Now came great news! It came from a neighboring state, where the family's only surviving relative lived. It was Sally's relative -- a distant relative by the name of Tilbury Foster, seventy and single. Tilbury now wrote to Sally, saying he should shortly die, and should leave him thirty thousand dollars, cash; not for love, but because money had given him most of his troubles, and he wished to place it where there was good hope that it would continue its evil work. The _ would be found in his will, and would be officially handed over provided that Sally should be able to prove to the executors .

As soon as Aleck had partially recovered from the strong emotions created by the letter, she sent someone to the relative's home and subscribed for the local paper.

For the rest of the day Sally made confusion with his books, and Aleck could not keep her mind on her affairs, not even take up a flower-pot or book or a stick of wood without forgetting what she had intended to do with it. For both were dreaming.

"Thirty thousand dollars!"

All day long Aleck was absorbed in planning how to invest it, Sally in planning how to spend it.

There was no romance-reading that night. The children took themselves away early, for their parents were silent, disturbed, and strangely unentertaining. Two pencils had been busy during that hour -- note-making; in the way of plans. It was Sally who broke the stillness at last. He said, with excitement, "Ah, it'll be grand, Aleck! Out of the first thousand we'll have a horse and a buggy for summer, and a cutter and a skin lap-robe for winter."

Aleck responded with decision and calmness.

"You can spend a part of it. But the whole of the capital must be put right to work.

"Why, yes. Yes, of course. Have you got it invested yet?"

"No, there's no hurry about that; I must look around first, and think, er..., I've turned it over twice; once in oil and once in wheat."

"Why, Aleck, it's splendid! What does it amount to?"

"I think -- well, to be on the safe side, about a hundred and eighty thousand clear, though it will probably be more."

"My! Isn't it wonderful? Good heaven! Luck has come our way at last, Aleck!"

Then they went up to bed, but they left the candle burning in the sitting room. They did not remember until they were undressed; then Sally was for letting it burn; he said they could afford it, if it was a thousand. But Aleck went down and put it out.

A good job, too; for on her way back she hit on a scheme that would turn the hundred and eighty thousand into half a million before it had had time to get cold. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Whose relative was it?
2. Who was she a relative of?
3. Did they live in the same state?
4. What ws he going to give sally?
5. How old was he?
6. Had the money been good for him?
7. Did he hope the money would do good for Sally?
8. What did she want to read?
9. What did someone subscribe to?
10. What did Aleck think about all day?
11. And Sally?
Answer: 1. Sally's
2. Tilbury Foster
3. No
4. thirty thousand dollars
5. seventy
6. no
7. No
8. his will
9. the local paper
10. how to invest it
11. how to spend it

question: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (CNN) -- Floodwaters inundated Iowa City and the University of Iowa arts campus on Sunday despite what one official called a "Herculean effort" to hold back the water with sandbags.

Residents surround Lt. Tobey Harrison at a Cedar Rapids checkpoint as they wait to see their homes Sunday.

"We've had the [National Guard] working next to prisoner inmates, sandbagging," said David Jackson, the university's facilities manager. "Students, faculty and staff, leaders of the university, the president of the university -- out sandbagging."

Some 500 to 600 homes were ordered to evacuate and others faced a voluntary evacuation order through the morning, said Iowa City Mayor Regenia Bailey.

The Iowa River in Iowa City crested at 31.5 feet and was expected to remain at that level until Monday, city and state officials said Sunday.

Classes at the university have been suspended until next Sunday, according to its Web site.

"All of our theaters, our music building, Clapp Recital Hall, our fine arts building [the] new Art Building West designed by Stephen Holl, has taken on significant water as well," said Sally Mason, president of the university. "Fortunately we were able to save all the art," she said.

The art was placed in crates shipped out of state last week.

"We anticipated the worst a week ago." At least 8 feet of water rushed through the campus, officials said. Among the school's 30,000 students, Ann Barber told CNN she has been sandbagging for nearly seven days.

"It's very hard to watch the devastation of our university," she said.
1. Who is the University's facility manager?
2. Which river crested at 31.5 feet?
3. Where is it located?
4. How deep was the water that rushed through the school?
5. How many stidents
6. She has been putting sand bags for days.
7. Were prisoners involved?
8. She is the city manager.
9. Who did a student talked to?
10. Pupils were able to save these.
11. They were put where?
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answer:
1. David Jackson
2. The Iowa River
3. Iowa City
4. 8 feet
5. 30,000
6. Ann Barber
7. yes
8. Regenia Bailey
9. CNN
10. all the art
11. in crates