chapter 33 of Weathering Heights this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by Maya Tafidis Weathering Heights by Emily Bronte chapter 33 on the morrow of that Monday earn show being still unable to follow his ordinary employment and therefore remaining about the house I speedily found it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me as heretofore she got downstairs before me I'm out into the garden where she had seen her cousin performing some easy work and when I went to beat them come to breakfast I saw she had persuaded him to clear large space of ground from current and gooseberry bushes and they were busy planning together an importation of plants from the Grange was terrified of the devastation which had been accomplished in a brief half hour the black current trees were the apple of Joseph's eye and she had just fixed her choice of a flower bed in the midst of them there that will be all shown to the master I exclaimed the minute it is covered what excuse have you to offer for taking such liberties with a garden we shall have a fun explosion on the head of it see if you don't Mr. Heta I wonder you should have no more weight than to go and make that mess of her bidding might forgotten there were Joseph's and said earn show rather puzzled but I'll tell him I did it we always ate our meals with Mr. Heathcliff I held the mistress's post in making tea and carving so I was indispensable at table Catherine usually sat by me but today she stole nearer to Herton but I presently saw she would have no more discretion in her friendship than she had in her hostility now mind you don't talk with and notice you're causing too much for my whispered instructions as we enter the room to certainly know Mr. Heathcliff and he'll be mad at you both not going to she answered the minute after she had siloed to him and was sticking prim roses in his plate of porridge he dared not speak to her there he dared hardly look and yet she went teasing to use twice on the point being provoked to laugh I frowned and then she glanced towards the master whose mind was occupied and other subjects in his company as his countenance evinced and she was serious for an instant scrutinizing him with deep gravity afterwards she turned and recommenced her nonsense at last Herton uttered a smothered laugh Mr. Heathcliff started his eye rapidly served our faces Catherine met it with her accustomed look of nervousness and yet defiance which he aboard it is well you are out of my reach he exclaimed what fiend possesses you to stare back at me continually with those infernal eyes down with them don't remind me of your existence again I thought I had cured your laughing chose me muttered her turn will you say demanding the master her turn looked at his plate and did not repeat the confession Mr. Heathcliff looked at him a bit and then silently resume his breakfast and his interrupted musing we had nearly finished and the two young people prudently shifted wider asunder so I anticipated no further disturbance during that sitting when Joseph appeared at the door revealing my screvering lip and furious eyes that the outrage committed on his precious shrubs was detected must have seen Kathy in her cousin about the spot before examined it for while his jaws worked like those of a cow chewing it's cut and read his pitch difficult to understand began I'm gonna have my way and I'm gonna go I hit him to do where I start for 60 years and I thought I'd like my books up into the garage draw my pizza stuff and they start have kitchen to this sound for sake of quietness it were hard to get my own half stone but I thought I could do that but nah she was time I got in from me and by the heart master I can turn it yeah may bend to the or can you will I know and used it and an old man doesn't soon get used to new buttons I'd raise around my bite in my supper ham on road now now we eat it interrupted he's got it short but she grievance I'll interfere no quarrel between you and Nellie to me thrust you into the cool hole for anything I care it's no no answer or some shift for Nellie nasty ill-noticed shoes thing God she can tell solo nobody she would never so handsome but what a body more look at her about winking some place and graceless queen that's wish charlotte we are bowling in our forward ways till now fair breast my heart it's forgotten all I have done for him and made in him and going and driven up a whole road grandest countries garden and here he lamented outright unmanned by a sense of his bitter injuries and earn shows in gratitude and dangerous condition with a full drunk ask me to his leave her turn the two Hispanic fold with I've pulled up to all three bushes reply the young man but I'm going to stand again and why have you pulled him up so the master Catherine wisely put in her tongue we wanted to plant some flowers there she cried I'm the only person to blame for I wish him to do it with the devil give you leave to touch a stick about the place the man enough father-in-law much surprised you to obey her he added turning to her to the latter was speechless his cousin replied you shouldn't grudge a few yards of earth for me to ornament when you have taken all my land had any said his life and my money she continued returning his uncle air and meantime biting a piece of crust the remnant have a breakfast silence his claim get done and be gone and her turns land and his money pursue the reckless thing it and I have fans now I shall tell him all about you but the Masterson confounded a moment he grew pale and rose up eyeing her all the while with an expression of mortal hate if you strike me her turn will strike you said so you may as well sit down if her turn does not turn you out of the room I'll strike him to hell then his life the unable which there you pretend to write him against me what with her do you hear fling her into the kitchen I'll kill her a long time so let her come to my side again head and try it on his breath to persuade her to go drag her away he cries savagely I was trying to talk and he approached to execute his own command he'll not obey you wicked man anymore said Catherine and he'll soon detest you as much as I do wished wished much of the young man with pushfully I mean that he you speak so to him have done but you won't let him strike me she cried come then he whispered earnestly just too late his had to go to hold of her now you go he said to Angel curse to it this time she has provoked me when I could not bear it and I'll make her a better forever he had his hand in her hair her turn attempted to release her looks and treating him not to hurt her that once he's close black eyes flushed he seemed ready to tear a castle in pieces and I was just worked up to risk coming to the rescue well of a sudden his fingers relaxed he shifted his grasp from her head to her arm and gazed intensely in her face then he drew his hand over his eyes to the moment to collect himself apparently and turning anew to Catherine said with assumed kindness you must learn to avoid putting me in a passion on why I shall really murder you sometime go with mrs. Dean and keep with her and confine your insolence to her ears as to her to learn show if I see him listen to you I'll send him seeking his bread where he can get it your love will make him an outcast and a beggar then it take her and leave me all of you leave me I'll let my young lady out she was too glad of her escape to resist the other followed and mr. Heathcliff had the room to himself tell dinner I had counsel Catherine to die upstairs but as soon as he perceived her vacancy he sent me to call her he spoke to none of us a very little and went out directly afterwards intimating that I should not return before evening the two new friends established themselves in the house during his absence where I heard her turn to cheek his cousin on her offering a revelation of a father-in-law's conduct to his father he said he wouldn't suffer were to be uttered in his disparagement if you were the devil it didn't signify he was telling by him and it rather she will abuse himself as she used to then begin on mr. Heathcliff Catherine's waxing cross at this but he found means to make her hold her tongue by asking how she would like him to speak ill of a father then she comprehended that earned show to the master's reputation home to himself and was attached by ties stronger than reason could break chains forged by habit which would be cruel to attempt to loosen she showed a good heart dance for in avoiding both complaints and expressions of antipathy concerning Heathcliff and confessed to me her sorrow that she had endeavored to raise bad spirit between him and her turn indeed I don't believe she has as approved a syllable in the latter's hearing against her oppressor since when the slightest agreement was over they were friends again it has busy as possible in their several occupations of pupil and teacher I came in to sit with them after I had done my work and I felt comforted to watch them that I didn't notice how time got on you know they both appeared in a measure my children I had long been proud of one and now I was sure the other would be a source of equal satisfaction his honest warm and intelligent nature shook up rapidly the clouds of ignorance and degradation in which had been bred and Catherine's sincere recommendations acted as a spur to his industry his brightening mind brightened his features and added spirit and nobility to their aspect I could hardly fancy the same individual I had beheld on the day I discovered my little lady at weathering heights after his expedition to the cracks while I admired and the labored dusk drew on and with it returned the master he came upon us quite unexpectedly entering by the front way and had a full view of the whole three here we could raise our heads to glance at him well I reflected there was never a plethora or more hummest sight and shall be a burning shame to scold him the red firelight glowed on the two body heads that revealed the faces animated with the eager interest of children for though he was 23 and she 18 it had so much of novelty to feel and learn but neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of somebody's enchanted maturity they lived to their eyes together to encounter Mr. Heathcliff perhaps you had never remarked their eyes are precisely similar and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw the present Catherine has no other likeness to her except a breadth of forehead and a certain arc of the nostril that makes her appear rather haughty whether she will or not with her turn the resemblance is carried further it is singular at all times then it was particularly striking because his senses were alert and his mental faculties waken to unwanted activity I suppose this resemblance disarmed Mr. Heathcliff he walked to the heart in evident agitation but it quickly subsided as he looked at the young man or I should say altered its character for it was there yet he took the book from his hand and glanced at the open page then returned it without any observation merely signing Catherine away her companion lingered very little behind her and I was about to depart also but he beat me sit still to the pro conclusion is it not he observed having brooded a while on the scene had just witnessed an absurd termination to my violent exertion I get levels and mattocks to demolish the two houses and train myself to be capable of working like a curious and when everything is ready and in my power I find the will to lift a slate of either roof has vanished my old enemies have not beaten me now would be the precise time to revenge myself on the representatives I could do it and none could hinder me but where the use I don't care for striking I can't take the trouble to raise my hand that sounds as if I had been laboring the whole time only to exhibit a final trait of magnanimity it is far from being the case I have lost the faculty of enjoying the destruction and I am too idle to destroy for nothing deli there's a strange change approaching I mean it's shadow at present it takes a little interest in my daily life but I hardly remember to eat and drink those two who have left the room are the only objects which retain a distinct material appearance to me that appearance causes me pain mounting to agony about her I won't speak and I don't desire to think but I earnestly wish you were invisible a presence evokes only maddening sensation he moves me differently yet if I could do it without seeming insane I'd never see him again you'll perhaps think me rather inclined to become so he added making an effort to smile if I try to describe the thousand forms of past associations and ideas he awakens or embodies but you'll not talk or what I tell you but my mind is so eternally secluded in itself it is tempting at last to turn it out to another five minutes ago I turned seem the personification of my youth not a human being I fell to him in such a variety of ways that it would have been impossible to have a costume rationally in the first place his tumbling likeness to Catherine connected him feebly with her that however which you may suppose the most important to arrest my imagination is actually the least for what is not connected with her to me what does not recall her I cannot look down to this floor but her features are shaped in the flags in every cloud in every tree feeling the air at night and code by glimpses in every object by day I am surrounded with her image the most ordinary faces of men and women my own features mock me with a resemblance the entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that indeed exists and that I have lost her well her transaspect was the ghost of my immortal love of my wild endeavours to hold my right my degradation my pride my happiness and my anguish that it is fenced to repeat this close to you only it will let you know why with reluctance to be always alone his society is no benefit rather an aggravation of the constant torment I suffer and it partly contributes to render me regardless how he and his cousin go together I can't give them no attention anymore what do you mean by a changed mr his cliff I said lamb that his manner though he was neither in danger of losing his senses nor dying according to my judgment he was quite strong and healthy and as to his reason from childhood he had a delight in dwelling on dark things and entertaining all the fancies might have had a monument on the subject of his departed idol but to every other point his wits were as sound as mine I shall not know that till it comes he said I'm only half conscious of it now you have no feeling of illness have you I asked no Nelly I have not he answered then if you are not afraid of death I pursued afraid no replied have neither fear nor resentment nor hope of death why should I with my heart constitution and temperate mode of living and unparalleled occupations I ought to and probably shall remain above ground so there is carefully black hair on my head and yet I cannot continue in this condition I have to remind myself to breathe almost remind my heart to beat and it is like bending back a stiff spring it is by compulsion that I do the slightest actor prompted by you and thought and by compulsion that I notice anything alive or dead which is not associated with universal it I have a single wish and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it they have yearned to it so long and so unwaveringly but I'm convinced it will be reached and soon because it has devoured my existence I'm swallowed up in the anticipation of its fulfillment my confessions have not relieved me but they may account for some otherwise unaccountable phases of humor which I show oh god it is a long fight I wish it were over he began to pace the room maturing terrible things to himself till I was inclined to believe as he said Joseph did that conscience had turned his heart to an earthly hell I wanted greatly how it would end though he seldom before had revealed this state of mind even by looks it was his habitual mood I had no doubt he asserted himself but not a soul from his general bearing would have contested the fact she did not when you saw him Mr Lockwood and the pure of which is pink he was just the same as them only founder of continued solitude and perhaps still more like Nick in company and of chapter 33 chapter 34 of Wuthering Heights this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by Larissa Jaworski Brisbane Australia Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte chapter 34 for some days after that evening Mr Heathcliff shunned meeting us at meals yet he would not consent formally to exclude Herton and Kathy he had an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings choosing rather to absent himself and eating once in 24 hours seemed sufficient sustenance for him one night after the family were in bed I heard him go downstairs and out the front door I did not hear him re-enter and in the morning I found he was still away we were in April then the weather was sweet and warm the grass was green as showers and sun could make it and the two dwarf apple trees near the southern wall in full bloom after breakfast Catherine insisted on my bringing a chair and sitting with my work under the fir trees at the end of the house and she beguiled Herton who had perfectly recovered from his accident to dig and arrange her little garden which was shifted to that corner by the influence of Joseph's complaints I was comfortably reveling in the spring fragrance around and the beautiful soft blue overhead when my young lady who had run down near the gate to procure some primrose roots for a border returned only half laden and informed us that Mr Heathcliff was coming in and he spoke to me she added with a perplexed countenance what did he say asked Herton he told me to be gone as fast as I could she answered but he looked so different from his usual look that I stopped a moment to stare at him how he inquired why almost bright and cheerful no almost nothing very much excited and wild and glad she replied nightwalking amuses him then I remarked affecting a careless manner in reality as surprised as she was and anxious to ascertain the truth of her statement for to see the master looking glad would not be an everyday spectacle I framed an excuse to go in Heathcliff stood at the open door he was pale and he trembled yet certainly he had a strange joyful glitter in his eyes that altered the aspect of his whole face well you have some breakfast I said you must be hungry rambling about all night I wanted to discover where he had been but I did not like to ask directly no I'm not hungry he answered averting his head and speaking rather contemptuously as if he guessed I was trying to divine the occasion of his good humor I felt perplexed I didn't know whether it were not a proper opportunity to offer a bit of admonition I don't think it right to wonder out of doors I observed instead of being in bed it's not wise at any rate in this moist season I dare say you'll catch a bad cold or a fever you have something the matter with you now nothing but what I can bear he replied and with the greatest pleasure provided you'll leave me alone get in and don't annoy me I obeyed and in passing I noticed he breathed as fast as a cat yes I reflected to myself we shall have a fit of illness I cannot conceive what he has been doing that noon he sat down to dinner with us and received a heaped up plate from my hands as if he intended to make amends for previous fasting I've neither cold nor fever nally he remarked in allusion to my morning speech and I'm ready to do justice to the food you give me he took his knife and fork and was going to commence eating when the inclination appeared to become suddenly extinct he laid them on the table looked eagerly toward the window then rose and went out we saw him walking to and fro in the garden while we concluded our meal and Earnshaw said he'd go and ask why he would not dine he thought we had grieved him in some way well is he coming cried Catherine when her cousin returned nay he answered but he's not angry he seemed really pleased indeed only I made him impatient by speaking to him twice and then he bid me be off to you he wondered how I could want the company of anybody else I set his plate to keep warm on the fender and after an hour or two he re-entered when the room was clear in no degree calmer the same unnatural it was unnatural appearance of joy under his black brows the same bloodless hue and his teeth visible now and then in a kind of smile his frame shivering not as one shivers with chill or weakness but as a tight stretched cord vibrates a strong thrilling rather than trembling I will ask what is the matter I thought or who should and I exclaimed have you heard any good news Mr Heathcliff you look uncommonly animated where should good news come from to me he said I'm animated with hunger and seemingly I must not eat your dinner is here I returned why won't you get it I don't want it now he muttered hastily I'll wait till supper and Nellie once and for all let me beg you to warn Hayton and the others away from me I wish to be troubled by nobody I wish to have this place to myself is there some new reason for this banishment I inquired tell me why you are so queer Mr Heathcliff where were you last night I'm not putting the question through idle curiosity but you are putting the question through very idle curiosity he interrupted with a laugh yet I'll answer it last night I was on the threshold of hell today I am within sight of my heaven I have my eyes on it hardly three feet to seven me and now you'd better go you'll neither see nor hear anything to frighten you if you refrain from prying having swept the hearth and wiped the table I departed more perplexed than ever he did not quit the house again that afternoon and no one intruded on his solitude till at eight o'clock I deemed it proper though unsummoned to carry a candle and his supper to him he was leaning against the ledge of an open lattice but not looking out his face was turned to the interior gloom the fire had smoldered to ashes the room was filled with the damp mild air of the cloudy evening and so still that only the murmur of the beck down gimmerton was distinguishable but its ripples and its gurgling over the pebbles or through the large stones which it could not cover I uttered an ejaculation of discontent at seeing the dismal great and commenced shutting the casements one after another till I came to his must I close this I asked in order to rouse him for he would not stir the light flashed on his features as I spoke oh mr. Lockwood I cannot express what a terrible start I got by the moment review those deep black eyes that smile in ghastly paleness it appeared to me not mr.  Heathcliff was going to bed and wanted nothing to eat till morning we heard him mount the stairs directly he did not proceed to his ordinary chamber but turned into that with the paneled bed its window as I mentioned before is wide enough for anybody to get through and it struck me that he plotted another midnight excursion of which he had rather we had no suspicion is he a ghoul or a vampire I'm used I had read of such hideous incarnate demons and then I set myself to reflect how I had tended to him in infancy and watched him grow to youth and followed him almost throughout his whole course and what absurd nonsense it was to yield to that sense of horror but where did he come from the little dark thing harbored by a good man to his bane muttered superstition as I dozed into unconsciousness and I began half dreaming to weary myself with imagining some fit parentage for him and repeating my waking meditations I tracked his existence over again with grim variations at last picturing his death and funeral of which all I can remember is being exceedingly vexed at having the task of dictating and inscribing for his monument and consulting the sexton about it and as he had no surname and we could not tell his age we were obliged to content ourselves with a single word heathcliff that came true we were if you enter the kiyokyad you'll read on his headstone only that and the date of his death dawn restored me to common sense I rose and went into the garden as soon as I could see to ascertain if there were any footmarks under his window there were none he has stayed at home I thought and he'll be all right today I prepared breakfast for the household as was my usual custom but told hairton and kathy to get there as the master came down for he lay late they preferred taking it out of doors under the trees and I set a little table to accommodate them on my re-entrance I found mr heathcliff below he and joseph were conversing about some farming business he gave clear minute directions concerning the matter discussed but he spoke rapidly and turned his head continually aside and had the same excited expression even more exaggerated when joseph quitted the room he took his seat in the place he generally chose and I put a basin of coffee before him he drew it nearer and then rested his arms on the table and looked at the opposite wall as I supposed surveying one particular portion up and down with glittering restless eyes and with such eager interest that he stopped breathing during half a minute together come now I exclaimed pushing some bread against his hand eat and drink that while it's hot it has been waiting near an hour he didn't notice me and yet he smiled I'd rather have seen him gnash his teeth than smile so mr heathcliff master I cried don't for God's sake stare as if you saw an unearthly vision don't for God's sake shout so loud he replied turn around and tell me are we by ourselves of course was my answer of course we are still I involuntarily obeyed him as if I was not quite sure with a sweep of his hand he cleared a vacant space in front among the breakfast things and leaned forward to gaze more at his ease now I perceived he was not looking at the wall for when I regarded him alone it seemed exactly that he gazed at something within two yards distance and whatever it was it communicated apparently both pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes at least the anguished yet raptured expression of his countenance suggested that idea the fancied object was not fixed either his eyes pursued it with the unwary diligence and even in speaking to me were never weaned away I vainly reminded him of his protracted abstinences from food if he stirred to touch anything in compliance with my entreaties if he stretched a hand out to get a piece of bread his fingers clenched before they reached it and remained on the table forgetful of their aim I sat a model of patients trying to attract his absorbed attention from its engrossing speculation till he grew irritable and got up asking why would not allow him to have his own time in taking his meals and saying that on the next occasion I need and wait I might set things down and go having uttered these words he left the house slowly sauntered down the garden path and disappeared through the gate the hours crept anxiously by another evening came I did not retire to rest till late and when I did I could not sleep he returned after midnight and instead of going to bed shut himself into the room beneath I listened and tossed about and finally dressed and descended it was too irksome to lie there harassing my brain with a hundred idle misgivings I distinguished Mr Heathcliff's step restlessly measuring the floor and he frequently broke the silence by a deep inspiration resembling a groan he muttered detached words also the only one I could catch was the name of Catherine coupled with some wild terms of endearment or suffering and spoken as one would speak to a person present low and earnest and rung from the depth of his soul I had not courage to walk straight into the apartment but I desired to divert him from his reverie and therefore fell foul of the kitchen fire stirred it and began to scrape the cinders it drew him forth sooner than I expected he opened the door immediately and said Nelly come here is it morning come in with your light it is striking for I answered you want candles to take upstairs you might have lit one at this fire no I don't wish to go upstairs he said come in and kindle me a fire and do anything there is to do about the room I must blow the coals red first before I can carry any I replied getting a chair and the bellows he roamed to and fro meantime in a state approaching distraction his heavy size succeeded each other so thick as to leave no space for common breathing between when day breaks I'll send for green he said I wish to make some legal inquiries of him while I can bestow a thought on those matters and while I can act calmly I have not written my will yet and how to leave my property I cannot determine I wish I could annihilate it from the face of the earth I would not talk so Mr Heathcliff I interposed let your will be a while you'll be spared to repent of your many injustices yet I never expected that your nerves would be disordered they are present marvelously so however and almost entirely through your own fault the way you've passed these three days might knock up a titan do take some food and some repose you need only look at yourself in a glass to see how you require both your cheeks are hollow and your eyes bloodshot like a person starving with hunger and going blind with loss of sleep it's not my fault that I cannot eat or rest he replied I assure you it's through no settled designs I'll do both as soon as I possibly can but you might as well bit a man struggling in the water to rest within arm's length of the shore I must reach it first and then I'll rest well never mind Mr Greene as to repenting of my injustices I've done no injustice and I repent of nothing I'm too happy and yet I'm not happy enough my soul's bliss kills my body but does not satisfy itself happy master I cried strange happiness if you would hear me without being angry I might offer some advice that would make you happier what is that he asked give it you are aware Mr Heathcliff I said that from the time you were 13 years old you have lived a selfish un-Christian life and probably hardly had a Bible in your hands during all that period you must have forgotten the contents of the book and you may not have a space to search it now could it be hurtful to send for someone some minister of any denomination it does not matter which to explain it and show you how very far you have heard from its precepts and how unfit you will be for its heaven unless a change takes place before you die I'm rather obliged than angry Nelly he said for you remind me of the manner in which I desire to be buried it is to be carried into the churchyard in the evening you and Heaton may if you please accompany me and mind particularly to notice that the sexton obeys my directions concerning the two coffins no minister need come nor need anything be said over me I tell you I have nearly attained my heaven and that of others is altogether unvalued and uncovered by me and supposing you persevered in your obstinate fast and died by that means and they refused to bury you in the precincts of the kirk I said shocked at his godless indifference how would you like it they won't do that he replied if they did you must have me removed secretly and if you neglect it you shall prove practically that the dead are not annihilated as soon as he heard the other members of the family stirring he retired to his den and I breathed freer but in the afternoon while Joseph and Heaton were at their work he came into the kitchen again and with a wild look bid me come and sit in the house he wanted somebody with him I declined telling him plainly that his strange talk and manner frightened me and I had neither the nerve nor the will to be his companion alone I believe you think me a fiend he said with his dismal laugh something too horrible to live under a decent roof then turning to Catherine who was there and who drew behind me at his approach he added half sneeringly will you come Chuck I'll not hurt you no I've made myself worse than the devil well there is one who won't shrink for my company by God she's relentless oh damn it it's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear even mine he solicited the society of no one more at dusk he went into his chamber through the whole night and far into the morning we heard him groaning and murmuring to himself Heaton was anxious to enter but I bid him fetch Mr Kenneth and he should go in and see him when he came and I requested admittance and tried to open the door I found it locked and Heathcliff bid us be damned he was better and would be left alone so the doctor went away the following evening was very wet indeed it poured down till day dawn and as I took my morning walk around the house I observed the master's window swinging open and the rain driving straight in he cannot be in bed I thought those showers would drench him through he must either be up or out but I'll make no more ado I'll go boldly and look having succeeded in obtaining entrance with another key I ran to unclose the panels for the chamber was vacant and quickly pushing them aside I peeped in Mr Heathcliff was there laid on his back his eyes met mine so keen and fierce I started and then he seemed to smile I could not think him dead but his face and throat were washed with rain the bed cloth stripped and he was perfectly still the lattice flapping to and fro had grazed one hand that rested on the sill no blood trickled from the broken skin and when I put my fingers to it I could doubt no more he was dead and stark I hasped the window I came to his black long hair from his forehead I tried to close his eyes to extinguish if possible that frightful lifelike gaze of exaltation before anyone else beheld it they would not shut they seemed to sneer at my attempts and his parted lips and sharp teeth sneered too taken with another fit of cowardice I cried out for Joseph Joseph shuffled up and made a noise but resolutely refused to meddle with him the devils hurried off his soul he cried and he may have his carcass into the bargain for ought I care what a wicked on he looks grinning at death and the old sinner grinned in mockery I thought he intended to cut a caper around the bed but suddenly composing himself he fell on his knees and raised his hands and returned thanks that the lawful master and the ancient stock were restored to their rights I felt stunned by the awful event and my memory unavoidably returned to former times with a sort of oppressive sadness but poor Heaton the most wronged was the only one who really suffered much he sat by the corpse all night weeping in bitter earnest he pressed its hand and kissed the sarcastic savage face that everyone else shrank from contemplating and bemoaning him with that strong grief which springs naturally from a generous heart though it be tough as tempered steel Mr. Kenneth was perplexed to pronounce of what disorder the master died I concealed the fact of his having swallowed nothing for four days fearing it might lead to trouble and then I am persuaded he did not abstain on purpose it was the consequence of this strange illness not the cause we buried him to the scandal of the whole neighborhood as he wished Earnshaw and I the sexton and six men to carry the coffin comprehended the whole attendance the six men departed when they had let it down into the grave we stayed to see it covered Heaton with a streaming face dug green sods and laid them over the brown mould itself at present it is as smooth and verdant as its companion mounds and I hope its tenant sleeps us soundly but the country folks if you ask them would swear on the bible that he walks there are those who speak to having met him near the church and on the moor and even within this house idle tales you'll say and so say I yet that old man by the kitchen fire affirms he has seen two of them looking out his chamber window on every rainy night since his death and an odd thing happened to me about a month ago I was going to the Grange one evening a dark evening threatening thunder and just at the turn of the height I encountered a little boy with a sheep and two lambs before him he was crying terribly and I suppose to the lambs were skittish and would not be guided what's the matter my little man I asked there's Heathcliff and a woman yonder and he blubbered and I done it pass them I saw nothing but neither the sheep nor he would go on so I bid him take the road lower down he probably raised the phantoms from thinking as he traversed the moors alone on the nonsense he'd heard his parents and companions repeat yet still I don't like being out in the dark now and I don't like being left by myself in this grim house I cannot help it I shall be glad when they leave it and shift to the Grange they are going to the Grange then I said yes answered Mrs Dean as soon as they are married and that will be on New Year's Day and who will live here then why Joseph will take care of the house and perhaps a lad to keep him company they will live in the kitchen and the rest will be shut up for the use of such ghosts as choose to inhabit it I observed no Mr Lockwood said nelly shaking her head I believe the dead are at peace but it's not right to speak of them with levity at that moment the garden gate swung to the ramblers were returning they are afraid of nothing I grumbled watching their approach through the window together they would brave satan and all his legions as they stepped onto the doorstones and halted to take a last look at the moon or more correctly at each other by her light I felt irresistibly impelled to escape them again and pressing a remembrance into the hand of Mrs Dean and disregarding her expostulations at my rudeness I vanished through the kitchen as they opened the house door and so should have confirmed to Joseph in his opinion of his fellow servants gay in discretions had he not fortunately recognized me for a respectable character by the sweet ring of a sovereign at his feet my walk home was lengthened by a diversion in the direction of the Kirch when beneath its walls I perceived decay had made progress even in seven months many a window showed black gaps deprived of glass and slates jutted off here and there beyond the right line of the roof to be gradually worked off in coming autumn storms I sought and soon discovered the three headstones on the slope next to the moor on the middle one gray and half buried in the heath Edgar Linton's only harmonized by the turf and moss creeping up its foot heath cliffs still bare I lingered around them under that benign sky watched the moths fluttering amongst the heath and hair bells listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth end of chapter 34 end of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with a two box break, our last two box of 2020-2021 Panini Donnery's Choice, Donnery's Basketball Choice Edition. Two box, pick your team, random team, number 10. One spot gets you two teams, all card ship of course. No, no worries Justin. Yeah, that's important to figure out whether those are in the poll or not. All right, one spot gets you two teams, so let's double up. There are the teams right there, all 30 teams are in. Let's roll it, randomize each list, four and a six, ten times are names and teams. One, two, three, four, tenth and final time. Don down to Chad. We know Joshua, you're lagging behind at least five minutes. We already figured it out. Maybe more actually. I appreciate you trying to help though. Can't help if you're lagging, folks. And tenth and final time. After ten times, there's ten right there. After ten times, we've got Orlando down to San Antonio. Don with the Orlando Magic, Sean with the Wizards, Michael with the Gris, Brett with the Bulls. Buntai with the Timberwolves, nice. Sean with the Heat, Michael with the Pacers, Buntai with the Pistons. Sean with the Warriors, Don with the Pelicans, Chad with the Clippers, Chad with the Hornets, nice.  And Lakers are up 83-78 nearing the end of the third quarter back to the UCLA game. Sean, Derek with the Jazz, Sean with the Rockets, Don with the Thunder, Buntai with the Nix, Chad with the Bucks. Matthew with the Raptors, Oliver with the Celtics, Sean with the Cavs, Brett with the Trailblazers, Portland Trailblazers. Chad with the Sixers, Chad Meyer with the Nuggets, Oliver Soria with the Hawks, and Chad S with the Spurs. And the other Chad M team is the Clippers. Two different Chats in this break. Let's get all this on one screen here. Alphabetized by Team, any trades? People only give you a little bit of a trade window. Yeah, Ed's right. Vanilla Grill is asking, Joe, do you think there'll be a high-end football product with a Trevor Lawrence that'll be affordable? No. High-end and affordable. Don't go together. Got the bucket. UCLA. And one. Any trades? I think the better thing to chase Trevor Lawrence would be to try to find, like, maybe try to find a cheaper product where you can get the Trevor Lawrence. And maybe if it grades out at, like, a PS8-10 or something like that, then that could yield a pretty, pretty big return, like, in Donner's football or something like that. That could be a strategy. Otherwise, to make it affordable, you'd have to cross your fingers and try to chase if the Jaguars do take Trevor Lawrence.  And then at that point, yeah, then maybe you could try to make that a little more affordable. So it's going to be tough. All right, TWC trade window close. Let's print and rip. Is high-end product affordable? I feel like it's not. Affordable for some. Not for most. All right, I think Joshua Cherry's live now. There is the final printout right here. Thanks, everyone, for getting in. A lot of nice stuff here. A couple autographs in the middle. All right, we've got Cassius Winston. Rated rookie for the Wizards. That's going to be for Sean Lamb. Not Lamello for Charlotte. That's going to be for Chad. There's Trey Jones for the Spurs. That's going to go to Chad. And the Autos. Maybe one more. We've got Jaden McDonnell, not Anthony Edwards going to Funtai and the Timberwolves. And I think the Autos are right here. So let's go with here with the gold. Nice. Bogdan Bogdanovich out of 10. Nice one for the Kings. Derek Melanson with Sacramento. We have Derek Jones Jr. 20 out of 99 for Miami. That'll be for Sean. And Mike Conley for the Jazz. That is going to be out of 49. 48 out of 49 for Derek Melanson in Utah. All right, and the autographs. First one is going to be Hall Dominator's Oscar Robertson. 35 out of 49. That's awesome. This is Cincinnati Royals edition of Oscar Robertson, which I think turned into the Kings. Yes, they turned into the Sacramento Kings. So that'll go to Derek Melanson. And the second autograph behind Waturo for the Clippers is Isaac Okoro. Nice gold autograph right here. 7 out of 10. This could be huge if he starts playing well. I think he's playing a little bit. But if he blows up, this could be a huge card right here. Sean Maddock, Cleveland. This is for you. And Daniel Toro for Chad Meyer and the Clip Show. Yeah, nice Oscar and Bogdan. Not a bad box. Oh, you say a ball. You're tied at 77 with 3.3 left. We got C.J. Ellaby for Portland. Rhett Gibbs. We got Nico Mannion for the Warriors. I feel like he's starting to get some minutes now, Sean Maddock. But they got an inbound from the far end. Do they have timeouts? Xavier Tillman. You got to put it up. No, just off the mark over time. Wow. Xavier Tillman and Desmond Bain for Memphis. That's going to be for Michael Odom. We got the numbered cards here. We got the red Ricky Rubio. 31 out of 99 for the Phoenix Suns. That's for Sean. We got a nice John Moran. This is second-year John Moran. 31 out of 49. If it's anything like last year's product, second-year Luca Doncic and second-year Trey Young seem to resell pretty well. Hopefully the same right here. Memphis. That'll be for Michael Odom once again. And there's Chris Middleton. 70 out of 99 for the Bucks. That'll be for Chad. We got a nice Emmanuel quickly on top as well. He's going to help us show the autographs. First auto is going to be Zeke Najee. He's also getting a little bit of some minutes here and there. Denver Nuggets, Chad Meyer. Second auto here is going to be Cole Anthony. Out of 99. 60, 66. 60 out of 99. Orlando Magic. Don McCrae. I think he has... He started a little slow, I want to say. He started off the season on the little slow side, but if he could pick it up, it would be pretty nice. And nice Emmanuel quickly. A late first round. Maybe even almost a second round pick. But he's been playing some excellent basketball for the Knicks. Knicks has been playing good basketball. Matthew Shearer with that one. And there you have it. Quick break of 2020-2021 Donner's Basketball Choice Edition. These were the last two boxes. I don't know when or if we're going to get more, but keep an eye on the website jaspyscasebrakes.com for more. I'm Joe. I'll see... Oh, Cole Anthony's injured. All right. So we want him to come back healthy and kill it for Don and the Orlando Magic for this break. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Hey, I'm Anfa! In this video, I want to talk about Guitarix plugins. Guitarix is a free and open source guitar effects processor for Linux. You can run it as a standalone program, effectively turning your PC or a laptop into a stompbox, but it also comes with a bunch of awesome LV2 plugins, packing their fabulous processors so that you can use them, for example, in Ardor, my doll of choice. I'm going to show you a bunch of my favorites to get you started, but first, we need some music to work with. Let me show you the Guitarix plugin that I use the most. GX Amplifier X is a free-in-one guitar stack emulation.  Right-click to open up this list, or you can just cycle through them. It also has a power amplifier stack with a bunch of presets based on famous designs. And last but not least, it has a cabinet simulation with a list of common and probably less common speaker cabinet configurations. Now, this allows us to get really diverse guitar sounds, but they are all grounded in the real life. And, you know, whether you need clean or crunch or drive or even fuzz, GX Amplifier X has it all. Let's play around with this a bit. Let's listen first to what we have here. I'm going to just loop this part. I'm going to mute the drums so we can just listen to... Now, let's disable all the plugins. This is a dry guitar signal. Now, let's reset this preset. By default, it's pretty quiet. So, what we can do is raise the pre-gain or raise the master gain of the pre-amplifier. Now, we can tweak this for drive or distortion of both. Now, we can also change the tube models so we can drive it pretty hard. And still, we have the cabinet to play with. Let's turn down the master gain. Two 12-inch speakers, one a single 12-inch speaker, four 10-inch speakers, two double 10-inch speakers, etc. Twin reverb. We can also disable the cabinet emulation and we can disable the power amplifier emulation. Now, this sounds like you would just plug into a pre-amp and distort your signal there. That sounds dry, so usually we want to have something Gibson-style. I think they can't use the official brand names because copyright. And, of course, on the power amplifier we have some count controls. Let's turn down this and see how loud we can drive this. Pretty loud. And so, we're turning it down by 34 decibels. It's still pretty loud. Now, these are dual configurations. It's like, yeah, I think it's two different tubes, one after another. So, yeah, that's Guitar Exemplifier X. Sometimes, if I want even more distortion, I simply add something like, say, tap-tube warmth before and drive my sound with this, before it even reaches the plug-in. Let's see how it sounds on some power chords. Yeah, with such a lot of, with this amount of gain, we should probably use a gate or something.  Yeah, so that's GX Amplifier X. It's a super useful plug-in and not only for guitars. Like, try using this on synths or drums. We can try it on drums right now. Let's copy this, paste it on our drum track.  So, I would use this in a sand and then also cut off some bass and stuff. By the way, I forgot to enable my compression EQ to make the drums fatter. Anyway, let's go and focus on some other plugins. Because the next one I use a lot is GX Chorus Stereo. I have it here. What it does is, it's a simple chorus unit. Let's maybe disable the amplifier. So, you have the basic delay. You have, like, it's a single voice chorus. So, you have one voice. You have the depth of LFO modulation and the speed of LFO modulation. And this is dry wet. I have even some clipping on the dry recording. Even though I've turned my preamp all the way down, I should have turned my guitar a little bit down. But that doesn't matter because I destroyed it anyway. So, that's masked. All right, so, I use GX Chorus Stereo sometimes on guitars. If you just don't want to dub your guitar again for that sweet, hard-panned left-right stereo image, like I do because I'm too sloppy. You can just drop this chorus. And I like to do it sometimes before the amplifier, so the chorus affects how the distortion works on the sound. And also, I think we get more stereo image that way. So, yeah. The last plugin I want to talk about from the guitarics bundle is GX Reverb Stereo. It's a super simple reverb. Let's make it all the way dry. So, it has a room size. Let's maybe go to the first notes for this. There's dampening. The more dampening, the more the high frequencies are being filtered out in the tail. And there's LFO, which I think it basically changes the panning of our two modes. I'm not sure what the Linear mode does. Maybe the Linear mode is just without the LFO. And the ping-pong is... I think that can find some uses. It's a pretty unique feature in a reverb. But the thing I like the most about this reverb is that, for some reason, it sounds a bit like a spring reverb, which really well suits the guitar sounds. After I use my, you know, GX Amplifier X, I want to drop an EQ. And I didn't find a really decent EQ in the guitarics bundles, so I'm using EQ Tankiw. It's my favorite one. And here I am boosting a little bit of the lows. Let's disable everything and just listen what it does. Oh, you know what? Let's A-B it and... There was something painful here. Let's sweep around and... And here I want to remove a little bit of the muddiness. Now let's turn one of these into a low shelf. And boost the bass, because we don't have a bass guitar in this arrangement. So we need to get some bass from the Rhythm Guitar. Now a guitar amplifier will never... Or guitar amplifier. A guitar cabinet will never output much more above 10,000 lb, because these only use the big drivers, and the big drivers have an airshut that prevents them from just, you know, reproducing high-frequency content. So it's natural that your guitar sound will not have much high-frequency content, at least not above 10k. So you can see there's pretty much nothing above 10k. We can try and boost it. There's still nothing there. So I think what really sometimes creates a very artificial and digital sounding guitar sound is if you have high-frequency content above 10k, because that's not something that happens if you push the sound through a guitar cabinet. So too long didn't listen. GX Amplifier X is one plugin that can turn your dry guitar sound into fire! There's a lot more other plugins that come with guitarics that I won't cover in detail. Feel free to explore them on your own. In order you can find these plugins, if you right-click, new plugin, plugin manager, you can do either search by name and type GX prefix, prefix, prefix. Most of the plugins have this GX prefix, so you can find nearly all the guitarics plugins that way. But you can also switch to author and type in guitarics. And now you see there are a few, actually there are two Ladspur plugins that don't have the GX in name, so they're not missing out on much. Play around, find your favorite plugins. Maybe the ones I listed are going to be useful. Just keep in mind that make sure your session is saved before you insert a plugin you have never used before. I had a situation where the GX, I think searching by name is easier. GX Tape Stereo just crashed out right away. So make sure you have everything saved before you experiment. That's like sometimes happens with plugins. Remember to experiment, like putting this on drums, guitars, synths, vocals, maybe some other sounds, the results might be pretty interesting. Okay, that's all for today. You can download the drum track to have a play around with it. It's in 110 BPM. The link is in the video description. Also let me know if you'd like to see how I made this drum part. Okay, thanks for watching and I hope this video was worth your time. I also want to thank everyone who supports my work financially. These people will make it possible for me to make videos like this one. If you'd like to join them and help keep this show going, please go to patreon.com slash anfa or liberape.com slash anfa. Now go and mix and use it.


I can tell you in brief words why he was made the mickpond, because he was the top enlisted man in the Navy. Just blows my mind. I just can't believe what's happened in that space of time. Small office, one desk, one chair, one metal file cabinet, and they turned to my husband and they said, Master Chief, this is all yours. That was how it started. The thing he did, he made history. He was absolutely the one to do what had to be done. This is my token of my love to my husband, and that was, I just started taking one red rose to his cemetery. That's just something, that's my own little thing.


Johnny dollar this is Mary the operator at Worldwide Mutual Insurance Company mr. Dollar. Yes, Mary I had a call for you, but now he seems to have picked up his other phone. Oh, let's wall is no doubt. Oh, excuse me Worldwide Mutual good morning Yes, he is I'll ring for you. I'm sorry not you mr. Dollar. That was another call that came in and I left your line open Oh, okay.   I beg your pardon. I said you're Uh, wait a minute. Who is that? Are you Johnny dollar? That's right good dollar. This is Jonathan Harmon of Worldwide Mutual Mr. Harmon, that's right. You sound surprised. Yes. Yes. Yes. I am mr. Harmon I was expecting a call from less wall is there in your office. Oh, I see And that explains your reference to a big bum. Did you say? Well, I thought you were the best pair. Oh, we are we are sir But he was supposed to call me early this morning about going down in New York tonight See a hockey game at the garden to uh celebrate my birthday belatedly Oh, I see if that is he could get away from his wife for the evening Well, I hope everything's all right there. Don't you What's that sir?  Yes, indeed very but he's not here and what I called you about is oh, I'm sorry Hey Uh, no, I guess I interrupted you dollar But what I called you about is this and I think perhaps you'd better get out there right away Yes, sir About an hour ago shortly afternoon the client of ours and mr. William Willoughby insured for some $70,000 was found dead in his apartment Over at 19 525 East Mateville. Oh What was the cause of death mr. Harmon as the very unfunny police officer put it when he called it was a case of Lead poisoning. There's certainly nothing funny about that So I think dollar to perhaps you better get right on out there and see what's what right away, mr. Harmon And if less wall is fine dollar, goodbye Hello, uh, mr. Harmon wonder what he meant About less than his wife Network brings you mandel kramer and the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly johnny dollar Good johnny dollar to the worldwide mutual insurance company home office heartbreak connecticut Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Can't be so matter expense count item one 215 for a taxi to 19 525 east maple street There was a prowl car out front a small group of the thrill seekers and a patrolman with his hands full Keating them to matter in the smart new apartment building when I showed him my credentials He told me to go up to 5b where I'd find sergeant tommy bravo in charge and I didn't Sorry dollar, but you got here a little too late The boy's just hard young willoughby what was left of him off to the morgue Was it you who called the insurance company sergeant? Yep See, I knew he had a policy with him. You did I'll come Oh, we've been kind of keeping an eye on willoughby ever since he moved back here to Hartford and Put up in this fancy place. Why? You uh know him when he lived here before no, I didn't Well, he wasn't much use to himself or anybody else One of the best of everything, but wouldn't do an honest day's work during it. I know the time The chief even wondered there at one time if uh, he might have had some connection with an Arcotics pusher that we nabbed and set up the line Arcotics. Well, I couldn't prove it though Anyhow, what he left here was to get out from under a lot of bills. He owed that sort of thing And so then when he came rolling back a couple months ago apparently rolling and go Well, it just made the chief kind of suspicious as well. So we kind of kept an eye on him But he stayed clean so far as we could see Just what happened here sergeant The signs of a fight or anything like that. No and the lab boys before they left Wow, darling, they figure it was somebody he knew pretty well. I'll come Because will it be himself must have let him in for one thing him A him her what's the difference, but it was probably a him wasn't See those chalk marks on the coffee table Lab crew made them or a couple of drinks we're sitting Willoughby's next to that chair and the other guys next to this one How they figure that Well, that one had Willoughby's prints on it And this one didn't Did it have any prints? They were all smudged pretty badly except one Looked like they were deliberately smudged So they took the glass to the lab for good look Anyhow, there was no sign of lipstick. So it must have been a man And he shot will it be with a cannon I'll find out for sure down there at the lab, of course, but It looked to me like it was a 45 at least A 45. Yeah, but darling, that's just about all we know so far No other prints around or nothing. Nobody was seen entering or leaving And if the man three doors down I hadn't stayed home from work with the virus and heard the shot How did you find out about this I got a call from less wallers at the insurance company Walters well, I should have said from mr. Waters Yeah, why Isn't either one with that tall good-looking blonde wife Name of Constance That's right Connie Why Nothing just that I saw her having lunch with him one day last week Lunch, you know and one of those intimate little joints out on 44 With less Waters No, they are now departed pal here Willoughby He's name was familiar I never met him But he was the one who made such a play for Connie before she married less But less to a thing like this Impossible Yet Connie had been seen having lunch with Willoughby at a quiet little place out on root 44 where the chances were they wouldn't be recognized Had less found out about that Is that why Willoughby was now very dead? No, of course not. I knew less too well. He simply wasn't the type And the police apparently saw no reason for suspecting less. So why should I? What's more there wasn't a single solitary clue that might point to him Well, yeah, anyway Item two a dollar 75 for another taxi This time into the spear building and the office of worldwide mutual Oh dollar, I thought I told you that over the phone Lester Walters isn't here today as a matter of fact That's why I myself called you about the willoughby matter did less come in at all the day, mr. Humman May no not to my knowledge But then he pretty much keeps his own hours, you know Sometimes when he's out selling or calling on some of the clients He doesn't come in here for two or three days in the stretch. He hasn't even called in or anything like that Well, not that I know of you can check the switchboard. However, if you like but now about this willoughby thing Mr. Harmon, uh, yes, when you talked to me on the phone earlier.  I Well in spite of the size of this organization I have a real personal interest in all of my people I'm sure you have sir the boys all know it and they never hesitate to come to me with their problems And I always try to help them if I can financially or any other way. I'm sure you do they always tell me everything Except where their wives are concerned Oh, that's the one thing they like to keep to themselves. So I never met them so Well, yes, I I can always tell yes I know them better than they think but you have no real knowledge Of anything wrong between less than counting. Oh, there's some little worry there. There's no question about it, but Now about the if you'll excuse me, mr. Harmon. Uh, there are a couple of things that I have to do right away Well, have you found out anything? I'm not sure But don't worry. I'll give you a full report. Yes. I'm sure you were my boy Switchboard operator. No, she hadn't heard from this wall is all day Come in this way. Excuse me Good afternoon. I told her then what I'd be in the flesh this calling She was to let me know immediately and from where he called I told her she was not to mention this to less the fact that I was looking for him under any circumstances Item three a dollar even for a cab out to a little apartment that less shared with his wife connie Happy birthday whenever it was. Hi connie. At least I think I heard less. So you had a birthday not long ago But what in the world are you doing this part of town this time of day? Well, oh come in johnny I'll put on the percolator and we can have ourselves a coffee class. Sure connie. Thanks Less around. Oh, no, he isn't to try the office. He isn't there. Oh Well, then he must be outselling people insurance or something Why don't he all right? It's just that we talked about uh, maybe taking in a hockey game tonight and I haven't heard from him at all Oh connie Yes, um But come in sit down make yourself comfortable connie does um There's less keep any kind of a gun here in the house Well, now that's a funny question Especially from you. You're the gun collector. Listen connie. Have you added any to that beautiful collection of yours lately? No, oh connie Incidentally, you know why you wanted to take you to the game or or something, don't you? Why Well, maybe you don't realize it But he's been trying for months to find some way of thanking you for solving that embezzlement case that got the promotion for him When was it last fall? Where is he connie? But you know something how betty forgot all about it. I know I haven't seen any tickets around Where is he? I bet he completely forgot to send for them. I just like him too But he'll think up some excuse or something or Some connie where is less You say he isn't at the office Well, he he did say something about some errands when he left this morning, but I I don't What's the matter johnny? You're acting very peculiarly. You know it Maybe I um Maybe I better lay things right on the line connie What? Do you know a bill will it be? Oh sort of got a crush on me johnny before I married lair And that's all Is it? Have you seen him since he moved back here to hartford now? Why should I want? He called me a couple of times. Have you seen him connie johnny? Please tell me Yes Yes, I have These questions johnny tell me Well, I don't see what all right One day last week Seriously, I guess it was I was way out on albany avenue. That's root 44 Yeah, uh seems just who lives out there did some work on a dress for me on the way back. I stopped the gas station and Johnny, what's all this bow? Just go on connie Well bill will it be was also there getting some gas And he insisted on taking me to lunch in one of those little places way out there and Well, that's all That's all he talked some nonsense about still being in love with me and wanting to see me again, but Have you seen him again? Well, I certainly have not When he started talking like that. I just got him left in there After all, I never really cared for him and Johnny connie Did less know that you had this date with will it be but it wasn't a date not really Not at all. Did less know about it. Did you tell him? What difference could possibly make well less can be pretty jealous can't he left? Of course not You say that is who you don't really mean it Of course, I do. Well, where is he connie? Where's he been all day? Johnny, Johnny, how should I know I think you do Will you please tell me what this is all about? Tell me why you're being so evasive, but I Oh, excuse me. That's the telephone Why yes, he is It's for you johnny. Oh, thanks Johnny dollar This is marriott worldwide mutual. Oh, yes, mary. I just found out mr. Dollar There was a call from mr. Lester walters. Oh See he took it early this morning before I came on duty. Yes He was checking in to see if there was any messages for him and to say that he wouldn't be in today I see even tomorrow Or maybe the next day of the day after oh and and that call was collect Uh from where do you know? Oh, yes, we always check it was from equity 30114 That's over in waterberry, you know, I know And it sounds familiar Thank you, mary Johnny Now listen, johnny. Will you please tell me later connie later Into a phone booth at the nearest gas station and spent item four 40 cents for a call to that equity number that it sounded so familiar I hoped him pray that I was wrong about it That it wasn't back off skunk shop who Back off skunk shop. Did a mr A mr. Lester walters by a gun from you recently. Yes, just this morning early this morning What kind? It was a handgun of 45 45 yeah, it was fun that we Oh now now wait, who are you if I may ask? Never mind Truly johnny dollar who has an unlimited expense account In many communities throughout the nation though high school youngsters are learning to conduct profitable businesses They're learning by doing running their own miniature business firms under the sponsorship and guidance of junior achievement incorporated To find out more about this unique project and how you may help it expand Right to junior achievement incorporated 505th avenue new york 36 new york And yet all the evidence every bit of evidence I had I'm sure it was circumstantial. That's all every bit of it But it all pointed to only one person to my friend less smallest. I still couldn't believe it Yet there it was His failure to check in at the office the way that he usually did didn't he know that would arouse suspicion His slip-up on our dates of hockey game. Didn't he know that would make me suspicious? Connie's hadn't been seen with willoughby if the cops knew about that. Why not less? And then Connie's evasiveness about less is whereabouts But did she really know About what finally happened to willoughby and the gun a 45 did it sergeant bravo had said A 45 the gun shop owner had said That was so to less only that morning All right, there it was okay. You know what? Go to the police Tell them what I knew Well, let them find out for themselves Why not they had as much to go on as I had Almost It was their job to run down willoughby's killer just as much as mine wasn't Yes, it was my job just as much as there's my dirty rotten lousy job Why Why did it have to be couldn't I couldn't I just No No, I couldn't and I knew I couldn't if less did commit that murder if if I made another call there on the phone blue sergeant johnny dollar Hey dollar if I got news for you real progress Oh so much so the lieutenant took it right out of my hands And dollar you'd never guess who's the guy that got lead on wouldn't I ought to be wrapped up real pronto and like I promised I'll call you just a second.  No, you can reach me at less walrus place At walrus?  Maybe that would help whatever it is that's bothering you Yeah, maybe would all right then I'll go get you Oh now who could that be? Excuse me Yes Yes The gunshot over in water very not not now wait wait here. Let's wait look here isn't it up cutie? And honest and goodness genuine original single actual army cold 45 caliber honey. Do you have to yell this way? Why not? Isn't it a beauty?  Johnny dollars. Oh Yeah Well, uh, you didn't tell him anything did you? No So go on in and make the best of it Go on this while I get the phone Okay Well, I uh, I didn't expect to find you here waiting for me johnny kind of spoils all the big surprise But here you are baby catch it Thanks less Well, uh, don't you like it johnny? Should I now look after seeing that gun collection of yours and seeing what was missing from it And after what you did for me last fall and with that birthday you had Well, listen, I've been negotiating with the old man the berkhoff over in waterbury for two weeks to get this for you that What's the matter johnny?  I think he said. Oh, uh, thanks. Uh johnny Johnny dollar while it's all wrapped up dolly Yeah, yep prints on that glass. 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Adrian, can you hear me now? Yeah, I can hear you. Wonderful, and Rodry the same? Fine, so when you put our cameras on they'll be able to see us, won't they? Yeah, so we've, yeah, sorry, this is just our holding slide, so we'll, the cameras will be fine. Rodry, can I check, you can hear me as well? So I can now, sorry, I couldn't just notice I've put the cameras on. Great, wonderful. Well, yeah, we'll be with you very shortly. Well, thanks again. Yeah, do you mind, sorry? Great. Rodry, just to say we're starting with you. When she's here, we'll go to Adrian and then Dan and Colin. And yeah, we're just finding it now, so. I don't know if you've got that, Adrian, it's Rodry, then you. Well, good morning, Borodah, and thank you very much for joining me this morning. Later today, the Senate will debate our final budget for 2023-24. This is a budget delivered in tough times, and probably the most challenging since devolution. Soaring energy, fuel and food costs have hit everyone, and many more people are struggling to pay their bills. That's why our absolute focus throughout the budget process has been on protecting public services and providing help for the most vulnerable. This budget builds on our three year spending plans, which we outlined last year. We have reprioritised our funding and used the additional money from the autumn statement to support frontline public services and other priority areas. We have allocated an extra £165 million to NHS Wales. This reflects our commitment to addressing the ongoing pressures in the health service. We have also made sure that social care workers in Wales will continue to receive the real living wage. And this is provided through additional recurrent funding of around £70 million to Welsh local authorities and health boards. And we hope that this much needed pay rise will help to support recruitment and retention in the sector. We have always been clear that we would focus our budget on prioritising public services and supporting the most vulnerable. And that's why another of our key budget allocations is £227 million for local government. This is the best possible settlement that we can provide and it does ensure that many essential council-led services such as our schools and social care remain well supported. Although Welsh schools are predominantly provided for through that local government settlement, there is also an education department budget which covers a range of spending. This includes schools, teachers and their training, wider education programmes such as the new curriculum and also the continuation of free school meals. I took the decision to ensure that the full £117 million autumn statement education consequential was provided to local councils as well as providing additional funding over and above that to the education budget. We have also allocated £9 million to tackle the impacts of poverty on young people's attainment as part of our people development grant. And of course this is in addition to the £20 million already committed for 2023-24. Many businesses are still feeling the long lasting impacts of the pandemic but this is now being compounded of course by the cost of living and cost of energy crisis. Through this budget we are delivering a £319 million support package for Welsh businesses with a further £145 million for the following year. This budget reflects the commitments set out in the cooperation agreement and we have worked with Plaid Cymru and their designated members to agree the support. I'd like to spend a moment talking about some of the financial transaction allocations made as part of our final budget. Financial transaction capital is a specific type of funding that forms part of our budget settlement and it has very tight conditions on its use and a proportion must be repaid to the UK government. £63 million has been allocated to extend Help to Buy Wales and this scheme has delivered more than 13,400 homes since its launch in 2014. The funding will assist Help to Buy to adapt to changes in the housing market and address the impact of the current economic climate on potential homeowners. Close to £100 million will be allocated towards measures to help people stay in their homes and to support and create more social housing aiming to avoid homelessness and repossessions. Those who can at least afford it are being hardest hit by the cost of living crisis and that's why we've decided that now is not the time to add to that burden by raising Welsh rates of income tax. We did think long and hard about the role of our devolved taxes in this budget. The nature of Wales's tax base means that to raise significant funding we would have had to have raised the basic rate of income tax. This would affect people who are already struggling with rising inflation and higher energy bills and that wasn't something that we were prepared to do. Our focus has been on making allocations to support those households facing the most pressure. This includes a further £18.8 million for our discretionary assistance fund to continue to provide emergency support payments to cover essentials such as food and bills. This will be supported by £10 million to specifically prevent homelessness and maintain Wales's no-one-left-out approach to ensure that no-one is forced to sleep rough. The difficult financial picture has not only put impression on people's personal finances but it is also limiting the ability of government to respond. Inflation has already eroded our budget to worryingly low levels and we estimate it will be worth up to £1 billion less in real terms for 2023-24 alone. This shortfall is greatly compounded with a loss of £1.1 billion EU funding between 2021 and 2025 and that's money which has not been replaced by the UK government as promised. These have been major factors in why throughout this budget process we have been very upfront as upfront as we can be that we can only go so far. It is the UK government which has many of those key levers and has the most financial power to make the biggest difference. So next Wednesday the UK government will present its spring statement. Last week I wrote to the Chancellor to yet again stress the need for real investment in Wales. They must take significant action on NHS and wider public sector funding. We will continue to work closely in social partnership with our trade unions in Wales but we are restricted by a limited financial settlement. The UK government has the welfare and the tax levers to tackle the cost of living crisis. We have suggested a number of practical actions that the Chancellor could take to help people including abolishing standing charges on prepayment features and increasing local housing allowance. We also want to see funding for discretionary housing payments increased, more support for credit unions and changes to the universal credit deduction policy to ease the pressures on the most financially vulnerable households. It is essential that the UK government unlocks business investment and enables opportunities for investment in green energy and decarbonisation if we want the UK's economy to grow and improve our energy security. As the cost of the UK government's energy price support is much less than envisaged and in light of the record profits of energy companies they should use their additional resources to close loopholes within the windfall tax in order to maintain the £2,500 energy price guarantee. We will continue to make the case for Wales to the Chancellor and this spring budget is an opportunity to make a real difference but regardless of the outcome this Welsh government will continue to prioritise our resources where they are needed most. So thank you very much and I will now turn to questions from journalists and first of all we go to Rodri Lewis BBC Wales. You've mentioned extra spending on schools and hospitals this morning so can you give us an update on how the pay talks are going? Please given that ministers say that there's no extra money, how are you as finance minister giving them leeway in order for them to make a more attractive offer to the unions in order to potentially bring these disputes to an end? Diolch yn fawr Rodri. We have the first thing I really want to do of course is to thank very much the unions for the way in which they've been engaging with the Welsh government throughout these pay talks and the spirit in which they've entered those discussions which as you'll know Rodri are ongoing and unfortunately I'm really not in a position to give a kind of running update on how those negotiations are going but suffice to say that they are always entered into in a very positive spirit and we will always look for ways to try and support the unions to come to a position where they can recommend their members that they end strike action. We've been pleased in the progress that we've made over recent weeks when strike action has been paused as a result of the enhanced offer which we have provided to the unions but we are in obviously a very delicate place at the moment so I'm afraid I can't say much more than that other than we have provided the best possible financial settlement. I know that my colleagues in education and health are also having discussions about things beyond pay as well so some of the terms and conditions for example which are of concern to union members so those discussions are ongoing but I'm afraid I probably can't say any more at the moment because they are obviously at a delicate stage. You've also said in your remarks that you had ruled out any increase to income tax given the parlour state of the public of finances in Wales under what scenario would you increase income taxes or indeed reduce them? I think that any changes to Welsh rates of income tax should be undertaken in a way which is very strategic and in a way which understands the implications fully and which is a planned response to the funding needs of Wales rather than being a knee-jerk reaction to some what we hope are going to be short term pressures. For us to raise significant amounts of money we would need to increase the basic rate of income tax so were we to do that by one penny we would raise around £220 million, people often ask me why don't you just raise the very highest rates of income tax but if we did that we would probably bring in only around £3 million and we know that those people who are paying the additional rate the highest earners in Wales have options that aren't available to other people in terms of where they locate themselves for tax purposes so it's very likely that they might have a house for example over in England so they might make their property in England their primary home thereby not paying any tax in terms of Welsh rates here in Wales. So I think that there are things that we need to properly consider and fully discuss. I think that there are ways in which we could use our levers in future for example we've long talked about the pressures in social care and we've explored in the past a social care levy. Now we did pause that work when the UK government introduced the changes to national insurance contributions and then they were going to use that money to fund social care and health in the longer term. That meant that we were able to pause our work but I think now we need to look again at that and see what role Welsh rates of income tax might play in the longer term to help with those particular challenges. In the very short term we're very aware that there are people now who will be paying income tax for the first time, the very lowest earners because of the change to the personal rate so that obviously was on our mind when we were thinking about whether or not we would use Welsh rates of income tax in this budget. Of course the tax burden for people at the moment is at a 70 year high, again another reason why we felt that now wasn't the right time to be using those powers but absolutely they could be part of our tools to address some of the longer term strategic challenges. So we'll move now to Adrian Masters, ITV Wales. Thank you. I know I heard what you said to Rotary about not being able to comment on the ongoing pay negotiations but when in the build up to the enhanced offer we were told that there were the departments that dug deep and found all kinds of savings to cover that. Does the final budget say how much has been set aside for the enhanced pay offer? So the final budget deals with our next financial year so departments will have to meet all of those pay demands within their existing main expenditure groups so it will be for health to fund all of the health pay from within that it will be for education to be looking to work alongside local government to have those discussions because of course teachers are paid through local government. So that's for next year but what we did this year which formed a lot of our pay, our enhancement of the pay offer for this financial year was to look to use the funding that we had available to us within the Wales reserve drawing down everything we passed. We passed in our hopefully our supplementary budget next week in the centre and you'll see that as part of that debate we'll be talking about some of the funding which we're drawing down and allocating two departments to allow them to pay an enhanced offer in this financial year. So there are two things really, the short term enhanced offer for this year so that looks to use our Wales reserve, it looks to use and drive underspends from across government to pay for that. But then also next year it will be for departments to meet the funding from within their existing settlements and obviously for local government to be meeting the teachers pay settlement from within the RSG the big lump of money which we provide to local government. Thank you and talking of local government, the local authorities have set their council taxes and some are over 5%. Will you cap council tax rises? We would only look to cap council tax rises worthy to be palpably excessive and the sums which I'm hearing at the moment aren't really coming into that palpably excessive kind of range I think. For me I think local government and council tax is very important to give that autonomy to local government because the council tax is a really important part of the kind of way in which communities hold their local government to account. I think that interfering too much in that I think would be difficult because it is an important part of local democracy but what we do do is try and support those households which are finding it most difficult to pay their council tax by providing our council tax reduction scheme. So more than 200,000 households across Wales pay no council tax at all as a result of that and many more are also supported to some degree in terms of paying their council tax. We do know that there are lots of people out there who are eligible for support with their council tax but who aren't actually claiming it yet. So this would be a good opportunity for me to suggest that people might want to go to the Welsh government's website or their local council's website to explore whether or not they are eligible for help with their council tax because as I say lots of people are eligible but they're not claiming that support. Okay we'll go to Dan Bevan, LBC. Thank you Minister, good morning. What we tend to hear quite a lot from ministers at the moment is that there is no more money left as is already referenced for pay rises within the NHS within education but there does seem to be pay offers that keep being put forward.   I think depending on the outcome of the negotiations there may be some further difficult decisions for colleagues to take so an example would be the enhanced offer that we've made in health. So the funding for this financial year is there, it's available but for the next financial year the health department will need to find £67 million of additional funding to make up the consolidated element of that pay award offer should it be agreed. There's no extra money in health to find that so the health minister said she will work with the NHS and also work with unions to drive down agency spend to try and meet some of that £67 million but that's going to be a really tough ask so if it can't all be found through reducing agency spend then health minister will have to look across everything that she is responsible for to see where she could move money from and potentially look to cut other things to fund pay. I think that really speaks to the difficult choices that all colleagues are going to have to make in respect of managing the budget for next year. You heard me say in the opening remarks that our budget is worth £1 billion less in real terms as a result of inflation. Households are feeling the effect of inflation but absolutely we are as well and it does mean that we're able to do less because our money is worth less than it was at the start of the spending review period. So that's just one example I think of where difficult choices will fall but depending on the outcome of those pay negotiations then I think colleagues will be asking officials to work with them to identify where money could be diverted from to make up those pay awards. Thank you and if I could just change the topic briefly we are expecting to hear from the Prime Minister later on their latest plans for essentially to stop migrants crossing on small boats. The general plan we understand is to not allow people who make that journey to seek asylum here. Could I just ask is that something that you're supportive of, one plan to try and essentially stop the business of the gangs that are operating those small boat crossings but also the plan to essentially stop people seeking asylum here after making that journey? I think that we need to take a compassionate approach to people who are fleeing the most difficult imaginable circumstances from across the globe looking to come to a place of safety. We need to ensure of course that people who do arrive here have that chance to make their case to seek asylum. And also we must remember that people who are coming to this country are very unlikely to know of the rules which will face them when they arrive here as well. So we need to approach this from a compassionate place and of course in Wales we are a nation of sanctuary. We have people from right across the globe making their home here in Wales and making a contribution to our society here in Wales. So we continue to be a proud nation of sanctuary and you see that at the moment with everything that we're doing to try and provide that warm welcome to people arriving from Ukraine and to help them make Wales their home for as long as they need to. So I think the UK government's approach is absolutely wrong. I think there is work to do in terms of tackling the illegal side, the people trafficking side of the operation. But I think also we need to be thinking about the compassionate approach that we need to take for people who are leaving everything behind and just trying to find some safety. OK, and we'll go now to Karen Harries, CJS News. Borodah, you mentioned you worked quite closely with Plaid for this, but we spoke to one of their MSs, Llyr Griffith, this morning. He said that money is being pulled out of roads but we haven't seen the corresponding investment into public transport. What's your response to that? I will say that we have been working very closely with Plaid Cymru. I work very closely with Sean Gwaintly and the designated member who is responsible for our discussions around the budget. And of course our cooperation agreement does mean that Plaid Cymru will agree to allow the budget to pass. And to do so we have agreed a number of additional elements of funding within this budget. I think it's important that as a progressive Welsh government we work with partners who are progressive within the Senate. So I'm very pleased that we have a cooperation agreement with Plaid Cymru where we are driving forward progress on a range of items which are important to both of us. Equally we don't have a formal arrangement with Jane Dodds but I've been really pleased to work with her on issues around rural dentistry for example to make some progress jointly with her. So it is important but you do have common ground that you work on that common ground together. But the point I know that you're trying to ask really is about transport but I wanted to make those remarks. But you will see in our budget today an additional £40 million going into public transport. You know that I think is an important investment. It is the case of course that public transport is under a great deal of pressure at the moment. I haven't seen the return of passengers to buses and trains in the way in which perhaps we'd imagined at the start of the pandemic after continuing those services. Right through the pandemic providing hundreds of millions of pounds to public transport to ensure that key workers could get to work and so on but people haven't been returning in the numbers that we had envisaged. So I think there is definitely more work to do in terms of restoring people's confidence to travel on public transport. Equally you'll know that the Minister for Climate Change has recently announced a further three month extension to that bus services emergency grant. It was only ever intended to be an emergency grant to take the service through the pandemic but we recognise that there is a period now between coming out of the pandemic and then the point at which we're able to introduce our new legislation which will bring the regulation of bus services back to the public sector in Wales and give local authorities a greater role in the provision of bus services. So I think that the end direction as to where we're going I think is really positive in terms of having more control over those bus services and the network so that it's not private businesses which are just looking to focus on those most profitable routes. Actually it's a service for people who need it in all of our communities but getting there obviously is going to be a challenge. But as I said there is £40 million additional funding within this budget which builds on of course our three year spending review. You mentioned there that people are being reticent to return to trains due to the pandemic but also there are record numbers of trains being cancelled. Engineering works often impact the South Wales Valley's trying to travel to Cardiff. Today there's carefully hosting a cost of living advice today. What would you say to those people that want to travel into Cardiff but can't because their trains are cancelled and then they have to find different modes of transport into the centre? The first thing I want to reflect on really is the fact that in large part actually rail is the responsibility of the UK government but we have seen under investment for decades on the part of the UK government. Also this is a point I made strongly in my letter to the Chancellor ahead of the spring statement that rail is one of the areas where we've seen historic under investment on the part of the UK government. Alongside research and development again UK government responsibility and one where Wales is just not getting its fair share. So I think that people should be reassured that we continue to make the case and in the absence of UK government funding we do of course provide significant funding for our rail services. At the three year spending review we undertook a zero based review of our capital spend and of course now the climate change department has around half of all of our capital funding and I know that rail is one of the really significant areas of investment on the part of that department. But what I will say of course is that change in the rail sector does take time but absolutely it's a key focus of Welsh government. Okay I think that brings us to the end of today's press conference so thank you for your interest and I'll see you next time.