input: CHAPTER XXII. RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE

Black Star and Night, answering to spur, swept swiftly westward along the white, slow-rising, sage-bordered trail. Venters heard a mournful howl from Ring, but Whitie was silent. The blacks settled into their fleet, long-striding gallop. The wind sweetly fanned Venters's hot face. From the summit of the first low-swelling ridge he looked back. Lassiter waved his hand; Jane waved her scarf. Venters replied by standing in his stirrups and holding high his sombrero. Then the dip of the ridge hid them. From the height of the next he turned once more. Lassiter, Jane, and the burros had disappeared. They had gone down into the Pass. Venters felt a sensation of irreparable loss.

"Bern--look!" called Bess, pointing up the long slope.

A small, dark, moving dot split the line where purple sage met blue sky. That dot was a band of riders.

"Pull the black, Bess."

They slowed from gallop to canter, then to trot. The fresh and eager horses did not like the check.

"Bern, Black Star has great eyesight."

"I wonder if they're Tull's riders. They might be rustlers. But it's all the same to us."

The black dot grew to a dark patch moving under low dust clouds. It grew all the time, though very slowly. There were long periods when it was in plain sight, and intervals when it dropped behind the sage. The blacks trotted for half an hour, for another half-hour, and still the moving patch appeared to stay on the horizon line. Gradually, however, as time passed, it began to enlarge, to creep down the slope, to encroach upon the intervening distance. 1. Who were waving at each other?
2. What did Jane wave?
3. What did Lassiter wave?
4. What did Venters do?
5. And what did he hold up?
6. Who was with Venters?
7. What was the name of the horses?
8. What are their specific names?
9. Who saw something in the distance?
10. What did she see?
11. What did the dot turn out to be?
12. At this point could they still see Jane?
13. Where had they gone?
14. How did Venters fill about that? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. Lassiter and jane
2. her scarf
3. his hand;
4. stood in his stirrups
5. his sombrero
6. Lassiter, Jane, and the burros
7. The blacks
8. Black Star and Night
9. bess
10. A small, dark, moving dot
11. a band of riders.
12. No
13. into the Pass.
14. felt irreparable loss.

input: CHAPTER XI.

Mr. Barbecue-Smith was gone. The motor had whirled him away to the station; a faint smell of burning oil commemorated his recent departure. A considerable detachment had come into the courtyard to speed him on his way; and now they were walking back, round the side of the house, towards the terrace and the garden. They walked in silence; nobody had yet ventured to comment on the departed guest.

"Well?" said Anne at last, turning with raised inquiring eyebrows to Denis.

"Well?" It was time for someone to begin.

Denis declined the invitation; he passed it on to Mr Scogan. "Well?" he said.

Mr. Scogan did not respond; he only repeated the question, "Well?"

It was left for Henry Wimbush to make a pronouncement. "A very agreeable adjunct to the week-end," he said. His tone was obituary.

They had descended, without paying much attention where they were going, the steep yew-walk that went down, under the flank of the terrace, to the pool. The house towered above them, immensely tall, with the whole height of the built-up terrace added to its own seventy feet of brick facade. The perpendicular lines of the three towers soared up, uninterrupted, enhancing the impression of height until it became overwhelming. They paused at the edge of the pool to look back.

"The man who built this house knew his business," said Denis. "He was an architect."

"Was he?" said Henry Wimbush reflectively. "I doubt it. The builder of this house was Sir Ferdinando Lapith, who flourished during the reign of Elizabeth. He inherited the estate from his father, to whom it had been granted at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries; for Crome was originally a cloister of monks and this swimming-pool their fish-pond. Sir Ferdinando was not content merely to adapt the old monastic buildings to his own purposes; but using them as a stone quarry for his barns and byres and outhouses, he built for himself a grand new house of brick--the house you see now." 1. Who left?
2. Was everyone happy he left?
3. Where did they go?
4. How tall is the house?
5. Was it made of wood?
6. What was it made of?
7. What was they standing by?
8. what did it use to be?
9. For who?
10. Who built the house?
11. When was he alive?
12. Did they talk about the departed guest? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. Mr. Barbecue-Smith
2. Yes
3. Round the side of the house
4. Seventy feet
5. No
6. Brick
7. By the pool
8. A fish-pond
9. Monks
10. Sir Ferdinando Lapith
11. during the reign of Elizabeth.
12. No