CHAPTER XXIV

THE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING BOY

"Tom isn't here!"

It was Dick who uttered the words, as of a sudden he wheeled around on the dark trail and tried to penetrate the blackness of night behind them.

"Isn't here?" demanded Jack Wumble, while Sam set up a cry of dismay.

"No. Tom! Tom!"

Sam joined in the cry, and so did the old miner, but as we already know, it was useless.

"This is the wust yet!" growled Jack Wumble. "I told ye all to keep close to me."

"Perhaps he fell asleep-- I know he was dead tired," answered Dick, hitting the plain truth.

"We'll have to go back for him," said Sam, and turned without delay, for going ahead without Tom was all out of the question.

"Yes, we'll go back," rejoined the old miner. "But go slow, or you may make matters wuss. I kin follow a clear trail, even of three hosses, but I can't follow a trail mixed up backward an' forward."

They rode back slowly until at least half a mile had been covered. Then they shouted, but only a dismal echo came back. Dick fancied once that he heard Tom calling, but was not sure.

Daylight found them still searching around, Dick and Sam with more sober faces than they had worn in many a day. They knew only too well the danger of becoming lost in those wild mountains.

"Perhaps he has fallen in with Baxter's party," suggested Dick, as they came to a halt at the edge of a cliff overlooking a rushing river far below. It was past the breakfast hour, yet none of them felt like eating. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was looking for Tom?
2. Any idea why?
3. Where were they?
4. Was Tom asleep?
5. Why do you say that?
6. Any reason he thought that was a possibility?
7. What did they eat for a meal?
8. Why not?
9. Was there another mining crew?
10. Was there an echo?
Answer: 1. Dick
2. lost
3. mountains
4. Perhaps
5. Perhaps he fell asleep answered Dick
6. he was dead tired
7. none of them felt like eating
8. none of them felt like eating
9. unknown
10. yes

The Royal College of Chemistry was established by private subscription in 1845 as there was a growing awareness that practical aspects of the experimental sciences were not well taught and that in the United Kingdom the teaching of chemistry in particular had fallen behind that in Germany. As a result of a movement earlier in the decade, many politicians donated funds to establish the college, including Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone and Robert Peel. It was also supported by Prince Albert, who persuaded August Wilhelm von Hofmann to be the first professor.

City and Guilds College was founded in 1876 from a meeting of 16 of the City of London's livery companies for the Advancement of Technical Education (CGLI), which aimed to improve the training of craftsmen, technicians, technologists, and engineers. The two main objectives were to create a Central Institution in London and to conduct a system of qualifying examinations in technical subjects. Faced with their continuing inability to find a substantial site, the Companies were eventually persuaded by the Secretary of the Science and Art Department, General Sir John Donnelly (who was also a Royal Engineer) to found their institution on the eighty-seven acre (350,000 m) site at South Kensington bought by the 1851 Exhibition Commissioners (for GBP 342,500) for 'purposes of art and science' in perpetuity. The latter two colleges were incorporated by Royal Charter into the Imperial College of Science and Technology and the CGLI Central Technical College was renamed the City and Guilds College in 1907, but not incorporated into Imperial College until 1910. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When was the college's debut?
2. Why was it established?
3. Was there something particular that was lacking?
4. How many political figures helped finance it?
5. Who was the first person?
6. The second?
7. And the third?
8. Who was the first educator at the school?
9. Was anyone in favor of him particularly?
10. Who?
11. When did City and Guilds College begin?
12. How many businesses caused it to come about?
13. What kind of businesses were they?
14. What did they try to accomplish?
15. How many different professions did they want to improve?
16. What was the first one?
17. The second?
18. The third?
19. And the last?
20. How many goals did they hope to accomplish?
Answer: 1. 1845
2. TPractical aspects of the experimental sciences were not well taught
3. Teaching of chemistry
4. Three
5. Benjamin Disraeli
6. William Gladstone
7. Robert Peel
8. August Wilhelm von Hofmann
9. Yes
10. Prince Albert
11. 1876
12. 16
13. Livery companies
14. To improve the training of certain professions
15. Four
16. Craftsmen
17. Technicians
18. Technologists
19. Engineers
20. Two

(CNN) -- A man suspected of conspiring with a terrorist network responsible for the deaths of five U.S. soldiers in Iraq was arrested Wednesday in Canada, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York.

Faruq Khalil Muhammad, 38, is charged with conspiring to kill Americans abroad and providing material support to a terrorist network that conducted suicide bombings in Iraq, the statement said.

He was arrested by authorities after a U.S. warrant was issued for his arrest.

The five U.S. soldiers were killed on April 10, 2009, when a Tunisian man drove a truck filled with explosives to the gate of a U.S. forward operating base in Mosul, Iraq.

The trucks' detonation destroyed a vehicle in a nearby U.S. convoy, killing Sgt. Gary L. Woods, 24; Sgt. 1st. Class Bryan E. Hall, 32; Sgt. Edward W. Forrest Jr., 25; Cpl. Jason G. Pautsch, 20; and Pvt. Bryce E. Gaultier, 22, the statement said.

Muhammed is suspected of providing material support for that attack and allegedly sought to conduct attacks himself and become a suicide bomber, the statement said.

"There is no safe harbor for terrorists, including those who endeavor to spread violence from halfway across the world," said U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch in the statement. "Today's arrest demonstrates that we have not forgotten that sacrifice (of U.S. soldiers) and will continue to use every available means to bring to justice all those who are responsible."

It was not immediately clear whether Muhammed had obtained legal representation. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How old is Faruq Khalil Muhammad?
2. What is his nationality?
3. What is he charged with?
4. Where was he arrested?
5. When?
6. What is the source for that information?
7. Did anybody die?
8. When?
9. How?
10. Where?
11. What range of ages were the soldiers?
12. Who was the youngest?
13. Who was the oldest?
14. What was his rank?
15. What did the bombs destroy?
16. Was he in Iraq?
17. Did Muhammed have a lawyer?
18. What made it possible for him to be arrested?
19. What was his ambition that he wanted to achieve?
20. Who was the U.S. Attorney?
Answer:
1. He is 38.
2. Tunisian
3. conspiring to kill Americans abroad
4. Canada
5. Wednesday
6. U.S. Attorney's Office in New York.
7. Five U.S. soldiers
8. April 10th in 2009
9. By a trucked filled with explosives
10. Mosul, Iraq
11. 20-32
12. Jason G. Pautsch
13. Bryan E. Hall
14. Sgt. 1st. Class
15. A vehicle
16. No
17. Not clear.
18. A U.S. warrant was issued.
19. A suicide bomber
20. Loretta E. Lynch