Q: CHAPTER THE NINTH.

"Well, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.

When Adam Hartley arrived at his lodgings in the sweet little town of Ryde, his first enquiries were after his comrade. He had arrived last night late, man and horse all in a foam. He made no reply to any questions about supper or the like, but snatching a candle, ran up stairs into his apartment, and shut and double-locked the door. The servants only supposed, that, being something intoxicated, he had ridden hard, and was unwilling to expose himself.

Hartley went to the door of his chamber, not without some apprehensions; and after knocking and calling more than once, received at length the welcome return, "Who is there?"

On Hartley announcing himself, the door opened, and Middlemas appeared, well dressed, and with his hair arranged and powdered; although, from the appearance of the bed, it had not been slept in on the preceding night, and Richard's countenance, haggard and ghastly, seemed to bear witness to the same fact. It was, however, with an affectation of indifference that he spoke.

"I congratulate you on your improvement in worldly knowledge, Adam. It is just the time to desert the poor heir, and to stick by him that is in immediate possession of the wealth."

"I staid last night at General Witherington's," answered Hartley, "because he is extremely ill."

"Tell him to repent of his sins, then," said Richard. "Old Gray used to say, a doctor had as good a title to give ghostly advice as a parson. Do you remember Doctor Dulberry, the minister, calling him an interloper? Ha! Ha! Ha!"

1. Adam Hartley
2. own of Ryde,
3. unknown
4. find his friend
5. ho
6. a candle
7. into his apartment,
8. double-locked the door
9. that he's been drunk and didn't want people to see
10. unknown
11. General Witherington's,"
12. because he is extremely ill."
13. "Tell him to repent of his sins, then,"
14. Doctor Dulberry,

Numbered questions:
1. who arrived at the place
2. in what town
3. when did he arrive
4. what was the first thing he wanted to do
5. did he eat supper
6. what did he grab up
7. where did he go
8. how did he lock the door
9. what did the servants assume
10. who went to Hartleys door
11. Where had Hartley stayed the previous night
12. Why was he supposedly there
13. What did Richard say about it
14. who was the minister

Q: Read a version of this story in Arabic.

Eddie Ray Routh was crying, shirtless, shoeless and smelling of alcohol when police caught up with him walking the streets of his hometown of Lancaster, Texas.

His family didn't understand what he -- a Marine veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder -- was going through, he told the officer last September 2, according to a police report.

He had a simple message that was as much a plea as it was a complaint: I'm hurting.

That visit -- which came after Routh, angry that his father was going to sell his gun, left the house and threatened, his mother told police, to "blow his brains out" -- prompted him to be placed in protective custody and sent to Dallas' Green Oaks Hospital for a mental evaluation.

Six months later, the 25-year-old Routh is in custody once again -- this time in a central Texas jail, facing murder charges in the deaths of America's self-proclaimed most deadly military sniper ever as well as the sniper's friend.

He is on a suicide watch and under 24-hour camera surveillance, Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant said Monday.

Should vets with PTSD, mental illness still have access to guns?

And he's already run into further trouble, becoming aggressive with guards in his cell after refusing to give up a spork and dinner tray Sunday night, according to the sheriff.

So who is Eddie Ray Routh?

Bryant has said Routh was in the Marines for four years, though it is unclear how much of that time, if any, was in combat zones. Shay Isham, a lawyer appointed by a judge Monday morning to represent Routh, said his client spent roughly the last two years in and out in Veteran Affairs medical facilities for treatment of mental issues.

1. Eddie Ray Routh
2. 25
3. the Marines
4. yes
5. post-traumatic stress disorder
6. September 2
7. he was angry
8. sell his gun
9. yes
10. a hospital
11. Green Oaks Hospital
12. a mental evaluation
13. he went to jail
14. murder charges
15. four years
16. no
17. Shay Isham
18. no
19. the guards
20. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. Who was crying?
2. How old is he?
3. What is is a veteran of?
4. Is he suffering from anything?
5. From what?
6. What day did officers find him walking?
7. Why did he leave his home?
8. What was his dad going to do?
9. Was he suicidal?
10. Where was he put after the argument with his parents?
11. Which one?
12. What for?
13. What happened 6 months later?
14. What for?
15. How long was he in the Marines?
16. Is it known how many of those years were spent in combat areas?
17. Who is his laywer?
18. Is he being civil in jail?
19. Who is he violent towards in jail?
20. Who did he not want to give up?

Q: CHAPTER XXXVII

MIKE FINDS OCCUPATION

There was more than one moment during the first fortnight of term when Mike found himself regretting the attitude he had imposed upon himself with regard to Sedleighan cricket. He began to realise the eternal truth of the proverb about half a loaf and no bread. In the first flush of his resentment against his new surroundings he had refused to play cricket. And now he positively ached for a game. Any sort of a game. An innings for a Kindergarten _v._ the Second Eleven of a Home of Rest for Centenarians would have soothed him. There were times, when the sun shone, and he caught sight of white flannels on a green ground, and heard the "plonk" of bat striking ball, when he felt like rushing to Adair and shouting, "I _will_ be good. I was in the Wrykyn team three years, and had an average of over fifty the last two seasons. Lead me to the nearest net, and let me feel a bat in my hands again."

But every time he shrank from such a climb down. It couldn't be done.

What made it worse was that he saw, after watching behind the nets once or twice, that Sedleigh cricket was not the childish burlesque of the game which he had been rash enough to assume that it must be. Numbers do not make good cricket. They only make the presence of good cricketers more likely, by the law of averages.

Mike soon saw that cricket was by no means an unknown art at Sedleigh. Adair, to begin with, was a very good bowler indeed. He was not a Burgess, but Burgess was the only Wrykyn bowler whom, in his three years' experience of the school, Mike would have placed above him. He was a long way better than Neville-Smith, and Wyatt, and Milton, and the others who had taken wickets for Wrykyn.

1. Mike
2. Cricket
3. No
4. Yes
5. No
6. No
7. Burgess
8. Wrykyn
9. Adair
10. Three

Numbered questions:
1. Who is the main character?
2. What sport didn't he want to play at first?
3. Did he initially like the place he was at?
4. But did he later want to play?
5. Did he ever go play?
6. Was the game what he expected?
7. Who played the bowler position?
8. Where?
9. Who played that position at Sedleigh?
10. How many people was he better than?