T. F. N. N. Headline news update. Good afternoon, folks. Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 2 p.m. Update and coming. Got all the U. S. Indices trading lower the Dow off by 109. The S. N. P. Down 11. Nasdaq 100 off 80. Russell's down 24. Semi's are off 52. Trendy's down 85. New York Stock exchange is off 76 points, 74 points out here. You've got gold off four bucks. Silver down 32 cents and lights recruit is up 87 pennies. My apologies, folks. You like to go to the ETF charts or the indices during the 2 p.m. Update, but I've got some kind of technical issue going on. And we're just going to have to go to my typical 1 p.m. Update, the nine panel charts out here. So let's do this. What do we know? We begin by taking a look at the E. S. Mini. That's in our upper left hand corner. We know it's got a valid TD nine count top, but only gets negated with a close above 45 49 50. Price has pulled back and has tested and has held support and that support levels atop of its daily profile. 44 98. Sometimes old resistance, which that was becomes new support. Your price close below 44 98. We're looking at a run to the 44 67 to 44 52. That remains a possibility as long as a spot. The logistics is above its 50 day exponential moving average. 17 54 is the 50 day. It's traded 18 40. The NQ is attempting to form a new daily profile. That new daily profile won't be confirmed until this evening at 601 this evening. Doesn't mean that it's not valid. It just means it has not been confirmed support. Here's at 15 487 resistance 15 708 and 15 6 99 is its TD nine break threshold resistance price needs to close above that in order to negate its topping pattern. If we go take a look at the U. S. Dollar index, it's made its move up to the top of its bullish structured daily profile. We looked at that during the last hour in the last segment. We see the prices below its Ossetian change line and the Euro has tested and rejected its Ossetian change line. This suggests that the U. S. Dollar index could pull back or should pull back to 9235 or 9207. If in fact that happens, we should see gold move higher its held support the bottom of its daily profile. And that's at a price point of 1817 86 silver stronger than gold because it is still above the top of its daily profile found resistance at the center of its weekly, which was at 2490 light sweet food, trying to stay above the top of its daily profile. That's at 6852 natural gas, strong like ball and the 30 year Treasury just consolidating sideways. It has been for a couple of months out here. Folks, they took her David White, the power trading hours up next. Have a wonderful Wednesday. I'll look for the CD to call it one time. Take care.


I've been just watching this channel for about two weeks now, like I'm salivating over this channel. I'm really hoping in the next day or so ahead of earnings. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process and own your future. Hey, guys. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to another edition of TheAx is a Trader.com nightly wrap up show where everybody is doing well. Happy Monday. So this part of the game is called waiting to see who wins the game of chicken. So last week, obviously a lot of technical damage, especially from the Thursday, the Friday continuation from the Thursday session and left us in a pretty steep hole going into the weekend. And the question was, well, when is this magical invasion going to occur? Now, before I say that, I sound like I'm being sarcastic because it sounds like it's starting to be a sitcom. You're getting headlines left and right that Putin is going to announce on a certain day at what time. It feels like he's just messing with us. It really does. And I hope I'm right at this. Usually I don't care if I'm right or wrong. But again, you're dealing with people's lives here. And I think all these headlines are almost like political banter to see what can he get away with without causing a ripple. And that's exactly what we're seeing here. And I feel like he's just at the point that he's bored. He's riding around bare-chested on his bare. He's drinking the vodka, the eating the borscht, the pierogis. And for some reason, that's just not enough for him. He feels he's starting to feel that COVID craze. And now he's trying to, well, you know, invade the Ukraine. And the problem with this is we're getting a lot of headlines from something that you should really keep secretive. Like when was the last time that there was a military operation from any kind, from any country attacking another country or whatever the case may be? And they're announcing basically what it's going to happen, right? He's starting hearing headlines, hey, I can't do it on Tuesday, right? I'm going to probably do it on Wednesday, if that's good for you guys, right? After my massage, maybe my sauna, it's getting out of hand here.  And I think a lot of traders are sitting here really starting to wonder, and I think just like me, is this really real, okay? Is this really real? And I hope it's not because, again, all these headlines that are coming are just really out there. It's like almost, why doesn't he just go on Instagram Live and be like, hey, I have a special guest here, right? Maybe a musical performer, maybe just discuss it on Instagram Live, maybe do a poll if he should do it or not. So, yeah, it's kind of getting wild and the market is really trading based on this headline. Is he going to do it? Is he not going to do it? You know, the market gap down over the weekend, you saw some pre-market weakness and then the market started rallying, well, because there was no invasion. And then you started seeing some headlines, well, maybe we're going to invade, maybe we won't. Maybe it could be Tuesday, maybe alternate Thursday, I don't know, maybe Valentine's Day, right? After maybe some Twitter after dark, I don't know how he's going to feel. So it's up and down, up and down, up and down. And when you're in a headline-driven market, it's not a bullish thing, right? Real damage occurred, we already know who had control of kind of the price action going into today's day. But when you fuel that up with he said, she said, he said, he said, it really is starting to get kind of a little bit on everybody's nerves. And the problem with this type of environment is, number one, it's not bullish. But number two, it could literally lead to something in case he is 100% certain. You see these headlines, they're around, they have their troops around certain parts of the Ukraine. But then they're telling the United States, embassy, hey, you might want to go from the east side of the Ukraine to the west side. Well, what is that? If you're either leaving the country or not leaving the country. So there's a lot of headlines, a lot of moving parts. It's annoying as hell, and anybody who bought the market literally at that first move because there was an invasion, saw two hours later that everything got stuffed into supply. And then hours later, everything started to fade, only for the futures, NASDAQ 100 to kind of be flat on the day. And going into tomorrow's session, I think we almost have to expect that as well, right? Continue to give the bears the benefit of the doubts because, again, when we finally saw some areas of the market kind of get weak today, those are the areas that got weaker. Anything that rally today, only rally to recover some losses that they had on Thursday and Friday. And when you saw stocks finally hit their supply, look exactly what happened, right? Tesla today was actually kind of strong here at the open. It was actually all the way down to 833 pre-market, but ran into supply and it went red. Amazon at one point looked really, really good. And you can see the same thing over and over again, ran into supply, right? Got faded. Name like Facebook never rallied, never rallied. Went to the lows. The W that I still like, and I think it goes lower, probably sees this 120, 121 area. Never rallied. But again, it took out the previous days low. And you started seeing a lot of names like that, one by one by one. They didn't have enough moisture to go higher. They're recovering some losses from last week. But they weren't really going, you know, they really weren't feeling to get that really massive destruction sell off like we did Thursday and last Friday. But what it did happen at the end of the day was kind of a put in an inside day of last week selling bought a little bit of time. And now the question is, well, where's the next headline and where's the next move down for the bulls to really seize any type of control for me to get bullish, right? The word bullish, we'd have to at least engulf this whole candle from last week of the 360 area on the Qs. And I don't see that happening anytime soon, considering we're 13 points below the money. I still believe, you know, the value continues to be on the downside, even if the names, some of the names didn't follow through today and had complete destruction. Most of them, again, like I said before, put an inside candle, right? Inside candle is they didn't take out the highs, didn't take out the lows, is right in between with a lot smaller volume. They're kind of buying time here. So, you know, to make a watchlist for tomorrow to try to look for some names that are very, very strong, you have a lot of time finding that. But also on the flip side, and as much as, you know, I did definitely find some names that I definitely like to the short side tomorrow. And again, look at some names here like ISRG starting to roll over here. You have this whole big channel here. If it confirms lower, it could go lower. Verisign, who's held this bottom channel now three separate times. You know, maybe a stone throws away from going lower as well. And the video ahead of its earnings are coming out soon. But boy, oh boy, look at this channel, man. I've been just watching this channel for about two weeks now. Like I'm salivating over this channel. I'm really hoping in the next day or so ahead of earnings. I do believe that they report on Wednesday. So there's, if there's going to be any type of weakness, it's probably going to be tomorrow. So if there's no weakness for tomorrow, then we're going to have to kind of scrape the idea until they come out after earnings. But look at the, you know, look at the range here. That looks really good. You had Xilinx, who got kicked out of the NASDAQ 100, right? Had a big, big candle down. Now it's right on support. If it confirms support, maybe it goes lower as well. So there's still good value to the downside. But the problem with today's kind of like rally, sell-off, rally, sell-off, rally, sell-off, kind of rally, right? It put a lot of these names in the middle of the range. The only name that I kind of like to the upside, just in case we rally tomorrow, is Chewy, right? You can see here a couple of times it bumped up against the upper supply. But again, I'm not really counting to the upside to get any value. But the most important part with a day like this and a market like this, right? It's specifically a headline-driven, geopolitical, almost like war type of scenario. You're going to be literally hamstrung because of every single headline. And the longer they prolong this, without actually anything happening, I'm going to start to have my doubts more and more that this is real, or just him playing bully for the rest of the world. So let's talk about today's session again. Definitely, sell-side continues for tomorrow's action. You had some names moving lower. Was it a destruction of equity prices? No, but again, stocks continue to go lower. Not everything, but stocks continue to go lower. They take out the previous channel and they just kind of drift. And that's exactly what we saw today. Lululemon 315, if it builds below, can flush. Again, not huge. Nothing's going to be huge. But here's Lululemon. Took out the 315, traded down to like 310. Still looks lower to me. VMW, again, this is the longest trade ever, but again, still looks lower. 124, if it builds below, can see 121 in the 50 day. I still like it. I think it still goes lower. Not a big move, went down about a buck. But again, this whole candle here engulfed two weeks worth of selling. I still think this thing sees 121, 120, especially if we continue to see weakness. AMAT, 131, if it builds below, can flush. Here's AMAT, not a big move. Again, you can see the thing here.  MU got upgraded today. Small pop and then it faded. 92 needs to build. Again, cash flow only. Anytime you're in a sell side environment, it's only cash flow only. Traded up to like 93 in change. Nothing big there as well. Affirmed last week that had that whole, we leaked our earnings accidentally intraday and it got hit. 45 of builds below can sell more. Here was a firm, right? Here's a firm traded down to 43. I think it still goes lower. Apple, not a big move. Apple went down, here's Apple, not a big move. We're watching that 167 area traded down to like 66 in change. Nothing magnificent there. Facebook, 218, 50, 218 if it builds below can flush. Facebook got down to last week's lows. Traded all the way down to 215 before kind of reversing course. Let's see here, Facebook, Apple, VMW, slow crawl. I'm still crawling to the low, but at least it's going in the right direction. Yeah, here is definitely the big move in the afternoon. Tesla for experienced traders only, 886 if it builds below can flush. You can see here, here are the levels that it kept on taking over and over and over again. So 886 was the big number here. Here is the 886. Let me show you the 60 minute chart. Here's the whole 886 level and the stock had just hit really hard. Actually when red on the day traded all the way down to 859 before recovering. So Tesla's been a really, really good mover, both long short, but especially in the last few days to the short side. I still believe if it goes sideways in the next couple of days and can't rally, it'll probably test the continuation pattern that it triggered on Friday. So that's it, that's it. It's all about Putin, right? Putin, not Putin. We'll see, we'll see what happens. We'll see how long the market continues to sit on every one of his words, see if they actually release any type of concrete news. And again, take it day by day, trade by trade. Guys, have a great night. God bless, I'll see you all.


In this video, we'll take a look at pixel-based image-differencing change detection techniques in ArcGIS using the Yosemite Rimfire as an example. The Yosemite Rimfire started on August 17, 2013 and wasn't fully contained until late October of that year. It burned over 250,000 acres in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges in California. Landsat satellite imagery with its 30 meter resolution and multi-spectral capabilities is an excellent data source for change detection. The USGS Globalization Viewer, or GLOVIS, makes it easy to browse through Landsat Scenes. We see the Landsat 8 image was acquired pre-fire on August 15, and that we have another image on September 16 that shows the majority of the burned area. We'll download both of these images and use them in our example. After creating composite-band images for both Landsat Scenes, I loaded them into ArcGIS, and in both cases I've displayed the images as 6.54 band composites, meaning that shortwave infrared, near-infrared, and red light are assigned to the red, green, and blue color guns respectively. These band combinations are excellent for vegetation analysis. Using our image analysis tools and the swipe capability, we can swipe away the August 15th scene and clearly see the effects of the fire. To better illustrate the change that's occurred between these two scenes, we use the difference tool also in the image analysis window. The first step is to select both scenes in the image analysis window. Then scroll down and click on the button for differencing. The output of the image difference function is a new image that contains the band by band differences between the pixel values from the August 15th scene and the September 16th scene. I'll rename this new image Difference in the Layer Tree, and then go in and adjust the symbology so that it too has a 6.54 band combination. It's important to note that the output of image analysis functions such as the difference tool only exist within the ArcMap document, and you'll need to save your image if you want to make it permanent. The output of the difference function clearly displays the area that's burned between August 15th and September 16th of 2013. In order to get an estimate of the burned area, we'll need to classify the image. We'll do so using an unsupervised pixel-based technique. We'll start off by going over to Arc Toolbox and opening the ISO Cluster Unsupervised Classification tool. This tool applies the ISO data unsupervised classification to the input image. The output raster layer will contain a specified number of classes. We're going to set this as 10. This means that each one of the 10 classes is spectrally similar based on the difference image. Next we'll give our output raster layer a name using the .img extension to specify it as imagined format, and then click OK to run the tool. As expected, our output raster layer consists of 10 classes. Once again, each one of these classes is spectrally distinct from the other 9 classes based on the ISO data algorithm. In order to isolate those classes that actually reflect the burned area, we'll have to do some data exploration. As we've done before, we'll make use of the image analysis tools in the swipe function to compare our output classified image to our input difference layer and also our original Landsat scenes. It appears that most of the change is contained within the first two classes, classes 1 and 2. So we'll use the raster calculator to create a brand new image containing the result of only these two classes. The expression will enter into the raster calculator says if the ISO data classification is equal to 1 or if the ISO data classification is equal to 2, produce a new raster image. The output raster image will consist of cells that have values of either 0 or 1. Cells with a value of 0 means they don't meet the criteria. Cells with a value of 1 means that they've met the criteria. That is, their original cell values were either 1 or 2. In our new output raster layer, those areas that correspond to change, classes 1 and 2, have a cell value of 1. So we'll make the cell values of 0 transparent. Using our swipe tools, we see that we've done a fairly decent job of capturing change through the combination of image differencing and unsupervised classification. We can now use the reclassify tool to create a new raster layer that removes the cells that have a value of 0. That is, all 0 cells will have a value of no data and will only retain the change class, class 1. Converting the output of the reclassify tool into polygon format will allow us to do two things. First of all, we could manually edit the polygon layer to deal with errors and inconsistencies. Second, it'll allow us to more easily compute the actual area of change so that we can quantify the effect of the Yosemite rimfire. Once our raster layers finish converting to polygon format, we'll adjust the symbology so that we can more easily view those areas of change due to the fire. Because this particular feature class is stored within a geodatabase, we can go into the attribute table and use the shape area field to get an estimate of the area that has burned. In this video, we showed an example of a simple, straightforward approach to change detection using image differencing and unsupervised classification. It's important to know that change detection can be a very complex process, and it may be important to take into account radiometric differences between your input scenes and also apply a host of post-processing techniques in order to improve the results of your classification.


Purdue Engineering welcomes you to our 2021 Distinguished Engineering Alumni-Alumnae Awards. I am Stephen Rogers, a senior studying civil engineering from Dallas, Texas. I'm an undergraduate researcher in the Joint Transportation Research Program working on Indiana Highway Safety. I am an undergraduate researcher in the Joint Transportation Research Program working for Indiana Highway Safety. In my persistent pursuit of the next giant leap, as president of the Purdue Gymnastics Club for the past year and a half, I provide a space for beginning gymnasts to learn gymnastics and for advanced gymnasts to practice. I am also a member of the Club Sports Council, helping the director of Club Sports organize events, run Club Sports hearings and address other issues facing Club Sports. These roles have taught me not only how to lead a team to success but have developed my invaluable ability to listen, to learn and to provide insight, to be an impact maker. It is my privilege to introduce the 2021 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award recipient from the Lyle School of Civil Engineering, Andrea Ronaldo, a world-renowned water scholar. Born in Venice, his passions sparked at age 12 seeing his hometown underwater from an Adriatic sea storm surge. Following his father, grandfather and a brother into civil engineering, he came to Purdue for his doctorate in fluid mechanics. While here another passion emerged, research and science and engineering that fueled his persistent pursuit of the next giant leap in understanding the function of river networks as ecological corridors for the migration of species and diseases. Ronaldo is a top authority in eco-hydrology, a field which he co-founded and helped define. His co-authored research monograph, Fractal River Basins, Chance and self-organization is considered the standard reference in its field. He continues to advance his research as the director for the laboratory of eco-hydrology, ECHO, where he blends laboratory and field work with the theoretical modeling to develop an integrated eco-hydrological framework. Ronaldo is the first Neil Armstrong distinguished visiting fellow at Purdue and is a member of several prestigious arts and sciences academies in Italy, the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering in the US and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. For his internationally recognized expertise in hydraulic engineering that contributes to the structural understanding of river basins and the role drainage networks play as ecological corridors for species, populations, pathogens and biodiversity, the College of Engineering is proud to present the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award to Andrea Ronaldo. To learn more about how Purdue influenced Dr. Ronaldo, please click his video in the link below. Boiler up and hail Purdue.


There was a devotee whose name was Appatwadigal in Tamil Nadu. Because he did not know Shiva directly, he started worshipping a Shiva's devotee. Tirunavakarsar was a great devotee of Shiva. So, Appatwadigal, who was a rich man, started worshipping Tirunavakarsar as an embodiment of Shiva here. So he did much charity, everything he named after Tirunavakarsar. He built a village tank, Tirunavakarsar tank. He built a cowshed for the stray cows, Tirunavakarsar cowshed. He built a temple, Tirunavakarsar temple. He had four sons. He named him Tirunavakarsar one, Tirunavakarsar two, Tirunavakarsar three, Tirunavakarsar four. This is a devotee. They are not reasonable people. So one day, one man came who looked like a Shiva Bhakta with ash on his forehead. He came and asked someone in the town, why is this tank named as Tirunavakarsar tank? They said, Appatwadigal is a great devotee of Tirunavakarsar. So he calls everything Tirunavakarsar. All his four children are Tirunavakarsar. His house is named after Tirunavakarsar. Everything is Tirunavakarsar. So this man said, can I meet him? Where does he live? They told him where he is. He went to Tirunavak, Appatwadigal's house. Appatwadigal in the morning, after the cooking is done in the house, he's always waiting outside on the street. Anybody who comes, please can you come and eat in my house? Anybody who passes this way, can you come and eat in my house? That's his joy. So he was waiting outside. This man came, a Shiva Bhakta. He thought it's a great benediction today that a Shiva Bhakta has come on the road. He welcomed him and took him inside. And he brought all his four sons, introduced them. Tirunavakarsar one, Tirunavakarsar two, Tirunavakarsar three, Tirunavakarsar four. His wife took his blessings and they wanted to serve him. He told the eldest boy to go into the garden and cut a plant and leaf and come to eat upon as you're eating here. The boy went out to cut a plant and leaf and when he opened up the tender leaf which is still rolled, when a guest comes of some significance, they don't serve in a leaf which is opened up. They want to take that leaf which is still rolled. So he wanted to cut that one. When he cut that one a cobra came out of it and bit him in the neck. The boy came running home and in the garden he fell. And when his mother came he said, a snake has bitten me and he started frothing in the mouth and collapsed. His wife totally distraught called her husband. Apatodigal came and saw and now if this new spreads, the Shiva Bhakta will not eat in their house. The whole thing will be, whole hospitality will be gone. So he just took a mat, covered the boy, kept him in the garden. He told his wife, you should not show any sign of your grief. We must serve him first. After he leaves, we will handle our matters the way we have to handle it. The wife also agreed. They went and they prepared everything and they wanted to serve him. He wanted the whole family to come and have the meal with him. Then he asked, where is your eldest boy? Apatodigal said, no he's gone out, let's have the meal. He said, no, where is the boy? It looks like you're hiding something. Apatodigal said, nothing to hide, let us eat. And why have you called all these four boys Tirunavkarsar, that man asked? Then immediately Apatodigal got angry.  Do you know who Tirunavkarsar is? He's embodiment of Shiva here. You cannot talk like this. Then that man said, I am Tirunavkarsar. Then they fell at his feet and then Tirunavkarsar asked, what happened to your son? Then the man said, he was bitten by a snake, but I did not want to disturb the hospitality. We wanted you to eat properly and leave. That is before they know he's Tirunavkarsar, just some devotee on the road. Then Tirunavkarsar said, don't you do such a thing, bring the boy here. And using certain siddhi, he relieved the boy of the poison and brought him back to life, blessed them and went. These are different kind of people. They are completely different kind of people. They don't belong to this world, they just have one foot in this world. Their ways and their ways of living, the power with which they existed is completely otherworldly.


Itasca County brought all the 5th graders in the area together for the 8th annual Youth Water Summit today. Reporter Cheryl Moore tells us exactly what went into making this one of their biggest summits yet. We're blessed in Itasca County with a thousand lakes and we still have pretty good water quality here. And what we're trying to do is promote the fact that we need to be pretty careful with what we have here. With 45 different stations about water, science and even art, it's safe to say the Itasca Youth Water Summit made a pretty big splash. This year, about 455th graders from all over Itasca County were able to participate, not to mention multiple pair volunteers and instructors from various areas of work. Most of the people that have retired from the science profession, we use the state employees that are experts in water science. This year we have a turtle exhibit that we've never had before. We have a water simulating machine that we've never had before. The kids went to at least six of the 45 different stations, and nearly all of them were interactive. The play was pretty funny, but I probably liked the mercury and the lead one. My favorite part was probably the second station where we got to taste the spring water that was from that always flowing spring. From invasive species and science demonstrations to fun activities like kayaking and fishing, the kids who attended the water summit today are learning a little bit of everything about water. One of the most important things they're learning today is how to preserve our lakes and make sure that we can serve as much as we can. We feel that if we educate the youngsters, they might help educate the older people that really do have the jurisdiction over what happens on their land. The mission was not lost on the students. The few that took the time to talk to Lake Lanuse say they're leaving the fairgrounds with more knowledge than what they came with. If you don't litter, the lake will appear fire, and birds can get caught up in it. Teachers also told us that the lessons learned at the water summit tend to have a positive ripple effect in the classroom. Being able to go back with the kids at the end of the day, we always get the reaction that it was a great experience because of so many different activities and perspectives on water. Reporting in Grand Rapids, Sheryl Moore, Lake Lanuse. And you can learn about everything that was taught at this year's water summit on itascawaters.org. If you enjoyed this segment of Lake Lanuse, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lake Lan PBS.


CHAPTER 37 THE VIEW FROM THE ADDIC We all arrived at St. John's Wood that afternoon, and my heart beat with apprehension as I flew across the courtyard and up the ladder to the studio door. I burst it open and ran in, falling as I did so over the elephant, who at once gave her a well-remembered scream. Another cry followed close upon it the joyful cry of the changeling who was sitting on the floor, helping a struggling pile of kittens to play with an ostrich feather, which as it afterwards transpired she had gleaned from Chloe's best summer hat.  I had not returned from France an instant too soon. Little John had only just succeeded in making a tiny hole in the tube. And beyond being violently sick with mingled emotion and paint almost as soon as she saw me, no harm was done. I sat down, also on the floor, and my family came crowding round me. Little John, her upheaval once over, as serene and stolid as of yore, the changeling somewhat hysterical and absolutely inarticulate. Joe at once began to get out the tea-things and discovering no butter or milk. My guess had been only too correct, and a tinned tongue had indeed been left by glad eyes as the staple article of diet. Sent chas and feeder out to buy some in Circus Road. Chloe gazed from the kittens to the nelephant, and from the nelephant to the kittens, then finally burst out with. Well, do you mean to tell me that the nelephant perpetrated those? This is how she behaves directly our back is turned, after always pretending she was above the softer emotions. Nell, come here, and let me ask you what you mean by it. But the nelephant, in spite of her lapse, proved unchanged in temper and at the first caress, fled shrieking, and brooded over her family like a thundercloud, muttering at intervals and clapping her children over the head with her club-like paws. I don't often dislike an animal, but I must admit to a coldness for the nelephant. When the changeling had quieted down somewhat and was contenting herself with merely stroking my skirt in silence, and little John all smiles was showing me how she had progressed to the toddling stage. Finally in a fit of domesticity began to set the studio to rights, it badly needed it, for the changeling, poor dear, must have been so puzzled at finding herself alone and in a responsible position that her wit seemed to have gone more astray than usual. Only the washing and dressing of little John, from long and loving practice she had accomplished as well as usual, and probably better than glad eyes, with her bursts of mother-love was capable of doing. Chas reappeared with a tin can of milk, and Peter with a pad of butter rolled up in paper, and in rather a melted condition from his grasp. Warm from the cow, he said, laying it tenderly on the table, Joe spread it on a large but very stale loaf which she proceeded to hack into slices, exclaiming bitterly. Why the Dickens didn't glad eyes joint the loaf before she went away and left it. Hello! cried Chloe, shaking out some draperies that were tumbled on the window sill. Here's something else she left. It's for you, Viv. And she handed me a rather grubby note, smelling of violets and dressed in purple ink. I opened it in red, allowed as notes are read upon the stage, which must have been the theatrical instincts of glad eyes influencing me through the paper, as follows. Dear Miss Lovell, I don't know what you'll say when you get my telegram. But I love Mr. Murdock passionately, and a true woman can but follow her heart. I am following mine to Canada, where I hope, with my sympathy to cheer him and his six hundred pounds capital, Mr. Murdock will do something really splendid, something that will make us all proud of him. You will always be interested in him, I know, for he tells me you have been his best friend and helped him to regain his self-respect. I am not jealous of his admiration of you, because I know how different that sort of feeling is from what he feels for me. He says I am his lodestar. I think it's such a poetical expression. Dear Miss Lovell, I am not taking Lucy, because I know how you love her. So I leave her to you with a mother's blessing. It almost breaks my heart, but my duty to Edgar comes before everything, does it not. Please remember me to Mrs. Chetwind and Miss Callender. And Mr. Whimperous, and believe me, always yours gratefully, glad is Murdock. I read this astonishing epistle through in a voice stony from sheer amazement, and only just stopped myself in time from reading the following post-script aloud also. P.S. I did tell Edgar the truth about Lucy, about my not having been married to her father. And Edgar said there were base men in the world who took advantage of young girls, and that the essential innocence of my soul was untouched, which I thought so beautiful of him. And since you're taking Lucy, I feel it only right to tell you who her father is. It's Mr. Morris Purvis, the famous artist. He won't deny it if you ask him. G.M. Under cover of the comments aroused by the letter I managed to conceal the fact that I had stumbled on this even more illuminating post-script, for after all, Chloe's affair with Morris Purvis was not of such a very ancient date as to preclude all embarrassment on her part at hearing such news. Besides, I didn't see why anyone ever should know that piece of news. I knew enough of Mr. Purvis to be sure he would not want little John, and I did want her. Well, of all the damned cheek remarked Chaz, coolly eloping like that and planting her offspring on you. Alas, poor Edgar, said Peter, how bitterly will he rue Gladdy's womanliness some day. He found a difficulty in running straight himself. But at least he always knew he was crooked. Whereas Gladdy's could talk a circle into a straight line. Chaz, said Joe, I hereby solemnly announce that we, you and I, contribute yearly to the upkeep of little John and her attendant, changeling. It's a bit thick to expect Peter and Viv to do it all. I paid no heed for unpoking into the highly scented envelope. I had found another enclosure, this time written on a piece of drawing paper. Dear Miss Lovell ran this communication. I know you will pardon this unceremonious departure when you think of the excuse I have, i.e. Gladdy's. I have indeed been blessed beyond my desserts. In my mother, in you as my friend, and in my girl. I have paid off all my debts, Miss Viv, and hope to do well in Canada.  Who knows, I may become a Member of Parliament, if they have such things out there. I trust you will not mind our leaving you, baby Lucy. But Gladdy's thinks it would be so selfish to take it away from you. At now, Miss Viv, I am trying to save what I want, what I am writing this letter to say. I am not entirely ungrateful, even indeed, and I am making you a present which I hope will be of use to you, as an expression of my gratitude for that time when you spared mother and me. I have made a deed of gift giving you secrecy-farm. The land, as you know, is all sold, but there's a bit of garden, and the house is big, though old. I know this is what the old lady would have wished. You were the only person accepting myself that she loved, and she was very set on you. Wherever I have been to the rest of the world, to you I am always very sincerely yours, Edgar Murdoch. I heard none of the comments that were shrieked aloud, for I was shrieking myself, dancing round the studio and waving Edgar's letter above my head. A house. A house for Peter and me and the changeling at Little John, and for Joe and Chaz and Chloe whenever they cared to come and stay. A roof-tree and fireside of our very own. We all partook of that unprepossessing tea in a state of jubilation bordering on frenzy, and after it Joe and Chaz departed for their new flat at Campden Hill. Chloe was to stay at the hen coop with me until my marriage, and Peter retired to his ancient Bloomsbury attic, taking one of the Nelevin's kittens as a present to his landlady. A long night's rest was a necessity for all of us, since next day Peter and I had to confront our publisher with the results of our winter's wanderings. And Chloe and I had also to attend the RA, as proud exhibitors therein, it being varnishing day. As a matter of fact we all attended it, Joe, Chloe, Chaz, Peter and I. We all met in the courtyard, and there laid a deep and cunning plan. Joe marched up the stairs first, waving my ticket casually under the nose of the man at the top. Then Chloe followed with her own. Joe then gave Chloe mine again, and Chloe emerging gave it to Chaz, who walked in on the strength of it. This little game was repeated till we were all within the sacred walls. Peter and Chaz were much intrigued by the unwanted sight of the RA, swathed in dust sheets and brown holland, pots of varnish and top hats decking the muffled setees. And famous artists perilously poising on stepladders while they dabbed at their pictures somewhere round the skyline. We settled in case embarrassing questions were asked, that Chaz and Peter were to be miniaturists. It was a trifle awkward when a well-known sculptor of Chloe's acquaintance, on being introduced to Peter, asked where his contribution was. For Chloe replied feverishly that it was a miniature, in the same breath that Peter, losing his head, said that it was badly skied. However, these nerve-wracking little incidents merely served to brace us for our visit to Mr. Brennan. The most important outcome of that visit was that Mr. Brennan advanced us fifty pounds at once on the strength of Peter's manuscript and my sketches, though neither was quite finished. And Peter then walked out alone with the money and refused to tell me what he was going to do with it. Next day I knew. He had spent thirty odd pounds on a special license and the rest he proposed to spend on a week's honeymoon. I pointed out that as we were merely going straight into residence at Secrecy Farm, and the honeymoon consisted of being by ourselves for a week, twenty pounds was a rather superfluous sum, so we decided to spend fifteen of it on clothes. Joe was giving me the little white-serge coat and skirt that was to be my wedding gown, and Chloe herself made me a white shirt with lawn-ruffles to go with it, so for my part I bought some filmy under-clothes that were such a joy to me that I kissed them when they came home from the shop. Peter invested in a Harris-Tweed suit with a nice smell, also in one of blue-serge, and then we went out together and bought boots exactly like, save as the size, in which to be married. They had gray suede uppers and patent leather toes, so shiny that the sky reflected blue in them as we walked. They were always known as the sky-boots in consequence. We were to be married on opening day, and it was at the R.A. we all met, under the clock at twelve. Chloe looked lovely in rose-color, and I looked harmless in the white-serge. The changeling was almost human in a new frock of brightest tartan, her own obstinate choice I need hardly say. Fortunately, little John in white with blue ribbons distracted some of the attention of passers-by from her guardian. Another of these two innocents entered the academy itself, but waited without, upon a seat, the stared-at of all beholders. On opening day one always meets everybody one knows, and I was not, of course, surprised to run into Evadi and Ted, who were gazing at the pictures with the scornful toleration one would expect from nature-vibrationists. But I was a little astonished to meet Kissa, because I knew that her family, unlike the pen-roses, never came up to town for opening day. She was looking charming, and with a radiance she had not had only the summer before. Her brown eyes had lost their wistful expression, and if some of the woodland charm had gone from her aspect she had gained in other ways. Her simple but smart frock had certainly never emanated from St. Annan's vicarage. A moment later and all was clear, explained by Kissa's blushes and the appearance at her elbow of William, glossy in morning coat and pearl-grade trousers, with a truly British light of possession in his eye. Before Kissa was ahead of me, and William had very wisely consoled himself two months earlier. We didn't send wedding-cake, because you left no address, explained Kissa eagerly. I hadn't one then, I replied. I have a house in Hampstead now. Oh, are you married? cried Kissa. I'm going to be married in a few minutes. This is my fiancé, Mr. Wimperous. Everyone beamed, but I knew Peter and William would mutually dislike each other if they lived to be a hundred. Kissa was all a gog to come to my wedding, but William, murmuring something about not intruding, drew her away. I think he didn't care about his wife mixing with people who got themselves married so casually. I was not sorry. It is a mistake to have might have been at an affair of that kind. I had written to Harry, who had not consoled himself, and he had sent me the dearest letter back. But nothing would have induced him to come to my wedding, and I was glad of it. Even without Kissa and William, we seemed to collect people like a snowball. And finally there left in taxis for the Little City Church, which Peter and I had chosen, the Culver's Mr. Brennan, in a new white waistcoat, Joe and Chaz, the child of sixty summers, all flutter and excitement, the changeling, Little John, Chloe, Peter and myself. It was a very incorrect wedding, since Chaz, though wed, was the best man, and Joe gave me away with a flourish. Peter and I stared nervously at the sky-boots, and Little John, under the mistaken impression that the whole thing was arranged for her amusement, shrieked with mirth. We all lunched in Soho, and Mr. Brennan stood some champagne, and afterwards lent Peter and me his car to take us right into the country for the afternoon, while Joe and Chloe went to put the finishing touches to Secrecy Farm. Only four rooms were furnished as yet. Everyone had given furniture as wedding presents. But there was a big attic for a studio, and a sunny south room as a nursery for Little John. That infant, with her attendant, was being looked after by Chloe for a week, so that Peter and I might have a little bit of honeymoon to ourselves. I can imagine no one less suited to the task than Chloe. Or who would dislike it more? And I mingled admiration with gratitude. Afterwards, sad as it made us all, the hen-coupe was to be given up, for Joe and Chaz rejoiced at their Camden Hill flat, in a painfully superior studio with a carpet. And Chloe was going to pay a long round of visits. �You will have to go and get wed to Chloe,� said I at lunch. �If it's only to take you off our minds.� �Many thanks,� replied she. �But there's a limit to my altruism.� �I shall probably never bring myself to do it at all. And I shall develop into one of those fabulously ancient crones who nod their heads and say hoarsely. �Ah, me dears, it wasn't for want of asking, I can tell you. Not for want of asking.� �And no one will believe you,� said I, �because no one ever does believe that,� though it's invariably true. �I think,� said Chloe, �that there ought to be a compulsory register of proposals kept at Somerset House. Like wills, you know. And then one could send doubting people to look them up.� �It wouldn't save you,� remarked Joe mournfully. �They'd only say,� �Oh, dear, all those proposals and still couldn't get the man she wanted.� Here the nelephant, who at church had been concealed in Chloe's large chiffon moth, and had nearly bitten it to pieces, tramped firmly over the table, and the question arose as to what was to become of her when Chloe's week at the Hencoupe was up. I for once in my life was firm and utterly refused to have her at secrecy-farm. Who then came to our rescue but the child of sixty summers? She it may be remembered, always had a partiality for strange animals. She now announced herself perfectly willing to adopt the nelephant and her family. And who were we that we should tell her of that cat's unpleasant idiosyncrasies? It was evening when Peter and I arrived at secrecy-farm. The big notice board was gone, and the long low house front had been newly whitewashed, and against it the lilac and syringa. In full bloom cast a delicate tracery of blue shadow, while the wall itself looked golden in the glow of the late sun. We pushed open the gate and walked up the little path, and round to the back of the house, where the front door had been placed by a thoughtful architect. The ricks of sad-colored hay were gone, and no elevators rattled their iron joints in the ghostly fashion of last summer. Instead a tall trellis-work, already thick with creeper, had been erected to hide the building which, alas, would inevitably occur round about us. In the little garden left to run adorably wild, the white stars of anemone lay tangled in the grass. The candles were a light on the horse-chestnut, and by the door there was a maitry clustered with deeply bright pink blossom. Peter fitted the key into the lock, found that whosoever had left last had forgotten to put the latch down, and we walked straight in. We went all over the house into the big, bare, whitewashed rooms, and into those where sketches and bits of old furniture made the place home. Everywhere were flowers, and Joe and Chloe had left supper ready for us. We looked at all this and then went up to my room, which was the attic looking towards the road. I had chosen it because there was a tall plain tree outside, and at night the lamp at the gate threw the shadows of the leaves against the pale wall of my room. And when a wind was abroad that shook the boughs, the shadows fled across and across the wall like a flock of big birds flying. The lamp had not been lit yet, for the sunset still held the sky. And Peter and I went to the window and stood looking out. The clouds were heaped and tumbled in fantastic palaces of rosy towers and purple shadows, with a streak of molten light at their foot where they touched the rim of the heath. There's one of your spirit cities, Peter, I said. Oh, it's good all of it, answered Peter, his arm about me. And I pressed his head against me in silence. Yes, it was good. And as I looked out at the gray green of the heath, the darker blots of the trees and the high arch of the sky, I saw how it might come to be even better. But there would be difficulties I knew. For once, more clearly than Peter, for this house so sweet to me would cease to satisfy him. And one day he would take the road again. He would come back, but always to go once more. Yet whether I went with him or had to stay behind, there was always one thing which would have a power of solace, and that was our mutual knowledge of the year we had already had together. I saw it in a many-colored flash, how disconnected and without scheme it had seemed while we were living it. And how it all, to use one of Peter's pet phrases, went to make a pattern. Yes, it's good, I answered at last. And we're awfully lucky to have it. And to have such friends, and five pounds to go on with. And a ready-made family. And perhaps things would always be good where you were, said Peter, fitting the top of his head in under my chin. You're like that. Do you know, Viv, I have a theory. But I slipped my hand over his mouth, and he laughed and kissed it. Perhaps you're right, he said. But it wasn't a bad theory. It was about our being happy living here. Do you know, I'm not sure a roof isn't a good thing to have, because, well, after all, true adventure is of the soul. Let's just be happy, I answered, for as long as we can. Oh, Peter, I wonder, I wonder, end of Chapter 37, End of the Milky Way by F. Tennyson Jussie.