Q: CHAPTER VIII

"A shade more to the right, please. There, just as you are now! Don't move! In five minutes I shall have finished for the day."

Isobel smiled.

"I think that your five minutes," she said, "last sometimes for a very long time. But I am not tired--no, not at all. I can stay like this if you wish until the light goes."

"You are splendid," Mabane murmured. "The best sitter--oh, hang it, who's that?"

"There is certainly some one at the door," Isobel remarked.

Mabane paused in his work to shout fiercely, "Come in!" I too looked up from my writing. A woman was ushered into the room--a woman dressed in fashionable mourning, of medium height, and with a wealth of fair, fluffy hair, which seemed to mock the restraining black bands. Mrs. Burdett, visibly impressed, lingered in the background.

The woman paused and looked around. She looked at me, and the pen slipped from my nerveless fingers. I rose to my feet.

"Eil--Lady Delahaye!" I exclaimed.

She inclined her head. Her demeanour was cold, almost belligerent.

"I am glad to find you here, Arnold Greatson," she said. "You are a friend, I believe, of the man who murdered my husband?"

"You have been misinformed, Lady Delahaye," I answered quietly. "I was not even an acquaintance of his. We met that day for the first time."

By the faintest possible curl of the lips she expressed her contemptuous disbelief.

"Ah!" she said. "I remember your story at the inquest. You will forgive me if, in company, I believe, with the majority who heard it, I find it a trifle improbable."

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is being told to stay still?
2. Who was the painter?
3. What interrupted him?
4. Who walked in?
5. Who was the woman glad to see?
6. What was her husband's fate?
7. Who did she think was friendly with his killer?
8. Was she correct?
9. How long had they known each other?
10. Did the widow trust in his words?
A: 1. Isobel
2. Mabane
3. the door,
4. Lady Delahaye
5. Arnold Greatson
6. murdered
7. Arnold Greatson
8. You have been misinformed
9. Just that day
10. No
Q: CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE MOAT

Fortunio and the Marquise reached the window side by side, and they were in time to hear a dull splash in the waters fifty feet below them. There was a cloud over the little sickle of moon, and to their eyes, fresh from the blaze of candle-light, the darkness was impenetrable.

"He is in the moat," cried the Marquise excitedly, and Valerie, who sat on the floor whither she had slipped when Fortunio shook her off, rocked herself in an agony of fear.

To the horrors about her--the huddled bodies lying so still upon the floor, the bloody footprints everywhere, the shattered furniture, and the groans of the man with the wounded thigh--to all this she was insensible. Garnache was dead, she told herself; he was surely dead; and it seemed as if the very thought of it were killing, too, a part of her own self.

Unconsciously she sobbed her fears aloud. "He is dead," she moaned; "he is dead."

The Marquise overheard that piteous cry, and turned to survey the girl, her brows lifting, her lips parting in an astonishment that for a second effaced the horrors of that night. Suspicion spread like an oil stain in her evil mind. She stepped forward and caught the girl by one of her limp arms. Marius, paler than his stunning had left him, leaned more heavily against the door-post, and looked on with bloodshot eyes. If ever maiden avowed the secret of her heart, it seemed to him that Valerie avowed it then.

Answer the following questions:
1. who went to the window
2. Were they in a line
3. what did they hear when they walked up
4. how far down
5. who was sitting on the floow
6. what emotion was she feeling
7. what was everywhere on the floor
8. what was broken
9. did a woman have the injured thigh
10. Who was dead
11. who heard the cry
12. who did he look over
13. how was the girl caught
14. what chapter is this story in
15. what covered the moon
16. what word was compared to an oil stain
17. who leaned against the door post
18. how was Garnache killed
19. what word was used to describe the darkness
A: 1. Fortunio and the Marquise
2. no
3. a dull splash
4. 50 feet down
5. Valerie
6. fear
7. bloody footprints
8. furniture
9. no
10. Garnache was dead,
11. The Marquise
12. the girl,
13. by one of her limp arms.
14. CHAPTER XVIII
15. There was a cloud
16. Suspicion
17. Marius
18. unknown
19. impenetrable.
Q: A small group of people around the world have started implanting microchips to link the body and the computer.

Mr. Donelson and three friends, who had driven 100 miles from their homes in Loockport, New York, to have the implants put in by Dr. Jesse Villemaire, whom they had persuaded to do the work, are part of a small group, about 30 people around the world, who have independently put in microchips into their bodies, according to Web-based reports.

At a shop William Donelson was having a four-millimeter-wide needle put into his left hand. "I'm set,"he said with a deep breath. He watched as the needle pierced the fleshy webbing between his thumb and a microchip was set under his skin. At last he would be able to do what he had long imagined: strengthen his body's powers through technology.

By putting the chip inside--a radio frequency identification device (RFID)--Mr. Donelson would have at his fingertips the same magic that makes safety gates open with a knock of a card, and bridge and tunnel traffic flow smoothly with an E-Zpass. With a wave of his hand he plans to connect with his computer, open doors and unlock his car.

Implanting the chip was relatively simple task but very meaningful to Mr. Doneselson, a 21-year-old computer networking student so interested in the link between technology and the body that he has data-input jacks inside his body. _ might lead to an imagined future when people can be connected directly into computers. His new chip is enclosed in a glass container no bigger than a piece of rice and has a small memory where he has stored the words "Technology".

Some doctors have done the piercing in people's homes, and others have implanted chips in their offices after patients signed forms showing the fact that long-term studies have not been done on their safety. Piercers treat the implants much like any other medical operation steps, instructing people to keep the site dry, and advising them that swelling and redness should last a week.

Answer the following questions:
1. What does RFID stand for?
2. What does Mr. Donelson plan to do?
3. How long does the inflammation last after the implant?
4. What do the patients have to sign before getting an implant?
5. What is the purpose of the microchip implant?
6. Have the devices been proven over time to be safe?
7. What advice to the doctors give the people receiving the implants?
8. Where does the doctor keep the chip?
9. Where on the body is the chip injected?
10. How big is the needle?
A:
1. radio frequency identification device
2. connect with his computer, open doors and unlock his car
3. a week
4. forms showing the fact that long-term studies have not been done on their safety
5. to link the body and the computer
6. no
7. keep the site dry
8. in a glass container
9. the fleshy webbing between his thumb
10. a four millimeters wide