Q: CHAPTER XXIX

"Guess I'll have to wash my hands of him," Collins told Johnny. "I know Del Mar must have been right when he said he was the limit, but I can't get a clue to it."

This followed upon a fight between Michael and Collins. Michael, more morose than ever, had become even crusty-tempered, and, scarcely with provocation at all, had attacked the man he hated, failing, as ever, to put his teeth into him, and receiving, in turn, a couple of smashing kicks under his jaw.

"He's like a gold-mine all right all right," Collins meditated, "but I'm hanged if I can crack it, and he's getting grouchier every day. Look at him. What'd he want to jump me for? I wasn't rough with him. He's piling up a sour-ball that'll make him fight a policeman some day."

A few minutes later, one of his patrons, a tow-headed young man who was boarding and rehearsing three performing leopards at Cedarwild, was asking Collins for the loan of an Airedale.

"I've only got one left now," he explained, "and I ain't safe without two."

"What's happened to the other one?" the master-trainer queried.

"Alphonso--that's the big buck leopard--got nasty this morning and settled his hash. I had to put him out of his misery. He was gutted like a horse in the bull-ring. But he saved me all right. If it hadn't been for him I'd have got a mauling. Alphonso gets these bad streaks just about every so often. That's the second dog he's killed for me."

1. Wash his hands of him.
2. Johnny.
3. Del Mar.
4. A gold-mine.
5. Michael and Collins.
6. Michael.
7. No.
8. As a tow-headed young man.
9. Cedarwild
10. One.

Numbered questions:
1. What did Collins say he had to do?
2. Who did Collins say it to?
3. Who did he say was right?
4. What did he say he was like?
5. Who fought?
6. Who fought a guy he didn't like?
7. Was Collins rough with him?
8. How do they describe his customer?
9. Where was he performing?
10. How many does he have leftover?

Q: CHAPTER LVII.

THE LOVES AND HOPES OF ALBERT FITZALLEN.

Felix Graham, when he left poor Mary Snow, did not go on immediately to the doctor's shop. He had made up his mind that Mary Snow should never be his wife, and therefore considered it wise to lose no time in making such arrangements as might be necessary both for his release and for hers. But, nevertheless, he had not the heart to go about the work the moment that he left her. He passed by the apothecary's, and looking in saw a young man working sedulously at a pestle. If Albert Fitzallen were fit to be her husband and willing to be so, poor as he was himself, he would still make some pecuniary sacrifice by which he might quiet his own conscience and make Mary's marriage possible. He still had a sum of 1,200 belonging to him, that being all his remaining capital; and the half of that he would give to Mary as her dower. So in two days he returned, and again looking in at the doctor's shop, again saw the young man at his work.

"Yes, sir, my name is Albert Fitzallen," said the medical aspirant, coming round the counter. There was no one else in the shop, and Felix hardly knew how to accost him on so momentous a subject, while he was still in charge of all that store of medicine, and liable to be called away at any moment to relieve the ailments of Clapham. Albert Fitzallen was a pale-faced, light-haired youth, with an incipient moustache, with his hair parted in equal divisions over his forehead, with elaborate shirt-cuffs elaborately turned back, and with a white apron tied round him so that he might pursue his vocation without injury to his nether garments. His face, however, was not bad, nor mean, and had there not been about him a little air of pretension, assumed perhaps to carry off the combined apron and beard, Felix would have regarded him altogether with favourable eyes.

1. Felix Graham
2. Mary Snow
3. Mary Snow should never be his wife
4. No
5. No
6. the doctor's shop
7. the apothecary's
8. a young man
9. working sedulously at a pestle
10. No
11. in two days
12. Albert
13. Fitzallen
14. Yes
15. called away to relieve ailments
16. Clapham
17. at any moment
18. a pale-faced, light-haired youth
19. parted in equal divisions over his forehead
20. with a white apron tied round him

Numbered questions:
1. Who left someone?
2. Who did he leave?
3. What had he decided about her?
4. Does he want to wait a long time for them to move on?
5. Does he want to start immediately?
6. Where was he going?
7. Where did he pass by on the way?
8. What does he see?
9. Doing what?
10. Does he go in?
11. When does he go back?
12. What is he called?
13. What is his last name?
14. Was he alone?
15. What might he get asked to do?
16. Of who?
17. When?
18. What is he like?
19. What about his hair?
20. And his clothes?