CHAPTER XXVIII.

TELL IT NOT IN OATH.

As they sat silent in that little sitting-room after supper, a double knock at the door suddenly announced the arrival of a telegram for Ernest. He opened it with trembling lingers. It was from Lancaster:--'Come down to the office at once. Schurz has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment, and we want a leader about him for to-morrow.' The telegram roused Ernest at once from his stupefied lethargy. Here was a chance at last of doing something for Max Schurz and for the cause of freedom! Here was a chance of waking up all England to a sense of the horrible crime it had just committed through the voice of its duly accredited judicial mouthpiece! The country was trembling on the brink of an abyss, and he, Ernest Le Breton, might just be in time to save it. The Home Secretary must be compelled by the unanimous clamour of thirty millions of free working people to redress the gross injustice of the law in sending Max Sohurz, the greatest, noblest, and purest-minded of mankind, to a common felon's prison! Nothing else on earth could have moved Ernest, jaded and dispirited as he was at that moment, to the painful exertion of writing a newspaper leader after the day's fatigues and excitements, except the thought that by doing so he might not only blot out this national disgrace, as he considered it, but might also help to release the martyr of the people's rights from his incredible, unspeakable punishment. Flushed and feverish though he was, he rose straight up from the table, handed the telegram to Edie without a word, and started off alone to hail a hansom cab and drive down immediately to the office. Arthur Berkeley, fearful of what might happen to him in his present excited state, stole out after him quietly, and followed him unperceived in another hansom at a little distance.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Where did the telegram come from?
2. Who was it for?
3. How long had Schurz been sentenced for?
4. What was Schurz's first name?
5. And what was Ernest's last name?
6. What's the title of the chapter?
7. What number is it?
8. Who followed after Ernest in another hansom at a distance?
9. What kind of prison was max Schurz sentenced to?
10. Who did Ernest hand the telegram to?
11. Where was he taking a hansom cab to?
12. Where were they sitting when there was a knock on the door?
13. What were his hands doing when he opened it?
14. Did Ernest not want to go?
15. What was it a chance to do?
16. What was England trembling upon?
17. Who needed to be compelled to redress the injustice?
18. Was there anything else that could have moved Ernest?
19. Where was he when he handed the telegram to Edie?
20. Was he yelling when he handed it to Edie?

Numbered answers:
1. Lancaster:
2. Ernest
3. A year.
4. Max
5. Le Breton
6. TELL IT NOT IN OATH.
7. CHAPTER XXVIII.
8. Arthur Berkeley
9. A common felon's prison
10. Edie
11. The office.
12. A little sitting-room
13. trembling
14. No, he wanted to.
15. Save the country.
16. The brink of an abyss
17. The Home Secretary
18. No
19. Flushed and feverish.
20. No, he didn't say a word.