Make use of the article to answer the questions.

CHAPTER XI

VON BEHRLING'S FATE

It seemed to Louise that she had scarcely been in bed an hour when the more confidential of her maids--Annette, the Frenchwoman--woke her with a light touch of the arm. She sat up in bed sleepily.

"What is it, Annette?" she asked. "Surely it is not mid-day yet? Why do you disturb me?"

"It is barely nine o'clock, Mademoiselle, but Monsieur Bellamy--Mademoiselle told me that she wished to receive him whenever he came. He is in the boudoir now, and very impatient."

"Did he send any message?"

"Only that his business was of the most urgent," the maid replied.

Louise sighed,--she was really very sleepy. Then, as the thoughts began to crowd into her brain, she began also to remember. Some part of the excitement of a few hours ago returned.

"My bath, Annette, and a dressing-gown," she ordered. "Tell Monsieur Bellamy that I hurry. I will be with him in twenty minutes."

To Bellamy, the twenty minutes were minutes of purgatory. She came at last, however, fresh and eager; her hair tied up with ribbon, she herself clad in a pink dressing-gown and pink slippers.

"David!" she cried,--"my dear David--!"

Then she broke off.

"What is it?" she asked, in a different tone.

He showed her the headlines of the newspaper he was carrying.

"Tragedy!" he answered hoarsely. "Von Behrling was true, after all,--at least, it seems so."

"What has happened?" she demanded.

Bellamy pointed once more to the newspaper.

"He was murdered last night, within fifty yards of the place of our rendezvous."

1. Whose fate are we likely to learn of?
2. Did someone wake Louise by hitting her over the head?
3. How, then?
4. By who?
5. What country is she from?
6. Was Louise still very sleepy?
7. Had she been excited some hours ago?
8. What did she want Annette to fix for her immediately?
9. And what did she want after that?
10. Who did she want Annette to deliver a message to?
11. Where was he waiting?
12. Did Louise wish to convey she was taking her time, or hurrying?
13. How long did she say she'd be with him in?
14. What's Bellamy's first name?
15. Did the twenty minutes he spent waiting feel very long to him?
16. Was his business urgent?
17. What time in the morning is it?
18. What color gown did Louise end up wearing?
19. What did she wear to match it?
20. What had David brought to show her?
1. VON BEHRLING'S
2. no
3. a touch on the arm
4. Annette
5. France
6. yes
7. yes
8. her bath
9. a dressing-gown
10. Monsieur Bellamy
11. the boudoir
12. hurrying
13. twenty minutes.
14. David
15. yes
16. yes
17. nine o'clock
18. pink
19. slippers
20. a newspaper