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CHAPTER ELEVEN.

TO THE RESCUE.

Elsie and Cora Ravenshaw were seated at a table in Willow Creek, with their mother and Miss Trim, repairing garments, one night in that same inclement January of which we have been writing.

Mr Ravenshaw was enjoying his pipe by the stove, and Louis Lambert was making himself agreeable. The old man was a little careworn. No news had yet been received of Tony or of Victor. In regard to the latter he felt easy; Victor could take care of himself, and was in good company, but his heart sank when he thought of his beloved Tony. What would he not have given to have had him smashing his pipe or operating on his scalp at that moment.

"It is an awful winter," observed Elsie, as a gust of wind seemed to nearly blow in the windows.

"I pity the hunters in the plains," said Cora. "They say a rumour has come that they are starving."

"I heard of that, but hope it is not true," observed Lambert.

"Oh! they always talk of starving," said old Ravenshaw. "No fear of 'em."

At that moment there was a sound of shuffling in the porch, the door was thrown open, and a gaunt, haggard man, with torn, snow-sprinkled garments, pale face, and bloodshot eyes, stood pictured on the background of the dark porch.

"Baptiste Warder!" exclaimed Lambert, starting up.

"Ay, what's left o' me; and here's the remains o' Winklemann," said Warder, pointing to the cadaverous face of the starving German, who followed him.
1. What did Mr Ravenshaw like?
2. Where?
3. Anyone else in the room?
4. Who?
5. what was he doing?
6. Who was at the table?
7. Where?
8. anyone else?
9. what were they doing?
10. Was it the summer?
11. Did anyone hear about Tony or Victor yet?
12. who did he worry more for?
13. why?
14. What did Elsie realize?
15. why did she realize this?
16. Was anyone worried about a group of people?
17. who was pitied?
18. Who felt bad for them?
19. Had anyone else heard about them?
20. Who walked in through the door?

Numbered answers:
1. his pipe
2. by the stove
3. Yes
4. Louis Lambert
5. making himself agreeable
6. Elsie and Cora Ravenshaw
7. in Willow Creek
8. their mother
9. repairing garments
10. No
11. No
12. Tony
13. Victor could take care of himself
14. That it is an awful winter
15. a gust of wind nearly blew in the windows
16. Yes
17. hunters in the plains
18. Cora
19. Yes
20. Baptiste Warder

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- The police chief in Cancun has been relieved of his duties and placed under house arrest while he is investigated in the killing of a retired Mexican general who had been the area's anti-drug chief for less than 24 hours, Mexican media are reporting.

A Mexican soldier guards the entrance at a Cancun police station where the military is investigating a murder.

Francisco Velasco Delgado was detained by military officials early Monday and flown to Mexico City, where he was placed under 45 days of house arrest, according to the media reports.

With Delgado's removal, the military has taken over the Cancun police force, several newspapers reported.

Cancun Mayor Gregorio Sanchez Martinez said the move was made "to facilitate all types of investigations into the triple murder that happened last week," the Diario de Yucatan newspaper said.

Salvador Rocha Vargas, the secretary for public security for the state of Quintana Roo, will lead the police force. He said he will take all the pertinent measures "to clean up the Cancun police," the Excelsior newspaper reported Tuesday.

Retired Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quinonez's bullet-riddled body was found a week ago on a road outside Cancun. Authorities said he had been tortured before being shot 11 times.

His aide and a driver also were tortured and killed.

Quintana Roo state prosecutor Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo said last week there was no doubt Tello and the others were victims of organized crime.

"The general was the most mistreated," Rodriguez y Carrillo said at a news conference. "He had burns on his skin and bones in his hands and wrists were broken."
1. Why was the police chief removed from his position?
2. Who is the general?
3. What did he do?
4. Is the government investigating the murder?
5. How many times was the general shot?
6. Who is the prosecutor?
7. Did he think the police chief is part of the mob?
8. Who is in charge of Cancun's police force now?
9. Who is in charge of the police force?
10. What person is in charge now?

Numbered answers:
1. he is investigated in the killing of a retired Mexican general
2. Mauro Enrique Tello Quinonez
3. MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- The police chief in Cancun has been relieved of his duties and placed under house arrest while he is investigated in the killing of a retired Mexican general who had been the area's anti-drug chief for less than 24 hours, Mexican media are reporting.
4. no
5. 11 times.
6. Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo
7. Yes
8. the military
9. the military
10. Salvador Rocha Vargas

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CHAPTER XI. A FESTIVAL AND A PARTING

My grandfather and I were seated at table together. It was early June, the birds were singing in the garden, and the sweet odours of the flowers were wafted into the room.

"Richard," says he, when Scipio had poured his claret, "my illness cheated you out of your festival last year. I dare swear you deem yourself too old for birthdays now."

I laughed.

"So it is with lads," said Mr. Carvel; "they will rush into manhood as heedless as you please. Take my counsel, boy, and remain young. Do not cross the bridge before you have to. And I have been thinking that we shall have your fete this year, albeit you are grown, and Miss Dolly is the belle of the province. 'Tis like sunshine into my old heart to see the lads and lasses again, and to hear the merry, merry fiddling. I will have his new Excellency, who seems a good and a kindly man, and Lloyd and Tilghman and Dulany and the rest, with their ladies, to sit with me. And there will be plenty of punch and syllabub and sangaree, I warrant; and tarts and jellies and custards, too, for the misses. Ring for Mrs. Willis, my son."

Willis came with her curtsey to the old gentleman, who gave his order then and there. He never waited for a fancy of this kind to grow cold.

"We shall all be children again, on that day, Mrs. Willis," says he. "And I catch any old people about, they shall be thrust straight in the town stocks, i' faith."
1. What month was it?
2. Who were seated together?
3. Who was singing?
4. Where?
5. Who did they want to ring for?
6. What did Willis do when she arrived to the man?
7. Who would be thrown in the stocks?
8. Who poured the old man's claret?
9. Who wasn't able to enjoy the previous year's festivities?
10. The smell of what filled the room they were in?
11. Who filled the claret?
12. Who might feel he was too old for birthdays?
13. What was Mr. Carvel's advice to the young one?
14. Who was the province belle?
15. What brightened one of their hearts?
Numbered answers:
1. June
2. grandfather and I
3. birds
4. in the garden
5. Mrs. Willis
6. curtsey
7. any old people
8. Scipio
9. Richard
10. sweet odours of the flowers
11. Scipio
12. Richard
13. remain young
14. Miss Dolly
15. to see the lads and lasses again