Jesus, who's the author and perfecter of our faith. Run. What does it mean?  You need stamina. Same way, it says walk in the Spirit. So walk according to being led by the Spirit, being prompted by the Spirit, being in obedience to the Spirit of God. So when we do that, there's a guarantee, there's an assurance, you're saying that and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. It says these two are opposite, the pulling in opposite directions. Like one is an appetite of the body and craving to fulfill in ungodly ways. The other one is leading to life, right? So you do that and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Let's go down to verse 25, same chapter. Galatians 5 verse 25, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  So it's very important for us to learn, how can I be led by the Spirit of God? Because it's the key to not fulfilling the lust of the flesh. It's a key to a victorious life, to be led by the Spirit of God. So for every believer, we need to understand, okay, I need to live my life as ordered, as prompted, as led by the Holy Spirit. That's going to lead me into life, right? Into freedom, okay? So walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh, okay? Then we look at Romans chapter 5 and verse 5. Romans 5 and verse 5 says, now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us, okay? Now why are we looking at these verses? We are looking at how the Holy Spirit enables or helps the life of a believer, okay? One who's put the trust in Jesus. Now the Holy Spirit is, say, so we saw that, okay, the life of holiness, sanctification, everything happens. Now this is also something as we walk as led by the Spirit of God says here, hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. What has been poured out into our hearts? The love of God. What is that love of God? What does that mean? The love of God. Something has been put to us, something has been given to us, poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit. It's already been done, right? So we need to know, hey, what do I have? What has the Holy Spirit done to me? We need to understand. Only then I'll be able to really enjoy it, walk in it. Sometimes if I'm ignorant of it, I won't even know. So it's like one day you're opening a bag or a box and saying, oh, I didn't know this was here. All these years I had it. If I had known, I would have used it. The love of God. The word used there is agape. So the love of God, the love that God has, when you say, you know, this is my phone or this is my watch, it belongs to me. So here's a similar way saying the love of God, the love that belongs to God, that love that comes from him has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit. Okay. So the love of God is already there. Then what's the problem? Right? The problem is when I open my mouth, I'm shouting at this guy. And I know when I think these thoughts, I'm thinking thoughts of revenge. There's something, right? There's something that is not happening, right? If I have the love of God, if I have the Holy Spirit, just think about it. You're walking, talking, you know, people who are carrying the presence of God, something needs to go out, right? Something needs to, in our expression, in our behavior, something needs to change. Okay. So we look at that in the coming class. Okay. We'll stop here. Thank you.


Hi guys, welcome back to Siana's Mesa Creation and this is Megs. Remember we talk about the afters and the race. Yes, what are we talking about today? We are talking about the new health insurance that is coming. Ya, I remember I made a video that was concerning about what is called health insurance for all people in Qatar and for all visitors that will be coming in Qatar. And definitely the long awaited time will definitely have it is here. If you do not know starting February 1st all visitors coming to Qatar. If you are coming on what you call a visitor visa to Qatar you definitely need to have what you call health insurance. What you call a health insurance for yourself. Remember this is what we thought about and what is that health insurance all about. That health insurance is going to cover for all your accidents and for all that emergencies that you may get when you are on what you call your visit in Qatar. What does it mean for people who are coming to seek jobs or people who are coming to look for jobs? Things are getting a little bit tighter and things are getting a little bit in a different direction. So meaning that as we are planning to come for what you call a visitor visa in Qatar you definitely need to have that given or you need to have that in your back of your mind that it has to be a requirement for you to be accepted or for you to be given what you call a visitor visa to come to Qatar. So definitely it is what is coming up. And as per the means so public called we are looking at the first phase of it all that will be the first phase to be rolled out or to be starting up it will be on 1st of February. So anyone starting on that time for you to be given or for you to be granted a visa you will need to have what you call a health insurance. That is going to start with what you call a premium of only 50 kateria. Meaning that if your visit visa is for 3 months that means each month you need to pay what you call a premium of 50 kateria for your health insurance. And that is health insurance is going to be for only your emergency and accidents. And only cover up only that for the emergencies and accidents. For any other inequality, for any other emergency that may come in that means for the health insurance or for what you call the approved health insurance centers or companies that will be approved by the Ministry of Public Health you will need to pay what you call an extra cost for yourself. That is according to the Ministry of Public Health latest health updates around in Qatar. So meaning that as you are coming or as part of the requirements that you are planning to have make sure you have that money with you. And for those people that will definitely be coming in Qatar and they definitely have what you call an international health insurance. You know some of us or some of you may have an international insurance direct away coming from your country. What does it mean? That health insurance or that company that you have where you've got that health insurance must be exactly, must be working or must have Qatar policies included in what you call their packages. Meaning that anything that is beyond or anything far away from that definitely will not be accepted here in Qatar. And that is the first rule. Remember we even talked about a situation whereby it was gazetted and even that all employees will have to be insured and all will have to be insured by the employees. So we definitely expect the next rollout or the next phase of it all will be for all employees in Qatar which is will be quite very good because for this case for that matter to learn and be your employer employer that will be responsible for getting that health insurance for you in one way or another. But for the right now if you are coming on a visa visa one of the requirements is going to be what you call the health insurance that must be paid at or that must be applied for before you can be granted what you call the visa. Remember when you talk about the requirements of the visa visa we definitely have to talk about hotel booking has to be one of your requirements for the duration of the time that you go to see. That is how it's very different or very difficult for example when coming to visa visa in Qatar I was telling someone I'd rather come under the company for the first time to get up a job then later I can try to look for my own ways other than coming on what you call a visa visa because it's a little bit tedious and it's a little bit it becomes a little bit very expensive for the kind of requirements that you need to have hope I've tried to share something for you thank you so much by the way if it's your first time don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to meet another patient who are already very happy and very grateful don't put spread to put a comment thank you so much see you again


MSI announced the Claw, a Steam Deck-like Windows handheld gaming machine. And it is now available for order. She's had her hands on a lot of these kinds of machines. Legion Go from Lenovo, Steam Deck. What are the pros and cons of the first gen so far? I have to say the most exciting things, like the most pro things that you have with these devices is the fact that you can stream on these beautiful displays. The fact that you can walk around your household with it. You can set it up wherever you want. I think the biggest con with these is the fact that battery life is really, really low. Is it time to jump in? And if so, what should you look for? I think that it's almost time to jump in. I would say like wait around for this year to see which ones get announced as second generation devices because we are starting to see those second gens come out and we are seeing a lot of companies seeing the feedback that we've given based on like the original ones and implementing those into the second generation life.


Gaffer yn ffatic victory this evening, must be pleased? Yes, certainly. I think we're being a good team tonight. Four goals, clean sheet, three points to follow on from Saturday. I think that was important for us, that we didn't have just a flash in the pan result. But I believe that 80-90% of our game has been there for more than these two games.  How pleasing is it, like we mentioned, four goals, four different goal scorers after the run that we've been on where? By and large, like you mentioned, the performances have been there. It's just been a case of converting these chances and getting these goals now that we've managed to do that tonight. It can be a springboard going forward. Yes, I think so. I think what I see from the date in the last two games, the opportunities we've had, we've tested the keeper, we've hit the target a little bit more. I think we've took a little bit more care in the final third and that's what we've been trying to improve. It doesn't happen overnight. It's consistent work and help for the players to keep encouraging them to get into good positions and never shy away from taking those opportunities. Hopefully they're gaining confidence from seeing the rewards from their work on a training pitch in the analysis room and stuff like that. I've been saying along, I feel we have good enough players to consistently win at this level. But there was a big learning period for myself and Chris coming in and then we knew where the issues lie. But I think there's a load of strength, a load of quality that we have and we didn't want to lose that by just trying to find that elusive score and touch. So I'm glad that in the last two games we found that score and touch but it still kept all the good stuff that we've been doing outside of that. You've been saying it, the players have been saying it but it's a bit of a cliché in football when everything clicks then you're going to be a kind of force to be reckoned with and it seemed to do that tonight both in position out of position. We looked like a complete team and a complete performance that was obviously reflected in the score and how important is it that we make sure this continues? That's what goals do for you and they make everything look a bit rosier and prettier and nicer. I think our team has been really well connected, I think they've been on the same path, I think they understand what each player and their position is supposed to do. It's just that final touch, when that final touch comes it makes everything else just look 5% more better. We haven't done anything, we've clawed a couple of wins more than clawed it but against two very good teams which probably anyone outside of Bradford wouldn't have given us much hope of doing after the run we've been on. I knew with the players how their character has been, how their personality has been around the training ground, even though we had that run without winning, their confidence, their belief was done a little bit on the goal scoring side but their belief was still there that they knew they were a good team, they knew we were doing good things but now we've just got to make sure that word doesn't slip in of complacency that we think we've done anything more than what we have. We've given ourselves a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel but we've got to keep charging down that tunnel until the end of the day and I think this group of lads is ready to do that. Back out here on Saturday after a performance like this tonight, a result like this tonight, how much of an opportunity is it again to get the fans back in here on Saturday and again put on a show and hopefully get another three points on the board? I think for me, since we've been here, that's the sort of valet parade atmosphere I've been waiting for sort of thing and listen, they've been on the verge of it sometimes and we just haven't got them going for a long period but I think once we've gone to the second half and got that third goal it really came alive and you could hear the hope, the joy, the pride in their team which I think is really important so we need to harness that, we need to encourage it, we need to foster it and make sure it stays that way because I think both can buzz off each other, the team from the supporters, the supporters from the team that's how a successful club works and we've got more fans than most in valet parades so we want to keep rewarding their support because it's never been wavering.


My name is Andrew Flynn and I'm on a one-year placement with the Australian Volunteers for International Development. My role is with the Special Olympics Salmon as their Marketing and Communications Advisor. I've been in country for eight months now and the role has seen me work with the staff on being able to share their story with the people of Salmon. Whether it's in the office or out in the field, my role always varies so you have to be very flexible. One day I might be doing one thing, the next day I might be actually driving the cars around for an event or help prepare the food for a different sporting event. The key thing is we're work as a team and so everyone supports each other and if you need to be doing one thing outside of your role then you put your hand up and support the rest of the team. Special Olympics Salmon run sporting programs for people with disabilities. Across the board they do sports on both islands, survive in a polo and those sporting programs take into account botchy, modified cricket, soccer and athletics. We've been running programs around the islands including mini games, national games and regional games. That all leads up into the world games which are being held in LA. Our organisation we're trying to promote fitness and health so we go out and play sport. Generally we play a bit of volleyball, a bit of basketball and soccer and my idea of it is if we're going to teach people how to play sport we need to know how to play sport and be good at ourselves so that people want to follow us. One of my highlights of working with the Special Olympics Salmon in the last eight months would definitely be the national torch run. We carried the flame of hope around the country visiting every village to raise both awareness and funds for the association. I was humbled by the absolute giving of every Salmon that we met along the way. We ran around with buckets and each family would run out with two Tala or maybe five Tala. Churches would put in a little bit more as the congregation would come together and give and it was really humbling to see how much each Salmon was willing to give for a good cause. People asked me why I did come to Salmon and straight away I tell them it was a chance for me to share my knowledge with the Salmon culture and the people here but also for me to learn a lot about the culture and have a cultural exchange. It's seriously changed my life and being one of the best experiences I could ever ask for. I've been lucky enough to find a different way of life than the Australian life that we currently have and I think I've changed and opened myself to a real world that's out there rather than just the Australia that we live in.