Read the text and answer the questions.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Next day, sure enough, the cablegram didn't come. This was an immense disaster; for Tracy couldn't go into the presence without that ticket, although it wasn't going to possess any value as evidence. But if the failure of the cablegram on that first day may be called an immense disaster, where is the dictionary that can turn out a phrase sizeable enough to describe the tenth day's failure? Of course every day that the cablegram didn't come made Tracy all of twenty-four hours' more ashamed of himself than he was the day before, and made Sally fully twenty-four hours more certain than ever that he not only hadn't any father anywhere, but hadn't even a confederate--and so it followed that he was a double-dyed humbug and couldn't be otherwise.

These were hard days for Barrow and the art firm. All these had their hands full, trying to comfort Tracy. Barrow's task was particularly hard, because he was made a confidant in full, and therefore had to humor Tracy's delusion that he had a father, and that the father was an earl, and that he was going to send a cablegram. Barrow early gave up the idea of trying to convince Tracy that he hadn't any father, because this had such a bad effect on the patient, and worked up his temper to such an alarming degree. He had tried, as an experiment, letting Tracy think he had a father; the result was so good that he went further, with proper caution, and tried letting him think his father was an earl; this wrought so well, that he grew bold, and tried letting him think he had two fathers, if he wanted to, but he didn't want to, so Barrow withdrew one of them and substituted letting him think he was going to get a cablegram--which Barrow judged he wouldn't, and was right; but Barrow worked the cablegram daily for all it was worth, and it was the one thing that kept Tracy alive; that was Barrow's opinion.

1. What has not arrived?
2. Who is this bad news for?
3. Was it one day late?
4. Did it ever come?
5. What is the cablegram?
6. How does Tracy feel about himself?
7. What family member is Tracy missing?
8. Who is convinced of that?
9. What does she call him?
10. Who is trying to make him feel better?
11. Does Tracy think he has a father?
12. Who does he think his father is?
13. What does he think his father is going to do?
14. What makes Tracy mad?
15. How many fathers did he try to tell him he had?
16. How'd that go?
17. What did he replace the second father with?
18. What does Barrow think it does for Tracy?
1. the cablegram
2. Tracy
3. no
4. no
5. a ticket
6. ashamed
7. a father
8. Sally
9. a double-dyed humbug
10. Barrow and the art firm
11. yes
12. an earl
13. send a cablegram.
14. telling Tracy he had no father
15. two
16. he didn't believe it
17. a cablegram
18. keeps him alive