Question:
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CHAPTER XVI.

DISCOVERED.

Cummings was bringing up the rear during this march across the city, and when Jake halted he naturally thought it was in obedience to some signal made by Poyor, therefore he remained silent until hearing Neal say imploringly:

"Go on, Jake. Don't stop now when we have a chance of getting away in safety, for what is gold in comparison with life?"

"Have you halted with any idea that it may be possible to carry anything off with us?" Cummings asked, speaking in a whisper, and Jake replied in the same cautious tone:

"That's the size of it. You brought us here with the promise that we could make ourselves rich, and when the first little thing goes wrong you run. Now I will do as I please."

"It is nothing less than suicide. We have before us a journey so long and difficult that however small a burden you may have to carry, it will seem all too heavy."

By this time Poyor turned back to learn the cause of the halt, and when it was explained he said gravely:

"Each instant we stand here brings death so much nearer. Even at this moment watchful eyes may be upon us, and once we are discovered flight will be almost impossible."

The little party stood directly in front of what was evidently the main entrance to the temple. It was formed of twenty slender shafts of white stone which in the moonlight looked translucent, and each column upheld a grotesque figure composed of what appeared to be silver.
1. Who stopped the group's advance?
2. Who halted the group?
3. Who was in the rear?
4. Who did he believe had signalled?
5. Did he start talking?
6. Who did?
7. Did he agree with stopping?
8. What did he think was more important that gold?
9. Who inquired about taking stuff with them?
10. What did Jake say he had promised?
11. Did he want to run?
12. Did Cummings feel staying was dangerous?
13. Who felt they might be being watched?
14. Did he think escape would be easy?
15. Where were they standing?
16. To what?
17. What was it made of?
18. Of what material?
19. What color?
20. How did they look in the light?

Numbered answers:
1. the main entrance to the temple
2. Jake
3. Cummings
4. Poyor
5. no
6. Neal
7. no
8. life
9. Cummings
10. we could make ourselves rich
11. Cummings did
12. Yes
13. poyor
14. no
15. the main entrance
16. the temple
17. twenty slender shafts
18. stone
19. white
20. translucent

Question:
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The man who police say dressed as Santa Claus and killed nine people at a Christmas Eve party may have also had plans to kill his mother and his former wife's divorce attorney, police said Monday night.

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo went on a shooting rampage in a Los Angeles suburb on Wednesday, police say.

Prime suspect Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who police said committed suicide hours after he went on a shooting rampage and started a raging house fire in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina, left a rental car with a gasoline canister outside the home of attorney Scott Nord, said Pat Buchanan of the Covina Police Department.

Police previously said that Pardo targeted his rampage at his former wife, Sylvia Ortega Pardo, and her family at the family's Christmas Eve party.

A divorce between the two was finalized in court on December 18 in a "somewhat contentious proceeding," Covina Police Chief Kim Raney said last week. Police believe Pardo planned to carry out a similar attack at Nord's house as he did at the shooting and house fire that claimed nine lives.

Another rented car that Pardo used to flee the scene was found booby-trapped after the shooting, police said. That car burned as the Covina bomb squad was trying to disconnect an explosive device in it, police said.

On Saturday, Covina police released the names of the nine people unaccounted for since the shooting and fire. Nine bodies were recovered from the rubble of the house, but authorities said that they are having to work with dental records to establish identities.
1. What did Bruce Pardo do Wednesday?
2. Where?
3. What was he wearing?
4. How many people were killed?
5. Where were they?
6. Is Pardo still alive?
7. What happened?
8. What did he do after the shooting?
9. Where?
10. What did he leave?
11. Whose home?
12. Who did he target before this?
13. Where were they?
14. Did they have an easy divorce?
15. What day was it final?
16. How did he leave the scene?
17. How was it found?
18. What happened to it?
19. Why?
20. Are they still trying to identify the bodies?

Numbered answers:
1. went on a shooting rampage
2. in a Los Angeles suburb
3. dressed as Santa Claus
4. nine people
5. a Christmas Eve party
6. No
7. He committed suicide
8. started a raging house fire
9. in the Los Angeles suburb of Covina,
10. left a rental car with a gasoline canister outside a home
11. attorney Scott Nord
12. at his former wife, Sylvia Ortega Pardo, and her family
13. at the family's Christmas Eve party.
14. No
15. December 18
16. Another rented car
17. booby-trapped
18. it burned
19. as the Covina bomb squad was trying to disconnect an explosive device in it,
20. Yes

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CHAPTER III

OFF THE TRACK

"Well, if he isn't the worst yet," was the comment of the senator's son.

"I hope he isn't waiting for that train," said Shadow. "I don't want to see any more of him."

"Pooh! who's afraid?" asked Phil. "I guess we can make him keep his distance."

"I thought I knew him when he came in, but I wasn't sure," said the restaurant keeper. "The man who runs the hotel, Mr. Brown, had a lot of trouble with him because he wouldn't pay his bill--said it was too high. Then he came here once and said the meat wasn't fresh and the bread was stale and sour. I came close to pitching him out. Don't let him walk over you--if he does take your train."

"No danger," answered Dave. He had not yet forgotten the rude manner in which Isaac Pludding had shoved him.

It was soon time for the Oakdale train to arrive, and the students walked back to the depot. The snow was over a foot deep and still coming down steadily. The depot was crowded with folks, and among them they discovered Isaac Pludding, with his valise and a big bundle done up in brown paper.

"He certainly must be waiting for the train," said Dave; and he was right. When the cars came to a stop the stout man was the first person aboard. The students entered another car and secured seats in a bunch as before.

"By the way, where is Nat Poole?" asked Roger, suddenly. "I didn't see him get off the other train."
1. What train was about to arrive?
2. Who was about to board the train?
3. Was it raining?
4. Was it continuing to pile up?
5. Who recognized Isaac when he came in?
6. Who is in charge of the motel?
7. Who did he recognize?
8. And who mentions that they do not wish to lay eyes upon him again?
9. What did he/she wish that he was not doing?
10. Does anyone disappear while on the train?
11. Why does everyone think he vanished?
Numbered answers:
1. Oakdale train to arrive
2. Isaac Pludding
3. The snow was over a foot deep
4. snow was still coming down steadily.
5. Dave
6. Mr. Brown
7. Isaac Pludding
8. Shadow
9. Waiting for the train.
10. Nat Poole
11. Because Roger didn't see him get off the other train.