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[Assistant] Father has saved some money. He is weary of this place, where the fear of these people darkens our lives. He is ready to go. We would fly together to Philadelphia or New York, where we would be safe from them." McMurdo laughed.


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[Assistant] The large has a long arm. Do you think it could not stretch from here to Philadelphia or New York?


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[Assistant] Well then, to the west, or to England, or to Germany, where my father came from, anywhere to get away from the valley of fear." McMurdo thought of old brother Morris.


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[Assistant] Sure it is the second time I've heard the valley so named," said he. The shadow does indeed seem to lie heavy on some of you. It darkens every moment of our lives.


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[Assistant] Do you suppose that Ted Baldwin has ever forgiven us?


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[Assistant] If it were not that he fears you, what do you suppose our chances would be?


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[Assistant] If you saw the look in those dark, hungry eyes of his when they fall on me.


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[Assistant] Bye, Gar. I'd teach him better manners if I caught him at it.


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[Assistant] But see here, little girl, I can't leave here, I can't. Take that from me once and for all.


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[Assistant] But if you leave me to find my own way, I will try to prepare a way of getting honorably out of it. There is no honor in such a matter.


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[Assistant] Well it may be seven or eight, but within a year at the furthest, we will leave the valley behind us.


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[Assistant] It was the most that Eddie could obtain. And yet, it was something.


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[Assistant] There was this distant light to illuminate the gloom of the immediate future. She returned to her father's house more light-hearted than she had ever been since Jack McMurdo had come into her life.


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[Assistant] It might be thought that as a member all the doings of the society would be told to him.


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[Assistant] But he was soon to discover that the organization was wider and more complex than the simple lodge.


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[Assistant] Even Boss McGinty was ignorant as to many things, for there was an official named the County Delegate living at Hobson's Patch, farther down the line, who had power over several different lodges which he wielded in a sudden and arbitrary way.


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[Assistant] Only once did McMurdo see him, a sly little grey-haired rat-of-a-man with a slinking gait and a sidelong glance which was charged with malice.


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[Assistant] Evans Pot was his name, and even the great boss of Vermissa felt towards him something of the repulsion and fear which the huge Danton may have felt for the puny but dangerous Robespierre.


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[Assistant] One day Scanlan, who was McMurdo's fellow-boarder, received a note from McGinty enclosing one from Evan's pot, which informed him that he was sending over two good men, Lawler and Andrews, who had instructions to act in the neighbourhood.


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[Assistant] Though it was best for the cause that no particulars as to their objects should be given.


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[Assistant] Would the bodymaster see to it that suitable arrangements be made for their lodgings and comfort until the time for action should arrive?


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[Assistant] McGinty added that it was impossible for anyone to remain secret at the Union House, and that therefore he would be obliged if McMurdo and Scanlan would put the strangers up for a few days in their boarding-house.


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[Assistant] The same evening the two men arrived, each carrying his grip sack.


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[Assistant] Lawler was an elderly man, shrewd, silent, and self-contained, clad in an old black frock-coat,


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[Assistant] Which, with his soft felt hat and ragged grizzled beard, gave him a general resemblance to an itinerant preacher.


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[Assistant] His companion Andrews was little more than a boy, frank-faced and cheerful, with the breezy manner of one who is out for a holiday and means to enjoy every minute of it.


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[Assistant] Both men were total abstainers, and behaved in all ways as exemplary members of the society, with the one simple exception that they were assassins who had often proved themselves to be most capable instruments for this association of murder.


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[Assistant] Lawler had already carried out fourteen commissions of the kind, and Andrews three.


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[Assistant] They were, as McMurdo found, quite ready to converse about their deeds in the past, which they recounted with half bashful pride of men who had done good and unselfish service for the community.


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[Assistant] They were reticent, however, as to the immediate job in hand.


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[Assistant] They chose us because neither I nor the boy here drink," Lawler explained. They can count on us saying no more than we should. You must not take it amiss, but it is the orders of the county delegate that we obey.


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[Assistant] Sure, we are all in it together, said Scanlan, McMurdo's mate, as the four sat together at supper.


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[Assistant] That's true enough, and we'll talk till the cows come home of the killing of Charlie Williams, or of Simon Bird, or any other job in the past. But till the work is done we say nothing.


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[Assistant] There are half-dozen about here, that I have a word to say to," said McMurdo with an oath. I suppose it isn't Jack Knox of Ironhill that you're after. I'd go some way to see him get his desserts. No, it's not him yet. Or Hermann Strauss. No, nor him either. Well, if you won't tell us, we can't make you, but I'd be glad to know. Lola smiled and shook his head. He was not to be drawn.


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[Assistant] In spite of the reticence of their guests, Scanlan and McMurdo were quite determined to be present at what they called the fun.


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[Assistant] When, therefore, at an early hour one morning, McMurdo heard them creeping down the stairs, he awakened Scanlan, and the two hurried on their clothes.


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[Assistant] When they were dressed, they found that the others had stolen out, leaving the door open behind them. It was not yet dawn, and by the light of the lamps they could see the two men some distance down the street.


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[Assistant] They followed them warily, treading noiselessly in the deep snow.


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[Assistant] The boarding-house was near the edge of the town, and soon they were at the crossroads which is beyond its boundary.


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[Assistant] Here three men were waiting, with whom Lola and Andrews held a short, eager conversation. Then they all moved on together. It was clearly some notable job which needed numbers.


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[Assistant] At this point there are several trails which lead to various mines.


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[Assistant] The strangers took that which led to the Crow Hill.


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[Assistant] A huge business which was in strong hands which had been able, thanks to their energetic and fearless New England manager, Josiah H. Dunn, to keep some order and discipline during the long reign of terror.


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[Assistant] Day was breaking now, and a line of workmen were slowly making their way singly and in groups along the blackened path.


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[Assistant] McMurdo and Scanlan strolled on with the others, keeping in sight of the men whom they followed. A thick mist lay over them, and from the heart of it there came the sudden scream of a steam-whistle. It was the ten-minute signal before the cages descended and the day's labor began. When they reached the open space round the mineshaft,


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[Assistant] There were a hundred miners waiting, stamping their feet and blowing on their fingers, for it was bitterly cold.


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[Assistant] The strangers stood in a little group under the shadow of the engine-house.


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[Assistant] Scanlan and McMurdo climbed a heap of slag from which the whole scene lay before them.


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[Assistant] They saw the mine engineer, a great bearded Scotchman named Menzies, come out of the engine-house and blow his whistle for the cages to be lowered.


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[Assistant] At the same instant a tall, loose-framed young man with a clean-shaved, earnest face advanced eagerly towards the pithead.


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[Assistant] As he came forward, his eyes fell upon the group, silent and motionless under the engine-house.


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[Assistant] The men had drawn down their hats and turned up their collars to screen their faces.


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[Assistant] For a moment the presentiment of death laid its cold hand upon the manager's heart.


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[Assistant] At the next he had shaken it off and saw only his duty towards intrusive strangers.


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[Assistant] Who are you?" he asked as he advanced. What are you loitering there for? There was no answer, but the lad Andrew stepped forward and shot him in the stomach.


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[Assistant] The hundred waiting miners stood as motionless and helpless as if they were paralyzed.


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[Assistant] The manager clapped his two hands to the wound and doubled himself up.


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[Assistant] Then he staggered away, but another of the assassins fired, and he went down sideways, kicking and clawing among a heap of clinkers.


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[Assistant] Menzies, the Scotchman, gave a roar of rage at the sight, and rushed with an iron spanner at the murderers, but was met by two balls in the face which dropped him dead at their very feet.


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[Assistant] There was a surge forward of some of the miners, and an inarticulate cry of pity and of anger.


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[Assistant] But a couple of the strangers emptied their six-shooters over the heads of the crowd, and they broke and scattered, some of them rushing wildly back to their homes in Vermissa.


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[Assistant] When a few of the bravest had rallied and there was a return to the mine,


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[Assistant] The murderous gang had vanished in the mists of the morning, without a single witness being able to swear to the identity of these men, who in front of a hundred spectators had wrought this double crime.


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[Assistant] Scanlan and McMurdo made their way back. Scanlan somewhat subdued, for it was the first murder-job that he had seen with his own eyes, and it appeared less funny than he had been led to believe.


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[Assistant] The horrible screams of the dead manager's wife pursued them as they hurried to the town.


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[Assistant] What is it but a war between us and them, and we hit back where we best can?


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[Assistant] There was high revel in the lodge room at the Union house that night.


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[Assistant] Not only over the killing of the manager and engineer of the Crow Hill mine, which would bring this organization into line with the other blackmailed and terror-stricken companies of the district, but also over a distant triumph which had been wrought by the hands of the lodge itself.


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[Assistant] It would appear that when the county delegate had sent over five good men to strike a blow


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[Assistant] He had demanded that in return three Vermissa men should be secretly selected and sent across to kill William Hales of Stake Royal, one of the best-known and most popular mine-owners in the Gilmerton district, a man who was believed not to have an enemy in the world, for he was in all ways a model employer.


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[Assistant] He had insisted, however, upon efficiency in the work, and had therefore paid off certain drunken and idle employees who were members of the all-powerful society.


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[Assistant] Coffin notices hung outside his door had not weakened his resolution, and so in a free civilized country he found himself condemned to death.


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[Assistant] The execution had now been duly carried out. Ted Baldwin, who sprawled now in the seat of honour beside the body-master, had been chief of the party. His flushed face and glazed, bloodshot eyes told of the sleeplessness and drink.


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[Assistant] He and his two comrades had spent the night before among the mountains. They were unkempt and weatherstained.


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[Assistant] But no heroes returning from a forlorn hope could have had a warmer welcome from their comrades.


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[Assistant] The story was told and retold amid cries of delight and shouts of laughter. They had waited for their man as he drove home at nightfall, taking their station at the top of a steep hill, where his horse must be at a walk.


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[Assistant] He was so furred to keep out the cold that he could not lay his hand on his pistol. They had pulled him out and shot him again and again. He had screamed for mercy.


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[Assistant] The screams were repeated for the amusement of the lodge.


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[Assistant] Let's hear again how he squealed!" they cried. None of them knew the man, but there is eternal drama in a killing


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[Assistant] And they had shown the scourers of Gilmerton that the Vermissa men were to be relied upon. There had been one Contraton.


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[Assistant] For a man and his wife had driven up while they were still emptying their revolvers into the silent body. It had been suggested that they should shoot them both.


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[Assistant] But they were harmless folk who were not connected with the mines.


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[Assistant] So they were sternly bidden to drive on and keep silent, lest a worse thing befall them.


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[Assistant] And so the blood-mottled figure had been left as a warning to all such hard-hearted employers, and the three noble avengers had hurried off into the mountains where unbroken nature comes down to the very edge of the furnaces and the slag-heaps. Here they were safe and sound, their work well done,


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[Assistant] And the plaudits of their companions in their ears.


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[Assistant] It had been a great day for the scourers. The shadow had fallen even darker over the valley.


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[Assistant] But as the wise general chooses the moment of victory in which to redouble his efforts, so that his foes may have no time to steady themselves after disaster,


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[Assistant] So Boss McGinty, looking out upon the scene of his operations with his brooding and malicious eyes, had devised a new attack upon those who opposed him.


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[Assistant] That very night, as the half-drunken company broke up, he touched McMurdo on the arm and led him aside into that inner room where they had their first interview.


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[Assistant] "'See here, my lad,' said he, "'I've got a job that's worthy of you at last. You'll have the doing of it in your own hands.' "'Proud I am to hear it,' McMurdo answered. "'You can take two men with you, Manders and Riley.'


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[Assistant] They have been warned for service. We'll never be right in this district until Chester Wilcox has been settled, and you'll have the thanks of every lodge in the Coalfields if you can down him. I'll do my best, anyhow. Who is he, and where shall I find him?


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[Assistant] McGinty took his eternal, half-chewed, half-smoked cigar from the corner of his mouth, and proceeded to draw a rough diagram on a page torn from his notebook.


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[Assistant] He's a hard citizen, an old colour sergeant of the war, all scars and gristle.


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[Assistant] We've had two tries at him, but had no luck, and Jim Conaway lost his life over it.


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[Assistant] Now it's for you to take it over. That's the house, all alone at the Iron Dyke Crossroad, same as you see here on the map, without another within earshot.


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[Assistant] It's no good by day. He's armed and shoots quick and straight, with no questions asked. But at night, well, here he is with his wife, three children and a hired help. You can't pick or choose, it's all or none, if you could get a bag of blasting powder at the front door with a slow match to it. What's the man done? Didn't I tell you he shot Jim Conaway? Why did he shoot him?


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[Assistant] That's enough for me and you. You've got to settle the thing right.


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[Assistant] There's these two women and the children. Do they go up too? They have to, else how can we get him? It seems hard on them, for they've done nothing.


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[Assistant] What have I ever said or done that you should think I would be after standing back from an order of the body-master of my own lodge? If it's right or if it's wrong, it's for you to decide. You'll do it, then? Of course I'll do it. When?


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[Assistant] Well you had best give me a night or two that I may see the house, and make my plans, then


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[Assistant] Very good," said McGinty, shaking him by the hand. I leave it with you. It'll be a great day when you bring us the news. It's just the last stroke that'll bring them all to their knees.


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[Assistant] McMurdo thought long and deeply over the commission which had been so suddenly placed in his hands. The isolated house in which Chester Wilcox lived was about five miles off in an adjacent valley.


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[Assistant] That very night he started off all alone to prepare for the attempt. It was daylight before he returned from his reconnaissance.


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[Assistant] Next day he interviewed his two subordinates, Manders and Riley, reckless youngsters who were as elated as if it were a deer hunt.


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[Assistant] Two nights later they met outside the town, all three armed, and one of them carrying a sack stuffed with the powder which was used in the quarries.


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[Assistant] It was two in the morning before they came to the lonely house. The night was a windy one, with broken clouds drifting swiftly across the face of a three-quarter moon.


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[Assistant] They had been warned to be on their guard against bloodhounds, so they moved forward cautiously with their pistols cocked in their hands.


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[Assistant] But there was no sound save the howling of the wind and no movement but the swaying branches above them.


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[Assistant] McMurdo listened at the door of the lonely house, but all was still within.


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[Assistant] Then he leaned the powder bag against it, ripped a hole in it with his knife, and attached the fuse.


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[Assistant] When it was well alight, he and his two companions took to their heels and were some distance off, safe and snug in a sheltering ditch, before the shattering roar of the explosion, with the low, deep rumble of the collapsing building, told them that their work was done.


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[Assistant] No cleaner job had ever been carried out in the blood-stained annals of the society.


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[Assistant] But alas, that work so well organized and boldly carried out should all have gone for nothing.


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[Assistant] Warned by the fate of the various victims, and knowing that he was marked down for destruction, Chester Wilcox had moved himself and his family only the day before to some safer and less known quarters, where a guard of police should watch over them.


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[Assistant] It was an empty house which had been torn down by the gunpowder, and the grim old color sergeant of the war was still teaching discipline to the miners of Iron Dyke.


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[Assistant] He's my man, and I'll get him, sure if I have to wait a year for him.


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[Assistant] A vote of thanks and confidence was passed in full lodge, and so for the time the matter ended.


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[Assistant] When a few weeks later it was reported in the papers that Wilcox had been shot at from an ambuscade, it was an open secret that McMurdo was still at work upon his unfinished job.


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[Assistant] Such were the methods of the Society of Free Men, and such were the deeds of the scourers by which they spread their rule of fear over the great and rich district which was for so long a period haunted by their terrible presence.


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[Assistant] Why should these pages be stained by further crimes? Have I not said enough to show the men and their methods?


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[Assistant] These deeds are written in history, and their records wherein one may read the details of them.


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[Assistant] There one may learn of the shooting of Policeman Hunt and Evans, because they had ventured to arrest two members of the Society—a double outrage, planned at the Vermissa Lodge, and carried out in cold blood upon two helpless and disarmed men.


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[Assistant] There also one may read of the shooting of Mrs. Larby, when she was nursing her husband, who had been beaten almost to death by orders of Boss McGinty.


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[Assistant] The killing of the elder Jenkins, shortly followed by that of his brother, the mutilation of James Murdoch, the blowing up of the Stapp House family, and the murder of the Stendles all followed hard upon one another in the same terrible winter.


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[Assistant] Darkly the shadow lay upon the valley of fear. The spring had come with running brooks and blossoming trees. There was hope for all nature bound so long in an iron grip.


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[Assistant] But nowhere was there any hope for the men and women who lived under the yoke of the Terror. Never had the cloud above them been so dark and hopeless as in the early summer of the year 1875. End of chapter 5


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[Assistant] Chapter 7 The Trapping of Birdie Edwards


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[Assistant] As McMurdo had said, the house in which he lived was a lonely one, and very well suited for such a crime as they had planned.


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[Assistant] It was on the extreme fringe of the town and stood well back from the road.


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[Assistant] In any other case the conspirators would have simply called out their man as they had many times before, and emptied their pistols into his body.


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[Assistant] But in this instance it was very necessary to find out how much he knew, how he knew it, and what had been passed on to his employers.


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[Assistant] It was possible they were already too late, and that the work had been done.


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[Assistant] If that was indeed so, they could at least have their revenge upon the man who had done it.


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[Assistant] But they were hopeful that nothing of great importance had yet come to the detective's knowledge, as otherwise they argued he would not have trouble to write down and forward such trivial information as McMurdo claimed to have given him. However, all this they would learn from his own lips.


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[Assistant] Once in their power, they would find a way to make him speak.


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[Assistant] It was not the first time that they had handled an unwilling witness.


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[Assistant] McMurdo went to Hobson's Patch as agreed. The police seemed to take particular interest in him that morning, and Captain Marvin, he who had claimed the old acquaintance with him at Chicago, actually addressed him as he waited at the station.


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[Assistant] McMurdo turned away and refused to speak with him. He was back from his mission in the afternoon and saw McGinty at the Union House.


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[Assistant] Good!" said McGinty. The giant was in his shirt sleeves, with chains and seals gleaming athwart his ample waistcoat, and a diamond twinkling through the fringe of his bristling beard.


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[Assistant] Strength and politics had made the boss a very rich as well as powerful man. The more terrible, therefore, seemed that glimpse of the prison or the gallows which had risen before him the night before. Do you reckon he knows much? he asked anxiously. McMurdo shook his head gloomily. He has been here some time, six weeks at least.


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[Assistant] I guess he didn't come into these parts to look at the prospect.


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[Assistant] If he's been working among us all that time with the railroad money at his back,


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[Assistant] I should expect that he's got results, and that he's passed them on.


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[Assistant] There's not a weak man in the lodge," cried McGinty, true as steel, every man of them.


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[Assistant] And yet, by the Lord, there is that skunk Morris. What about him? If any man gives us away, it would be he.


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[Assistant] I have a mind to send a couple of the boys round before evening to give them a beating up and see what they can get from him.


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[Assistant] Well, there would be no harm in that, McMurdo answered.


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[Assistant] I won't deny that I have a liking for Morris, and will be sorry to see him come to harm.


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[Assistant] He's spoken to me once or twice over large matters, and though he may not see them the same as you or I, he never seemed the sort that squeals.


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[Assistant] But still, this is not for me to stand between him and you.


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[Assistant] "'I'll fix the old devil,' said McGinty with an oath. "'I've had my eye on him this year past.' "'Well, you know best about that,' McMurdo answered. "'But whatever you do must be to-morrow.'


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[Assistant] For we must lie low, until the Pinkerton affair is settled up.


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[Assistant] And we'll learn from Birdy Edwards himself, where he got his news, if we have to cut his heart out first. Did he seem to send to trap?


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[Assistant] McMurdo laughed. I guess I took him on his weak point, he said. If he could get on a good trail of the scourers, he's ready to follow it into hell. I took his money.


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[Assistant] Murdo grinned as he produced a wad of dollar notes. And as much more when he's seen all my papers. What papers?


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[Assistant] Well, there are no papers, but I filled him up about constitutions and books of rules and forms of membership. He expects to get right down to the end of everything before he leaves.


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[Assistant] Faith, he's right there," said McGinty Grimley. Didn't he ask you why you didn't bring him the papers?


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[Assistant] As if I would carry such things, and me a suspected man, and Captain Marvin after speaking to me this very day at the depot.


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[Assistant] I heard of that," said McGinty. I guess the heavy end of this business is coming on to you. We could put him down an old shaft when we've done with him, but however we work it we can't get past the man living at Hobson's Patch, and you being there to-day." McMurdo shrugged his shoulders. If we handle it right, they can never prove the killing, said he.


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[Assistant] No one can see him come to the house after dark, and I'll lay to it that no one will see him go. Now see here, councillor.


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[Assistant] I'll show you my plan and I'll ask you to fit the others into it. You'll all come in good time. Very well. He comes at ten.


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[Assistant] He's a hard proposition. He's heavily armed.


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[Assistant] I filmed him proper, and yet he's likely to be on his guard.


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[Assistant] Suppose I show him right into a room with seven men in it where he expected to find me alone.


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[Assistant] And the noise is going to bring every damned copper in the township on top of it. I guess you're right. This is how I should work it. You'll all be in the big room, same as you saw when you had a chat with me. I'll open the door for him.


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[Assistant] Show him into the parlour beside the door, and leave him there while I get the papers.


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[Assistant] That will give me the chance of telling you how things are shaping.


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[Assistant] Then I'll go back to him with some faked papers.


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[Assistant] As he's reading them, I'll jump for him and get my grip on his pistol arm. You'll hear me call, and in you'll rush.


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[Assistant] The quicker the better, for he's a stronger man as I, and I may have more than I can manage, but I allow that I can hold him till you come.


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[Assistant] It's a good plan," said McGinty. The lodge will owe you a debt for this. I guess when I move out of the chair I can put a name to the man that's coming after me." Sure, counselor. I'm little more than a recruit," said McMurdo.


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[Assistant] But his face showed what he thought of the great man's compliment.


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[Assistant] When he had returned home, he made his own preparations for the grim evening in front of him. First he cleaned, oiled, and loaded his Smith and Wesson revolver.


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[Assistant] Then he surveyed the room in which the detective was to be trapped. It was a large apartment, with a long-deal table in the centre, and the big stove at one side.


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[Assistant] At each of the other sides were windows. There were no shutters on these, only light curtains which drew across.


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[Assistant] McMurdo examined these attentively. No doubt it must have struck him that the apartment was very exposed for so secret a meeting.


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[Assistant] Yet its distance from the road made it of less consequence.


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[Assistant] Finally he discussed the matter with his fellow lodger. Scanlan, though a scourer, was an inoffensive little man who was too weak to stand against the opinion of his comrades, but was secretly horrified by the deeds of blood at which he had sometimes been forced to assist. McMurdo told him shortly what was intended. And if I were you, Mike Scanlan, I would take a night off, and keep clear of it. There'd be bloody work here before morning.


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[Assistant] Well, indeed then, Mac," Scanlon answered. It's not the will, but the nerve that is wanting in me. When I saw Manager Dungo down at the colliery yonder, it was just more than I could stand.


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[Assistant] I'm not made for it, same as you or McGinty. If the lodge will think none the worse of me, I'll just do as you advise, and leave you to yourselves for the evening.


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[Assistant] The men came in good time as arranged. They were outwardly respectable citizens, well-clad and cleanly.


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[Assistant] But a judge of faces would have read a little hope for Birdie Edwards in those hard mouths and remorseless eyes.


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[Assistant] There was not a man in the room whose hands had not been reddened a dozen times before.


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[Assistant] They were as hardened to human murder as a butcher to sheep.


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[Assistant] Foremost of course, both in appearance and in guilt,


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[Assistant] Was the formidable boss. Haraway, the secretary, was a lean, bitter man, with a long, scraggy neck, and nervous, jerky limbs. A man of incorruptible fidelity, where the finances of the order were concerned.


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[Assistant] And with no notion of justice or honesty to anyone beyond,


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[Assistant] The treasurer, Carter, was a middle-aged man with an impassive, rather sulky expression, and a yellow parchment skin.


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[Assistant] He was a capable organizer, and the actual details of nearly every outrage had sprung from his plotting brain.


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[Assistant] The two Willoughbys were men of action, tall, lithe young fellows with determined faces, while their companion, Tiger Cormack, a heavy, dark youth, was feared even by his own comrades for the ferocity of his disposition.


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[Assistant] These were the men who assembled that night under the roof of McMurdo for the killing of the Pinkerton detective.


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[Assistant] Their host had placed whiskey upon the table, and they had hastened to prime themselves for the work before them.


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[Assistant] Baldwin and Cormack were already half drunk, and the liquor had brought out all their ferocity. Cormack placed his hands on the stove for an instant. It had been lighted, for the nights were still cold.


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[Assistant] That will do," said he with an oath. "'I,' said Baldwin, catching his meaning, "'if he is strapped to that, we'll have the truth out of him.'"


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[Assistant] We'll have the truth out of him, never fear," said McMurdo. He had nerves of steel, this man, for though the whole weight of the affair was on him, his manner was as cool and unconcerned as ever. The others marked it and applauded.


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[Assistant] You are the one to handle him," said the boss approvingly. Not a warning will he get till your hand is on his throat. It's a pity there are no shutters to your windows.


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[Assistant] McMurdo went from one to the other and drew the curtains tighter. Sure, no one can spy upon us now. It's close upon the hour. Maybe he won't come. Maybe he'll get a sniff of danger, said the secretary. He'll come. Never fear, McMurdo answered.


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[Assistant] He is as eager to come as you can be to see him. Hark to that!


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[Assistant] They all sat like wax figures, some with their glasses arrested half way to their lips. Three loud knocks had sounded at the door.


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[Assistant] McMurdo raised his hand in caution. An exulting glance went round the circle, and hands were laid upon their weapons. Not a sound for your lives, McMurdo whispered as he went from the room, closing the door carefully behind him.


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[Assistant] With strained ears the murderers waited. They counted the steps of their comrade down the passage. Then they heard him open the outer door. There were a few words as of a greeting


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[Assistant] Then they were aware of a strange step inside and of an unfamiliar voice. An instant later came the slam of the door and the turning of the key in the lock. Their prey was safe within the trap.


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[Assistant] Tiger Cormack laughed horribly, and Boss McGinty clapped his great hand across his mouth. "'Be quiet, you fool!' he whispered. "'You'll be the undoing of us yet!' There was a mutter of conversation from the next room. It seemed interminable.


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[Assistant] Then the door opened, and McMurdo appeared, his finger upon his lip. He came to the end of the table and looked round at them. A subtle change had come over him.


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[Assistant] His manner was as of one whose great work to do. His face had set into granite firmness.


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[Assistant] His eyes shone with a fierce excitement behind his spectacles. He had become a visible leader of men. They stared at him with eager interest, but he said nothing. Still, with the same singular gaze, he looked from man to man.


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[Assistant] There were ten seconds after that brief speech during which the room might have been empty. So profound was the silence.


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[Assistant] The hissing of a kettle upon the stove rose sharp and strident to the ear.


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[Assistant] Seven white faces, all turned upward to this man who dominated them, were set motionless with utter terror.


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[Assistant] Then, with a sudden shivering of glass, a bristle of glistening rifle barrels broke through each window while the curtains were torn from their hangings.


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[Assistant] At the site, Boss McGinty gave the roar of a wounded bear and plunged for the half-open door.


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[Assistant] A levelled revolver met him there with the stern blue eyes of Captain Marvin of the mine police gleaming behind the sights. The boss recoiled and fell back into his chair.


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[Assistant] You're safer there, counselor," said the man whom they had known as McMurdo. And you, Baldwin, if you don't take your hand off your pistol, you'll cheek the hangman yet.


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[Assistant] Pull it out, or by the law that made me. There, that will do.


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[Assistant] There are forty armed men round this house, and you can figure it out for yourself what chance you have. Take the pistols, Marvin.


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[Assistant] There was no possible resistance under the menace of those rifles. The men were disarmed. Sulky, sheepish, and amazed, they still sat round the table.


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[Assistant] I'd like to say a word to you before we separate," said the man who had trapped them.


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[Assistant] I guess we may not meet again until you see me on the stand in the courthouse. I'll give you something to think over between now and then. You know me now for what I am. At last I can put my cards on the table. I am Birdie Edwards of Pinkerton's. I was chosen to break up your gang.


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[Assistant] Not my nearest and dearest knew that I was playing it.


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[Assistant] Only Captain Marvin here, and my employers do that.


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[Assistant] But it's over tonight, thank God, and I am the winner.


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[Assistant] Seven pale, rigid faces looked up at him. There was unappeasable hatred in their eyes. He read the relentless threat.


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[Assistant] Maybe you think that the game is not over yet. Well, I take my chance of that. Anyhow, some of you will take no further hand, and there are sixty more beside yourselves that will see a jail this night.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you this, that when I was put upon this job I never believed there was such a society as yours. I thought it was paper talk, and that I would prove it so. They told me it was to do with the freemen, so I went to Chicago and was made one. Then I was surer than ever that it was just paper talk, for I found no harm in the society, but a deal of good. Still I had to carry out my job, and I came to the Coal Valleys.


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[Assistant] When I reached this place I learned that I was wrong and that it wasn't a dime novel after all. So I stayed to look after it.


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[Assistant] I never killed a man in Chicago. I never minted a dollar in my life.


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[Assistant] Those I gave you were as good as any others, but I never spent money better. But I knew the way into your good wishes, and so I pretended to you that the law was after me. It all worked just as I thought. So I joined your infernal lodge, and I took my share in your councils. Maybe they will say that I was as bad as you. They can say what they like, so long as I get you. But what is the truth?


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[Assistant] The night I joined you beat up old man Stanger. I could not warn him, for there was no time, but I held your hand, Baldwin, when you would have killed him.


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[Assistant] If ever I have suggested things, so as to keep my place among you, they were things which I knew I could prevent.


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[Assistant] I could not save Dunne and Menzies, for I did not know enough. But I will see that their murderers are hanged.


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[Assistant] I gave Chester Wilcock's warning so that when I blew his house in he and his folk were in hiding. There was many a crime that I could not stop.


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[Assistant] But if you look back and think how often your man came home the other road, or was down in town when you went for him, or stayed indoors when you thought he would come out, you'll see my work.


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[Assistant] You blasted traitor!" hissed McGinty through his closed teeth.


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[Assistant] Hi, John McGinty. You may call me that if it eases your smart.


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[Assistant] You and your like have been the enemy of God and man in these parts.


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[Assistant] But I guess there's many a thousand will call me a deliverer that went down into hell to save them.


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[Assistant] I've had three months of it. I wouldn't have three such months again if they let me loose in the Treasury of Washington for it. I had to stay till I had it all, every man and every secret, right here in this hand. I'd have waited a little longer if it hadn't come to my knowledge that my secret was coming out.


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[Assistant] A letter had come into the town that would have set you wise to it all.


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[Assistant] I've nothing more to say to you, except that when my time comes I'll die the easier when I think of the work I've done in this valley.


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[Assistant] Now Marvin, I'll keep you no more. Take them in and get it over.


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[Assistant] There is little more to tell. Scanlan had been given a sealed note to be left at the address of Miss Ettie Shafter, a mission which she had accepted with a wink and a knowing smile. In the early hours of the morning


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[Assistant] A beautiful woman and a much muffled man boarded a special train which had been sent by the railroad company and made a swift, unbroken journey out of the land of danger.


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[Assistant] It was the last time that ever either Ettie or her lover set foot in the Valley of Fear.


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[Assistant] Ten days later they were married in Chicago, with old Jacob Shafter as witness of the wedding.


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[Assistant] The trial of the scourers was held far from the place where their adherents might have terrified the guardians of the law. In vain they struggled. In vain the money of the lodge—money squeezed by blackmail out of the whole countryside—was spent like water in the attempt to save them.


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[Assistant] Cold, clear, unimpassioned statement, from one who knew every detail of their lives, their organization and their crimes, was unshaken by all the wiles of their defenders.


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[Assistant] At last, after so many years, they were broken and scattered. The cloud was lifted forever from the valley.


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[Assistant] McGinty met his fate upon the scaffold, cringing and whining when the last hour came. Eight of his chief followers shared his fate. Fifty-odd had various degrees of imprisonment. The work of Birdy Edwards was complete.


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[Assistant] And yet, as he had guessed, the game was not over yet.


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[Assistant] There was another hand to be played, and yet another, and another.


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[Assistant] Ted Baldwin, for one, had escaped the scaffold. So had the Willoughbys. So had several others of the fiercest spirits of the gang. For ten years they were out of the world, and then came a day when they were free once more.


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[Assistant] A day which Edwards, who knew his men, was very sure would be an end of his life of peace. They had sworn an oath on all that they thought holy, to have his blood as a vengeance for their comrades, and well they strove to keep their vow.


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[Assistant] From Chicago he was chased, after two attempts so near success that it was sure that the third would get him. From Chicago he went under a change name to California, and it was there that the light went for a time out of his life when Eddie Edwards died.


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[Assistant] Once again he was nearly killed, and once again under the name of Douglas he worked in a lonely canyon where with an English partner named Barker he amassed a fortune.


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[Assistant] At last there came a warning to him that the bloodhounds were on his track once more.


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[Assistant] The police trial had passed in which the case of John Douglas was referred to a higher court. So had the quarter sessions at which he was acquitted as having acted in self-defense.


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[Assistant] "'Get him out of England at any cost,' wrote Holmes to the wife. "'There are forces here which may be more dangerous than those he has escaped. There is no safety for your husband in England.'


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[Assistant] Two months had gone by, and the case had to some extent passed from our minds.


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[Assistant] Then one morning there came an enigmatic note slipped into our letter box.


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[Assistant] Dear me, Mr Holmes, dear me, said this singular epistle.


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[Assistant] There was neither superscription nor signature.


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[Assistant] Late last night Mrs. Hudson, our landlady, brought up a message that a gentleman wished to see Mr. Holmes, and that the matter was of the utmost importance.


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[Assistant] Close at the heels of his messenger came Cecil Barker, our friend of the motored manor house. His face was drawn and haggard.


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[Assistant] I've had bad news, terrible news, Mr. Holmes," said he. I feared as much, said Holmes. You have not had a cable, have you? I have had a note from someone who has. It's poor Douglas. They tell me his name is Edwards.


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[Assistant] That they started together for South Africa in the Palmyra three weeks ago. Exactly.


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[Assistant] The ship reached Cape Town last night. I received this cable from Mrs. Douglas this morning.


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[Assistant] Jack has been lost overboard in Gailoff St Helena. No one knows how accident occurred. Ivy Douglas.


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[Assistant] It came like that, did it?" said Holmes thoughtfully. Well, I've no doubt it was well stage-managed. You mean that you think there was no accident? None in the world. He was murdered?


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[Assistant] So I think also these infernal scourers, this cursed, vindictive nest of criminals— No, no, my good sir," said Holmes.


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[Assistant] There is a master hand here. It is no case of sawed-off shotguns and clumsy six-shooters. You can tell an old master by the sweep of his brush. I can tell a Moriarty when I see one.


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[Assistant] This crime is from London, not from America. But for what motive?


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[Assistant] Because it is done by a man who cannot afford to fail.


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[Assistant] One whose whole unique position depends upon the fact that all he does must succeed. A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man. It is crushing the nut with the trip-hammer, an absurd extravagance of energy.


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[Assistant] But the nut is very effectually crushed all the same. How came this man to have anything to do with it?


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[Assistant] I can only say that the first word that ever came to us of the business was from one of his lieutenants.


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[Assistant] These Americans were well advised. Having an English job to do, they took into partnership, as any foreign criminal could do, this great consultant in crime. From that moment their man was doomed.


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[Assistant] At first he would content himself by using his machinery in order to find their victim. Then he would indicate how the matter might be treated. Finally, when he read in the reports of the failure of this agent, he would step in himself with a master touch.


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[Assistant] You heard me warn this man at Burlston Manor House that the coming danger was greater than the past. Was I right?


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[Assistant] Barker beat his head with his clenched fist in his impotent anger. Do not tell me that we have to sit down under this. Do you say that no one can ever get level with this king-devil?


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[Assistant] No, I don't say that," said Holmes, and his eyes seemed to be looking far into the future. I don't say that he can't be beat, but you must give me time. You must give me time.


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[Assistant] We all sat in silence for some minutes, while those fateful eyes still strained to pierce the veil.


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[Assistant] End of the Epilogue An End of the Last Valley by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by David Clark


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[Assistant] This document is called Sales Tables. We're going to learn about


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[Assistant] Styles in Tables. Remember that there are choices available for tables that we don't see until we actually click in the table or select a table. But as soon as I do, I have two new tabs.


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[Assistant] A layout tab for tables, which allows me to insert rows, delete rows, change the properties of the table and things like alignment within the cell. And then I have a design tab, which is all about styles.


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[Assistant] In the table style section, there's a gallery that shows me different choices. The colors that I see here are based on the theme. If I don't like the colors, I should choose a different theme.


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[Assistant] And there are different sections. The first is plain tables. Do I want a table with borders, which is currently selected, or do I simply want to hide the borders and have some grid lines that I could work with? Easy change.


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[Assistant] In a grid, I'll probably be presenting some information like financial information or timetables. So I have the ability to have a first column that looks a little bit different. In list tables, the idea is that most of these items are probably peers.


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[Assistant] At the left end under table style options, I choose the types of options that I would like to see. If I don't want to have a first column that looks different with special formatting, simply turn that off and when I do,


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[Assistant] Those choices don't exist in the gallery anymore. If I don't want banded rows, turn it off. And you'll notice now,


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[Assistant] And if I have a total row, I might want to say, let's then give it a different formatting, which will be similar to that of the header. But by default, header row, first column, and banded rows are on. In this table I'm going to turn off first column.


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[Assistant] But I'm going to leave Banded Rows and I keep Banded Rows because they make the tables easier to read.


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[Assistant] Styles aren't just for decoration, they're normally for a particular purpose.


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[Assistant] I'm going to choose a particular style and because this is more or less a grid, I'm going to choose a grid style.


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[Assistant] I fell out of the table so I need to go back into it to be able to get to the table tools.


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[Assistant] And the grid style that I want is banded. It's right here. Grid, table four.


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[Assistant] With accent color 2, the second color in this particular theme. And there we go.


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[Assistant] Notice that we applied a lot of formatting at one time. That's the purpose of a style. I can apply in the header, for example, automatically.


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[Assistant] I have bolding, but I also have white text on a dark background which is nice for readability. If I don't want this particular row, the header row to look different,


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[Assistant] Notice just turn that choice off. You can always set the options here.


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[Assistant] And if you had a particular look and feel you wanted to create for a table, you have the ability to modify table styles and to create brand new table styles from scratch.


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[Assistant] But this table meets my needs. I've applied a theme that works for my business as a whole. And now I have a second choice to make.


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[Assistant] My question is, do I want every table in this document or in all of our documents to look the same? Is this in fact the table style that we'll use whenever we're presenting information?


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[Assistant] Or do I want another table to look different? And if so, I should have a reason for that. For example, it could be that whenever we have tables that are simply descriptive, tables that come out of marketing, that those tables will be formatted in blue.


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[Assistant] But if I have tables that list prices, they're going to be formatted in green.


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[Assistant] So that quickly and easily I can see that I have a table.


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[Assistant] That has pricing information in it because it's going to be the green table somewhere in my document.


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[Assistant] We sell residential and commercial systems. Perhaps whenever we are working with residential systems, we'll have those systems in blue and commercial systems in orange.


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[Assistant] If I only have a couple of tables in a document and the people looking at it are customers rather than internal clients,


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[Assistant] I might choose to make the tables the same color because the question is why aren't they if they are different colors.


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[Assistant] These are the kinds of issues you want to consider as you apply styles to your document in general, but they're particularly important when you're formatting tables because they stand out so clearly from the document. Again, we're not just applying some paint color here.


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[Assistant] We're applying a style that allows our tables to be easier to read.


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[Assistant] And to be more accessible to our readers. And by choosing our organization's theme, the tables that we create will enforce our brand and our other messaging.


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[Assistant] These lines are definitely not morning people.


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[Assistant] Oh look, a little friend for Eli. If I were an elephant, I'd get tired of walking. And I'd wanna stop and play.


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[Assistant] Your family's the best, Eli. Goodbye, Elephants!


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[Assistant] Isn't there a cozy nest nearby? They don't need one. Gilamot eggs are pear shaped, so they roll in a circle instead of rolling away.


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[Assistant] I'm going to call him Augustus. For his first few weeks, both his parents are going to care for him.


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[Assistant] For the time being, he's too little to leave the cliffs. Plus, he can't fly or swim yet. He still has some growing to do.


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[Assistant] Look at Augustus with his big feet and little body.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he is pretty close to the edge. He just wants to join his parents. So when will he jump?


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[Assistant] Oh, and he's waiting for night time. Since Ghouls only hunt during the day, he won't be bothered. Are you ready, Augustus?


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[Assistant] Lucky for him, they've already had lunch.


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[Assistant] Well, not exactly everything. Impalas mostly eat leaves, grass, and fruits.


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[Assistant] All that jumping is making them thirsty. Time to find the river.


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[Assistant] Ivan is a jumping pro now! He can even jump across the river! If I were an impala, I'd love to play leapfrog with the croc!


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[Assistant] After a risky game like that, you get a well earned nap.


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[Assistant] Hey, that tickles. He loves it. The Oxpecker is eating the insects that are bugging him.


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[Assistant] Cats are really good moms. See how she's licking Katie to make her nurse?


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[Assistant] Look, she walks around like she's the queen of the farm. And she goofs around too.


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[Assistant] Uh oh. At our house we aren't allowed to jump around on the furniture. She can't help it. She loves climbing.


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[Assistant] And just like all cats, you'd have trouble getting down. No, I wouldn't.


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[Assistant] All right. So whereas in the last lesson, we were looking at local implementations of using Git and version control. In this lesson, we're going to talk about how you can create a remote repository. So a repository that's hosted on somebody else's server or somebody else's computer by using GitHub.


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[Assistant] Now most people would have heard of GitHub and certainly by now you would have used GitHub many times. So if you haven't yet set up an account on GitHub, then this is the time to do it. So head over to github.com and simply fill out this quick form to create an account on GitHub.


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[Assistant] It's completely free and all you need to do is just confirm your email so that you can access it.


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[Assistant] Once you've done that, go ahead and sign in. Once you've signed in, you should be looking at this page. And all we're going to do is we're going to create a repository inside the browser based GitHub. So if you navigate to this top right corner and click that plus arrow, then you can select new repository.


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[Assistant] And I'm going to call my repository same name. I guess we'll call it story and let's give it a description. Let's say my masterpiece.


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[Assistant] Now by default, all repositories that you create on GitHub are public. That means that anyone can see all of the files inside your saved repository. Everything that you commit to your remote repository or to your GitHub repository will be public.


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[Assistant] If you don't want that, then you can select Private.


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[Assistant] But in most cases, if you're not doing anything that's top secret or if you're not developing technology that is completely brand new, then having a public repository is not such a big problem. And on the other hand as well, you can see loads of other people's public repository and you can see, for example, how they structure their code, what is their style,


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[Assistant] And you can see how people do things. For example, on GitHub, there are whole repositories on things like Flappy Bird.


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[Assistant] So it's the entire implementation of Flappy Bird and you can run it or you can also look through their code base to see how they did this.


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[Assistant] This is the beauty of open source code. And as you develop in your journey of becoming a developer, then you might find that you want to contribute to other open source projects.


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[Assistant] Help them out a bit and work in a virtual team to try and contribute your knowledge and your programming skills. Okay, so once I've selected public, the next thing is that I'm going to leave this part empty. I'm not going to initialize a readme for my repository just yet.


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[Assistant] The next thing is that I'm going to go ahead and click the big green button and create my repository.


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[Assistant] Now you can see that there are two ways that they tell you you can set up your repository.


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[Assistant] You can either set it up in GitHub on desktop, their desktop client, which I am not a big fan of. But instead what we're going to do is we're going to use the command line instructions to set up our repository.


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[Assistant] So we are going to push an existing repository that we've got locally onto this remote repository. And to do that, we need to copy the address of our GitHub repository.


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[Assistant] And we're going to use these two lines of code in order to transfer or push our existing local repository from the command line.


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[Assistant] I'm currently inside my story directory, which also happens to be the working directory for this particular project.


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[Assistant] And here I am going to again, take a look at git log to see what previous commits we've got. And you can see that we've got two previous commits and I would like to push both of these commits onto GitHub.


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[Assistant] To do that, the first thing is creating a remote. So it's telling my local Git repository that I've created a remote repository somewhere on the internet.


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[Assistant] And I want to transfer all of my commits over there. So the command that we're going to use is git remote add origin.


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[Assistant] Now origin is simply the name of your remote and you can theoretically call it anything you want. You can call it bacon if you want.


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[Assistant] But by convention and it's highly recommended that you simply keep the name origin. And the reason is because most programmers are used to the conventional naming.


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[Assistant] And that means it'll be much easier for them to understand what's going on in your project when they have a look at it instead of you doing something completely different, which will be very surprising. And it'll be a lot harder for people to understand what's going on.


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[Assistant] So git remote add origin, and then we're going to paste the URL of our remote repository on GitHub. And then we're going to go ahead and hit enter.


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[Assistant] And now that remote is created so we can push our local repository onto our remote repository, which is called origin. So we're going to say git push,


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[Assistant] Dash u origin main. And what this line of code does is that it pushes your local repository to the remote repository using the u flag or the u option, which basically links up your remote and your local repositories.


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[Assistant] And then we're going to push it towards the remote that's called origin. And we're going to push it to the branch that's called main.


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[Assistant] The main branch is simply the default branch or the main branch of all of your commits. And later on, when we cover branching, then we're going to talk more about what is a main and what is a branch. But for now, we're just saying that we're going to push our local repository onto this origin remote.


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[Assistant] And we're going to push it to the main branch. So let's go ahead and hit enter.


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[Assistant] And there's going to be a little bit of work being done in the background because it's actually going to have to upload your local repository to the remote repository on GitHub servers. And depending on the size of your local repository, this can take various amounts of time.


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[Assistant] Now, once we see our prompt, so the flashing cursor or the dollar sign, that means that our push is successful.


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[Assistant] And as you can see, it says branch main set up to track remote branch main from origin. Sounds really confusing, but if you head back over to GitHub and if you're on the same page, all you have to do is hit command R to refresh or just press the refresh button.


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[Assistant] And you can see that all of our files are now hosted on GitHub and it's complete with all of our commit messages. So if you go into insights,


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[Assistant] And go into network, you can actually see our main branch, which currently only has two save points or two commit. And if you hover over them, you can actually see the commit messages of each of these.


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[Assistant] As you build out your project, as you add more commits, either locally or pushing it remotely, or probably doing both, then you can see the progress of your files in your GitHub repository. So now you can see all of the code, if it's code file, or in our case, it's just a text file, hosted on GitHub.


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[Assistant] And you can point anybody towards this. And there are actually cases where people do a lot of story writing using GitHub.


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[Assistant] Just because it's so good at tracking your save points and being able to revert to previous versions in the past. So for example, if you head over back to the main page and you go to your commits,


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[Assistant] You can see both of those commits when they were committed. And also if you click on it, you can see the changes that were made at those time points. So if we have a look at chapter one, you can see this is all we had at the point when we made our first commit.


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[Assistant] Previously we said that we have a working directory, which is the directory where we initialized Git. Then we can push our files to a staging area where we can pick and choose which files we want to commit. Then once we're ready, then we can commit our files or our save point to our local repository.


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[Assistant] So once you've done a few commits, then you actually have this timeline of various commits.


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[Assistant] And this is called your main branch. So the main branch is your main branch of commit or save points. And it is sequential. And this is usually where your main progress is saved or committed.


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[Assistant] Later on, we then introduced this idea of the remote repository. The important thing to note is that you can have a local repository completely in parallel with a remote repository. Check the differences between them, but you can also sync them or push things from your local repository to your remote repository.


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[Assistant] So in our case, the local repository is the git file that we've got inside our story directory.


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[Assistant] And the remote repository is GitHub, which hosts our code and also hosts all of the changes that were made in between the different commits. So we have this main branch of various commits, first commit, second commit, third commit in our local Git repository.


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[Assistant] And when we performed the command git push, then that effectively pushed all of those commits, all of those various versions and changes and code pieces to our remote repository on GitHub.


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[Assistant] So that's what git push does. Now in the next lesson, I want to talk about using git ignore and how you can avoid uploading sensitive pieces of information such as API keys or passwords to your remote repositories, for example, GitHub. So all of that and more on the next lesson. See you there.


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[Assistant] We've put a lot of work into the styles in this report. We have our khead1, our khead2, our kproduct. We have the regular headings 1 and 2, which we may wish to get rid of.


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[Assistant] For example, we might not want someone using it, we could remove it from the style gallery altogether.


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[Assistant] Same thing true with our heading 2, simply remove it from the style gallery. And now I have a gallery that shows the styles that I would like to be able to use.


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[Assistant] What's the most efficient way for me to be able to use these again in another document without needing to start with this document as we often do? Oh, I like the styles. I like the way it's formatted. Let's start there.


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[Assistant] There's a better way to do this and that is to save this style set that we see here for reuse. The command to do that used to be right here. It's not anymore. It's over on the design tab. But on the design tab, these are style sets.


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[Assistant] And if I wish, I can save the current style set that we saw on the Home tab as a new style set.


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[Assistant] It will be saved with templates and I'm going to call this k-report. And now it is part of my stylesets.


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[Assistant] Custom K Report. If I create a new document now, Ctrl N,


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[Assistant] And I want to apply that style set. I simply go to design.


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[Assistant] And from the style sets I choose K Report. Go back home and check it out. K Head 1, K Head 2, and K Product. All available for me to use.


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[Assistant] The work you do on styles is readily reusable. All you need to do is save your style set.


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[Assistant] Microsoft Word supports two broad types of lists. The first type of list is a single level list and there are two types of single level lists.


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[Assistant] The first is a list where each item has a bullet point.


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[Assistant] And the second type of single level list is a list where the items are numbered. And if you think that these are different types of lists, you're right, because we use numbered lists for things that are done in a sequence.


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[Assistant] And we are not describing it as a numbered list. Seven reasons to do something. Three tips, for example. The second type of list we have is a multi-level list. Let's see how we apply styles to lists in Word 2016.


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[Assistant] This is the sales list document. It contains two different lists. The first is a basic single level list. And while these items are in an order, they're sorted in a specific order, they're not necessarily a sequence. So,


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[Assistant] One way to apply a style to this list is simply to choose the list and then to choose a particular list style.


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[Assistant] The mini bar, I have the ability to choose styles, and there is a list style.


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[Assistant] It's right here and when I choose this list style, notice that it's automatically going to indent. That's not a bad start.


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[Assistant] But I might want something more and if I have a number of lists in my document, this is a good time for us to modify this particular style.


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[Assistant] If we look at the different bullets that are available in the library, notice that we can choose, for example, a check box. This type of an icon, a check mark.


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[Assistant] If I'd like to choose something else, I can choose to define a new bullet, I can choose a picture, I can choose a symbol, and if the symbol I wanted, for example, was this X, I can choose that, say okay, and have it applied.


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[Assistant] But I like that check mark right there and perhaps in this document that's exactly what I would like to use.


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[Assistant] So I could save that as a new style if I wish. We know how to do that. Create a style. And let's call this style Checklist.


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[Assistant] It's a paragraph style, if I'd like to find out more about it. Notice that it's a bulleted level 2 list. And it's indented from the left, .75 inches.


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[Assistant] It is based on the list paragraph style that I had already applied. I like this.


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[Assistant] That works well. So if now I choose, for example, to make this normal text again, which it was to begin with, notice applying checklist.


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[Assistant] works and will work with any other list that I have in this document if I drop down here and begin to type a list


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[Assistant] Easy way to do that is simply to start with a star for example. Or to start with a dash. And put in item 1, item 2, and item 3. Select my list. And there's my checklist style. Just like that.


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[Assistant] If I wanted these items to be a series of steps though, it would be more appropriate for me to apply numbers. And here are my numbering styles. 1, 2, 3 with either periods or with a closing paren symbol.


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[Assistant] Roman numerals, upper and lower case, and so on, and I can define new formats as well if I wish. I'm simply going to choose ABC, and if I had a number of lists in my document that used a number style, I might want to create a specific style for that particular item. Let's look now at our multi-level list.


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[Assistant] The multi-level list feature is wonderful particularly if you need to format numbered documents like contracts or you need to format documents that require numbered headings because in a multi-level list you have the ability to do both.


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[Assistant] If I open the multi-level list dropdown here in the paragraph group, you'll notice that my current list


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[Assistant] Could be treated as a multi-level list, that's not a problem.


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[Assistant] So if I want to take a numbered list and turn it into a multi-level list, it's very simple. All I need to do is, after I enter any item, tab in as if I were to enter a sub-item and automatically Word says, oh, she's doing something different. That's a multi-level list. But a multi-level list is so much more than that. Notice, for example, that I have a choice here.


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[Assistant] One, one point one, one point one point one. This is the type of list that I would be creating if I were creating bylaws.


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[Assistant] Articles of incorporation, contracts, numbered with sub-points. But I see a similar style here. But instead of saying 1, 1.1, it says 1 is a heading 1, 1.1 is a level 2 heading or a heading 2, 1.1.1 is a heading 3, and so on, all the way down


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[Assistant] To a ninth level heading, which is as far as word allows us to go.


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[Assistant] And it's this second type of multi-level list that includes the word heading somewhere in it that is most intriguing to me because this combines the power of headings that we already know about from styles with the power of multi-level lists.


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[Assistant] So if we point to a particular multi-level list thumbnail and we see the word heading, using that list is going to not only create a multi-level list, but it will create a multi-level list using heading styles. So let's see how this works. I'm going to choose


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[Assistant] And when I do, notice that it numbered fees. Cool. Now, notice that my heading style itself in the gallery now says a heading 2 is 1.1. How cool is that?


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[Assistant] Aheading to here as well. Now we have expenses. Expenses are different.


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[Assistant] Heading 1 again, but notice that it's automatically numbered 2. And I have some other expenses, let me select them both. Apply a heading 2 style, automatically numbered.


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[Assistant] Imagine this for our contracts, for example. And my final item Other Costs is a Heading 1.


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[Assistant] Now that's pretty slick, but the real slickness of this...


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[Assistant] Actually comes, in my point of view, later when I decide that I'd like to rearrange some of these items.


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[Assistant] If I cut, for example, training fee and the associated text, notice registration fee is automatically renumbered, and when I drop training fee back in,


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[Assistant] It is automatically renumbered as well. If I say, well, you know, really training fees should be a heading one. Notice that expenses now


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[Assistant] I don't even need to select. I can rearrange entire items. Let me drag expenses above fees. And notice now, totally renumbered.


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[Assistant] On the fly. And if I wish, as with my other styles, I have the ability to modify this multilevel list style. Notice that as with our single level list styles, you can define a new list style from here, but also a new multilevel list.


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[Assistant] If you work with documents that have to be formatted and numbered in a particular fashion, I want to encourage you


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[Assistant] To use the styles in multi-level lists, they'll save you time.


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[Assistant] They'll save you frustration and actually, I find them fun to use. And I hope you will too.


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[Assistant] Hi guys, this is Angela from the App Brewery and I'm so excited to be doing this uhm, first ever live AMA.


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[Assistant] So for those of you guys who've been with me for the longest, you know that back in the days in the courses, we used to do these live ask Angela anythings and this is, uhm,


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[Assistant] Trying to bring it back and, uhm, see how you guys are all doing while you're, uhm, safely at home and...


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I've never really done anything like this, so uhm, I'm a little bit nervous, but uhm, hopefully it's gonna go great, and uhm, I'm gonna get to know some more of you guys. Alright, so the plan is...


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[Assistant] We're going to take a look at some of the questions that were asked, um, ahead of time. So over the last week, you guys have been posting your questions.


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[Assistant] On the Ask page, uhm, and our team has compiled a bunch of the most upvoted, uhm, questions. So we're gonna tackle some of those and then we're going to tackle some of these, uhm, YouTube questions live and


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[Assistant] I don't see too much of a delay in the chat, so hopefully I'll be able to get to you.


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[Assistant] Alright, so here we've got the question from Melissa Santos. So I'm just going to answer it all over again, because it seemed like when I went to the slides, you couldn't hear me anymore.


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[Assistant] So let's try this again. Uhm, so her question is, how do you manage to use different languages for different projects without mixing up the syntax?


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[Assistant] Alright, so the first thing I want to say is that I mix up the syntax all the time. Uhm, especially when I'm working on like a Swift project for a long time and then I switch to maybe doing a web development project.


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[Assistant] With JavaScript, then you know, I'm going to be missing semicolons. I'm going to be just not writing JavaScript code. But the great thing is that there's


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[Assistant] Good linters and if you use a good code editor like Atom or VS Code or Sublime, then they should be able to pick up these things for you. So I kind of let the machine do the machine part and then I do the brain part, which is the logic. That's the hardest part.


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[Assistant] And the first part of her question she actually asked, uhm, so,


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[Assistant] Is, uhm, is it a good idea to become fluent in one language before moving on to other languages?


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[Assistant] Now, I think this really depends on what you're trying to do, right? If you're trying to build, if your end project is an iOS app, then yeah, you definitely, definitely need to, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, get really good at probably Swift, um, first, but you know, if you're trying to do something that occasionally requires just a little bit of web development skills or just a little bit of maybe like, um, a flutter, um, uh, multi, um,


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[Assistant] iOS and Android, uhm, app, then you could just dive into the thing that you need.


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[Assistant] The way I always see it is, you know, these programming languages.


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[Assistant] They're not like a subject, they're not like history or geography, they're more like...


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[Assistant] Uhm, a tool. Like, you're learning how to use the hammer or you're learning how to use a saw.


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[Assistant] You don't have to get to like 100% of, you know, hammer ability before you can move on to the next tool. It all depends on what you're trying to build, right?


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's move on to the next question.


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[Assistant] Alright, so in this question we've got from JPD and he's asking,


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[Assistant] Given that coronavirus has affected so many people and


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[Assistant] A lot of people are looking for ways of uhm, working.


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[Assistant] Uhm, from home, working remotely online.


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[Assistant] Does that mean that all the jobs are gonna be filled up, uhm, pretty quickly and, you know, uhm, it'll be far more competitive?


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[Assistant] And I think I would say that, you know, you have to remember that when anything is desirable, it is going to be competitive. So.


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[Assistant] If you think it's a great idea to work from home.


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[Assistant] And, you know, uhm, have the flexibility of...


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[Assistant] Where you live, be able to work remotely, then somebody else is gonna have that idea as well. But


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[Assistant] Then again, you know, things that are worth doing are probably worth, uhm, competing for.


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[Assistant] It all depends on what is your ultimate goal. And if your goal is to get a job as a web developer or as an app developer, then you just got to focus on that goal and don't worry so much about what, how much competition there is or how many other people are applying to the same thing.


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[Assistant] I mean, I remember back in the days when


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[Assistant] So, I don't know if you guys know this, but I trained as a medical doctor and I worked


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[Assistant] Uhm, as a doctor training in orthopedic surgery for a number of years and when


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[Assistant] I was in medical school even from like day one, uhm, people were telling me that


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[Assistant] If you wanna become a surgeon, uhm, like the chances are something like one in like one thousand.


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[Assistant] You know, different competition ratios, like if you want to do brain surgery, that's like the most competitive field because there's only so few brain surgeons.


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[Assistant] But if you wanna do, I dunno, maybe another type of surgery, maybe it's less competitive. So I think...


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[Assistant] Even from that point, I was trained upon this idea that competition is...


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[Assistant] Just a way of life, you know? You want something, other people want something, and then you just gotta focus on yourself.


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[Assistant] There's a really great book by, uhm, Carl Newport, uhm, which I really like, called So Good They Can't Ignore You. I think that's the title anyways. And,


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[Assistant] I mean, the thing is, you don't really have to read the book. I mean, it's a good book, but basically most of it is in the title. Like become...


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[Assistant] So good at whatever it is you do that they can't ignore you.


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[Assistant] Your boss, they could be a recruiter.


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[Assistant] They could be, you know, anybody really. And this is really something that I've always.


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[Assistant] Caps, uhm, in my mind, like I've just tried to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, focus on doing the best job I can and that means focusing on the student experience. Like how can I make a course that


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[Assistant] Is going to be the most helpful, the most enjoyable, and uhm,


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[Assistant] And it's just much easier for me to think this way.


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[Assistant] If I spent all my time thinking about, well, you know, so and so is doing this or that person is doing that, then.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna be copying everybody all the time. And if you guys have taken my courses, you know that's usually not the way to go. Uhm, I mean that also means that there's a lot of bad jokes in there that are untested and nobody sanctioned and it's probably not a good idea.


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[Assistant] But uhm, you know, hey, we gotta try things, right? Alright, let's move on to the next question.


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[Assistant] All right, so this question is from Mayank Sayani. I hope.


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[Assistant] I pronounced that okay. I think I'm just gonna be...


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[Assistant] Murdering people's names because I'm going to be bad at pronunciating.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, so my ang says a number of things. Uhm, my question is how can I get a job as a full stack web developer to my dream company? What do I have to master to do so?


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[Assistant] Okay, so your goal is to get a job as a full stack web developer. Now, some of you guys watching, maybe your goal is to get a job as an iOS developer. Maybe you want to work as a data scientist. Maybe you want to work at


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[Assistant] Facebook, Apple, Google, whatever it may be. But the great thing is you already got your goal. Like this is the first step.


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[Assistant] Because there are so many people I talk to who don't even know what they want. So you're already one step ahead of other people.


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[Assistant] So now that you know what you wanna get, how do you get that?


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[Assistant] Let's think about it from the other point of view. Uhm, let's say that you're a company, uhm, let's say you're a manager at Google and you want to hire a web developer.


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[Assistant] Well, if you were the one who was doing the interview, who was sifting through all of the applications, what would you think about?


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[Assistant] This is a really, really useful exercise and this is something that I really, it took,


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[Assistant] It took some you know, growing up to actually understand this.


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[Assistant] Because when you think about it from the other person's perspective, you know, they're not trying to make it hard for you. They're not trying to make you jump through hoops for the sake of jumping through hoops. But let's say that you get uhm, you know, like 20,000 applications. So recently we were looking for.


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[Assistant] You know, as much as you really want to give each application, uhm, all of your attention and just, you know, really understand each person,


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[Assistant] You don't really have the time, so you're gonna have to think about ways of


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[Assistant] Making it a bit easier on yourself, right?


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[Assistant] So one of those ways is by looking at somebody's qualification.


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[Assistant] But another way and probably something that I'm more fond of is actually just looking at what are they capable of doing. And this really is a key.


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[Assistant] You need to build a portfolio. You need to show the world, not tell the world what you can do. So...


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[Assistant] Create uhm, some web apps if you want to become a web developer. Create some iOS apps if you want to become an iOS developer. And don't just...


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[Assistant] Don't just stick to, you know, the stuff that you see in tutorials. You have to somehow stand out.


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[Assistant] And one of the best, uhm, tips I can give you is, again, think.


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[Assistant] From the recruiter's point of view, they want to hire a web developer. They are probably a manager, right, of some sort.


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[Assistant] What are the kind of tools that they use every day?


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[Assistant] So if you're a manager, especially if you're a product manager or a software lead, you're probably going to use some form of a task management like Trello or Asana.


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[Assistant] You're probably gonna use, uhm, GitHub or something like GitHub, like Bitbucket.


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[Assistant] If they use Trello or Asana, I'm sure there's pain points. I'm sure there are certain features that would be really cool.


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[Assistant] So if you build, uhm, a Trello clone, but you add in some features of your own, some, something that you think of, that you think would be really useful,


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[Assistant] Whenever you want to achieve any sort of goal that involves other people is to think from the other person's point of view.


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[Assistant] All right, so we've done a couple of questions from the


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[Assistant] Uh, ask page now, uhm, and I'm seeing so much chat activity. I really want to get to know you guys a little bit better. So I want to do a poll.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I wanna know where you are, so where are you streaming from?


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[Assistant] Now what you need to do is to head over to this link. So wait a minute, I'm going to remove this banner and you can see if you go to LondonAbrey.com forward slash where it will redirect you to this horribly long, um, URL, um, that's underneath, which is a poll.


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[Assistant] So, choose an answer and I wanna know.


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[Assistant] Okay, I think there's like 200 votes now. I'm gonna take a look at the results.


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[Assistant] Alright, so it seems like most people are from Asia. Next is Europe, and next is North America.


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[Assistant] I mean, that kind of makes sense to me. I think it's about evening time in Asia now and then...


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[Assistant] In Europe where I'm at, in London, we're kind of during the day and then North America is just waking up. So that's pretty cool. Alright.