input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Bill McIntosh and Royce Wedding had been the best friends for 30 years. Now, living alone 12 miles east of the town, Bill earned his living by hunting foxes and rabbits.

"Coming to the football match this afternoon?" Bill McIntosh asked 54-year-old Royce Wedding as they drank beer at the Eureka Hotel. Royce shook his head, "I promised Mom I'd burn off the weeds in one of our fields." "I'll give you a hand," Bill said.

Driving slowly from the southern edge of the field, they worked their way upwind, leaving a line of burning weeds in their wake. Suddenly the fire was on them. Bill pushed open his door only to find himself thrown through the air, the gasoline tank exploded and the car jumped three feet off the ground. When it crashed back down Royce found himself unable to move. Bill lay where he fell. "Royce!" he cried, struggling to his feet and heading for the car. Pulling open the door, he seized Royce's arms through the smoke. "I'm stuck," Royce said. "Get yourself away!" The fire bit at Bill's arms, face and legs, but he said, "I'm not leaving you here." Now Bill pulled as hard as he could. Suddenly he fell backward. Royce was free and out of the car.

"What's the matter with that dog?" said Vicky Wedding, Royce's mom. Shocked by noise behind her, she turned to see Bill leaning against the door.

Six months after the fire, when Royce went out of hospital, he walked into the Eureka Hotel and bought Bill a beer. 1. How long did Bill Mcintosh and Royce Wedding been best friends?
2. How far east of town did Bill live?
3. How old was Royce?
4. What exploded when Bill pushed oen his door?
5. how did Bill earn his living?
6. What was helping royce with?
7. What did Royce say to bill because he was stuck from the accident?
8. What did Bill and Royce do together at the Eureka hotel?
9. How long did it take Royce to get out of the hospital after the fire?
10. Did Bill get pull Royce free?
numbered_answers: 1. 30 years
2. 12 miles
3. 54
4. gasoline tank e
5. hunting foxes and rabbits
6. burn off the weeds in one of our fields
7. Get yourself away!
8. drank beer
9. Six months
10. yes

input: CHAPTER XIII.

HAL SHOWS HIS METTLE.

Hal understood perfectly well that a crisis had come. Hardwick had him by the throat, and unless he acceded to the book-keeper's demand he would be in immediate danger of being choked to death.

"Let--let go of me," he gasped.

"Not until you do as I say," replied Hardwick. "I want you to understand that you can't get the best of me."

Hal tried to push Hardwick away, but the book-keeper made a pass at him with the heavy ruler.

"Keep quiet, if you value your head!" roared Hardwick.

"Let me go!"

"Not until you have told me what you mean by your doings."

"What doings?"

"Your doings up to Mrs. Ricket's."

"Who told you about what happened up there?"

"Never mind; I know all about it."

"Then Ferris saw you last night."

"No, he didn't."

"Or this morning."

"Shut up. You implicated me."

"Did Dick Ferris say I did?" asked Hal.

"Never mind who said so. I want to know what you mean by such work?"

Hal did not reply. He was trying to think. What was Ferris' object in telling Hardwick he had been mentioned in connection with the matter?

Clearly there could be but one reason. Ferris knew Hardwick already disliked Hal, and he wished to put the book-keeper against the youth, so as to get Hal into more difficulties.

"Do you hear me?" demanded Hardwick, giving Hal an extra squeeze on the throat.

"I do," gulped Hal. "Let--go--of me."

"Not until you have answered." 1. What was Hardwick's occupation?
2. What was Hardwick holding?
3. What else?
4. Was he fighting back?
5. In what way?
6. Why was he being attacked?
7. Did something where?
8. Who told Hardwick about this?
9. Why?
10. Why did he want to do that?
11. Why was Hal stalling?
12. Did he answer Hardwick's questions? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. book-keeper
2. a heavy ruler
3. Hal's throat
4. yes
5. he tried to push Hardwick away
6. Hardwick thought he did something
7. at Mrs. Ricket's."
8. Possibly Ferris
9. to put the book-keeper against Hal
10. so that Hal had problems
11. He was thinking
12. not yet

Q: CHAPTER XIV.

A CYPHER AND A TY.

Dolores was coming down to breakfast the next morning when Colonel Mohun's door opened. He exclaimed, 'My little Dolly, good morning!' stooped down and kissed her.

Then, standing still a moment, and holding her hand, he said--

'Dolly, it was not you I saw at Darminster station?'

It was a terrible shock. Some one, no doubt, was trying to set him against her. And should she betray Constance and her uncle? At any rate, almost before she knew what she was saying, 'No, Uncle Regie,' was out of her mouth, and her conscience was being answered with 'How do I know it was me that he saw? these fur capes are very common.'

'I thought not,' he answered, kindly. 'Look here, Dolly, I want one word with you. Did your father ever leave anything in charge with you for Mr. Flinders? Did he ever speak to you about him?'

'Never,' Dolores truly answered.

'Because, my dear, though it's a hard thing to say, and your poor mother felt bound to him, he is a slippery fellow--a scamp, in fact, and if ever he writes to you here, you had better send the letter straight off to me, and I'll see what's to be done. He never has, I suppose?'

'No,' said Dolores, answering the word here, and foolishly feeling the involvement too great, and Constance too much concerned in it for her to confess to her uncle what had really happened. Indeed, the first falsehood held her to the second; and there was no more time, for Lord Rotherwood was coming out of his room further down the passage. And after the greetings, as she went downstairs before the two gentlemen, she was sure she heard Uncle Regie say, 'She's all right.' What could it mean? Was a storm averted? or was it brewing? Could that spiteful Aunt Jane and her questions about the weather be at the bottom of it?

Answer the following questions:
1. What was Dolores's aunt's name?
2. What was Dolores's nickname?
3. Who called her that?4. What was one thing she lied to him about?
5. What station?
6. Was she actually there?
7. What did her conscience say?
8. What was her excuse for herself?
9. Who was then coming out of his room?
10. What did Dolores call Colonel Mohun?
11. When did she lie to him?
12. What time of day?
13. How did he greet her?
14. Who did Dolores's mom feel tied to?
15. How was Mr. Flinders described?
16. Who else was involved in the lie?
17. What two men went to the first floor together?
18. What was the second lie?
A:
1. Jane
2. Little Dolly
3. Colonel Mohun
4. being at the station.
5. Darminster station?
6. Yes.
7. How does she know it was her that he saw.
8. Fur capes are common.
9. Lord Rotherwood
10. Uncle Regie
11. Before she knew what she was saying.
12. Morning.
13. Stooped down and kissed her.
14. Mr. Flinders
15. A slippery scamp.
16. Constance.
17. Lord Rotherwood and her uncle.
18. That Mr. Flinders never wrote to her.