CHAPTER XIX

MAUD MAKES A MEMORANDUM

My mother used to say to me: "Never expect to find brains in a pretty girl." Perhaps she said it because I was not a pretty girl and she wished to encourage me. In any event, that absurd notion of the ancients that when the fairies bestow the gift of beauty on a baby they withhold all other qualities has so often been disproved that we may well disregard it.

Maud Stanton was a pretty girl--indeed, a beautiful girl--but she possessed brains as well as beauty and used her intellect to advantage more often than her quiet demeanor would indicate to others than her most intimate associates. From the first she had been impressed by the notion that there was something mysterious about A. Jones and that his romantic explanation of his former life and present position was intended to hide a truth that would embarrass him, were it fully known. Therefore she had secretly observed the young man, at such times as they were together, and had treasured every careless remark he had made--every admission or assertion--and made a note of it. The boy's arrest had startled her because it was so unexpected, and her first impulse was to doubt his innocence. Later, however, she had thoroughly reviewed the notes she had made and decided he was innocent.

In the quiet of her own room, when she was supposed to be asleep, Maud got out her notebook and read therein again the review of all she had learned concerning A. Jones of Sangoa.

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. Who was good looking?
2. Was she very good looking?
3. What did she have along with her looks?
4. Was the narrator also good looking?
5. Who did Maud think was keeping a secret?
6. What did she think it would to, if revealed?
7. What did she do to try to uncover this secret?
8. What surprised her?
9. Did she initially think he might be guilty?
10. What did she decide subsequently?
11. Where was the man from?
1. Maud Stanton
2. yes
3. brains
4. no
5. A. Jones
6. embarrass him,
7. secretly observed him
8. The boy's arrest
9. yes
10. .he was innocent.
11. Sangoa.