Still the breakfast and plus TV Africa Chris came in one do the Detrebalized Niger and joins the conversation this morning Chris. It's good to have you join us Good morning. My people is nice to be here coffee. I do my brother Fine. I used to with us in the country. Have you left cuz I had you say jackpot on the other side No, I didn't hear I didn't hear Good morning team. All right, Chris. Let's set off with the punch now and look at the punch newspaper Boundary dispute wasn't in security 6,000 I beg your pardon 676 killed in state Boundary disputes wasn't in security 676 killed in state 444 houses raised and communal clashes in a boy Kogi Crusher or others now I would be very surprised if cross over didn't make the lease for you know communal clashes federal government addressing 86 cases security expert lawyers blame governors and Candy cries rising in security Senate promises 2023 jumbo security allocation Okay Away from the boat headline and the riders you have underneath you have Ikara Maddu's Detained 82 days daughter six kidney donor. I mean I felt you know Very very very sorry for her. I'm hoping that someone would you know answer the prayer I carried a little apologizes to the cleric over Muslim Muslim tickets and federal government begins tax recovery from 2000 mining firms passport insurance increases by 38% more Nigerians relocate. I mean it sounds like coffee is just in the spirit. He's seen everybody jack mine There's anything like that five killed in if I knew bus convoy attack And that's what the police said and not a sad report there And there's a picture of you know the flood and the rain that happened in Ligas Ligas flooding rescuers recovered two corpses and saved nine Unfortunately label acts aviation workers issue your for ten-day automator and Gridlock traps legacy burden motorists and passengers for 16 hours Imagine you know being in a spot for 16 hours Students to barricade experts way and cap it in giga demo Talking about a strike action, but that's it this morning on the punch All right, let's move on from the punch to the next paper into of course that happens to be the nation needs paper with these Headlines the big one there PDP in distress says or Tom Benrey a governor blames a tickle we care if on leaders and some will ask him I mean he was in the position to recommend the zoning formula for the party not him president But he checked the committee some would say well He was not the only one in that committee at guess my guess will be able to throw more light on that But this is a quote Sighted by the nation with that headline. He says that there are certain internal mechanisms That should apply to conflict resolution within the party. All right, that's a lead one from the nation But it's curious to see mercy and leader Chris candy wonder that the nation has Made it points like they've taken their their editorial team and they have come in from the PDP house What a top laser cause the headlines almost every day. It's about PDP crisis PDP crisis PDP in distress PDP crisis That's editorial decision of the nation they entitled to make those decisions a pardon I bear no grudge against anybody says in yami a right for my governor of Trabah state I know Council's one million voter Registrations in eligible entries voided.  All right That's interesting one coming hundred front page of the nation mercy Away from the nation. Let's quickly take a look at the Nigerian Tribune Nigerian Tribune says flawed heat equity Niger and Lagos nine rescuers building Shrinks two adults missing school fences collapses killed two children in Lagos and passengers stranded as the Road caves in in Bida Again, you find federal government and ask you court adjoins proceedings till Friday Government's action condemnable That's what Faleno is quoted to say and two policemen two aids one other killed in Uba's convoy attack That's according to a police report a quermatus daughter publicly appeals for kidney donor Pay ten million to family of slain Kagee PDP woman Leader, that's what a course court orders the federal government Inex should operate free from outside pressure EU tells the federal government Advises politicians against violence hate speech Aviation walkers protests in Lagos and shut down operations at Kano Airport fan disconnects the N a m a Facilities over five hundred million dollar debt and no king has right to claim Paramount say over others in on dough. That's what the government is saying That's the much we can take this morning on Niger and Tribune All right, let's move over from Nigerian Tribune. We'll go to daily trust and some interesting stories on the front page of daily trust It gives prominence to the aviation sector crisis Not the PDP crisis like the nation calls it with this leading story Aviation workers shut airports over new law aviation workers shut airports over new law Riders to that insist banning union union activities illegal issue 14-day strike notice Passengers stranded minister denies spungling in new clauses little small matter of some new clauses new aviation law that says You know affects a formation of unions and the activities you know As far as aviation sector is concerned. We have more from daily trust Parents cautious as school resumes in states to swept away nine rescued as flooding hits Niger equity Lagos so look at that in depth on the program later FG versus ASU called adjourns hearing to september 16 Concerns over not ascent to Nigeria startup bill Or be to tinnable presidency Not turn by turn or be to tinnable presidency not turn by turn We'll activate our structures in 774 local governments for b nlc president With golden opportunity to address challenges lp chairs the stories on the front page of The daily trust and I'll begin with that story as I introduce uh, uh, kris kendo one Do I guess analysts analysts are for this segment today once again? Good morning to you kris kendo one Is the presidency not turn by turn? I mean peter gregerby May may want to feel it's not 10 by 10, but isn't this what we call rotation, you know and federal character and all that What do you say to this kris kendo one do and also please speak to The nlc saying they will activate their structures for the labor party in the light of the nation's labor laws that said says the labor unions cannot use their funds You know in support or their dues in support of a political party any political parties over to you Yes, um, that brings to mind The slogan a milokon A milokon yoruba means is my turn. So I tend to So some extent agree with the epitome on that but don't also forget that The same thing that epitome is trying to write is putting More attention to when he says when Yeah, it has always been the Saying that is the turn of the southeast So Turn by turn is a two-edge sword can Could cut anywhere depending on who is holding the dagger or the knife But for me it's not About the snell it is the ability for anybody to be able to perform Yes, within the constitution equity Is a well enshrined meaning 1999 constitution of federal republic of nadir as amended Where it is believed that every part of this country should be given the treasure to partake in the political activities and price to any position in nigeria but when you now look at the situation since 1960 1968 And you look at the lopsidedness of leadership in terms of presidency in nigeria then It is good to ask yourself where exactly should the presidency go in 2023 I'm not speaking as somebody from the south is that for everything I've heard the mentors will say The south we should have a run at it but good enough we have The way it is presently the top The three top political parties have people from the What I will call the three type of Which nigeria was built that independence the north the south west and the east Now it will be In labor is from the east The people worker is from the north And It's from the southwest So it is less for nigerians to see and look at whoever they think As they are She has to be able to do the job and do the network by editing the passing 2023 They're coming to the statement made by the president of nigeria labor congress On a quabba quabba yesterday Don't forget that the labor party is owned by the engine labor congress So whatever they can do is their party and they are not the first the first Of his kind if you go around most Develop countries you have all the two parties go home by labor labor organization So if they say that they're going to mobilize Within the 734 recognize the government in nigeria for their candidates all well and good It's been they are right Inasmuch as they don't are not in anything outside Outside the law for me. I don't say anything wrong with that It's a political party. They are never shy away from saying that It is a political party and they're going to do everything only possible to support their candidate In the forthcoming general election Yeah, but but but sir the labor laws They talk about the fact that you can't use The the dues of and the the the resources of of the Unions labor unions in this time in this country have two main unions nlc and tuc To fund any political party People who pay Are you people who pay dues all the members who pay dues have they ask each and every one of them If they want to support a particular party. I'm sure that is a thinking behind But even without analyzing whether that law is right or not the law is is there Uh, uh, you can't take the funds the the resources of the labor unions to be in in politics. You you can't Go fee the the labor Niger labor congress have not said they are going to fund Uh Men pass you don't know where they're getting their funds for the house sponsors. They have people that support them and rest of that So I tell me if the nlc the nlc presidents makes a phone call that that or drives his car Or sits in his office using the ac there to make calls to mobilize members You're telling me that he's using resources of the nlc To fund people I'm asking I'm a graduate I'm a graduate of law so I'm speaking from the point of law And in law what would arrive with his evidence if you have such evidence then bring it for all but if you don't then I'm asking you is it possible for the nlc to Converse for votes for and to support labor party or any party without Using their resources I I totally agree with you except to bring that evidence forward. You can see they can see It's a question. No, I didn't make a statement. It was a question Can the nlc use its resources to support a political party without can't can they support a political party without using their own resources Yes, but as I said They own the party That that labor party is their party So how do you support your party if When there's a lacuna here, I think it's there for student Anybody that's really Agree by that to take it to the court and I think we might need a court interpretation But as long as I'm concerned the Nigerian people completely have not said they're going to use those funds So I leave it at that until they say so then oh well, I don't forget that we also have issues of diaspora Donations that have been running riot since people be also traveled abroad and the man came out to say no I have no opinion. I can't nobody's doing it in the morning But that also been treading videos of recent We are president Muhammad Ibuah in 2015 also solicited for foreign donations from Nigerians in diaspora So this thing is not that here not there But I think for me the most important thing is that let us look at the character of the candidate. Look at what they have all this People here and they wouldn't help us. I want them to tell us what they can do and based on that That the Nigerians should be able to make a holistic choice on who they think should be in a better position To rule or to govern them or to be the president of India or even governors when it comes to 23 Well, let's move away from that discourse and take a look at the punch now and on the punch he talks about boundary disputes worsening insecurity as 676 killed in state and so No, why is it that you know, the government has not had a handle over, you know, this issue of boundary dispute and communal clashes Mercy over the world and since time immemorial What causes conflict and war in most countries is always banned Go and read history. So there will always be boundaries because land in itself has become a Vital What would I call now? I don't know how to put it but So people are always reaching out grabbing and grabbing land Grant seems to be the major resources that human acquire across the globe Which is why if you if you're going to get to get a land in most part of the world You have to pay through your nose for a legal instance in some places Land goes for as much as one plot of land goes for as much as one billion two billion and as a part so Is expected that as Population goes there's always a tendency for people to expand and in doing that they are going to need land So that is why we always have issues of boundary even Don't forget even part of the world that is going on between Ukraine and America part of the political and rest of them It's also a issue of like you saw that a few years ago Russia went into Ukraine and Connors started some areas of a Ukraine and Presently they're still trying to dominate by Connors many places as possible as many towns and state Lands as possible. So it has always been probably my own my own worry here I think our problem is the with Nigerian boundary commission I Don't think they have been doing what they ought to do and this is why I always have these clashes especially There's always the ones the two states and state and there's a communal one For example, the one that is in there going on in a boy Hundreds and thousands of people killed in a boy particularly over land is good. You also spoke about Crossed lines is that is also the issue then there's always heredia boundary clashes between kooky and also in new states So it has always been the problem and I think that the the the federal government through the Nigerian boundary commission able to do a much more provides Very sure that we have the nation of most of these bandits so that everybody knows where they belong but by the large use out The Niger use out the power over land is vested on the governors of state power from one that federal government But the power over land is vested on the governor of the state He is the one that can issue and improve licenses when it comes to land Then when it comes to state to state And since that number of people that have been killed about over 600. I'm sure it's even more than that I believe these are the ones that just Even in my own village in over we name our state. I know what we go through in go through land Just our small unit. In fact, yesterday in our local Look at what I saw is we are a man and another man. We are fighting over land and It takes the leaders within my community to go to the land and not try to say it's once I have been familiar since 1970 this one's have been so issue of land has always been and we always be a problem but on a on a very large escape The Niger boundary commission should be able to do look at what they have presently and see whether there are areas that That need we need a little adjustment Then put to that also Do you remember maybe that some states in the south south and the southeast have been having serious disputes over land? It's particularly reverse state and bias are that recently Some few years back the supreme court have to come up with a judgment We are starting or he wears where that was in dispute was given to reverse states and and so it has always been like that And we always be but um, the government should be able to do the need for every particular point in time to make sure that this does not just Still over into Commoner clashes killing and the rest of them. Remember what between Nigeria and Cameroon on the issue of Bacassi till now Um, Cameroon is a fully in charge of Bacassi after we visited that place to Cameroon During the But the case is it's been I think this plan to revisit that particular case, you know, the international court of justice that particular issue Yes, I know I know that yes, I know that there's an attempt that don't forget that The international court of justice are already given a ruling that Cameroon has taken We you know to go just within a second we need to go through History to to understand how that happened that issue of Bacassi from what I read What happened in Bacassi is that during the civil war the federal government promised Wouldn't find their way into this into the south south is a cities presently during the war and there was an agreement between Nigeria Government and the government of Cameroon that if they can allow Nigeria to come into Cameroon To to fight the Biafrans and rest of them. They are ready to see this that please And they allowed it and they came into there. I am not too fully Into that history, but that was part of what we heard And over the years process the government refused to do the need for until the passenger came in and Just measure that they came Well, Chris came they were interesting analysis from you this morning and we're so glad to have you join us So we look forward to having the next time We see what happens with the issues we've raised so far, but thanks Not before I go just a second before I go You make the fundamental observation on the issue of The nation and it comes to PD I have to warn as a journalist now that Most of our colleagues are going into the play of politics and being partisan. Yes, we know the owners of The nation is the perfect for me personally as an individual is the last paper I ever read Unlike before because it's so obvious that they are just adds to Attacking and attacking and as you know that we as A state of realm are supposed to be as neutral as possible irrespective of the owners of water best of it So that observation you made this morning was very very kind and I just say I should put in a word Have a wonderful day. All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate the time Chris came I wonder a chartered mediator and consulator. We'll take a break and when we return today 13 september 2022 We look at what happened today in history. That is the break actually and we're back on the other side


Hey, what's happening ladies and gentlemen welcome to episode three of season two of King Penny's podcast man. Hey, we got a special guest today. Hey, I want to tell you guys got an event on August 13th man doing back to school haircuts for the kids man. Got five barbers on deck. I'm going to line them up, put their handles right here man. Hey, got a chef roses and cilantro coming out man and we're going to do it real big. We're going to do free breakfast and free haircuts man. Got a special guest appearance from Mrs. Longmont 2023 and we got other guests coming man so stay posted and stay tuned in. Hey, let's turn our attention to our guest man. We got the hottest fitness trainer in Longmont right now man. If you don't know who she is you better tap in and find out man. Let's go ahead and get to know our guest today. Hey, how you doing? Good. Yeah, you feeling alright? Yeah. Let's get this thing started man. What's your name? My name is Brianna and I am from the Hill Country in Texas. Okay, the Hill Country. Where is that in Texas? It's down there. Because I hear Matthew McConaughey talk a lot about Brianna. It's down there. Yeah, I'm around that area. Yeah. Lano, Texas. I don't know if that rings a bell. It's pretty small outside of Austin about an hour outside of Boston. And that would describe the work ethic. Okay, I got that. Alright, look it makes a lot of things click now. So what's the family like? I have a wonderful fiance and a dog and two cats. Yeah, so I've already hyped them up about the fitness thing. So what is it that you actually do? What is the actual job title here? Yeah, so I am a bodybuilding coach and personal trainer. I am also a nutritionist. I work with many different clients on a day-to-day basis meeting whatever needs that he met. Okay, how did you get involved in the field? So fitness was a huge part of my life growing up. It was a very natural transition. I graduated high school early and went straight into my certs. Oh, wow. So you certified everything? I'm ready to go. Hey, that's legit right there. I want to tell you how we met, though, right quick. Hey, met you, squat competition, you showed out, man. I ain't never seen nobody rep like that, especially, and I hate to lump you into a female category, but I'm just saying you showed all heart just period overall. That was surprising because when I put that contest up there, I never really put a number that high. In my mind, I was just thinking like, oh, okay, people will coast through maybe 15, 20 reps. And then when you showed out, I was just like, oh, man, that's crazy. I'm a very competitive person. Hey, yeah, man. And just for a minute, hey, that's a lot of work and whatnot like that. I will post that video on the end of this too. Like, so if you want to see her repping out, man, after this, man, for one minute, hey, crazy video to watch. So how is business? It's been great getting a lot busier. Open the door to bodybuilding coaching this year. And so that's taking the forefront of things right now. I've got my first client in prep and it's going really well. Yeah. And how's that going? When is that client up? She is up September 23rd in the Rocky Mountains natural show in Colorado Springs. Yep. So I've seen a picture of her, right? And I've seen a picture of her a couple of times. You're getting great results. And like, that's like, I was just like, oh, okay, how long have you been just in the fitness field and stuff like that personally? Like, because you compete as well. So in bodybuilding, particularly over three years, but in the fitness world, it really has been my whole life. Yeah. Okay.  Who motivates you in the fitness industry? Honestly, I'm more of pull my motivation from myself. I try not to compare myself to other people. I do look up to people who have certain mindsets. Justin Mahaley is one of my favorite coaches. He has a podcast. It's called the Grower Dye podcast. He's amazing. That's how you're going to plug that in on mine. Look at your stuff.  Hey, she said, who not Justin? No, I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. But yeah, that's, that's who I look up to. No, that's cool. Because I want to read this, right? So I came across this, across this friend and your one of your clients, Victoria wrote, she goes, breeze care and attention to both physical and mental health are incomparable in all aspects of her life. She's driven and humble. And if you're lucky enough to work out with there, it'll challenge you to be the best version of yourself. That's crazy. I was just like, first of all, friendship.  Like, you know what I mean? And, and that's just amazing. Like just, you know, I mean, it shows like your compassion, but also at the same time it shows your passion to push your friend to be the best version of her. Absolutely. And Victoria was my training partner before I even started coaching. She also pushed me too. And she's been working at this for a long time. It's so good to have someone you can, that can mutually push each other. Yeah. It takes the work out to another level. And so if you bring that energy, then your client starts to bring that energy with you. And then everybody's just getting better together. No, that's legit. So you recently picked up a couple of male clients. I did. Yes. How was that? It's been going really well. I've had no issues with it. No barriers. Just been about the same as my female clients. Did you think that there was going to be like going into, because I mean, hold on. Let me ask this question the right way, because what I see is you've been getting results. You have been proving yourself as well. Right. You know what I mean? So I mean, I don't see why there would be a problem, but to some having a female trainer, I don't know if that would be the go-to. To be completely honest with lifestyle clients, I generally stick to female. I do have a few male lifestyle clients just because it's a one-on-one private situation. As long as people are respectful of me, then I'm willing to work with you. Can I ask a lifestyle client? Yeah. So lifestyle client is going to be anyone that is doing fitness or nutrition just for lifestyle and health purposes, not for competition purposes. Okay. And so what all do you offer? You know what I mean? What does that entail? So for lifestyle, I am a certified nutritionist and I offer nutrition consulting and one-on-one private sessions with me usually take about an hour. It really just is tailored very much to the client and their goals and needs because every client is different. Every client has different needs, different limitations, different things we have to work around. So it's all very personal tailored. So what's the hardest part about your job? Like if you had to like just hone in on something like this, like just hard? With personal training, and I'm sure you see this too, there are definitely times where clients will commit to training or something that they maybe can't commit to at that time, whether it be from personal limitations that they have mentally or their life is just really busy. It's always really hard to see them give up on their goals. It's not very often that you see it, but when you do I would say that's the hardest part. You don't have to answer this question. But I asked Doc Sheppler this same one last season, right? How do you personally push through when clients are like that? Because you still have your own training. Yes. And that's mentally like, to me it takes away my energy mentally when I see people quit on themselves. Absolutely. Or quit on us. That's how I, because I take it personally. Absolutely. Like when you quit on us after we've made this plan together. Yeah. How do you mentally pull yourself out of that? So that was a really hard thing for me to learn because it is easy to fall into that depression with the client. But we, we have a choice and I'm going to pour all my energy into the clients who are pouring energy into themselves. And if you're not ready to pour energy into yourself, just come back to me when you are. It's okay. We can revisit it, but I can only pour energy into you if you're pouring it into yourself too. So I've just decided to take the path of the clients who are in that place and ready to put that in. I will meet you where you are. If you're not, that's okay. I'll meet you where you are too. But when you're ready, we'll do it together. Okay. So how do you navigate now? And this is a weird place in the fitness industry, man, where everything is like online or over zoom. And I don't, I don't understand it. And I'll say that, but you're more of a hands-on trainer. I do perform more of a hands-on approach with lifestyle clients. I think the accountability of seeing your trainer in person and having that time each week to really hold yourself accountable and show up for yourself with your trainer pushes you extra. Yeah, definitely. And somebody there. Yeah, I think like there's a lot more results. What you've got going on, I don't know. I'm always like, and I get it, you know, saying some things you can coach online, you know what I mean? Or you can have a conversation or anything like that. But like, when you're in the trenches though, I feel like I want to be there with you. I'd want to be more hands-on with you. I want to be. Absolutely. And I do have a few online clients and we do focus a lot on, you know, the biomechanics of training. And so what we do in that case is training videos so that I can assess and send them back and change. So you said earlier, most of this is mental.  In my opinion, I feel like it's like 85% mental. You can do, I'm a big believer that you can do anything you set your mind to.  So we got through the negative, right? So what's the most gratifying part of your job? Like, what's the, like, what gets you the biggest, like, hey? Yeah. There are so many gratifying parts of this job. I feel like it's the best job in the world. But I would say watching clients break down those mental barriers that they put up for themselves. Because people don't realize, you know, you say, oh, I can't do that very easily. People say that all the time. I can't do X, Y and Z because of an injury or because of this. And you're giving yourself that label in your mind. So watching clients break that barrier and show themselves that they can do these things that they've told themselves they can't in the past, that's the best part. You know, the best part for me also, too, is talking to entrepreneurs like yourself, right? So you are fitness full-time. Yes. When did you take that on? And how has it been just working for you, doing what you love? Like, you know what I mean? I love to hear people talk about their passion, especially if they're living off of their passion. Well, the market here is a lot better than it was where I lived in the Hill Country. So for me, this seemed like a much bigger opportunity. It seemed like much easier. There's a lot more people here really involved in health and fitness, and that has made the job a lot easier. I think there is a lot of people growing towards more health and fitness industry-related things. And I think there's a lot more of a demand for that here than there was where I was residing in Texas. Do you make it outside a lot? Like, as far as... Well, Colorado is a big outdoor thing. Absolutely. Mountain hiking and outdoor stuff. Do you do that stuff or not? You just gym all in. I do a little bit of hiking. My dog's about 10 pounds, so he can hang in there for a little bit. Yeah. But, yeah, I really enjoy being outside and being in my garden, but that's great. And you go to a dark horse. Yes, that's great training. Yeah, how do you like it over there? It's great gym. It is a great gym. They have a lot to offer, a lot of great equipment, and a really great environment. Yeah. One of these days, they're going to let me in there. You know what I mean? One day they're going to let me in there and come through for the day or something like that. Yes. Yeah. I have a guest pass if you want to come get a lift in. Oh, man. Hey, look here. Say less. I'm on my way. Yes. So my thing is this, right? So you train other people, right? How do you get into mindstate to turn that switch on to turn your own on, like, to get ready to compete? Like, so, you know what I mean? Like, I think you had said earlier, like, when we had talked that next year, right? You're going to go. And whatnot like that. When do you flip the switch for that? So I try to stay in that mode 24-7, that competition mode all the time. I try to keep my schedule just as it would be as if I were prepping for a show. Meal timings are the same during the day. I try to make sure that there's not a large shift when I go into a prep for a show. So that way there's not a large change for me in my day-to-day. I ask personal trainers this all the time and they hate the question. What do you think about other personal trainers that don't look the part? With personal trainers? Yeah. I don't think... Like, because you definitely look the part hands down. Like, you see you coming in at that. Look here. But I mean, like I said, other personal trainers, sometimes I see them and they don't. One person, I'll give you an example. One personal trainer asked a question. He didn't like the question. He was like, oh, Bill Belichick doesn't look like he can play football, but you know what I mean? He does things and stuff like that. But how do you feel about other personal trainers that train people that aren't necessarily following or living the lifestyle that they are? If you're not living and following the lifestyle, I don't think you should be leading other people to live that lifestyle. That being said, everybody's body is going to look different and I would not base that off of how your body looks.  So who does that for you? Who helps you keep this edge like you say is 24-7? Yeah. So I am pretty tough on myself, but when I fall, my fiance is really good at catching me and pushing me back to be the best version of myself. That's legit because I've seen him squat too. He pushed himself like, hey, he got an extra gear too over there. That's where I learned to push myself was from him. That's where I learned to turn it off and just work. No, that's cool having that relationship where people can kind of, you know what I'm saying? You guys both relate to the same thing. You both push each other. You both, and just to be around that, I'm sure, is motivating and inspiring. It is. And it helps you improve. It really does. Surrounding yourself with people who are living the lifestyles that you want to live, it helps you improve. So outside of the gym, right? And outside of the hiking and everything like that. On a perfect day, right? Like where you don't have anything going on. Where are you at? Where are you relaxed at? Where do you let your shoulders in? I'm a homebody. Yeah? I'm a homebody. I'm pretty introverted and I like my home. So on my relaxed days, I'm at home with a book and coffee and that's where I'm spending my time. No, that's legit. Yeah. That's legit. Last question I always ask everybody, what gets you out of bed in the morning? What lights that spark in the morning like? Yeah. So I have people depending on me and my clients are depending on me because they are learning how to show up for themselves. If I can't show up for myself, I cannot teach them how to show up for themselves. So that's what gets me up. And any advice for anybody trying to compete in bodybuilding? What advice would you give them? Absolutely. It is called bodybuilding for a reason. Take your time. Build the physique. It takes time. Be patient. Give yourself grace. The stage will always be there. And then anybody looking to get into the personal trainer field, what advice would you give them? For the personal trainer field, I would say expand your knowledge. Continue to expand your knowledge. Don't finish your certifications and think that your knowledge is full. You have so much to learn. You would always have so much to learn. Always be learning. Favorite body part to train? Legs. It's going to have to be legs. And what's on the playlist? A lot of horror core. Yeah? Give me a song. Give me a song so I can go back in. You know what I mean? Kind of. A lot of ghost mains. Suicide boys. Suicide boys. I'm definitely going to check it out and see what's happening with it because I love when people play other music other than mine. I have the same four or five songs that are in rotation all day. So I always try to give up docs. Anytime anybody comes to gym, you want to connect because I hear the same which I have a cadence in my mind that I kind of lift to. Either I'm R&B all together on pool days or I'm like rap kind of on push days. But I kind of just tend to bounce back and forth so when other people come around, let me see what you listen to. Because I got this one kid come by. He's like 18 man. He loves like 80's like rock. Like you know like all the Miami Vice soundtrack. And so I've been on that lately because he came and played and I was just like I never thought I would go back there. That's awesome. I think I've been listening to the same playlist for training for the last four years. So I hear certain songs. I already know what the zone is. Oh yeah. Oh okay. I can push here. You know what I mean? You got your PR songs in your class. Yeah. No that's cool man. I appreciate you taking the time to sit down and answer all my questions now. I'm sure. Absolutely. You know what I mean? I appreciate you coming out of the house. I've been trying to get a hold of you for a while now. But now I'm trying to tell you everything that you're doing is great. Thank you. You know what I mean? The results are the proof is in the pudding. You know what I mean? I see the clients. I'm seeing what you're doing. Thank you. And make sure you let everybody know how to get in touch with you. My bad. Look I totally spaced this out and I'm going to put it at the bottom of this too. Go ahead and tell them the Instagram, the website and everything. You can find me on Instagram at Primal Joy Fitness and my email is primaljoyfitness at gmail.com. Hey man, that's legit. And I would like to say I'm going to put all this on the bottom of the screen. Yeah. Keep doing your thing fitness wise. We're rooting for your clients. It's got the show coming up. Thank you. We're also rooting for you to win and be more successful. Thank you. And keep on giving the good energy and the good results to everybody in Longmont, man. And beyond. Thank you. You know what I mean? But I'm going to hold you up on this dark horse thing where I'm like, I've been in there for a show and stuff like that. They're going to let me up in here. But now, like I said, man, I'm really proud of you. Super proud of you. I'm going to throw this video. I hope you don't mind of you squatting for a minute on the back end of this and show you, hey, show you the kind of work that she puts in, man. Thank you for coming through and everything like that, man. Hey, you heard it here, man. King Penny got Bre on here, man. Hey, you guys check her out. Everything that she offers, man. And like I said, I'm going to post up some videos of her after this, man. Hey, you guys make sure you check in at the Wake Powell in the Rockies, man. 1610 Main Street on August 13th. Hey, we're going to be doing free back school haircuts for the kids. Like I said, man, we're going to have breakfast. We're going to have everything that you need there, man. Come through, get a haircut, grab something to eat, man. Get back to your Sunday, man. Hey, we're all about helping the community. And that's what we do, man. Make sure you stay motivated, stay giving back, man. Guy Breanna, Guy King Penny, man. We're out of here, man. Let's go. Let's go.


Mary and Espresso Press Design. Welcome. Thank you for stopping by. Actually I was going to say something different, but I guess old habits die hard. But thank you for stopping by. And today we're gonna do what to do with your back sides of your digital. In the event you don't like to print your back sides and these are generally going to be different than the usual that's out there as far as I can tell. So I know that there are a lot of ideas on what to do with your back sides but hopefully I've come up with some that you might not have thought of. So and then today I'm also going to do the giveaway as a celebration for reaching thousand subscribers. I'm going to explain that and just flip through of my latest product and this is another ornament I've been working on. I did get a lace embossing folder so I've been still working on that for the craft show. That's progressing on as fast as I would like but it's progressing. This is my latest paper debut and it's just journal cards, apothecary, label, journal cards and different sizes and a few labels. So these I think are, oh boy, four, four and a quarter by just a minute because I can't remember. Three and a quarter by four and a half and two and a half by about three and a half. So these are, can be pretty much ATC size. So just three pages on that. I just created it on the fly because I'm still working on my next kit and that's going to take a while. So the giveaway, the giveaway is going to be a $25 Amazon gift card. I am going to limit the time frame for the entrance. The entrance will be chosen from the comments on YouTube and hopefully you'll be a subscriber but I'm not going to make that a condition and I will just choose a number out of a hat and then I will count down from, I will limit the comments to a time frame of 24 hours and then I'll choose the number out of a hat and then I will count down to that corresponding comment number and that's pretty old school but that's, I saw that's how someone does it and they actually ship a book but I won't be shipping anything. However, if you are the winner I will need your email and I will also need to know if you would prefer your Amazon gift card from the country of your choice rather than amazon.com and that will be Amazon Canada, Amazon China, Amazon France, Amazon Germany, Amazon India, Amazon Italy, Amazon Japan, Amazon UK, Amazon Spain or Amazon Australia. So those are the countries that have their own Amazon sites and if you know what you would like to purchase and you would like to cut down on the shipping cost so that you can spend more of your gift card on the actual item, if you would like me to do that for you I will but I will need, if you are the winner, I will need your email address and how you can contact me is on YouTube or you can go to my website and just contact me through there and just put Amazon gift card giveaway winner in the subject so that I know you are the winner. So just stay tuned I will be, I'll do a separate video of the number I picked out of the hat and I will count down the lists and you will be able to see that live in its own separate video. Okay let's get started. So what you'll need are some pastels, some crayons, an embossing folder, some foam, you know the foam sheets, a soft cloth, and ink of your choice. So first of all I'm going to demonstrate the border technique that I forgot to mention last time and this is pretty probably the easiest and quickest one of all but depending on your ink color you still might be able to tell it's a border but all you're going to need is your little one-by-one ink or a square ink pad or an ink pad that you can feel that you can maneuver easily and you're just going to take it and swipe it down the edge of your border something like that. So that's that's one that I forgot last week. I did not make a list of all these and I'm sure if I forgot any more they'll probably pop into my head somewhere around midnight tonight. Okay so moving on and I'm probably just going to use white paper for this rather than actual back sides but probably one of the best things you can do is to order if white really bothers you one of the best things you can do is order cream colored printer paper. Now sometimes Amazon has it and sometimes they don't but there is a cream or sometimes it might be called natural and that way you will get rid of your stargoyte. If you're just going to have to decide what you want your paper to be if you want your colors to be the most prominent thing usually you would choose the brightest white you can find and naturally if you're going to be printing on cream that's going to affect your colors but since most people want vintage they'll probably feel that's desirable. So the first one since I don't have a decent neutral in my pastel set I'm just going to use blue. Okay and what you're going to do and it would probably be better if I had chosen a blue where they coating is not on the side of the pastel and I'm also picking up every little bump on this surface. Okay now you can either spray this with a fixative or you can just take your cloth, your soft cloth and rub off as much as possible similar to the other the border. After a certain point it will not come off anymore and your paper will just have a tint. So that's one way to dry what I'm going to call dry dye your paper. Okay the second technique is to do a rubbing. Now you can do this with an embossing folder but it's a little easier to emboss onto your onto a flat surface and then use your embossed flat surface. So you can just put that under there and then just take your crayon or your pastel or your pencil and do a rubbing and if you use the side of your crayon which I no longer have anymore. The one thing I shouldn't have given away I gave away and that was I had a huge ziploc bag of broken crayons and I donated it so I no longer have it.  Okay and if you use the side of your crayon you virtually can't tell that it's a crayon. Okay that's number two. So number three is you can use your foam. You can die cut your shapes from your foam and you can make stamps. You can also emboss your foam and make stamps. So that's technique number I guess it is and guess what I got my walnut stain so I'm going to use that and I'm just going to apply it to my piece here and I made one a little smaller because a larger one you have to make sure you hold it into place or it will you won't get a nice transfer. So there you go and with this ink I can actually get ghosts. Okay so I just chose a design that people would most like to use probably for a background and okay well that doesn't apply to this one and these will say you can use these for a long time because you're you're likely never going to remove the 3D from a piece of foam. So you can create all kinds of those and use those for a long time. Okay technique number four this is similar to using the wax paper to print and what I did was I just took a piece of wax paper and I tripled it, glued those layers together with a glue stick and then I took it to my embossing folder and I embossed it and then what you are going to need is a roller a paint roller which I have on here or a brayer and then I simply I cannot find these anymore to save my life. My loaves used to sell them all the time and I just have several of them because I use these to cut it to do my edges when I'm painting walls for my cut-in edge and they don't have them anymore. Whether Amazon does I don't know but they were like two dollars and I just keep them in the craft room because they're handy. So what I did was I just rolled this over I'm going to trim it off here as soon as I get where to trim just rolled it over to the width of the roller and then I applied some glue, glue that I know will adhere wax paper so I used my book binding glue and I just held that in place until it was glued. So I'm going to see if I can slide this out here so we can wait until it's dry. Those paper clips are there. Just see if I can clip this until it's dry and then we'll try that one. But I already have one made I can get it back together and I'm just going to slip it on here back on here hopefully hopefully it's coming apart a little at the edges. There we go. Okay so now you have a roller. So you can do this you can also do this with bubble wrap you can do it with yarn you can do it with rubber bands but this way you can use your embossing folders and I chose my lace embossing folder. So I'm just going to get a pad here that's stamping up pads are great because they're big enough and they stay juicy for a long time. So you're just going to roll your collar. Oops, be careful of that. Then whichever way you want to go and I don't know if I'm going to get ghosts off here or not.  If it bothers you that there is still white showing through there you can do the double. You can do the pastel first and then you can do this over the top just like as if you were going to stencil and then if you wanted to stencil some larger designs you could also do that so you can have more than one design going on. So I'm just going to go back to my pad here and use a different color and then maybe you know in the corners or up the sides two different colors two different designs. I would probably probably suggest choosing a rose or something for your foam piece. Just choose two different designs where it doesn't look so busy is what I'm trying to say. So that is the next one and the last one. Let me just see if this is dry yet. Hopefully I got up to the very edge. I think it is. Okay and then you can save these wherever.  See how that works. But this is similar to the you can buy these rollers. I don't know if they still sell them but I'm pretty sure they do. But you can buy these decorative rollers but this way you can make your own. This is color number two or design number two and color number two and you can easily transfer onto your paper.  So let me just get another tint over here. I should have done that first to show you but now some people say just scrape some of your powder off your pastels but I didn't have very much luck doing that and I'm sure you could also if eyeshadow and all mica powder and all that is your thing. You can also do that but I do have all of that in my drawer but this is the fastest and easiest for me personally. And you can put as many colors as you want in there. Just add a little purple blend it out. See all those all those strokes will blend out and just keep wiping until you don't get any more off on your cloth and your paper will maintain a subtle tint. So there we go. The homemade roller pastel, the foam printing, rubbing and I hope that's I hope that's it. If there's another one still floating in my head from when I first conceived of this idea weeks ago or months ago I don't even know when it was in my notes of things to do a video about. So we are at 28, 26 and that's probably going to be it for this week guys. Thanks again for stopping by and don't forget celebration $25 Amazon gift card. I will count down the comments. I would draw a number out of a hat, count down the comments and that number will be the winner. Don't forget to contact me. I need your email address in order to send you an Amazon e-card, e-gift card and let me know if you would prefer it to be sent from your own country from that list of countries that have their own Amazon sites. Otherwise it will be from amazon.com and you will just have to suffer the consequence of the high cost of shipping. But I'm not willing to ship anything to a worldwide audience so it was either limit the gift card to Amazon.com only and increase the cost of the gift card so that you would actually have some money left on your gift card or ask you to let me know if you would like me to do that for you which I will. So remember leave a comment hopeful and good luck on being the lucky number and write Amazon gift card winner in the subject and let me know if you would like it to be specific to your own country's Amazon. Okay, thanks a lot everyone. I'll see you next time and I'll be doing the video of the winner and I'll also be doing a short to help promote this video. So have a great week. See you next time. Bye.


Chapter 5 of Martin Hewitt Investigator by Arthur Morrison This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter 5 The Quinton Jewel Affair It was comparatively rarely that Hewitt came into contact with members of the regular criminal class. Those, I mean, who are thieves of one sort or another by exclusive profession. Still nobody could have been better prepared than Hewitt for encountering this class when it became necessary. By some means, which I never quite understood, he managed to keep abreast of the very latest fashions in the ever-changing slang dialect of the fraternity, and he was a perfect master of the more modern and debased form of Romany. So much so that frequently a gypsy who began, as they always do, by pretending that he understood nothing and never heard of a gypsy language, ended by confessing that Hewitt could rocker better than most Romany Charles themselves. By this acquaintance with their habits and talk, Hewitt was sometimes able to render efficient service in cases of special importance. In the Quinton Jewel Affair, Hewitt came into contact with a very accomplished thief. The case will probably be very well remembered. Sir Valentine Quinton, before he married, had been as poor as only a man of rank with an old country establishment to keep up can be. His marriage, however, with the daughter of a wealthy financier, had changed all that. And now the Quinton establishment was carried on, on as lavish a scale as might be, and indeed the extravagant habits of Lady Quinton herself rendered it an extremely lucky thing that she had brought a fortune with her. Among other things, her jewels made quite a collection, and chief among them was the great ruby, one of the very few that were sent to this country to be sold, at an average price of somewhere about twenty thousand pounds apiece, I believe, by the Burmese king before the annexation of his country. Let but a ruby be of a great size and color, and no equally fine diamond can approach its value. Well, this great ruby, which was set in a pendant by the by, together with a necklace, brooches, bracelets, earrings, indeed the greater part of Lady Quinton's collection, were stolen. The robbery was effected at the usual time and in the usual way, in cases of carefully planned jewelry robberies. The time was early evening, dinner time, in fact, and an entrance had been made by the window to Lady Quinton's dressing room, the door screwed up on the inside, and wires artfully stretched about the grounds below to overset anybody who might observe and pursue the thieves. On an investigation by London detectives, however, a feature of singularity was brought to light. There had plainly been only one thief at work at Radcot Hall, and no other had been inside the grounds. Alone he had planted the wires, opened the window, screwed the door, and picked the lock of the safe. Clearly, this was a thief of the most accomplished description. Some few days passed, and although the police had made various arrests, they appeared to be all mistakes, and the suspected persons were released one after another. I was talking of the robbery with Hewitt at lunch, and asked him if he had received any commission to hunt for the missing jewels. No, Hewitt replied. I haven't been commissioned. They are offering an immense reward, however, a very pleasant sum indeed. I have had a short note from Radcot Hall informing me of the amount, and that's all. Probably they fancy that I may take the case up as a speculation, but that is a great mistake. I'm not a beginner, and I must be commissioned in a regular manner hit or miss, if I am to deal with the case. I've quite enough commissions going now, and no time to waste hunting for a problematical reward. But we were nearer a clue to the Quinton jewels than we supposed. We talked of other things, and presently rose, and left the restaurant, strolling quietly toward home. Some little distance from the Strand and near our own door, we passed an excited Irishman, without doubt an Irishman by appearance and talk, who was pouring a torrent of angry complaints in the ears of a policeman. The policeman obviously thought little of the man's grievances, and with an amused smile appeared to be advising him to go home quietly and think no more about it. We passed on and mounted our stairs. Something interesting in our conversation made me stop for a little while at Hewitt's office door on my way up, and while I stood there the Irishman we had seen in the street mounted the stairs. He was a poorly dressed but sturdy looking fellow, apparently a labourer in a badly worn best suit of clothes. His agitation still held him, and without a pause he immediately burst out. Which of ye gentlemen be Mr Hewitt, sir? This is Mr Hewitt, I said. Do you want him? It's protection I want, sir, protection. I spake to the police, and they life at me, begot. Five days have I lived in London, and it is nothing but battle, murder, and sudden death for me here all day and every day, and the police say I'm drunk. He gesticulated wildly, and to me it seemed just possible that the police might be right. They say I'm drunk, sir, he continued, but begob, I believe they think I'm mad, and me being thracked and folly'd and dogged and waylaid and poisoned and landeered and kidnapped and murdered, and for why I do not know. And who's doing all this? Strangers, sir, strangers. To the stranger here I am myself, and for why they do it bates me, unless I be so like the Prince of Wales or some other crowned head, they thrigh to slaughter me. They're laying for me in the streets now, I missed out not, and for what they may throw next I can tell no more than Lord Mayor, and police won't listen to me. This, I thought, must be one of the very common cases of mental hallucination which one hears of every day, the belief of the sufferer that he is surrounded by enemies and followed by spies. It is probably the most usual delusion of the harmless lunatic. But what have these people done? He would ask, looking rather interested, although amused. What actual assaults have they committed, and when, and who told you to come here? Who told me is it, but who but the piler outside in the street below?   Oh, no, they won't. You take it easy, my friend, and go on. Take it easy, is it, and go on, says I. Why, that's just where they've been last, a ruination and a turning at the place upside down and me's trick on the edge unsensible a mile away. Take it easy, is it, you say, with all the daemons in this holy place jumping on me every minute in places promiscuous, but I can't tell where to turn. Descending and vanishing, marvelous and unaccountable. Take it easy, is it, says I. Well, my friend, says he, I can't help you. That's the marvelous and unaccountable department up the stairs, foreign and steve. Mr. Hewitt, that is, says he, that attends to the unaccountable department. Him is went by a minute to go. You go and bother him. That's how I was told, sir. Hewitt smiled. Very good, he said. And now, what are these extraordinary troubles of yours? Don't declaim, he added as the Irishman raised his hand and opened his mouth preparatory to another torrent of complaint. Just say in ten words, if you can, what they've done to you. I will, sir. One day, had I been in London, sir, one day only, and a low scut tried to poison me drink. Next day some other thief, as sin, showed me off a railway platform under a train, malicious and purposeful. Glory be he didn't kill me. But the very doctor that felt me bones tried to pick me pocket, I do believe. Sunday night I was grabbed outrageous in a dark turnin' round the ground, half strangled, and me pockets nigh ripped out of me trousers. And this very blessed mornin' of light I was struck unsensible, I left a livin' corpse, and mellagins penetrated, and all the thruck mishandled and rub up behind my back. Is that pangendery for the police to laugh at, sir? Had Hewitt not been there, I think I should have done my best to quiet the poor fellow with a few soothing words, and to persuade him to go home to his friends. His excited and rather confused manner, his fantastic story of a sort of general conspiracy to kill him, and the absurd reference to the doctor who tried to pick his pocket seemed to me plainly to confirm my first impression that he was insane. But Hewitt appeared strangely interested. Did they steal anything? he asked. Dibble a stick but midore's key, and that they took on and lift in the door. Hewitt opened his office door. Come in, he said, and tell me all about it. You come too, Brett. The Irishman and I followed him into the inner office, where, shutting the door, Hewitt suddenly turned on the Irishman and exclaimed sharply, Then you've still got it. He looked keenly in the man's eyes, but the only expression there was one of surprise. Got it, said the Irishman. Got fort, sir. Is it your thinking I've got the horrors, as well as the police? Hewitt's gaze relaxed.  You've still got your watch and money, I suppose, since you weren't robbed. Oh, that glory be, I have it still, though for how long, or my own head for that matter, in this state of besiegement I cannot say.  First, your name. Leamy's my name, sir. Michael Leamy. Lately from Ireland? Over from Dublin this last blessed Wednesday, and a cruel bad pundering it was in the boat, too, spake and av that same. Looking for work? That is my pursuit at present, sir. Did anything noticeable happen before these troubles of yours began, anything here in London or on the journey? Sure, the Irishman smiled. Part of the way I travelled first class, by favour of the gear, and I got a small job before I left the train. How was that? Why did you travel first class, part of the way? There was a station for where we stopped after a long run, and I got down to take the cramp out of me joints, and take a taste of drink. I overstayed somehow, and when I got to the train begob, it was on the move. There was a first class carriage door opening right front of me, and in that the yard crams me holus bolus. There was a juice of foreign gentlemen sitting there, and he stares at me umbrageous, but I was not discommoded being unbatchful by nature. We travelled along a heap of miles more till we came near London, after we had stopped at a station where they took tickets, and we went ahead again, and presently as we rips through some other station up jumps the gentleman opposite, swearing hard under his tongue, and looks out at the windy. I thought this train stopped here, says he. Chuck Farm observed Hewitt with a nod. The name I do not know, sir, but that's what he said. When he looks at me, uneasy, for a little, and at last he says, Would you like a small job, my good man, well paid? Faith, says I, it is that will suit me well. Then see here, says he. I should have got out of that station, have in particular business, have in mist, I must send a telegrammer from Houston.  Not worth the shine of a brass farton to a soul else. And I want him took on to him, take you this bag, he says, and go use straight out with it at Houston and get a cab. I shall stay in the station a bit to see the telegram. Drive out at the station, across the road outside, and wait there five minutes by the clock.  Wait five minutes, and maybe I'll come and join you. If I don't, it will be because I'm detained, unexpected. And then yield drive to my solicitor straight. Here's his address, if you can read righten, and he put out a piece of paper for me. He gave me half a crown for the cab, and I took his bag. One moment, have you the paper with the address now? I have not, sir. I missed it after the bloggers overset me yesterday, but the solicitor's name was Hollams, and a liberal gentleman with his money. He was, too, by that same token. What was his address? Twas in Chelsea, and Twas gold, or golden, something which I know by the good token of what he gave me, but the number I misremember. Hewitt turned to his directory. Gold Street is the place, probably, he said, and it seems to be a street chiefly of private houses. You would be able to point out the house if you were taken there, I suppose? I should that, sir, indeed. I was thinking of going there and telling Mr. Hollams all my troubles, him haven't been so kind. Now tell me exactly what instructions the man in the train gave you, and what happened? He says, you ask for Mr. Hollams, and see nobody else. Tell him ye've brought the sparks from Mr. W. I fancied I could see a sudden twinkle in Hewitt's eye, but he made no other sign, and the Irishman proceeded. Sparks, says I. Yes, sparks, says he. Mr. Hollams will know. Tis our joking word for him, sometimes papers is sparks when they set a lawsuit ablaze, and he laughed. But be sure ye say the sparks from Mr. W. He says again, because then he'll know you're genuine, and he'll pay ye handsome. Say, Mr. W says you're to have your regulars, if you like. Do you mind that? I, says I, that I'm to have my regulars. Well, sir, I took the bag and went out of the station, took the cab, and did as he told me. I waited the five minutes, but he never came, so off I drove to Mr. Hollams, and he treated me handsome, sir. Yes, but tell me exactly all he did. Mr. Hollams, sir, says I. Who are you? says he. McLeamy, sir, says I, from Mr. W. Witt's sparks. Oh, says he, didn't come in. I went in. They're in here, are they? says he, taken the bag. They are, sir, says I. And Mr. W. says I'm to have my regulars. You shall, says he. What shall we say now, a finnip?  Five quid, understand that? Big up, I did understand it, and mighty placed I was to have come to a place where they pay five pun notes for carrion bags. So when he asked me, was I new to London, and should I take the same line of business? I told him I should for certain, or anything else paying like. Right, says he. Let me know when you've got anything. You'll find me all right. Any winked, friendly? Faith that I know I shall, sir, says I, with the money safe in my pocket. And I winked him back, congenial. I've a smart family about me, says he. And I treat him all fair and liberal. And saints, I thought it likely his family, had have all they wanted. See, and he was so free-handed, would a stranger. Then he asked me where I was a living in London. And when I told him nowhere, he told me I have a room in Muston Street, here by Drury Lane, that was to let, in a house his family knew very well. And I went straight there, and took it. And there I do be stayin' still, sir. I hadn't understood at first why he would took so much interest in the Irishman's narrative, but the latter part of it opened my eyes a little. It seemed that Lemie had, in his innocence, been made a conveyor of stolen property. I knew enough of Thede's slang to know that sparks meant diamonds or other jewels, that regulars was the term used for a payment made to a brother thief, who gave assistance in some small way, such as carrying the booty, and that the family was the time-honored expression for a gang of thieves. This was all on Wednesday, I understand, said Hewitt. Now tell me what happened on Thursday, the poisoning, or drugging, you know? Well, sir, I was walkin' out, and toward the evening I lost myself. Up comes a man, seemingly a stranger, and smacks me on the shoulder. Why, Mick, says he, it's Mick Lemie, I do believe. I am that, says I, but you I do not know. Not know me, says he, why I went to school with ye, and with that he hauls me off to a bar, Blarnean, and Minodorin, and orders drinks. Can ye rash me a poepleite, says he? And I turned to get it, but, lookin' back, sudden there was an onblush and thief of the world, tippin' a paper full of powder stuff into my glass. What did you do? Hewitt asked. I knocked the dirty face of him, sore, and can ye blame me? A maine scut, trying for to poison a well-mainant stranger. I knocked the face of him, and got away home. Now, the next misfortune? Faith, that was of a sort likely to turn out the last of all misfortunes. I went that day to the crystal palace, bein' disposed for a sport, seein' as I was new in London. Comin' home at night, there was a juice of a crowd on the station platform, consequence of a late thrain. Standin' by the edge of the platform at the fore-end, just as the thrain came in. Some invisible murder gives me a stupendous drive in the back, and over I went on the line mid-betwixt the rails. The engine came up and went half over me, without givin' me a scratch, because of me's centreless situation. And then the porter-men pulled me out, nigh-sick with fright, sir, as you may guess.  There was no broke bones, glory be, and the doctor-man, he was tellin' me so after feelin' me over, when I felt his hand in me waistcoat-pocket. And for what's this, sir, says I? Do you be lookin' for your fee the thief's way? He laughed, and said, I want no fee from ye ma man, and I did but feel your ribs. Thou on me conscience, he had done that under me waistcoat already, and so I came home. What did they do to you on Saturday? Saturday, sir, they gave me a whole holiday, and I began to think less of things. But on Saturday night, in a dark place, two black-yards took me throat from behind, nigh-toked me, flung me down, and went through all me pockets in about a quarter of a minute. And they took nothing, you say? Nothing, sir, but this mornin' I got my worst dose. I was traipsing along distressful and mighty sore in a street just away off the strand here, when I observed the doctor man that was at the Crystal Palace station, a smilein' and beckonin' at me from a door. How are ye now, says he? Well, says I, I'm moiety sore and sad bruised, says I. Is that so, says he? Step in here, so I stepped in, and before I could wink, there dropped a crack on the back of me head that sent me off as unknowledgeable as a corpse. I knew no more for a while, sore, whether half an hour or an hour, and thin I got up in a room marked Toulette. It was a house full of offices, by the same token like this. There was a sore bad lump on me head, see it, sir? And the whole whirl was spinnin' round rampages. The things out of me pockets were liin' on the floor by me, all burrin' the key of me room, so that the demons had been through me possessions again, bad luck to them. You are quite sure, are you, that everything was there, except the key? Certain, sir? Well, I got along to me room, sick and sorry enough, and doubtsome, whether I might get in with no key. But there was the key in the open door, and by this and that, all the stuff in the room, chair, table, bed, and all, was standin' on their heads twisty ways, and the bed clothes and everything else, such a disgraceful, shmash and conglomerated thruck as you never dreamed of. The chist of drawers was liin' on its face with all the drawers out and emptied on the floor, twas as though an army had been lootin', sir. But still nothing was gone. Nothin', so far as I investigated, sir, but I didn't stay. I came out to speak to the police, and two of them laughed at me, one after another. It has certainly been no laughing matter for you. Now tell me, have you anything in your possession, documents, or valuables, or anything, that any other person, to your knowledge, is anxious to get hold of? I have not, sir. Divell a document, as to valuables. Them and me is the coldest of strangers. Just call to mind now the face of the man who tried to put powder in your drink, and that of the doctor who attended to you in the railway station. Were they at all alike, or was either, like anybody you have seen before? Lemi puckered his forehead and thought. Faith, he said presently. They were a bit alike, though one had a beard and teller whiskers only. Neither happened to look like Mr. Hollams, for instance. Lemi started. Begob, but they did. They'd have been mortal like him if they'd been shaved. Then, after a pause, he suddenly added, Holy saints, is it the family he talked of? Hewitt laughed. Perhaps it is, he said, now as to the man who sent you with the bag. Was it an old bag? Bran Cracklin knew a brown lither bag. Locked? That I never tried, sir, it was not my concern. True, now as to this Mr. W. himself.  Is that like him? he asked. Sure it's the man himself. Is he a friend of yours, sir? No, he's not exactly a friend of mine, Hewitt answered with a grim chuckle. I fancy he's one of that very respectable family you heard about at Mr. Hollams. Come along with me now to Chelsea and see if you can point out that house in Goldstreet. I'll send for a cab. He made for the outer office, and I went with him. What's all this, Hewitt? I asked. A gang of thieves with stolen property? Hewitt looked in my face and replied. It's the Quinton Ruby. What, the Ruby? Shall you take the case up, then? I shall. It is no longer a speculation. Then do you expect to find it at Hollams' house in Chelsea, I asked? No, I don't, because it isn't there. Else why are they trying to get it from this unlucky Irishman? There has been bad faith in Hollams' gang, I expect, and Hollams has missed the ruby and suspect's lemie of having taken it from the bag. Then who is this Mr. W whose portrait you have in your possession? See here, Hewitt turned over a small pile of recent newspapers and selected one, pointing at a particular paragraph. I kept that in mind because to me it seemed to be the most likely arrest of the lot, he said. It was an evening paper of the previous Thursday, and the paragraph was a very short one, thus. The man Wilkes, who was arrested at Euston Station yesterday in connection with the robbery of Lady Quinton's jewels, has been released, nothing being found to incriminate him. How does that strike you? asked Hewitt. Wilkes is a man well known to the police, one of the most accomplished burgers in this country, in fact. I have had no dealings with him as yet, but I found means, some time ago, to add his portrait to my little collection in case I might want it, and today it has been quite useful. The thing was plain now, Wilkes must have been bringing his booty to town and calculated on getting out at Chalk Farm, and thus eluding the watch which he doubtless felt pretty sure would be kept by telegraphic instruction at Euston for suspicious characters arriving from the direction of Radkitt. His transaction with Lemie was his only possible expedient to save himself from being hopelessly taken with the swag in his possession. The paragraph told me why Lemie had waited in vain for Mr. W. in the cab. What shall you do? I asked. I shall go to Gold Street House and find out what I can as soon as this cab turns up. There seemed a possibility of some excitement in the adventure, so I asked. Will you want any help? Hewitt smiled. I think I can get through it alone, he said. Then may I come and look on, I said. Of course I don't want to be in your way, and the result of the business, whatever it is, will be to your credit alone, but I am curious. Come then, by all means. The cab will be a four-wheeler, and there will be plenty of room. Gold Street was a short street of private houses, a very fair size, and of a half-varnished pretension to gentility.  At the end the cab turned to the corner and stopped, while Hewitt wrote a short note to an official of Scotland Yard. Take this note, he instructed Lemie, to Scotland Yard in the cab, and then go home. I will pay the cabman now. I will, sir, and will I be protected? Oh, yes, stay home for the rest of the day, and I expect you'll be left alone in future. Perhaps I shall have something to tell you in a day or two. If I do, I'll send. Goodbye. The cab rolled off, and Hewitt and I strolled back along Gold Street. I think, Hewitt said, we will drop in on Mr. Hollams for a few minutes while we can. In a few hours I expect the police will have him, and his house too, if they attend promptly, to my note. Have you ever seen him? Not to my knowledge, though I may know him by some other name. Wilkes I know by sight, though he doesn't know me. What shall we say? That will depend on circumstances. I may not get my cue till the door opens, or even later. At worst I can easily apply for a reference as to Lemie, who, you remember, is looking for work. But we were destined not to make Mr. Hollams acquaintance after all. As we approached the house a great uproar was heard from the lower part, giving on to the area, and suddenly a man, hatless, and with a sleeve of his coat nearly torn away, burst through the door and up the area steps pursued by two others. I had barely time to observe that one of the pursuers carried a revolver, and that both hesitated and retired on seeing that several people were about the street, when Hewitt, gripping my arm and exclaiming, That's our man, started at a run after the fugitive. We turned to the next corner and saw the man 30 yards before us, walking, and pulling up his sleeves at the shoulder so as to conceal the rent. Plainly he felt safe from further molestation. That's Sam Wilkes, Hewitt explained as we followed. The juice of a foing gentleman who got Lemie to carry his bag, and the man who knows where the Quinton Ruby is, unless I am more than usually mistaken. Don't stare after him in case he looks round. Presently, when we get into the busier streets, I shall have a little chat with him. But for some time the man kept to the back streets. In time, however, he emerged into the Buckingham Palace road, and we saw him stop and look at a hat shop. But after a general look over the window and a glance in at the door he went on. Good sign, observed Hewitt, got no money with him, makes it easier for us. In a little while Wilkes approached a small crowd, gathered about a woman fiddler. Hewitt touched my arm, and a few quick steps took us past our man, and onto the opposite side of the crowd. When Wilkes emerged he met us, coming in the opposite direction. What, Sim! burst out Hewitt with apparent delight. I haven't piped your mug for a stretch. I thought you'd fell. Where's your caddy? Wilkes looked astonished and suspicious. I don't know you, he said. You've made a mistake. Hewitt laughed. I'm glad you don't know me, he said. If you don't, I'm pretty sure the Reelers won't. I think I faked my mug pretty well, and my cobbler too. Look here, I'll send you a new caddy. Strange blokes don't do that, eh? Wilkes was still suspicious. I don't know what you mean, he said. Then, after a pause, he added, Who are you then?  Hooky, he said, I've had a lucky touch, and I'm Mr. Smith till I've melted the pieces. You come and damp it. I'm off, Wilkes replied, unless you're pale enough to lend me a quid, he added, laughing. I am that, responded Hewitt, plunging his hand into his pocket. I'm flush, my boy flush, and I've been wetting it pretty well today. I feel pretty jolly now, and I shouldn't wonder if I went home canon. Only a quid? Have two. If you want them, or three. There's plenty more, and you'll do the same for me some day. Here you are. Hewitt had, of a sudden, assumed the whole appearance, manners, and bearings of a slightly elevated rowdy. Now he pulled his hand from his pocket and extended it, full of silver, with five or six sovereigns interspersed, toward Wilkes. I'll have three quid, Wilkes said, with decision, taking the money, but I'm blowed if I remember you. Who's your pal? Hewitt jerked his hand in my direction, winked, and said in a low voice, He's all right having a rest, can't stand Manchester, and winked again. Wilkes laughed and nodded, and I understood from that that Hewitt had very flatteringly given me credit for being wanted by the Manchester police. We lurched into a public house and drank very little, very bad, whiskey, and water. Wilkes still regarded us curiously, and I could see him again and again glancing doubtfully in Hewitt's face. But the loan of three pounds had largely reassured him. Presently, Hewitt said, How about our old pal down in Gold Street? Do anything with him now, seen him lately? Wilkes looked up at the ceiling and shook his head. That's a good job! It'd be awkward if you were about there today, I can tell you. Why? Never mind, so long as you're not there. I know something, if I have been away. I'm glad I haven't had any truck with Gold Street lately, that's all. Do you mean the Realers are on it? Hewitt looked cautiously over his shoulder, leaned toward Wilkes, and said, Look here, this is the straight tip. I know this, I got it from the very narc that's given the show away. By six o'clock, number eight Gold Street will be turned inside out like an old glove, and everyone in the place will be— He finished the sentence by crossing his wrists like a handcuffed man. What's more, he went on, they know all about what's gone on there lately, and everybody that's been in or out for the last two months will be wanted particular, and will be found, I'm told. Hewitt concluded with a confidential frown, a nod, and a wink, and took another mouthful of whiskey. Then he added as an afterthought. So I'm glad you haven't been there lately. Wilkes looked in Hewitt's face and asked, Is that straight? Is it? replied Hewitt with emphasis.  Only I shan't go near number eight just yet, I know that. Wilkes fidgeted, finished his drink, and expressed his intention of going. Very well, if you won't have another, replied Hewitt, but he had gone. Good, said Hewitt, moving toward the door. He has suddenly developed a hurry. I shall keep him in sight, but you have better take cab and go straight to Houston. Take tickets to the nearest station to Radkitz. Ketersby, I think it is, and look up the train arrangements. Don't show yourself too much, and keep an eye on the entrance. Unless I am mistaken, Wilkes will be there pretty soon, and I shall be on his heels. If I am wrong, then you won't see the end of the fun, that's all. Hewitt hurried after Wilkes, and I took the cab and did as he wished. There was an hour and a few minutes I found to wait for the next train, and that time I occupied, as best I might, keeping a sharp look out across the quadrangle. Barely five minutes before the train was to leave, and just as I was beginning to think about the time of the next, a cab dashed up and Hewitt alighted. He hurried in, found me, and drew me aside into a recess, just as another cab arrived. Here he is, Hewitt said. I followed him as far as Houston rode, and then got my cabby to spurt up and pass him. He had had his mustache shaved off, and I feared you might not recognize him, and so let him see you. From our retreat we could see Wilkes hurry into the booking office. We watched him through to the platform and followed. He wasted no time, but made the best of his way to a third-class carriage at the extreme fore-end of the train. We have three minutes, Hewitt said, and everything depends on his not seeing us get into this train. Take this cap. Fortunately we're both in tweeds. He had bought a couple of tweed cricket caps, and these we assumed, sending our bowler hats to the cloakroom. Hewitt also put on a pair of blue spectacles, and then walked boldly up the platform and entered a first-class carriage. I followed, close on his heels, in such a manner that a person looking from the fore-end of the train would be able to see but very little of me. So far so good, said Hewitt, when we receded and the train began to move off. I must keep a look out at each station in case our friend goes off unexpectedly. I waited some time, I said. Where did you both go to? First he went and bought that hat he is wearing. Then he walked some distance, dodging the main thoroughfares and keeping to the back streets in a way that made following difficult, till he came to a little tailor's shop. There he entered and came out in a quarter of an hour with his coat mended. This was in a street in Westminster. Presently he worked his way up to Tottle Street, and there he plunged into a barber's shop. I took a cautious peep at the window, saw two or three other customers also waiting, and took the opportunity to rush over to a notion shop and buy these blue spectacles, and to a hatters for these caps, of which I regret to observe that yours is too big. He was rather a long while in the barbers, and finally came out, as you saw him, with no mustache. This was a good indication. It made it plainer than ever that he had believed my warning as to the police dissent on the house in Gold Street and its frequenters, which was right and proper for what I told him was quite true. The rest you know. He cabbed to the station, and so did I. And now, perhaps, I said, after giving me the character of a thief wanted by Manchester Police, forcibly depriving me of my hat in exchange for this all-too-large cap, and rushing me out of London without any definite idea of when I'm coming back, perhaps you'll tell me what we're after. Hewitt laughed. You wanted to join in, you know, he said, and you must take your luck as it comes. As a matter of fact there is scarcely anything in my profession so uninteresting and so difficult as this watching and following business. Often it lasts for weeks when we alight, we shall have to follow Wilkes again under the most difficult possible conditions. In the country there it is often quite impossible to follow a man unobserved. It is only because it is the only way that I am undertaking it now. As to what we're after, you know that as well as I, the Quinton Ruby. Wilkes has hidden it, and without his help it would be impossible to find it. We are following him so that he will find it for us. He must have hidden it, I suppose, to avoid sharing with Hollams. Of course, and availed himself of the fact of Lemie having carried the bag to direct Hollams's suspicion to him. Hollams found out, by his repeated searches of Lemie and his lodgings, that this was wrong, and this morning evidently tried to persuade the Ruby out of Wilkes' possession with a revolver. We saw the upshot of that. Ketterby's station was about forty miles out. At each intermediate stopping station he would watch earnestly, but Wilkes remained in the train. What I fear, he would observe, is that at Ketterby he may take a fly. To stalk a man on foot in a country is difficult enough, but you can't follow one vehicle in another without being spotted. But if he's so smart as I think he won't do it, a man travelling in a fly is noticed and remembered in these places. He did not take a fly. At Ketterby we saw him jump out quickly and hasten from the station. The train stood for a few minutes and he was out of the station before we alighted. Through the railings behind the platform we could see him walking briskly away to the right. From the ticket collector we ascertained that radcut lay in that direction three miles off. To my dying day I shall never forget that three miles. They seemed three hundred. In the still country almost every footfall seemed audible for any distance. And in the long stretches of road one could see half a mile behind or before. Hewitt was cool and patient, but I got into a fever of worry, excitement, want of breath and backache. At first for a little the road zigzagged and then the chase was comparatively easy. We waited behind one bend till Wilkes had passed the next and then hurried in his trail treading in the dustiest parts of the road or on the side grass when there was any to deaden the sound of our steps. At the last of these short bends we looked ahead and saw a long white stretch of road with the dark form of Wilkes a couple of hundred yards in front. It would never do to let him get to the end of this great stretch before following as he might turn off at some branch road out of sight and be lost. So we jumped the hedge and scuttled along as we best might on the other side with backs bent and our feet often many inches deep in wet clay. We had to make continual stoppages to listen and peep out and on one occasion happening unconsciously to stand erect looking after him. I was much startled to see Wilkes with his face toward me gazing down the road. I ducked like lightning and fortunately he seemed not to have observed me but went on as before. He had probably heard some slight noise but looked straight along the road for its explanation instead of over the hedge. At hilly parts of the road there was extreme difficulty indeed on approaching a rise it was usually necessary to lie down under the hedge till Wilkes had passed the top since from the higher ground he could have seen us easily. This improved neither my clothes, my comfort, nor my temper. Luckily we never encountered the difficulty of a long and high wall but once we were nearly betrayed by a man who shouted to order us off his field. At last we saw just ahead the square tower of an old church set about with thick trees. Opposite this Wilkes paused, looked irresolutely up and down the road and then went on. We crossed the road, availed ourselves of the opposite hedge and followed. The village was to be seen some three or four hundred yards farther along the road and toward it Wilkes sauntered slowly. Before he actually reached the houses he stopped and turned back. The churchyard exclaimed Hewitt under his breath lie close and let him pass. Wilkes reached the churchyard gate and again looked irresolutely about him. At that moment a party of children who had been playing among the graves came chattering and laughing toward and out of the gate and Wilkes walked hastily away again this time in the opposite direction. That's the place clearly Hewitt said. We must slip across quietly as soon as he's far enough down the road. Now we hurried stealthily across through the gate and into the churchyard where Hewitt threw his blue spectacles away. It was now nearly eight in the evening and the sun was setting. Once again Wilkes approached the gate and did not enter because a laborer passed at the time. Then he came back and slipped through. The grass about the graves was long and under the trees it was already twilight. Hewitt and I two or three yards apart to avoid falling over one another in case of sudden movement watched from behind gravestones. The form of Wilkes stood out large and black against the fading light in the west as he came stealthily approaching through the long grass. A light cart came clattering along the road and Wilkes dropped at once and crouched on his knees till it had passed. Then staring warily about him he made straight for the stone behind which Hewitt waited. I saw Hewitt's dark form swing noiselessly round to the other side of the stone. Wilkes passed on and dropped on his knee beside a large weather-worn slab that rested on a brick under structure a foot or so high. The long grass largely hid the bricks and among it Wilkes plunged his hand feeling along the brick surface. Presently he drew out a loose brick and laid it on the slab. He felt again in the place and brought forth a small dark object. I saw Hewitt rise erect in the gathering dusk and with extended arm stepped noiselessly toward the stooping man. Wilkes made a motion to place the dark object in his pocket but checked himself and opened what appeared to be a lid as though to make sure of the safety of the contents. The last light, straggling under the trees, fell on a brilliantly sparkling object within and like a flash Hewitt's hand shot over Wilkes' shoulder and snatched the jewel. The man actually screamed one of those curious sharp little screams that one may hear from a woman very suddenly alarmed but he sprang it Hewitt like a cat only to meet a straight drive of the fist that stretched him on his back across the slab. I sprang from behind my stone and helped Hewitt to secure his wrists with a pocket handkerchief. Then we marched him, struggling and swearing to the village. When in the lights of the village he recognized us, he had a perfect fit of rage. But afterward he calmed down and admitted that it was a very clean cup. There was some difficulty in finding the village constable and Sir Valentine Quinton was dining out and did not arrive for at least an hour. In the interval, Wilkes grew communicative. How much do you think I'll get? He asked. Can't guess, Hewitt replied. And as we shall probably have to give evidence, you'll be giving yourself away if you talk too much. Oh, I don't care. That'll make no difference. It's a fair cop and I'm in for it. You got me nicely, lending me three quid. I never knew a realer do that before. That blinded me. But was it kid about Gold Street?  And you are avenged for your little trouble with him this afternoon. What do you know about that? Well, you've got it up nicely for me, I must say. Suppose you've been following me all the time. Well, yes, I haven't been far off. I guess you'd want to clear out of town if Hollams was taken. And I knew this, Hewitt tapped his breast pocket, was what you'd care to get hold of first. You hid it, of course, because you knew that Hollams would probably have you searched for it, if he got suspicious. Yes, he did, too. Two blokes went over my pockets one night, and somebody got into my room. But I expected that.  Once he's got you under his thumb, he don't give you half your markings. And if you kick him, they'll have you smugged, so that I wasn't going to give him that, if I could help it. I suppose it ain't any good asking how you got put onto our mob. No, said Hewitt. It isn't. We didn't get back till the next day, staying for the night, despite an inconvenient want of requisites at the hall. There were, in fact, no late trains. We told Sir Valentine the story of the Irishman, much to his amusement. Lemie's tale sounded unlikely, of course, Hewitt said. But it was noticeable that every one of his misfortunes pointed in the same direction, that certain persons were tremendously anxious to get out something they supposed he had. When he spoke of his adventure with the bag, I had once remembered Wilk's arrest and subsequent release. It was a curious coincidence, to say the least, that this should happen at the very station to which the proceeds of this robbery must come, if they came to London at all, and on the day following the robbery itself. Ketterby is one of the few stations on this line where no trains would stop after the time of the robbery, so that the thief would have to wait till the next day to get back. Lemie's recognition of Wilk's portrait made me feel pretty certain. Plainly he had carried stolen property. The poor innocent fellow's conversation with Hollam showed that, as in fact, did the sum five pounds pay to him by way of regulars, or customary toll, from the plunder of services of carriage. Hollam's obviously took Lemie for a criminal friend of Wilk's, because of his use of the thief's expression sparks and regulars, and suggested, in terms which Lemie misunderstood, that he should sell any plunder he might obtain to himself, Hollam's. Altogether it would have been very curious if the plunder were not that from Radcud Hall, especially as no other robbery had been reported at the time. Now among the jewels taken, only one was of a very preeminent value, the famous Ruby. It was scarcely likely that Hollam's would go to so much trouble and risk attempting to drug, injuring, waylaying, and burgling the rooms of the unfortunate Lemie for a jewel of small value, for any jewel, in fact, but the Ruby, so that I felt a pretty strong presumption at all events that it was the Ruby Hollam's was after. Lemie had not had it, I was convinced, from his tale and his manner, and from what I judged of the man himself. The only other person was Wilk's, and certainly he had a temptation to keep this to himself and avoid, if possible, sharing with his London director or principal, while the carriage of the bag by the Irishman gave him a capital opportunity to put suspicion on him with the results seen. The most daring of Hollam's attacks on Lemie was doubtless the attempted maiming or killing at the railway station, so as to be able in the character of a medical man to search his pockets. He was probably desperate at the time, having, I have no doubt, been following Lemie about all day at the Crystal Palace without finding an opportunity to get at his pockets. The struggle and flight of Wilk's from Hollam's confirmed my previous impressions. Hollam's finally satisfied that very morning that Lemie certainly had not the jewel, either on his person or at his lodging, and knowing, from having so closely watched him, that he had been nowhere where it could be disposed of, concluded that Wilk's was cheating him and attempted to extort the Ruby from him by the aid of another Ruffian and a pistol. The rest of my way was plain. Wilk's I knew would seize the opportunity of Hollam's being safely locked up to get at and dispose of the Ruby. I supplied him with funds and left him to lead us to his hiding place. He did it, and I think that's all. He must have walked straight away from my house to the churchyard, Sir Valentine remarked, to hide that pendant. That was fairly cool. Only a cool hand could carry out such a robbery single-handed, he would answered. I expect his tools were in the bag that Lemie carried, as well as the jewels. They must have been a small and neat set. They were. We ascertained, on our return to town the next day, that the bag, with all its contents intact, including the tools, had been taken by the police at their surprise visit to number eight Gold Street, as well as much other stolen property. Hollam's and Wilk's each got very wholesome doses of penal servitude to the intense delight of Mick Lemie. Lemie himself, by the by, is still to be seen, clad in a noble uniform, guarding the door of a well-known London restaurant. He has not had any more five-pound notes for carrying bags, but knows London too well now to expect it. End of chapter five.