question: CHAPTER XXV.

Hawkins went straight to the telegraph office and disburdened his conscience. He said to himself, "She's not going to give this galvanized cadaver up, that's plain. Wild horses can't pull her away from him. I've done my share; it's for Sellers to take an innings, now." So he sent this message to New York:

"Come back. Hire special train. She's going to marry the materializee."

Meantime a note came to Rossmore Towers to say that the Earl of Rossmore had just arrived from England, and would do himself the pleasure of calling in the evening. Sally said to herself, "It is a pity he didn't stop in New York; but it's no matter; he can go up to-morrow and see my father. He has come over here to tomahawk papa, very likely--or buy out his claim. This thing would have excited me, a while back; but it has only one interest for me now, and only one value. I can say to--to-- Spine, Spiny, Spinal--I don't like any form of that name!--I can say to him to-morrow, 'Don't try to keep it up any more, or I shall have to tell you whom I have been talking with last night, and then you will be embarrassed.'"

Tracy couldn't know he was to be invited for the morrow, or he might have waited. As it was, he was too miserable to wait any longer; for his last hope--a letter--had failed him. It was fully due to-day; it had not come. Had his father really flung him away? It looked so. It was not like his father, but it surely looked so. His father was a rather tough nut, in truth, but had never been so with his son--still, this implacable silence had a calamitous look. Anyway, Tracy would go to the Towers and --then what? He didn't know; his head was tired out with thinking-- he wouldn't think about what he must do or say--let it all take care of itself. So that he saw Sally once more, he would be satisfied, happen what might; he wouldn't care.
1. How does Hawkins send his message?
2. Where did he send it?
3. Where did he send it from?
4. Who did he send it to?
5. What does he want him to do?
6. How does he suggest he get there?
7. Will he have to pay for that?
8. Has Hawkins been worrying about something?
9. Is he tired of dealing with it?
10. What is he concerned that someone might do?
11. What does he the person she might marry?
12. Was Tracy hoping to receive something?
13. What?
14. Did he get it/
15. When did he think he should have?
16. Has he heard from his dad recently/
17. Is that worrying him?
18. Where is Sally's dad?
19. Who just got in from England?
20. Did he invite himself over?
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answer: 1. telegraph
2. New York
3. the telegraph office
4. Tracy
5. Come back
6. a special train
7. yes
8. yes
9. yes
10. get married
11. the materializee
12. yes
13. a letter
14. no
15. today
16. no
17. yes
18. new york
19. Earl of Rossmore
20. yes

question: CHAPTER I--PROGRESS OF THE HOUSE

The winter had been an open one. Things in the trade were slack; and as Soames had reflected before making up his mind, it had been a good time for building. The shell of the house at Robin Hill was thus completed by the end of April.

Now that there was something to be seen for his money, he had been coming down once, twice, even three times a week, and would mouse about among the debris for hours, careful never to soil his clothes, moving silently through the unfinished brickwork of doorways, or circling round the columns in the central court.

And he would stand before them for minutes' together, as though peering into the real quality of their substance.

On April 30 he had an appointment with Bosinney to go over the accounts, and five minutes before the proper time he entered the tent which the architect had pitched for himself close to the old oak tree.

The accounts were already prepared on a folding table, and with a nod Soames sat down to study them. It was some time before he raised his head.

"I can't make them out," he said at last; "they come to nearly seven hundred more than they ought."

After a glance at Bosinney's face he went on quickly:

"If you only make a firm stand against these builder chaps you'll get them down. They stick you with everything if you don't look sharp.... Take ten per cent. off all round. I shan't mind it's coming out a hundred or so over the mark!"
1. Who felt it was a good time for building?
2. When was the house shell done by?
3. How was area trade?
4. What would he visit a at least once a week?
5. What would he circle around?
6. For how long?
7. Who did he have to meet on the 30th?
8. Of what month?
9. To do what?
10. Where had the tent been set?
11. By whom?
12. How long did he have to wait for account preparation?
13. Did he review the docs quickly?
14. How much more did it come to?
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answer: 1. Soames
2. the end of April
3. slack
4. The shell of the house
5. columns
6. hours
7. Bosinney
8. Apri
9. go over the accounts
10. close to the old oak tree
11. the architect
12. HE didn't.
13. No.
14. seven hundred

question: New York (CNN) -- A member of Pedro Hernandez's family walked into a Camden, New Jersey, police station in the 1980s and reported that Hernandez told relatives and others that he had killed a boy in New York and threw the body near a Dumpster -- but there's no indication anything came out of that report, the family member told CNN.

"You feel like they didn't believe you. I felt empty and a little bit mad," the relative said. "I was expecting something else."

Now, 33 years after Etan Patz disappeared, Pedro Hernandez stands accused of choking to death the 6-year-old youngster after luring him to the basement of a corner grocery store in New York City, and of throwing away his body inside a trash bag.

The family member, who CNN has agreed to not identify, said there was no receipt of paperwork to document the information provided -- nor was the relative ever contacted again about the report.

"Police asked whether I was mad" at Hernandez or had an ulterior motive, the source added.

Hernandez allegedly confided the information to a New Jersey church prayer group that included some members of his family and his then-spiritual adviser, the source told CNN.

Tomas Rivera, a leader of the prayer group, declined comment Monday on Hernandez or the prayer group, citing authorities who told him not to talk to the media.

Pastor: Wife of suspect in Etan Patz case 'absolutely shell-shocked'

At 19, shortly after Patz's disappearance on May 25, 1979, Hernandez left his job as a stock clerk and returned to his mother's home in North Camden, New Jersey. The attempt to tell police that Hernandez might have killed a child happened a few years after that.
1. In what city did the crime occur?
2. How old was the victim?
3. What was his name?
4. How was he murdered?
5. Where?
6. Who did he first confess this to?
7. Where did he confess?
8. At what location?
9. Who was he with when he confessed?
10. Who from the religious institution would not comment?
11. What was his role there?
12. What was the murderer's name?
13. First name?
14. What did the child vanish?
15. How old was the killer then?
16. What did he do for a living?
17. Where did he go after quitting?
18. Where?
19. Was he married?
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answer:
1. New York
2. Six
3. Etan Patz
4. choking to death
5. basement of a corner grocery store
6. relatives and others
7. New Jersey
8. New Jersey
9. church prayer group that included some members of his family and his then-spiritual adviser,
10. Tomas Rivera
11. a leader of the prayer group
12. Hernandez
13. Pedro
14. May 25, 1979
15. 19
16. stock clerk
17. to his mother's home
18. North Camden, New Jersey.
19. unknown