Q: CHAPTER XVI

DICK AND DORA

"Oh, Dick, how lovely!"

"Weren't you afraid, Sam?"

"What a big flying machine, Tom!"

Such were the exclamations from Dora, Grace and Nellie, as all rushed forward to where the boys were alighting from the _Dartaway_. Soon they were shaking hands all around, and soon other girl students were coming up, to learn what the arrival of the flying machine meant.

"Well, we certainly had a great trip," said Dick.

"The wind was pretty strong," put in Sam.

"Strongest wind you ever saw!" declared Tom, stoutly. "Turned us over about 'steen times and rolled us into a regular ball."

"Oh, Tom, what an idea!" exclaimed Nellie, and began to laugh. "But weren't you afraid?" she went on anxiously.

"What, me? Never! But Sam was so afraid he shook off his shoes, and one of 'em dropped right on a cow, and----"

"Tom Rover!" burst out Grace. "What a story-teller you are!"

"Well, Grace, if you don't believe it, go and ask that cow," went on the fun-loving Rover, soberly. "It's lucky Sam has elastics on the shoes--to pull 'em back by. If he hadn't had----" Tom did not finish but shook his head mournfully.

"I am so glad you got here safely, Dick," said Dora, in a low voice. "But oh, do you think it is quite safe?" she went on, anxiously. "I--I don't want you to get hurt!"

"I guess it is safe enough, Dora," he replied, not wishing to alarm her. "It's like an auto--you've got to get used to it."

1. Dora, Grace and Nellie,
2. Sam and dick
3. Dick
4. Tom
5. sam
6. Shook off his show
7. On a cow
8. Grace
9. Dora
10. Big
11. Windy
12. rolled them into a ball
13. Dartaway
14. shook hands with everyone

Numbered questions:
1. Who were speaking?
2. Who were getting down from the machine?
3. Who else?
4. Who wasn't afraid?
5. Who was?
6. What did he do?
7. Where did one fall?
8. Who didn't believe the story?
9. Who's afraid for the young men?
10. What's the machine like?
11. How was the flight?
12. What did it do?
13. What was it called?
14. What happened when they alighted?

Q: The trial of Oscar Pistorius, accused of killing his former girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was postponed until April 7 because one of two assessors was hospitalized.

The assessors will help the judge decide the verdict. South Africa does not have jury trials.

Pistorius killed Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. Of that, there is no doubt.

But was it murder?

One of South Africa's toughest prosecutors, Gerrie Nel, has been fighting for most of this month to prove it was.

On Friday, one of the country's shrewdest defense lawyers, Barry Roux, was scheduled to begin convincing a judge that it wasn't.

Now he will have to wait.

The verdict will hinge on two questions:

Did the Olympic sprinter know his girlfriend was behind the door in the bathroom of his house when he fired four hollow-point bullets through it in the middle of the night?

And if he did not -- if he thought she was a burglar, as he insists -- did he act as a reasonable person would have?

Critical testimony will come from the only living person who was in the house at the time, the "Blade Runner" himself.

Pistorius was expected to take the stand for the first time Friday to give his side of a story he's been telling for more than a year.

He woke up in the middle of the night, went to his balcony to bring in a fan -- or two fans, in his most recent version -- heard his bathroom window opening, took his gun, went to the bathroom and fired through the door when he heard a noise in the toilet.

1. South Africa
2. assessors
3. two
4. the judge
5. the verdict
6. Oscar Pistorius
7. killing his girlfriend
8. Reeva Steenkamp
9. last year
10. Valentine's Day

Numbered questions:
1. Who doesn't use a jury?
2. What do they use instead?
3. How many?
4. Who do they assist?
5. with what?
6. Who is on trial?
7. For what?
8. Who was that?
9. When did he do it?
10. What day?

Q: Dixon, Illinois (CNN) -- William Heirens, the "Lipstick Killer," is believed to be the longest-serving inmate in the United States. He turns 81 on November 15.

Diabetes has ravaged his body, but his mind is sharp.

"Bill's never allowed himself to be institutionalized," said Dolores Kennedy, his long-time friend and advocate. "He's kept himself focused on the positives."

The days are spent mostly watching television and reading magazines. Using a wheelchair and sharing a cell with a roommate in the health unit of Dixon Correctional Center, he still yearns for a chance at freedom. It is something he has not tasted since 1946.

Heirens has been locked behind bars and walls for 63 years, making inmate C06103 the longest-serving prisoner in Illinois history, state officials say.

According to Steven Drizin, the legal director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University, Heirens "has served longer than anyone in the U.S. that I can find."

He was put away a year after the end of World War II. It is a dubious record, but fitting for the man dubbed the Lipstick Killer, whose crime spree remains among the most infamous in the history of Chicago, the city of Capone and Leopold and Loeb.

The scar-faced gangster and the thrill-kill pair are long gone. Heirens, however, has not slipped into the past. He lives in the present and hopes for a future outside prison. Supporters have championed his cause, convinced that he is innocent, or arguing that he has been rehabilitated, a model inmate who has served his sentence.

1. William Heirens
2. "Lipstick Killer"
3. 81
4. Diabetes
5. for 63 years
6. Illinois
7. a year after the end of World War II
8. Capone and Leopold and Loeb
9. yes
10. he is innocent
11. has been rehabilitated
12. November 15

Numbered questions:
1. Who is the person who has been in prison the longest in the US?
2. What is he known as?
3. How old is he?
4. Does he have any diseases?
5. how long has he been imprisoned?
6. In what State?
7. When was he jailed?
8. What other criminals are famous in Chicago?
9. Is anyone pleaded for his release?
10. What is one reason why?
11. and other reason?
12. When is his birthday