Question:
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CHAPTER XILOOKING FOR THE ROBBERS

All in the offices listened with interest to Oliver Wadsworth's words.

"The jewels were probably what the rascals were after," was Mr. Porter's comment. "Evidently they did not touch any of the gold plate or silverware."

"That shows they must have known the jewels were here," said Dunston Porter.

"Couldn't they find out about them from the workmen?" questioned Dave.

"I suppose soalthough it is a rule of the works for the men to keep silent regarding precious stones. No one but myself and the general manager are supposed to know just what we have on hand."

"We must get busy and see if we cannot follow the robbers!" cried David Porter. "No use in wasting time here now. Let us scatter in all directions. One can go to the railroad station and the others to the roads leading out of town. We may pick up some clew."

"The police, we'll have to notify them!" said Roger.

"Yes! yes! Call the police up on the telephone!" ejaculated Mr. Wadsworth, starting to his feet.

Dave ran to the end of the office, where a telephone rested on a stand. The shock of the explosion had severed the wires.

"It's out of commission," he said. "I'll have to use the one in the shipping-room."

He left the offices, and made his way through two of the workrooms. Phil went with him and so did Roger.

"This will be a terrible blow for Mr. Wadsworth," was the comment of the shipowner's son.
1. People tried to steal what item?
2. what did they not touch?
3. or?
4. who might've told them about those items?
5. Who wanted to chase the thieves down?
6. Where does he want people to go?
7. where else?
8. who do they need to tell?
9. how will they tell them?
10. why didn't it work?
11. what did that?
12. where is the other phone?

Numbered answers:
1. jewels
2. gold plate
3. silverware
4. workmen
5. David Porter
6. railroad
7. roads
8. police
9. telephone
10. severed the wires
11. explosion
12. shipping-room

Question:
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CHAPTER IX

MERRIL TIGHTENS THE SCREW

The _Sorata_ went to sea again next morning, and one night a week later she bore up for Vancouver before a westerly breeze. A thin crescent moon had just cleared the dim white line of the mainland snow, and the sea glittered faintly in her frothing wake under a vast sweep of dusky blue. The big topsail swayed across it, blotting out the stars, and there was a rhythmic splashing beneath the bows.

Anthea Merril stood at the tiller outlined against the heave of sea, for the night was warm and she was dressed in white. Nellie Austerly sat on a locker in the cockpit, and her father on the saloon skylights with a cigar in his hand. Valentine lay on the deck not far away, and Jimmy a little further forward.

"I suppose we will be in soon after daylight, and I'm sorry," said Nellie Austerly. "It has been an almost perfect cruise in spite of the bad weather. Don't you wish we were going back again, instead of home, Anthea?"

Jimmy roused himself to attention, for he would very much have liked to hear Miss Merril's real thoughts on the matter; but she laughed.

"I don't think it would be very much use if I did," she said. "One can't go sailing always--and if you feel that that is a pity, you can think of the rain and the wind."

"Ah!" said Nellie Austerly, "one has to bear so much of them everywhere. Sometimes one wonders whether life is all gray days and rain; but this trip has made me better, and, perhaps, if Mr. Valentine will take us, we will go back next year and revel once more in the sea and the sunshine--we really had a good deal of the latter."
1. What was Anthea wearing?
2. who else was on the boat?
3. what was she doing?
4. what was the boat named?
5. Did Nellie want to go home?
6. what time of day is it?
7. what's the weather like?
8. was the moon full?
9. what shape was it?
10. What was Nellie's father doing?
11. Who was laying on the deck?
12. What has the trip done for Nellie?
13. when does she want to do it again?
14. who would take them?

Numbered answers:
1. white
2. Nellie Austerly
3. Sitting on a locker
4. The _Sorata_
5. No.
6. Night
7. warm
8. No.
9. A thin crescen
10. sitting on the saloon skylights
11. Valentine
12. made her better,
13. next year
14. Mr. Valentine

Question:
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I'm here to tell you the story of a robot named Carl. He came from a far away land known as Factory. Carl was sad because he was missing a part called a tire. He also needed a sun gatherer. But, the tire was more important. Once Carl got all these parts he could travel to his new home in the nation of Lab and the city of Office. It was a tricky thing to get there with missing parts. Just as he had given up hope Carl got a message from Mr. X saying the new parts were ready to be delivered. This made the robot very happy. The parts arrived a few days later and Carl put them in with 2 days of work. After this Carl began to travel the last bit of his goal to get to his new job. After this Carl took 10 days to get to Lab.
1. What part did the robot need?
2. What part was more important than that?
3. Why did he want that?
4. where did he come from?
5. what was his name?
6. What city was his new home in?
7. in what country?
8. was he worried that he wasn't going to receive the parts?
9. who phoned to say the parts were ready?
10. how did this make him feel?
11. how long did it take for the parts to be received after he was notified of their arrival?
12. who installed them?
13. how long did it take?
14. what did he do after he was finished?
15. where was the new job?
16. how long did it take to get there?
Numbered answers:
1. a sun gatherer
2. the tire
3. so he could travel to his new home
4. a far away land known as Factory
5. Carl
6. Office
7. Lab
8. no
9. Mr. X
10. very happy
11. a few days later
12. Carl
13. 2 days
14. traveled to get to his new job.
15. Lab
16. 10 days