Everns! Everns! Hi, gwrs, a fawr i fewn i'w gwaith o'r blws i gael ysgolion. That's it, Full Time at Seller's Park on our first game of the season. Everns Row 00 with Crystal Palace. What was sort of a typical first game of the season for me? We weren't brilliant, of course. Listen, we obviously dominated in possession. However, when it comes to creating opportunities, obviously we lacked that. I thought Guilfee Sigarton had a poor game. I thought Chambers Coleman had a poor game. Obviously, we've seen the introduction of Jean-Philic Gabamon early on into the second half due to an injury to... due to an injury to André Gomez. André Gomez went down, holding his ankle. So hopefully that's nothing too serious. Gabamon come on. I think he done well. If I'm being honest with you, he didn't have an awful lot of the ball. When he had the ball, I think he done well to use his strength, use his power, use his physicality. You can see that he's a forward-thinking player. He's always trying to go that way instead of coming back. And then, later on into the second half, about 20 minutes ago, we've seen the introduction of Moise Keen. Again, he didn't really have an awful lot to do. You could see that he's shot there in terms of his movement and in terms of positioning. However, of course, he didn't really have much to do on the ball. And overall, I just think it was one of those games where you sort of look at and you think, you know what? We weren't fantastic today, but it's a typical opening game of the season. Both teams struggled, of course. They didn't start with Wilfrid Zaha as expected. He started on the bench. And I think that gives sort of an excuse for Crystal Palace as to the reason why they struggled to create opportunities. Everton, on the other hand, we had quite a full-strength squad out. Like I said, some people maybe would have preferred to see Moise Keen start. Some people maybe would have preferred to see Jean-Philic Obamann start, however. We had a decent strength side out. Obviously, Gilfy Sigurdson should have done a lot better than Opportunity within the first five minutes and just, you know, didn't put it away. We had a couple of opportunities, good opportunities throughout the game, and we didn't quite have enough in the final third. And that's what we knew coming out of last season. We knew that we needed players to come into the club that have got that cutting edge and can put the ball in the back of the net when we're doing everything else around the pitch. We haven't got the creativity in the final third. And, you know, obviously, as soon as we see Jean-Philic Obamann come on, we've seen obviously that he presses high up the field. He likes to use his physicality to win the ball. Moise Keen, as well, although we didn't see a lot of him on the ball. So he can't really be judged. You can see in his movements, he's making the right move. It runs. He's trying to get into the right positions as well. I think Richarlison struggled to be honest with you. I think it was a frustrating game for him. You know, we've seen games like that for Richarlison before where he just gets a little bit frustrated with himself and, you know, obviously is constantly trying and constantly, constantly trying, but it just doesn't come off for him.  Firstly, for punching the floor in anger, which is ridiculous anyway.   Obviously, getting himself sent off. And all of a sudden we went into the game, sort of looking, you know, looking a little bit vulnerable in the centre half position, of course, like we've all spoken about for the last week, and we've come out of it, looking vulnerable in the centre midfield position with Guilfee Sigurdson. Obviously, not looking fantastic today. You've got André Gomez, who's limped off injured. Hopefully, it's not serious. Fabian Delphu is injured. Morgan Sneddlin, who's now suspended as well, of course. Tom Davies, come on. I actually thought Tom did quite well, to be honest with you. He was using his body again, and he was trying to break up the playing side and make sure that we, you know, could at least get a point out of that game. And it is disappointing because at the end of the day, you know, at the start of the game, you were hoping that would get three points. You were hoping that would get the win, but it become more apparent towards the end, especially after the centre half, that centre half, especially after the sending off that. We were going to, you know, settle for the points, and I suppose that's a little bit tactical from Marco Silva, because, you know, away from home, if you get a point away from home, it's not the worst result ever. However, you know, we could have been a little bit exposed if we'd have started to push. I actually think both centre halfs play well today. I think Yeti Meenon and Michael Keane, you know, play well in the defence. Like I said, Luca Deane having a solid game as well. There wasn't many defensive errors. We like it as the palace getting a couple of times. Jordan Pickford made a couple of fantastic saves. However, you know, overall as a whole, I think they were quite solid. Like I said, Seamus defensively. I didn't have an issue with him. It was just going forward. I think he still looks a little bit hesitant, and I dare say that when, you know, to build sedibas in full training, when to build sedibas available to play, Seamus was going to have to up his game. He can't be standing there scared to run past the last man. You know, we were breaking with pace of power at times, and he would pick the ball up and he'd stop and he'd look for a side that was passing. That isn't what we need.  He's obviously on point at the minute. But anyway, that's my instant match reaction. 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20. Kidnapped. Lorraine had once had a nasty fall from riding downhill at a gallop. She remembered that accident and permitted Snake to descend the granite ridge at a walk, which was fortunate since it gave the horse a chance to recover a little from the strain of the terrific pace at which she had ridden him that morning. At first it had been fighting fury that had impelled her to hurry. Now it was fear that drove her homeward where Lone was, and Swan, in that stolid, faithful gem. She felt that Senator Warfield would never dare to carry out his covert threat once she reached home. Nevertheless the threat haunted her, made her glance often over her shoulder. At the Thurman Ranch, which she was passing with a sickening memory of the night when she and Swan had carried her father there, Al Woodruff rode out suddenly from behind the stable and blocked the trail, his six-shooter in his hand, his face stony with determination. Lorraine afterwards decided that he must have seen or heard her coming down the ridge and had waited for her there. He smiled with his lips when she pulled up Snake with a startled look.  He said, in much the same tone he had used that day at the ranch. I don't see why you want to talk to me, Lorraine retorted, not in the least frightened at the gun, which was too much like her movie-west to impress her much. But her eyes widened at the look in his face, and she tried to edge away from him without seeming to do so. Al stopped her by the simple method of reaching out his left hand and catching Snake by the cheekpiece of the bridle. You don't have to see why, he said. I've been thinking a lot about you lately. I made up my mind that I got to have you with me. Always. This is kind of sudden, maybe, but that's the way the game runs sometimes. Now I want to tell you one or two things that's for your own good. One is that I'll have my way or die getting it.  But if you try to break away, I'll shoot you. That's all.  First. Then I'll make love to you afterwards. I ain't asking if you'll marry me.  Lorraine gazed at him, fascinated, too astonished to attempt any move toward escape. Al's hand slipped from the bridle down to the reins and still holding Snake, still holding the gun muzzle toward her, still looking her straight in the eyes. He threw his right leg over the cantaloupe of his saddle and stepped off his horse. Put your other hand on the saddle horn. He directed.  He twitched his neckerchief off. Lorraine saw that it was untied, in that he must have planned all this, and with it he tied her wrists to the saddle horn. She gave Snake a kick in the ribs, but Al checked the horse's first start and Snake was too tired to dispute a command to stand still. Al put up his gun, pulled a hunting knife from a little scabbard in his boot, sliced two pairs of saddle strings from Lorraine's saddle, calmly caught and held her foot once she tried to kick him, pushed the foot back into the stirrup and tied it there with one of the leather strings. Just as if he were engaged in an everyday proceeding, he walked around Snake and tied Lorraine's right foot. Then to prevent her from foolishly throwing herself from the horse and getting hurt, he tied the stirrups together under the horse's belly. Now if you'll be a good girl, I'll untie your hands, he said, cleansing up into her face. He freed her hands and Lorraine immediately slapped him in the face and reached for his gun, but Al was too quick for her. He stepped back, picked up Snake's reins and mounted his own horse. He looked back at her appraisingly, saw her glare of hatred and grinned at it, calmly touched his horse with the spurs and rode away, leading Snake behind them. Lorraine said nothing until Al, riding at a lope, passed the field at the mouth of Spirit Canyon where the blaze-faced roan still fed with the others. They were feeding along the creek quite close to the fence and their own walked toward them.   I saw you. She cried suddenly.  Al flung back at her over his shoulder.  Well, never marry you. You fiend. Do you think I'd marry a cold-blooded murderer like you? Al turned in the saddle and looked at her intently. If I'm all that, he told her coolly, you can figure out about what will happen to you if you don't marry me. If you saw what I'd done to Fred Thurman, what do you reckon I'll do to you? He looked at her for a minute, shrugged his shoulders and rode on, crossing the creek and taking a trail which Lorraine did not know. Much of the time they traveled in the water, though it slowed their pace. Where the trail was rocky, they took it and made better time. Snake lagged a little on the upgrades, but he was well trained to lead and gave little trouble. Lorraine thought longingly of Yellowjacket and his stubbornness and tried to devise some way of escape. She could not believe that fate would permit Al Woodruff to carry out such a plan. Lawn would overtake them, perhaps, and then she remembered that Lawn would have no means of knowing which way she had gone. If Hawkins and Senator Warfield came after them, her plight would be worse than ever. Still, she decided that she must risk the danger and give Lawn a clue. She dropped a glove beside the trail where it lay in plain sight of anyone following them. But presently Al looked over his shoulder, saw that one of her hands was bare, and tied Snake's reins to his saddle and his own horse to a bush. Then he looked back down the trail until he found the glove. He put it into his pocket, came silently up to Lorraine and pulled off her other glove.  I guess you don't know me yet, he remarked dryly, when he had confiscated every small article which she could let fall as she rode. I was trying to treat you white, but you don't seem to appreciate it. Now you can ride hobbled, young lady. Oh, I could kill you, Lorraine whispered between set teeth. You mean you'd like to? Well, I ain't going to give you a chance. His eyes rested on her face with a new expression, an awakening desire for her, an admiration for the spirit that would not let her weep and plead with him. Say, you ain't going to be a bit hard to marry. He observed. His eyes lighting with what was probably his nearest approach to tenderness. I kind of wished you liked me, now I've got you. He shook her arm and laughed when she turned her face away from him. Then remounted his horse. Snake moved reluctantly when Al started on. Lorraine felt hope slipping from her. With her hands tied, she could do nothing at all, save, sit there, and ride wherever Al would have chose to lead her horse. He seemed to be making for the head of Spirit Canyon on the side toward Bear Top. As they climbed higher, she could catch glimpses of the road down which her father had driven almost to his death. She studied Al's back as he rode before her and wondered if he could really be cold-blooded enough to kill without compunction whoever he was told to kill, whether he had any personal quarrel with his victim or not. Certainly he had had no quarrel with her father or with Frank. It was long past noon and she was terribly hungry and very thirsty, but she would not tell Al her wants if she starved. She tried to guess at his plans and at his motive for taking her away like this. He had no camping outfit. A bulkily rolled slicker formed his only burden. He could not then be planning to take her much farther into the wilderness. Yet if he did not hide her away, how could he expect to keep her? His motive for marrying her was rather mystifying. He did not seem sufficiently in love with her to warrant an abduction and he was too cool for such a headlong action unless driven by necessity. She wondered what he was thinking about as he rode. Not about her, she guessed, except when some bad place in the trail made it necessary for him to stop, tie Snake to the nearest bush, lead his own horse past the obstruction, and come back after her. Several times this was necessary. Once he took the time to examine the thongs on her ankles, apparently wishing to make sure that she was not uncomfortable, once he looked up into her sullenly distressed face and said, TARD in a humanly sympathetic tone that made her blink back the tears. She shook her head and would not look at him. Al regarded her in silence for a minute, led Snake to his own horse, mounted and rode on. He was a murderer. He had undoubtedly killed many men. He would kill her if she attempted to escape. And he could not catch me. Lorraine was just enough to add. Yet she felt baffled, cheated of the full horror of being kidnapped. She had no knowledge of a bad man who was human in spots without being repentant. For love of a girl, she had been taught to believe, the worst outlaw would weep over his past misdeeds, straighten his shoulders, look to heaven for help, and become a self-sacrificing hero for whom audiences might be counted upon to shed furtive tears. Al Woodruff, however, did not love her. His eyes had once or twice softened to friendliness, but love was not there. Neither was repentance there. He seemed quite satisfied with himself, quite ready to commit further crimes for the sake of his own safety or desire. He was hard, she decided, but he was not unnecessarily harsh, cruel without being wantonly brutal. He was, in short, the strangest man she had ever seen. Chapter 21 Oh, I could kill you. Before sundown they reached the timberland on Beartop. The horses slipped on the pine needles when Al left the trail and rode up a gentle incline where the trees grew large and there was little underbrush. It was very beautiful, with the slanting sun rays painting broad yellow bars across the gloom of the forest. In a little while they reached the crest of that slope and Lorraine, looking back, could only guess at where the trail wound on among the trees lower down. Birds called companionably from the high branches above them. A nesting grouse flew chuddering out from under a juniper bush, alighted a short distance away, and went limping and dragging one wing before them, cheaping piteously.  The birds mate roared up and away through the trees and Lorraine was glad that it had escaped. Al slid the gun back into his holster, leaned from his saddle and picked up the dead grouse as unconcernedly as he would have dismounted, pulled his knife from his boot, and drew the bird neatly, flinging the crop and entrails from him. Them juniper berries taste the meat if you don't clean them out right away, he remarked casually to Lorraine as he wiped the knife on his trousers and thrust it back into the boot scabbard before he tied the grouse to the saddle by its blue, scaly little feet. When he was ready to go on, Snake refused to budge. Top as he was, he had at last reached the limit of his energy and ambition. Al yanked hard on the bridal reins, then rode back and struck him sharply with his court before Snake would rouse himself enough to move forward. He went stiffly, reluctantly, pulling back until his head was held straight out before him. Al dragged him so for a rod or two, lost patience, and returned to whip him forward again.  Lorraine exclaimed indignantly. Can't you see how tired he is? Al glanced at her from under his eyebrows. He's all in, but he's got to make it, he said. I've been that way myself and made it. What I can do, a horse can do. Come on you yellow-libered bonehead. Snake went on, urged now and then by Al's court. Every blow made Lorraine wince, and she made the wintzing perfectly apparent to Al in the hope that he would take some notice of it and give her a chance to tell him what she thought of him without opening the conversation herself. But Al did not say anything. When the time came, as even Lorraine saw that it must, when Snake refused to attempt a steep slope, Al still said nothing. He untied her ankles from the stirrups and her hands from the saddle horn, carried her in his arms to his own horse, and compelled her to mount. Then he retied her exactly as she had been tied on Snake. Skinner knows this trail, he told Lorraine, and I'm behind you with a gun. Don't forget that, Miss Spitfire. You let Skinner go to suit himself, and if he goes wrong, you pay, because it'll be you reigning him wrong. Get along there, Skinner. Skinner got along in a business-like way that told why Al would riff had chosen to ride him on this trip. He seemed to be a perfectly dependable saddle horse for a bandit to own. He wound in and out among the trees and boulders, stepping carefully over fallen logs. He thrust his nose out straight and laid back his ears and pushed his way through thickets of young pines. He went circumspectly along the edge of a deep gulch, climbed over a ridge, and worked his way down the precipitous slope on the farther side, made his way around a thick clump of spruces and stopped in a little grassy glade, no bigger than a city lot, but with a spring gurgling somewhere near. Then he swung his head around and looked over his shoulder inquiringly at Al, who was coming behind, meeting Snake. Lorraine looked at him also, but Al did not say anything to her or to the horse. He let them stand there and wait while he unsettled Snake, put a drag rope on him, and led him to the best grazing. Then coming back, he very matter of factly untied Lorraine and helped her off the horse. Lorraine was all prepared to fight, but she did not quite know how to struggle with a man who did not take hold of her or touch her, except to steady her in dismounting. Unconsciously she waited for a cue, and the cue was not given. Al's mind seemed intent on making Skinner comfortable. Still, he kept an eye on Lorraine, and he did not turn his back to her. Lorraine looked over to where Snake, too exhausted to eat, stood with drooping head and all four legs braced like sticks under him. He flashed across her mind that not even her old director would order her to make a run for that horse and try to get away on him. Snake looked as if he would never move from that position until he toppled over.  Al's glance went to Snake, and from him to Lorraine. "'You sure do know how to ride hell out of a horse,' he remarked. "'Now he'll be stiff and sore tomorrow, and we got quite a ride to make.'" His tone of disapproval sent a guilty feeling through Lorraine until she remembered that a slow horse might save her from this man who was all bad, except perhaps just on the surface which was not altogether repellent. She looked around at the tiny basin set like a saucer among the pines. Immediately the dusk was painting deep shadows in the woods across the opening and turning the sky a darker blue. Skinner rolled over twice, got up and shook himself with a satisfied snort, and went away to feed. She might, if she were patient, run to the horse when Al's back was turned. She thought. Once in the woods she might have some chance of eluding him, and perhaps Skinner would show as much wisdom going as he had in coming and take her down to the sage land. But Skinner walked to the farthest edge of the meadow before he stopped, and Al Woodruff never turned his back to a foe. And Al hooded unexpectedly, and Lorraine edged closer to her captor, who was gathering dead branches one by one and throwing them toward a certain spot which he had evidently selected for a campfire. She looked at her keenly, even suspiciously, and pointed with the stick in his left hand. You might go over there by the saddle and sit down till I get a fire going. He said, Don't go wandering around aimless like a hen turkey, watching a chance to duck into the brush. There's bear in there and lion in lynx, and I'd hate to see you chod. They never cleaned their toenails, and blood poison generally sets in where they leave a scratch. Go and set down. Lorraine did not know how much of his talk was truth, but she went and sat down by a saddle and began braiding her hair in two tight braids like a squaw. If she did get a chance to run, she thought, she did not want her hair flying loose to catch on bushes and briars. She had once fled through a brush patch in Griffith Park with her hair flowing loose, and she had not liked the experience, though it had looked very nice on the screen. Before she had finished the braiding, Al came over to the saddle and untied his slicker roll in the grouse. Come on over to the fire. He said, I'll learn you a trick or two about camp cooking. If I'm going to keep you with me, you might just as well learn how to cook. We'll be on the trail the biggest part of our time, I expect. He took her by the arm, just as any man might have done, and led her to the fire that was beginning to crackle cheerfully. He set her down on the side where the smoke would be least likely to blow her away, and proceeded to dress the grouse, stripping off skin and feathers together.  The coffee pot and the grouse he took in one hand is left, Lorraine observed, and started toward the spring, which she could hear gurgling in the shadows among the trees. Lorraine watched him side long. He seemed to take it for granted now that she would stay where she was. The woods were dark, the fire light and the warmth enticing her. The sight of the supper preparations made her hungrier than she had ever been in her life before. When one has breakfasted on one cup of coffee at dawn, and has ridden all day with nothing to eat, running away from food, even though that food is in the hands of one's captor, requires courage. Lorraine was terribly tempted to stay, at least until she had eaten. But Al might not give her another chance like this. She crept on her knees to the slicker and seized one piece of bannock, crawled out of the firelight stealthily, then sprang to her feet and began running straight across the meadow towards Skinner. Twenty yards she covered when a bullet sang over her head. Lorraine ducked, stumbled, and fell headlong over a hummock, not quite sure she had not been shot. Well, maybe I could trust you to play square. Al said disgustedly, pulling her to her feet. The gun's still smoking in his hands. Little fool, what do you think you'd do in these hills alone? You sure enough be little me if you think you'd have a chance and a million of getting away from me. She fought him then with a great inner relief that the situation was at last swinging around to a normal kidnapping. Still, Al Woodruff seemed unable to play his part realistically. He failed to fill her with fear and repulsion.  Now, for instance, he merely forced her back to the campfire, pulled the saddle strings from his pocket, and tied her feet together, using a complicated knot, which he told her she might work on all she darn pleased for all he cared. Then he went calmly to work cooking their supper. This was simple. He divided the grouse so that one part had the meaty breast and legs, and the other back and wings. The meaty part he larded neatly with strips of bacon, using his hunting knife, which Lorraine watched fascinately, wondering if it had ever taken the life of a man. He skewered the meat on a green forked stick and gave it to her to broil for herself over the hottest coals on the fire while he made the coffee and prepared his own portion of the grouse. Lorraine was hungry. She broiled the grouse carefully and ate it, with the exception of one leg, which she surprised herself by offering to Al, who was picking the bones of his own share down to the last shred of meat. She drank a cup of coffee, black, and returned the cup to the killer, who unconcernedly drank from it without any previous rinsing. She ate bannock with her meat and secretly thought what an adventure it would be if only it were not real, if only she were not threatened with a forced marriage to this man. The primitive camp appealed to her. She, who had prided herself upon being an outdoor girl, saw how she had always played it being primitive. This was real. She would have loved it if only the man opposite were lone, or swan, or someone else whom she knew and trusted. She watched the firelight dancing on Al's somber face, softening its hardness, making it almost wistful when he gazed thoughtfully into the coals. She thrilled when she saw how watchful he was, how he lifted his head and listened to every little night sound. She was afraid of him as she feared the lightning.  She would find some way to outwit him when it came to the point of marrying him. She thought. She would escape him if she could, without too great a risk of being shot.  And it seemed to Lorraine that he would not greatly care which he did. I guess you're tired. Al said suddenly, rousing himself from deep study and looking at her imperturbably. I don't know if it's just so you can sleep. That's about all you can do. He went over to a saddle, took the blanket and unfolded it until Lorraine saw that it was a full-size bed blanket of heavy gray wool. The man's ingenuity seemed endless. Without seeming to have any extra luggage, he nevertheless carried a very efficient camp outfit with him. He took his hunting knife, went to the spruce grove, and cut many small green branches, returning with all he could hold in his arms. She watched him lay them tips up for a mattress, and was secretly glad that she knew this much at least of camp comfort. He spread the blanket over them, and then, without a word, came over to her and untied her feet. Go and lay down on the blanket. He commanded. I'll do nothing of the kind. Lorraine said her mouth stubbornly. Well, then I'll have to lay you down. Lorraine sat out, lifting her to her feet. If you get bulky, I'm liable to get rough. Lorraine drew away from him as far as she could, and looked at him for a full minute. And I stared back into her eyes.  And I said nothing. The man's capacity for keeping still was amazing. He out beside her, folded the blanket over her from the two sides, and tied the corners around her neck snugly, but not at the back. In the same way he tied her ankles, Lorraine found herself in a sleeping bag, from which she had small hope of extracting herself. He took his coat, folded it compactly, and pushed it under her head for a pillow. Then he brought her own saddle blanket and spread it over her for extra warmth.  He advised her calmly.  She saw him draw the slicker over his shoulders and move back where the shadows were deep and she could not see him. She heard some animal squall in the woods behind them. She looked up at the stars, millions of them, and brighter than she had ever seen them before. Insensibly she quieted, watching the stars, listening to the night noises, catching now and then a whiff of smoke from Al Woodruff's cigarette. Before she knew that she was sleepy, she slept.  Swan cooked himself a hasty meal while he studied the various possibilities of the case and waited for further word from headquarters. He wanted to be sure that help had started and to be able to estimate within an hour or two the probable time of its arrival before he left the wireless. Jack he fed and left on watch outside the cabin so that he could, without risk, keep open the door to the dugout. His instrument was not a large one, and the dugout door was thick and is a precaution against discovery if he should be called when some visitor chance to be in the cabin. Not often did a man ride that way, though occasionally someone stopped for a meal if he knew that the cabin was there and had ever tasted Swan's sourdough biscuits. His aerial was cleverly camouflaged between the two pine trees, and he had no fear of discovery there. Jack was a faithful guardian and would give warning if anyone approached the place. Swan could therefore give his whole attention to the business at hand. He was not yet supplied with evidence enough to warrant arresting Warfield in Hawkins, but he hoped to get it when the real crisis came. They could not have known of Al Woodruff's intentions toward Lorraine else they would have kept themselves in the background and would not have risked the failure of their own plan. On the other hand, Al must have been wholly ignorant of Warfield's scheme to try and prove Lorraine crazy. It looked to Swan very much like a muddling of the sawtooth affairs through over anxiety to avoid trouble. They were afraid of what Lorraine knew. They wanted to eliminate her, and they had made the blunder of working independently to that end. Lone's anxiety he did not even consider. He believed that Lone would be equal to any immediate emergency and would do whatever the circumstances seemed to require of him. Warfield countered him with a sawtooth man. Al Woodruff, if the four men met unexpectedly, would also take it for granted that he was one of them. They would probably talk to Lone without reserve. Swan counted on that. Whereas if he were present they would be on their guard, at least. Swan's plan was to wait at the cabin until he knew that deputies were headed toward the pass. Then with Jack it would be a simple matter to follow Warfield to where he overtook Al, supposing he did overtake him. If he did not, then Swan meant to be present when the meeting occurred. The dog would trail Al anywhere since the scent would be less than twenty-four hours old. Swan would locate Warfield and lead him straight to Al Woodruff and then make his arrests. But he wanted to have the deputies there. At dusk he got his call. He learned that four picked men had started for the pass and that they would reach the divide by daybreak. Others were on their way to intercept Al Woodruff if he crossed before then. It was all that Swan could have hoped for. More than he had dared to expect on such short notice. He notified the operator that he would not be there to receive anything else until he returned to report that he had got his men. Don't count your chickens till they're hatched! came facetiously out of the blue. By golly, I can hear them holler in the shell. Swan sent back grinning to himself as he rattled the key. That irrigation graft is killed now. You tell the boss Swan says so. He's right. The way to catch a fox is to watch his den. He switched off the current, closed the case, and went out, making sure that the covered camouflage door looked perfectly innocent on the outside. With a bannock stuffed into one pocket, a chunk of bacon in the other, he left the cabin and swung off again in that long tireless stride of his, Jack following him continently at his heels. At the farther end of Skyline Meadow, he stopped, took a tough leather leash from his pocket, and fastened it to Jack's collar.  Maybe we get shot or something like that. We trail and we keep our mouth still, Yak.  Jack flashed out a pink tongue and licked his master's chin to show how little he was worried over the threat, and went racing along at the end of the leash, taking Swan's trail and his own back to where they had climbed out of the canyon. At the bottom, Swan spoke to the dog in an undertone, and Jack obediently started up the canyon on the trail of the five horses who had passed that way since noon. It was Starlight now, and Swan did not hurry. He was taking it for granted that Warfield and Hawkins would stop when it became too dark to follow the hoof prints, and without Jack to show them the way, they would perforce remain where they were until daybreak. They would do that, he reasoned, if they were sincere in wanting to overtake Lorraine and in their ignorance that they were also following Al Woodruff. In try as he would, he could not see the object of so foolish a plan as this abduction carried out in collusion with two men of unknown sentiments in the party. They had shown no suspicion of Al's part in the affair, and Swan grinned when he thought of the mutual surprise when they met. He was not disappointed. They reached Timberline following the seldom used trail that wound over the divide to Bear Top Pass, and so, by a difficult route which he did not believe Al would attempt after dark, to the country beyond the mountain. Where dark overtook them, they stopped in a sheltered nook to wait, just as Swan had expected they would. They were close to the trail where no one could pass without their knowledge. In the belief that it was only Lorraine they were following, and that she would be frightened and would come to the cheer of a campfire, they had a fine and inviting blaze. Swan made his way as close as he dared, without being discovered, and sat down to wait. He could see nothing of the men until Lone appeared and fed the flames more wood, and sat down where the light shone on his face. Swan grinned again. Warfield had probably decided that Lorraine would be less afraid of Lone than of them, and had ordered him into the firelight as a sort of decoy. And Lone, knowing that Al Woodruff might be within shooting distance, was probably much more uncomfortable than he looked. He sat with his legs crossed in true range fashion, and stared into the fire while he smoked. He was a fair mark for an enemy who might be lurking out there in the dark, but he gave no sign that he realized the danger of his position. Neither did he wear any air of expectancy. Warfield and Hawkins might wait and listen and hope that Lorraine wide-eyed and weary would steal up to the warmth of the fire, but not Lone. Swan, sitting on a rotting log, became uneasy at the fine target which Lone made by the fire, and drew Al Woodruff's bandana from his pocket.  Jack sniffed, dropped his nose to the ground, and began tugging at the leash. Swan got up and, moving stealthily, followed the dog. CHAPTER XXIII I COULD ALLOVE THIS LITTLE GIRL. A chill wind that hurried over Barotop ahead of the dawn, brought Swan and Jack clattering up the trail that dipped into Spirit Canyon. Swan rose stiffly from the one-sided warmth of the fire and walked a few paces to medium, shrugging his wide shoulders at the cold and rubbing his thigh muscles that protested against movement. Much riding upon, upholstered cushions had not helped Senator Warfield to retain his tough muscles of hard-riding Bill Warfield. The senator was saddle sore as well as hungry, and his temper showed in his bloodshot eyes. He would have crawled with his best beloved woman that morning, and he began on Swan. Why hadn't he come back down the gulch yesterday and help track the girl as he was told to do? The senator had quite unpleasant opinions of Swedes and crazy women and dogs that were never around when they were wanted, and he expressed them fluently. Swan explained with a great deal of labor that he had not thought he was wanted and that he had to sleep on his claim sometimes, or the law would take it from him, maybe. Also he virtuously pointed out that he had come with Jack before daylight to the canyon to see if they had found Miss Hunter and gone home, or if they were still hunting for her. If you'd like to find that young lady, I put Jack on the trail quick, he offered placatingly. I bet you Jack finds her in one half an hour. With much unnecessary language, Senator Warfield told him to get to work and the three tightened cinches mounted their horses and prepared to follow Swan's lead. Swan watched his chants and gave Lona a chunk of bannock as a substitute for breakfast, and Lone, I might drop behind his companions and ate every crumb of it in spite of his worry over Lorraine. Indeed, Swan eased that worry too when they were climbing the pine slope where Al had killed the grouse.  The other evidence Jack had eaten in the night. Rainy's all right, Lone. Got men coming. Keep your gun handy, he murmured. And turned away as the others rode up, eager for whatever news Swan had to offer. Something killed a bird, Swan explained politely, planting one of his own big feet over the track, which did not, in the least, resemble Lorraine's. Jack, you find that young lady quick. From there on Swan walked carefully, putting his foot wherever a print of Al's boot was visible. Since he was much bigger than Al, with a correspondingly longer stride, his gate puzzled Lone until he saw just what Swan was doing. Then his eyes lightened with a mused appreciation of the Swedes cunning. We ought to have some hot drink or whiskey when we find that girl. Hawkins muttered unexpectedly, riding up beside Lone as they crossed an open space. She'll be half dead with cold, if we find her alive. Before Lone could answer, Swan looked back at the two and raised his hand for them to stop. Better if you leave the horses here, he suggested. From Yak I know we get close pretty quick.  Without objection the three dismounted and tied their horses securely to trees. Then, with Swan and Jack leading the way, I climbed over the ridge and descended into the hollow by way of the ledge, which Skinner had negotiated so carefully the night before. Without the dog they never would have guessed that anyone had passed this way. But as it was, they made good progress and reached the nearest edge of the spruce thicket just as the Sun was making ready to push up over the skyline. Jack stopped and looked up at his master inquiringly, lifting his lip at the sides and showing his teeth. But he made no sound. Nor did Swan, when he dropped his fingers to the dog's head and patted him approvingly. They heard a horse sneeze beyond the spruce grove, and Warfield stepped forward authoritatively, waving Swan back. This, his manner said plainly, was first and foremost his affair, and from now on he would take charge of the situation. At his heels went hawkins, and Swan sent an oblique glance of satisfaction toward Lone, who answered it with his half-smile. Swan himself could not have planned the approach more to his liking. The smell of bacon cooking watered their mouths and made Warfield and Hawkins look at one another inquiringly. Crazy young women would hardly be expected to carry a camping outfit, but Swan and Lone were treading close on their heels, and their own curiosity pulled them forward. They went carefully around the thicket, guided by a punch and odor of burning pinewood, and halted so abruptly that Swan and Lone bumped into them from behind. A man had risen up from the campfire and faced them, his hands rising slowly, palms outward. Warfield, by Al blurted in his outraged astonishment. Trailing me with a punch, are you? I knew you'd double-crossed your own father, but I never thought you had it in you to do it in the open.  Warfield stared at him slack-jawed. He glanced furtively behind him at Swan and found that guileless youth ready to poke him in the back with a muzzle of a gun. Lone, he observed, had another. He looked back at Al, whose eyes were ablaze with resentment, with an effort he smiled his disarming senatorial smile, but Al's next words frozen on his face. I think I know the play you're making, but it won't get you anything, Bill Warfield. You think I slipped up, and you told me not to let my foot slip. Said you'd hate to lose me.  I was watching out for leaks. I stopped too, and this one. He glanced down at Lorraine, who sat beside the fire, a blanket tied tightly around her waist and her ankles, so that, while comfortably free, she could make no move to escape. I was fixing to stop her from telling all she knew.  And here you blocked everything for me, afraid I was falling down on my job.  I know my limit. You got me dead to rights. I ain't complaining about that. A man in my game expects to get his someday. Well, I ain't going to let the man go that paid me my wages and a bonus of $500 for every man I killed. Now, they want it out of the way. Hawkins knows that's a fact. He's foreman of the sawtooth, and he knows the agreement. I got to say for Hawkins that, aside from stealing cattle off the nesters and helping make evidence against some that's in jail, Hawkins never done any dirty work. He didn't have to. They paid me for that end of the business. I killed Fred Thurman. This girl here saw me shoot him. And it was when I told Warfield I was afraid she might set folks talking that he began to get cold feet. Up to then, everything was lovely. But Warfield began to crawfish a little. We figured. We figured. Emphasize the we, folks. But the court would have to be put out of business. We knew, as the girl told Britt and Frank, they'd made me get the nerve to try and pin something on us. We've stolen blind for years. And they wouldn't cry if we got hung. Besides, they was friendly with Fred. The girl in the suite got in the way when I tried to bump Britt off. I'd have gone into the canyon and finished him off with a rock, but they beat me to it. The girl herself I couldn't get at very well. I make it look accidental.   I figured if her dad got killed, she'd leave. Well, let me tell you, folks.  He held out on me for that job. So I'm collecting $500 worth of fun right now. He did say he'd pay me after Britt was dead. But it looks like he's going to pull through. So I ain't counting much on getting my money out of Warfield. Frank, I got and made a clean job of it. And yesterday morning, the girl played into my hands. She rode over to the sawtooth and I got her at Thurman's place on her way home and figured I'd marry her and take a chance on keeping her quiet afterwards. I'd have been down the pass in another two hours and heading for the nearest county seat. She'd have married me, too. She knows I'd have killed her if she didn't, which I would. I've been square with her. She'll tell you that. I told her when I took her just what I was going to do with her. So that's all straight. She's been scared, I guess. But she ain't gone hungry. And she ain't suffered except in her mind. I don't fight women. I'll say right now to her and to you that I got all the respect in the world for this little girl. And if I'd married her, I'd have been as good to her as I know how and as she'd let me be. Now, I want to tell you folks a few more things about Bill Warfield. You want to stop them to steal in the country, tie a can onto the irrigation scheme of his. He's out to hold up the state for all he can get and bleed the poor devils of farmers white that buys land under that canal. It might look good, but it ain't good, not by a damn sight. You know what he's figuring on doing? Get water in the canal. Sell land under a contract that lets him out if the ditch breaks or something so he can't supply water at any time. And when them poor suckers get their crops all in, and at the point where they've got to have water or lose out, something will happen to the supply. Folks, I know I'm a reliable man, and I've rode with a rope around my neck for over five years. And Warfield offered me the same old 500 every time I muckered with the water supply as ordered. He'd have done it slick. Don't worry none about that. The biggest band of thieves he could get together is that company. So if you folks have got any sense, you'll bust it up right now. Bill Warfield, what I got to say to you won't take long. You thought you'd make a grandstand play with the law. And at the same time, put me out of the way. You figured I'd resist arrest, and you'd have a chance to shoot me down. I know you're rotten mind better than you do. You wanted to bump me off, but you wanted to do it in a way that puts you in right with the public. Killing me for kidnapping this girl would sound damn romantic in the newspapers. And it wouldn't have been a thing to do with Thurman or Frank Johnson or any of the rest that I sent over the trail for you.  There's nobody to take down what I say. And I'm just a mean, ordinary outlaw and killer talking for spite. With your pull, you expect to get this moved over and pushed up and have me at a hanging bee and everything all right for Bill. Well, his eyes left Warfield's face and went beyond the staring group. His face darkened. A sneer twisted his lips. Who are them others? He cried harshly. Was you afraid four wouldn't be enough to take me? The four turned heads to look. Bill Warfield never looked back. For Al's gun spoke and Warfield sagged at his knees in the shoulders and he slumped to the ground at the instant when Al's gun spoke again. That's for you, Lon Morgan. Al cried as he fired again.  She called you lonely and she wanted you to come and get her.  I could have loved this little girl. I could. He was down, bleeding and coughing and trying to talk. Swan had shot him and two of the deputies who had been there through half of Al's bitter talk. Lorraine, unable to get up and run, too sturdy of soul to faint, had rolled over and away from him. Her lips held tightly together. Her eyes wide with horror. Al crawled after her, his eyes pleading. Little Spitfire, I shot your Lonnie, but I'd have been good to you, girl. I watched you all night and I couldn't help loving you. I couldn't. That was all. Within three feet of her, his face torter and his eyes agonizing to meet hers, he died. End of chapter 23, recording by Tom Penn. Chapter 24 of The Court by B. M. Bauer. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter 24, Another Story Begins. This chapter is very much like a preface. It is not absolutely necessary, although many persons will read it and a few will be glad that it was written. The story itself is ended. To go on would be to begin another story, to tell of the building up of the court outfit with loan and loan savings playing a very important part. And with Britt, a semi-invalid had retired stockman who smoked his pipe and told the young couple what they should do and how they should do it. Frank, he mourned for and seldom mentioned. The sawtooth under the management of a greatly chastened young Bob Warfield was slowly wanting its way back to the respect of its neighbors. For certain personal reasons, there was no real neighborliness between the court and the sawtooth. There could not be so long as Britt's memory remained clear and Bob was every day reminded of the crimes his father had paid a man to commit. Moreover, Southerners are jealous of their women. It is there a special prerogative and loan suspected that, given the opportunity, Bob Warfield would have fallen in love with Lorraine. Indeed, he suspected that any man in the country would have done that. Al Woodruff had, and he was noted for his indifference to women and his implacable hardness toward men. But you were not to accuse loan of being a jealous husband. He was not, and I am merely pointing out the fact that he might have been, had he been given any cause. Oh, by the way, Swan proved up as soon as possible on his homestead and sold out to the court. Loan managed to buy the Thurman Ranch also, and the TJ up and down is on its feet again as a cattle ranch. Sorry, and Jim will ride for the court, I suppose, as long as they can crawl into a saddle, but there are younger men now to ride the Skyline Meadow Range. Someone asked about Yellowjacket, having, I suppose, a sneaking regard for his infirmities. He hasn't been peeled yet, nor he hadn't the last I heard of him. Loan and Lorraine told me they were trying to save him for the little feller to practice on when he is able to sit up without a cushion behind his back and to hold something besides a rubber rattle.  He took a horse collar and scrubbed it until he nearly wore it out the leather. Then he brought it to the cabin, put it on the floor, and set the little feller inside it. They sent me a snapshot of the event, but it was not very good. The film was underexposed, and nothing was to be seen of the little feller except a hazy spot which I judged was a hand. Holding a black object, I guessed, was the ridgey rubber rattle with the whistle gone out of the end. Down the little feller's throat, they're afraid. And there was a smile, and I glimped of his eyes. Aren't you envious as sin and glad they're happy? The End. End of Chapter 24. End of The Quirk by V. M. Bauer. Recording by Tom Penn.


Hello, hello. Is anybody out there in YouTube Live Land? I think I did it correctly this time. I'm gonna start off this video by saying that this is a live. So if anybody's coming in later and you don't enjoy the lives, I know a lot of you don't like watching them later. You probably won't like this one. I'm hoping that I have you guys the correct way this time because usually I have the camera here or I have the camera here and then your comments roll up over here and then I miss stuff. I am just sitting here alone with all that ails me and I remember the last time I went live. I don't know if anything even was wrong. You guys are on the right side. Hi, Olivia. Hi, Susan. The last time I came on live, you guys cheered me up so much. I was like flying afterwards. I was so happy. I felt all the love. Oh, now the only thing I have to remember is that occasionally I have to hit this part of my screen to see who's there or else I can't see the comments and with all the medicine on my hands, it can be a problem sometimes. So who knows how this will even go, but what's the worst thing can happen? You guys can be bored and leave. I can get tongue tied and stay. I mean, nothing real bad can happen. Hi, Ruth. See, I figured maybe on a Friday, it's 1.30 my time, 5.30-ish your time, 2.30-ish their time. Somebody's bound to be around. Hi, Cathy. Oh, yay. It's always a wise decision. The only problem I'm having right now is that my eyeball itches and I have so much medicine on my fingers. I don't know if it's a religious at all, but oh, I appreciate that so much.  I'm glad that you asked that because I wanna make a statement about that. A statement. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Hi, Ruth, Berna Clark. Oh, it's so nice to be seen. All day, I'll be the only people who see me all day long. I'm Kitty and Clara. Harinda, is it Harinda or Jorinda? The J, I naturally go with the J. Let me see if I can go back and answer. Esther's here. I missed so many of you guys. Esther, Belinda, Roberta, who did, hi, Terry.  I'm so glad to have this opportunity. I am not a religious person. I'm just not and I don't owe anybody an explanation or anything of the sort, but I pray and I believe in prayers and I appreciate any and all prayers, so thank you for asking. Hi, Andrea. Crystal's adventure. I can see you now, Jeannie. Let me, I can see you, babe. I can see you, what I just got done telling for anybody who might not have caught, I hate going over this cause it's a bummer, but I don't want anybody to feel like I'm not seeing you. Okay, good, I got, I got hair in all the minions. I have tons and tons and tons of medicine on my hands. Okay, look at that beautiful thing, isn't that beautiful? I have all this stuff here, all this stuff here. Okay, so I have so much medicine on my hands that every time I hit my screen to try to catch somebody, I don't, I am spiritual in my own funky way. I go through weird, I don't know, I don't know how to explain it.  Like, you know that Amy on Ennis for a Nurse, I think I commented like 10 times on her life and all I got was a, hey, I'm just kidding. You know what, Terry? It's itchy more than it is painful and it is, I, this is a, not horrible, but honest thing to say, hi Barbara. Where is my artist lady who I just, I wish I could be an artist. I almost wish that, hi Linda. Don't know how to do it for you to see me. It's up, it's up on my side because on my side it comes up and then it disappears. And if I don't hit the screen, then I'll miss you.  I completely forgot what I was gonna say. Oh, it is more, it's not painful at all at itches and I almost wish I had pain instead of the itching because it's just so itchy, but we don't wanna talk about that. I just wanted to explain to anybody, like right now I can't see any of the comments. How's everybody doing? How is everybody doing? I wanna know, I wanna hear. I wanna hear if you're good, bad and different. Any new adventures coming up? Anybody go to Wave for the weekend? I have a similar reaction going on, but not near as bad as you. I'm sorry, Della. It's a combination of arthritis and psoriasis and I've had it my whole life and the weird thing is, is I forget that I have psoriasis and it'll go away for five years and oh good, I'm happy to hear that. I don't wish this on anybody. I forget that I get it and the problem is, and then this is all I'll say is I have so many things that I'm worried about right now that all I have to do is sit in this chair or right here for two hours and sit and think about all my worries, uh-oh, calorie overload, mwah, mwah, overload on Jeannie. Jeannie Dillon overload, we gotta do something about that. That the stress, isn't it amazing what the brain can do to your body that I don't even have to be talking to anybody about what's going on in my life? I'm just sitting here thinking about the people that I love and I worry about them and that's what's, I know. And you know what, Barbara, when they say don't stress, you know, and you can't control what you can't control. I know that, but I, it's, I would give anything not to stress. I would give anything not to be worrying about the people and worrying about the things I'm worrying about because this is a huge drag. I can't do anything. Kentucky Deer, oh that's right, that's coming, it's May. Wait, let me put this, you bet. Whoops, hang on, hang on there, kids. I gotta bring it back up and see what I can see. Oh my gosh, toothache. Okay, don't even worry about what you've gained, Olivia. Take care of the toothache and don't even worry, oh that's the worst. Oops, let's see. Come on, Anita, you can do this, I have faith in you. Yeah, stress. But how do you not, how do you, some of us worry more, some of us worry more than others. I've worried since I was a little girl, my mother always says, Nita, you know, your life could be perfect. Everybody could be well, you know, you never have to worry about a bill or anything. And you would find something to worry about it and unfortunately, and I'm working on it and I'm praying about it and I'm meditating about it, but obviously I'm not doing a good enough job. Oh my God, oh Jeannie, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I see I'm trying not to do that with my dad. They're transferring my dad today. Grandson's 15th birthday soon, where are you guys gonna eat? And Olivia, we've got to stop because I mean, but how do you stop? How do you think it's short of having lobotomy? You know what? I felt an itch earlier and I'm just afraid to even go in there because God forbid, please Lord, no, I can't, I can't only handle so much. Oh, I hope it's somewhere good and yummy. How fun to be with your family. My sister called, my sister lives in San Diego but she comes up here to get her hair done and she said that she's coming over tonight. Oh, see now I'm starting to itch. But she's not coming over to like seven and she knows that Steve and I go to bed at seven, 10. I don't know what she's gonna surprise us with. I asked her to come over before her hair appointment but she said no and I don't, she's one of those people, well, I love her, she's my sister but I just hope she's not gonna spring anything on me that's gonna make this worse. Oh, so okay, what else? How did, on the program, where are they taking your dad? He's going in a good spot. He's good, it's just the whole thing, you know? The whole thing, my mom's down to buy herself right now. Yeah, Esther, I know and you've got the same going on. So okay, so mother's day's coming, my birthday's coming, what else is coming? Something, Kentucky Derby's coming. Oh, if anybody didn't catch my video this morning, I am happily and proud of myself to report that even with all of this going on, I maintained this week, I did not gain a pound and when I take the Benadryl for the itching, I kinda get the munchies and my hand got stuck into the cookie jar a couple times but since I didn't touch my weeklies, it all evened out. I thought for sure the cortisol was gonna kick in. Thanks Barbara, hi Linda, thank you. I will take a big hug and I will return it but I cannot touch you. I thought for sure the cortisol would make the scale but it didn't, my birthday isn't till the 20th so there's still time. I hope that we get to do something, I don't know. So somebody tell me, let's touch this, you guys could be telling me stuff and I'm missing it. I know Esther, you and me are two sisters from different misters and all those kinda things. I wish, you know, with my hands like this I can't do too much but I can talk and I wish there was a good video I could do. Oh, I missed something for Terri, what did I miss that she's excited about? See this is the tough part of my fingers being like this. Terri, Terri, this 80s girl is going to a concert. Oh fun, have a good time. See I wasn't an 80s girl, I was always just 60s girls even though I was just born in the 60s. That's so funny. We'll see what else is going on, nothing, nothing, not a thing but a being. I'm just trying to stay to my program. Like I said, Oliver's been in a little bit of a snit. That's one thing I feel bad about today's kids is concerts, like when I started going to concerts literally when I was 13, my first concert was Elton John at Dodger Stadium. I went with my cousin. My father is super into music so he encouraged any and all music festivities, right? Well, these kids these day, thank you, they can't afford to go, it's such a drag for them. They're missing out on so many good times. Thank you, Andrea. Oh, thank you, Olivia. I don't think that many people would agree with you but I'll take it. Oh, Oliver, he did his projects. All this stuff I have to talk about is just so boring to anybody who isn't me. We gotta think of something to talk about, you guys. Hi, Daisy Girl 72. Am I exactly 10 years older than you? See, I'm trying to stay distracted but it's not working. I might not be able to do this but I wanna try, I wanna try. Hey, any of you guys have any concealers you can suggest for these bags under my eyes? Oh, I've, I've Ebsund, I've Avino'd, I've Benadryl'd. You guys should see my whole table right here. Oh, right on, that's fabulous. I need a company like that. I got so many things here, it's just ridiculous. Oh, Ruth, I just, I wish I had something to talk about. I normally do 46, here it is beautiful outside and I would be walking if I wasn't just a little drowsy from the Benadryl, I just had to take it. Amita, enough about your woes, we don't wanna hear about them. We have no plans for the weekend, I don't think. If Steve has any, he hasn't told me about them.  The only thing I've really dove is dove award in on and hand is washing my hair and my body because I have to do that, but that's all, that's all. Where did I hear? I heard a little birdie said that Weight Watchers is concerned about the amount of people. Fun, what are you guys gonna do?  Well, we live too far apart. Well, my sister's coming up, so. I don't know you guys, I guess I just don't, if anybody needs an encouraging Weight Watcher word, I would love to put it out there. Chelsea, you know what, I don't know because she's not real close. I think Oliver's hoping so too, so we'll see, it's a definite possibility. I am in California, grilling, I wish I knew how to grill, I won't ever grill, I had an oven blow up on me once, so ever sense. Kind of stay away from the fire. Disneyland instead of Disney World, I know everything there is to know about Disneyland, everything, I know where every bathroom is, I know who quit, Jeannie, you did quit, I read that, go into my fitness pal, lots of us are doing it. I'm gonna go back to that. I've never been to Disney World, so I have nothing to compare it to. All I can tell you is it's very expensive to, if you're gonna do it, be prepared and if you do it, let me know so I can give you all the tips and tricks. You know what, I tried to quit and then they just gave me two extra months and for the reason that I don't have much of a social life, I still go to my meetings. I went to my meeting this morning and it was delightful because I enjoy my friends. We've been doing it all so long together now that it's just like playing Bunko or doing anything else only we gotta pay them to go sit in the green chairs. But you'll do it, you know what you're doing. Awful, how could Disney World be awful? How could anything Disneyland world place be awful? I'm so sorry. Disneyland, I have heard my friends compare it to like Disneyland is so incredibly small and old compared to Disney World. I'm taking you into Walmart with me. Can I go in my underwear? Ha ha ha, because that's the only way I'll go the other day was so funny. We were going and I don't know if you know this but I hate, hate, hate. I quit too doing that. See, everybody's doing I track bikes. Have fun Barbara, have a lovely, lovely evening my friend, my tail mid friend. Shoot, I forgot what I was gonna say. I forgot what I was gonna say. Thank you, Barbara. Shoot gosh darn it, I'm sorry you guys. Oh, Walmart.  All right, next time I just have to go and close it barely fit me. I can't leave my friends at the wait, watch for me, neither can I, Linda. I have such a nice time in the morning with them. We show up early just like all the old gals that we are. No characters was in the magical as I was expecting but I needed to go back when the kids are older. It was just a let down. Oh, that's a drag, I'm so sorry to hear that. My favorite thing in the whole world to do is to take somebody to the park who's never been before. I like taking people to the park who have been before. In fact, the last trip I went every Tuesday, that, see Roberta gets it. Hi, Janet. Oh, don't, you know what, just thinking about Walmart's making me worse. Yeah, we arrive early, we weigh in, we sit, we talk. I went walking with one of my Walmart, wait, watch your friends last week, two days ago. So lovely, I've done a couple of things. They're trying to get me out of my house because they know I don't know anybody out here. And they're just lovely, lovely ladies. It's the only story. You know, it's funny, because we didn't have one out here for the longest time and everybody kept online would say, oh, we're going to Wally World and I'm like, what the hell is Wally World? Why are these people going to Wally World? Isn't he in the Chevy Chase movie with the big moose in the front, where are they going? And then a lot of people didn't believe me when I told them we didn't have Walmart where I lived. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, it's fun. And my leader too, my regular leader wasn't there today and I always kind of get a snip in my, because I'm really like 10. Walmart is not as good in California as in where. See, we have three Walmart's in our town and we have one that's just food. I can handle that one. That one I can handle. This game called, did I lose you guys?  How, why is it different, I wonder? Cause I mean, the stores are okay. It's just, I don't know, I don't know. So anyways, all right, well, I just don't have, I was, I wanted, I don't know it. Yeah, cause my phone rang. We got a scam call. What time is it? It's almost two. You guys, it's so nice when I, I was like lonely earlier. And then I went on Amy's live and getting a talk there. It made me feel better. And then I thought, do you guys have your water by the way? I'll go in live and talk to all the guys that way. It'll make me feel better. And I am feeling better. You guys are the best, the best, best, best. Have you guys noticed all the other YouTubers who are having all their merch? Is that something that's new? Or is it something that I just never noticed? I've been looking around. I've been watching new YouTubers that I've not seen before. I don't know if they're new to the YouTube land. But they all have little bars of merch, coffee cups and shirts and all that kind of stuff. No water, Dylan, get out, lady, get out. Don't take it as bragging. If it's that, that's how it is. That's how it is, right? That's not bragging. My ocean is better than your ocean in the Midwest. It just is. I can't, you ladies, all live out here by me where we could just sit and walk and talk and have a good time and I could hear your voices. I always try to put, think of, I don't get myself. I wouldn't name names anyways because I don't want anybody to think I'm like talking down about it. But it just seems odd. Like it's not because if I could have, a mug or something made that says, got your water or what's something else I say, know where your bathrooms are. I guess I would do that. But I don't know, they just have all these big, like little stores now. It's cute, I guess. I'm old.  Her name is Kate with a C, Kate the Great Beauty. And she's a performer by trade, but she did, I believe that she does make up on the side. She has the best little channel. She, I know you and I would like keep walking and talking forever because we have everything in the world to walk and talk about, right? Go check her out because she's so funny and she just has a quick, wicked sense of humor. She always has some kind of alcoholic beverage with her while she does some kind of look.   She's talking about Jack and Rose and why was Jack hanging off the wood? Why didn't Rose pull Jack up on the wood? She just left him hanging there. But she's got really good ideas. She's beautiful and she likes to take, okay, I hope I don't get in trouble for this, okay? Just you and I can hear this, right? She loves to take millennial digs and it just cracks me up because millennials are kind of, and I apologize to any millennials I may have here. I don't think I do. She just cracks me up. She's so funny. So go see her Kate the Great Beauty, Kate with a C. Who else, you guys are all watching Active Rachel Anne, correct Amundo? Who else did I wanna tell you guys about? Because I am like, I don't watch very many people. They have to really, there has to be something in it that really, did I see Sandy and Birdie? Yeah. I was waiting for everybody to get on Birdie's case when she went out for a smoke. And then I thought, let the old broad have her smoke. I say old broad as an old broad because we're old broads. We wanna do what we wanna do. We're gonna do it. But when I'm watching somebody's YouTube, there has to be something in it that's got my attention. I won't just watch it, just. I don't watch a lot of meal preps because I don't meal prep myself. What do I watch? I don't know. I guess I'm more of a, well, what did you do, Terry? I missed it. I'm more of a, I watch people that I like their personalities, I think.  I would not get that. Hi, Susie girl, what you doing? I would not catch the $10 million I won because I'd tune out because I can't stand the monotone. Happy camping, Janet. Have fun. Have a s'more for me. Would you have a s'more for me? Or two or three, please? Oh, wow, I love a s'more.  It's Friday. People are going, who's getting money back and why? Know where your gems are is great. Know where your gems are? Alinda, that's so nice, thank you. You know, I just shopping at TJ Maxx. You're shopping at TJ Maxx right now? The twins are great. The twins are the queens. I would, okay, so for any of those of you that are on right now, do you ever remember when watching the twins, you saw them and they showed a picture and they said, here's a picture of one of our subs who claims to be the third twin? Did any of you remember that or happen to catch that? Bye, Kathy, love you. Have a great weekend. I hope I am too. I'm not feeling good about it. Anyways, that was me. I sent them a picture of me and I've been bugging them ever since I found them telling them I am the triplet. I wish I was too, but I wish I had money to be shopping anywhere. I have a picture of Alinda somewhere. I should, I'll post it in one of my videos. It was so funny. God love them. I pestered them for so long just because I was so enamored by them. Oh yes, yes, that's what I meant to bring up. Stephanie at Holy Crap is fabulous. And if you're on Instagram watching her there, also go see her and her friend, Wayne, who I love. They have a little thing called Madge and Biscuit. Look it up, Madge and Biscuit. All right, well, you know what? I feel like I am just sitting here itching and scratching and not too much. She is hilarious. Okay, so don't forget Kate the Great Beauty. And if you go see Kate the Great Beauty, she doesn't know who I am, so make it interesting and tell her that you should chat Pattywax, didn't you? Stephanie's a crack up. And you know, she and I talk behind the scenes and she's just lovely. She's just so lovely. She's just, she and Rachel and I, because Rachel's got a great sense of humor too. And she's got a little animation. Who doesn't love a little animation, right? Sometimes when I first started watching YouTube and I was watching Only Weight Watcher People and I had a couple of people that talked like this, Steve would walk over and he'd be like, what are you watching? I can't listen to that anymore. Ruth, have a fabulous weekend, please, okay? I just love you so much. Always so kind. All you ladies are always so kind. So kind all the time. I love you too, Susie. And I'm accepting the big hug, but I can't hug you back. You know, I need to go find a leopard island and just go camp there by myself. All right girls, love you. Thanks for coming and hanging out with me. And we'll stay over the weekend. Everybody have a terrific weekend. Don't worry about the tooth. Olivia, is Olivia with the tooth? I'm turning my number who had the bad tooth. Get well before you worry about any of that other business. Eee. No. You guys rock.


Hello everyone and welcome you all for today's lecture. We will briefly look at what we did last time and then proceed further for the other aspects of asymmetric reactions. So last time what we discussed was Kazuki Jakobsom epoxidation and the mechanistic aspects of it towards the N and followed by we did the introduction of the had dihydroxylation of olefins. So in the case of Kazuki epoxidation reactions various aspects of it we saw how the different types of C2 symmetric based 1 to di amines and different aldehydes which are basically salicyl dehyde derivatives are used to make the manganese oxo complex and that allows epoxidation to take place based on various factors and then allows highly enantiose selective epoxidation. In that respect when we looked at the mechanism if we start with a cis olefin then we saw that there could be a possibility of manganese complex which is basically having a 2 plus 1 type of intermediate that means it gives you a 2 plus 1 concerted process to lead to this which allows the epoxidation to complete by the release of manganese 3. So we start with manganese 5 and then we release the manganese 3 upon epoxidation. We also saw that since cis olefin gives cis epoxide therefore this type of concerted process is important. We also saw that it can also be done by a metallo oxytane type of intermediate where something of this kind can be proposed and when this breaks up in this fashion then we can also expect the cis epoxidation to take place and plus of course manganese catalyst goes away. But this was also expected to form a sort of radical in some way or the other so that we can expect that there is a possibility of a radical formation here and of course a radical can come in here and then there is a rotation and then that can allow the epoxidation eventually to form in this way that some amount of trans epoxide is formed. So considering these aspects there is a possibility of such a radical based reaction to occur especially in cases where the cyclopropane ring becomes a part of the starting material. So these are the aspects that we saw and then we also looked at the dihydroxylation of olefins using osmium tetroxide but since osmium tetroxide is expensive and toxic and therefore there is a need to use that in a catalytic amount and towards the end we looked at the use of cooxidants and where we discussed sodium chloride and also hydrogen peroxide but then these lead to over oxidation. So there was a problem and therefore there is a need to look at the cooxidants in a different way. So later on Sharpless also did some work in this area and many other people and accordingly Sharpless introduced the tertiary butyl hydro peroxide along with osmium tetroxide as a cooxidant and in the presence of these salts to kind of dissolve the reactant and the cross-condition and also N-methylmorpholine in oxide NMO was used as a cooxidant by Upjohn company and that is why it is known as Upjohn dihydroxylation because it was they who first developed the use of N-methylmorpholine N-oxide in the dihydroxylation. So this is the this NMO that is N-methylmorpholine N-oxide which is what is something that we had discussed earlier. And one of the first attempts to make it chiral was then looked at it because now since osmium tetroxide is not required in a stoichiometric fashion and therefore one can now start looking at whether reaction can make it as a catalytic and also asymmetric. Now we mentioned or we discussed earlier that there was a possibility of increasing the rate of reaction and increase the yield if a tertiary amine or a pyridine is added to the reaction mixture and that allows the attachment of the tithyl I mean the tertiary amine or the pyridine to the osmium atom and therefore the reaction rate increases. Considering that the chiral ligand which is pyridine based was used for the first time and it was found that eventually there was an optical kind of induction or asymmetric induction and that gave the optically active molecules in 3 to 18% enantiomeric purity. However, this particular chiral ligand which is this where there are 3 asymmetric centers and it was found that since pyridine moiety is very close to the isopropyl group and therefore it is something could be sterically not desirable and therefore the large group close to the nitrogen sort of prevents the pyridine to come very close to the osmium because of the steric hindrance. Later on many people like Narasaka, Sinder, Hirama and Kori studied different types of C2 symmetric based bi-dented amine ligands which are shown here and different types of these ligands gave very high energy selectivity more than 99% for trans-tilbin but it was not catalytic in terms of osmium tetroxide or the ligand. That means even these chiral ligands which are shown these structures of which are shown here are needed to be used in stoichiometric way and also osmium tetroxide that is because the bi-dented these are bi-dented ligands they get bound to the osmium very very strongly and then they do not come out. So therefore such tightly bound complex although gave very high energy selectivity but then it was not catalytic. At the same time if we have a loose complex that will also not give high enantiomeric purity because if it is loose that means it comes off and therefore the reaction will definitely not give high enantiomeric purity because it can also react with unbound osmium tetroxide. So we need to have a compromise. So a compromise has to be reached and in this regard what was found by Sharpless that synchronous alkaloids based ligands along with NMO gave the best results. So NMO was used for as a co-oxidant but then synchronous alkaloids were used as chiral ligands. So these are the chiral ligands which are used in the asymmetric dihydroxylation one of them is known as dihydroquinidine the other one is known as dihydroquinine. They are pseudo enantiomers they are called as pseudo enantiomers they are not really enantiomers as they are not really mirror images of each other but they give different enantioselectivity and therefore they are considered as pseudo enantiomers. Now as you can see that the utility of such chiral ligands along with as I mentioned NMO gave the optical purity or enantiomeric purity being 6283% and yields ranging from 62 to 90%. So it seems to be pretty good but then it is something that we need to worry about it because why is it that the enantiomeric purity is as low as 6 and of course in some cases is as high as 83%. Now if we look at one particular example and if we can take this particular trans still been then we under these conditions this is the chiral ligand that was used and 1.2 equivalents of the NMO was used and 0.2% of osmium tetroxide we used it led to 89% yield of the product and 94% enantiomeric purity. So if we start looking at various ligands and various kind of additives and then we see that the yield is ranging from 8 to 95% and the enantiomeric purity is 2288% but then use of osmium tetroxide has decreased considerably and therefore 0.2% of osmium tetroxide is needed for this particular kind of reaction. But then what are generally found that if we go from stoichiometric to catalytic process it leads to decrease in enantiomeric purity. So in general it was felt that the enantiomeric purity is still in these cases is not universally high in all the cases but it also needs to be looked at it from catalytic to stoichiometric fashion if one wants to make it high enantiomerically pure product to be obtained. Now why is it that when such a low enantiomeric purity is seen in cases where NMO is used as a co-oxidant so it was felt that this was due to the secondary catalytic cycle in which ligand was not involved. Now when NMO is used as a reoxidant it converts osmium 6 glycolate of this type to osmium 8 glycolate along with the expulsion of the chiral ligand. That means when this osmium 6 intermediate is reoxidized with NMO it forms an osmium 8 glycolate but then ligand comes off. Now this osmium 8 glycolate which is devoid of chiral ligand then dihydroxylate some of the olefins and that leads to low enantioselectivity because the osmium 8 glycolate is having osmium in oxidation state of 8 it can dihydroxylate some of the olefins and that would of course be of low enantioselectivity because chiral ligand is not present. But then when sharpness used potassium ferricinate, potassium carbonate, tertiary butanol water system in place of NMO the oxidant remains in water phase and this allowed this glycolate osmium 6 glycolate to get hydrolyzed like this and release the chiral diol which is of course of high enantioselectivity and of course then releases the osmium 6 which then gets reoxidized because the oxidant is soluble in water phase to osmium 8 which is osmium tetroxide. Now this osmium tetroxide then interacts with the chiral ligand and subsequently the osmium 8 modified with the chiral ligand then reacts with the olefin and forms this type of osmium 6 intermediate and the reaction continues. Because of this in general it was found that enantioselectivity or enantiomeric excess of the diol with potassium ferricinate, potassium carbonate, tertiary butanol water system is much higher than just with NMO. What is the exact mechanism of this reaction? Initially what happens is that this osmium tetroxide gets attached to the chiral ligand and the modified osmium species then reacts with the olefin to form this osmium 6 glycolate having the chiral ligand. Now this osmium 6 glycolate then gets oxidized with NMO which is N-methylmorpholine oxide and releases NMM that is N-methylmorpholine. This osmium 8 glycolate upon hydrolysis releases the chiral diol and the osmium tetroxide. This entire cycle then of course continues and this would be of high enantioselectivity because the chiral ligand is attached to the osmium tetroxide before it dihydroxylates the olefin. Now what happens is this particular osmium 8 glycolate which has been formed by the oxidation of osmium 6 glycolate oxidizes some other olefins present in the reaction medium and then makes this particular osmium 6 species. Now this oxidation of olefin by the osmium 8 glycolate is of low enantioselectivity because chiral ligand is not involved in this particular process. When this osmium 6 species gets hydrolyzed it releases the diol but this diol will be of low enantiopurity. So what needs to be done is of course this particular osmium 6 glycolate should get hydrolyzed to the chiral diol which will be of high enantiopurity. Before it is oxidized to this osmium 8 species because this is the osmium 8 species that is the culprit to oxidize the olefins present in the reaction medium and there is a competition between the this osmium species which has a ligand and this particular osmium 8 species which doesn't have a ligand for the dihydroxylation of the olefin and because of this the enantioselectivity of the chiral diol is low. So the modified reagent system of potassium ferricinate introduced by sharpless takes care of this particular problem and allows the hydrolysis of this osmium 6 species to do the diol and the oxidant is present in the reaction medium and is soluble in water that oxidizes the released osmium 6 species directly to osmium tetroxide. That means in the modified system the hydrolysis is taking place first to release the diol and subsequently in the same medium the osmium 6 gets oxidized to osmium 8 that is osmium tetroxide and therefore this primary cycle is basically operating when potassium ferricinate system is used and that is the reason why potassium ferricinates based system is of high enantioselectivity and gives the diol of high enantiopurity. So basically for the substantial developments were made the change of oxidant from NMO to potassium ferricinate in water and tertiary butanol medium that led to the increase of the rate and of course they also introduced some new dimeric ligands with the same two alkaloids but as a spacer unit and a more convenient source of osmium tetroxide was used as this particular salt of the osmium tetroxide. So these are the structures of various spacers which have been used and this is the structure where thylazine is used as a spacer and this is dhq and this is dhqd this is another spacer here then you have this type of spacer is used which then allows two molecules to come in to the picture and then we have this kind of pyridine system as spacer and these type of spacers have been found to allow a sort of pocket of chiral nature that allows the epoxidish diadoxylation to occur to give high enantioponic purity. What is also found that if one takes the chiral ligand of any one of these type say in this case thylazine is 5.52 grams and then 0.52 gram is that osmium salt and then potassium ferricinate 700 grams and potassium carbonate is 294 gram this particular combination of salts is known as AdMix alpha and the other one in which this is different is known as AdMix beta. If we take a mixture of these and this we use only say 1.4 gram of AdMix any one of them alpha or beta whichever one wants to use it per millimole of the olefin intercipitinole and water medium it is enough to give the diadoxylation of high enantioponic purity. So this has been introduced by a sharpness and therefore it is commercially available with chemical companies such as Aldrich and therefore one can simply buy these particular mixture of an oxidizing agent and simply put 1.4 gram of it per millimole of olefin and get the diadoxylation. What is a mnemonic device that has been proposed by sharpness based on a large study of various examples is that if the olefin is put it in this particular fashion where the small group and the large group and the medium and the hydrogen it is a tri-substituted olefin if we can orient it in this particular fashion such that the small group is closer to the northwest side. The large group is on the southwest side and the northeast side is having this medium group and the smallest group is towards the southeast side. If we orient it then the epoxidation allows the in such a fashion that you get the beta diadoxylation whereas in cases where ad-mix alpha is used then you get the diadoxylation from the alpha side. So the ad-mix alpha and ad-mix beta are basically designed based on such a mnemonic device and therefore it is expected that if we put the olefin in this particular framework, in this particular orientation then if we use ad-mix beta the diadoxylation will occur from the top phase and if we use ad-mix alpha then the diadoxylation will take place from the lower phase. Now it is proposed that the reaction proceeds via this 4-membered osma-oxetane via 2 plus 2 cycloaddation whereas it is also proposed that it goes via a 3 plus 2 cycloaddation and then of course eventually they come to this particular intermediate and then the reduction leads to the formation of the diadoxylation. This particular 3 plus 2 proposition was made by Corey on the basis of the fact that this 4-membered ring could be sterically bulky whereas the 4-membered intermediate was proposed by Sharpless. So there is controversy but then the results of course are the same and one gets the diol no matter what happens and we get the diol through this expected mnemonic device based diadoxylation. Now the low rate of reaction of tri-substitutole as we discussed was due to slow hydrolysis of the osmium-6 glycolate and this is what osmium-6 glycolate is and we saw that the hydrolysis of it is a mast before it undergoes or a reoxidant or reoxidation. But the hydrolysis was found to be increased by about 50% if this methyl sulfonamide is used and this allows the hydrolysis to be fast and therefore the enantiomeric purity is also affected by this and it also allowed to do reactions at low temperature and therefore high stereoselectivity is observed. Surprisingly, the terminal olefins react slowly in the presence of methyl sulfonamide and there is something that is not very clear why is it so. However, it is very clear that the addition of methyl sulfonamide is something that allows the hydrolysis to be increased and the molecules in which the tri-substituted olefins where slow to hydrolyse could definitely be improved and high stereoselectivity is also observed. Now these are some examples of the osmium- tetroxide based reactions. For example, we can take this epoxide having an olefin. Of course, this part of the molecule can also be prepared. In fact, it has been prepared by using sharpness epoxidation and the dihydroxylation was carried out using this protocol which we discussed just now. And of course, if we take no ligand, we get both the molecules and the ratio is 1 is to 2. That means this cis diol and this particular diol, they are both formed in 1 is to 2 if there is no ligand. If we use DHQ P thylazine as this particular reagent system, then we get 10 is to 1 ratio and if we use DHQ DPHL, then of course, we get 1 is to 20 ratio of these 2 diol. So it is very clear that one can choose based on what one wants and accordingly one can get the dihydroxylation. And one of these molecules was converted to Kastronus permin which is a good glycosidase inhibitor and therefore it comprises of a very important synthesis of such a molecule which is useful in biologically. We can also make an anti-cancer molecule as camtothicin where this particular olefin was dihydroxylated and as you can see that the dihydroxylation leads to the formation. As we can see from here, this path has to be hydrolyzed of course, to go to this particular amide and the double bond was dihydroxylated and as we can see from here that if we have dihydroxylation here taking place, then we can get this path I am not writing it. So this is what we will get it and then with this iodine calcium carbonate, this was oxidized to form the corresponding lactone. And this intermediate has been converted to the anti-cancer drug camtothicin. So one can easily see that how one can make use of such dihydroxylation in the synthesis of important molecules. So we will stop it at this stage and we will take up the remaining aspects of asymmetric reactions especially the reduction of molecules in such a way that they lead to optically pure reduced products. So till then bye and thank you, we will see you next time.


Hey Golden Bears, it's Katerina Church here at Memorial Stadium with Ross Bowers, quarterback on the football team. Ross, thank you so much for meeting with me today. Thank you for having me. So you just had your spring game, it's a culmination of all of your spring pre-season training. I know there's been a lot of early morning practices and long hours spent in the weight room. Initial reaction, how do you think your team performed today? I think it was a great day. It was, you know, it's led more like a practice, you know, so it wasn't so much a game environment, but every game situation we were in, I thought we did really well. Offensively, this is the best we've executed all spring, so it's really nice to, on the last day, leave the coaches with a, you know, a good thought, you know, so it was, it was just a really good day for, you know, just as an offense, you know, I don't, the defense did okay. Just, you know, I don't really know if they had a great day or not, but I just know how we did and we did well today.  How did that influence your sports career growing up?  So it's been, you know, it's been a fun sports lifestyle for my entire life basically. So it's been a really good influence on me. So as we all know, Jared Goff was the number one pick in the draft last spring and Davis Webb is entering the draft this year. For you looking forward, what are your goals beyond Cal football? Oh, beyond Cal football, honestly, I'm not even thinking that far. You know, the furthest I'm thinking is just which degree I want to, you know, major in first. So, you know, I'm really just trying to be in the now and trying to figure out what I want to do here and how I can just maximize my time while I'm here to be honest, you know, all the five and 10-year goals, I would be so bad at those questions.  So, but right now I'm here and now, so I'm just enjoying my time. Exactly. So one final question for you. I understand that there's a video of you from high school that sort of went viral of you flipping over, not one, but two defensive players in a game into the end zone for a touchdown. Can Cal fans expect to see sort of moves like that this upcoming fall? I don't know about that was kind of, I don't know how that happened. You know, I don't know what I did to get so lucky, you know. So that wasn't, you know, I don't, I don't know, I don't want to, I know the bars set pretty high for, you know, entertainment wise, but they could expect a lot of touchdowns and a lot of big plays. And, you know, we'll be just as fun to watch. Hopefully we can give them some plays just like that. Awesome. Well, we'll be looking forward to it. Thanks so much for meeting with me today, Ross. Appreciate it. Once again, we're signing off with Cal TV Sports. And I'm Katarina Church. And I'm Ross Bowers. Go Bears.


give up this is it I understand that it's easily said and done but believe me, never give up it can if you persevere it will happen listen for coming on and then telling your story it's been mad, it's been a roller coaster but it's unbelievable from the character that you were you personally it's fucking night and day and it's a beautiful thing to see shout out to my brother Lewis Clark as well his dad's out as well which is another amazing thing you're just three all together it's fucking nice to see probably at times you would have thought that would have never fucking happened but would you like to finish up on anything else Dwin? no I'd just like to say thank you very much for allowing me to platform this opportunity as well thank you and watch our social medias and stuff for people who are getting contactless maybe want to offer you a job or give you a helping hand because this is what it's all about people can understand you and not just believe what other people say you can hear it from a horse's mouth and then people get about understanding okay the thing about people in the UK where a good judge is a character nothing really gets passed listen we can all manipulate and bullshit but people kind of know who's real and who's not you're a hundred percent real man you've lived that life you've clearly made the changes but it's been a struggle you've seen the shit that you've done the shit that's happened to you for anybody watch all your social media and links just in case people wanted each out yeah so my wife helps me with my Instagram because remember I'm still behind times so please forgive me I'm a dinosaur so it's Dwayne Patterson and as the number three so Dwayne D-W-A-I-N-E and Patterson P-A-T-T-E-R-S-O-N so for anybody that's wanting to help them job or whatever by all means getting contact a lot of people might ask you questions but you've lived that life there's no reason why you should have been in prisons and schools and possibly a book can turn that into it because you've lived a very hectic chaotic fucking life and it's unbelievable the changes that you've made and again shout out to my boy Louie thanks for coming on today listen I wish you nothing but the best for the future my brother okay thank you my brother thank you


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