CHAPTER XXVIII.

HAL IS EXPOSED.

The moment that Hardwick made his announcement, Parsons sprang to the front door and locked it.

"Carson!" muttered Allen. "Hardwick, you were right, he is nothing more nor less than a spy."

When Tommy Macklin saw the face of Hal he grew pale as death.

"Carson!" he gasped, falling back.

"What's the matter with you?" demanded Hardwick.

"Dat's der chap wot followed Ferris ter my house."

"Followed Ferris. When?"

"Der night he brung me dat letter from you about dat bus'ness over to der--you know."

"You are sure?"

"Sure," repeated Macklin, in deep disgust. "I t'ink I am."

"How did you happen to catch him?"

"He was spyin' at der door, same as here. We collared him, and knocked him down. I t'ought he was dead, an' me an' Ferris chucked him in a vat in der cellar of der old pickle factory."

"Ferris said nothing of this to me," said Hardwick.

"He was most scared stiff, dat feller was," replied Macklin, disdainfully. "I guess he t'ought he would not say nuthin' ter nobody."

During this time Hal had not said a word, but now he spoke up.

"What do you intend to do with me?" he asked.

"You'll see fast enough," replied Hardwick. "We have got you fast this time. Do you know what I think? I think you are the same fellow that I met in the lumber-yard."

"And if I am, Hardwick, what of it?"

"It will go so much the harder with you." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Was Tommy happy to see Hal?
2. why not?
3. Why?
4. Was Macklin repulsed?
5. What was Ferris going to Hardwicks house for
6. What was it about?
7. How did they capture tommy?
8. Did they let him go right away?
9. What did they do with him?
10. Did ferris tell a bunch of people?
11. Why not?
12. What is the title of the chapter
13. Who made an announcement
14. Who locked the door?
15. What name did Allen and Tommy both say when they heard the news?
16. Did he fight back when they captured him?
17. Did Hal talk alot during this interaction?
18. When he finally spoke, what did he say?
19. Where did Hardwick recognize him from?
20. What are the consequences of it being the same man?
Answer: 1. No.
2. He remembered the man had followed Ferris.
3. To spy.
4. Yes.
5. Deliver a letter.
6. About business.
7. Collared him and knocked him down
8. No
9. Chucked him in a vat.
10. No.
11. He was scared.
12. HAL IS EXPOSED.
13. Hardwick.
14. Parsons.
15. Carson.
16. No.
17. No.
18. What do you intend to do with me?
19. In the lumber-yard.
20. It will get harder for him.

Problem: Cairo (CNN) -- Mohamed al-Zawahiri, brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, will be freed from prison in Egypt after 13 years, his attorney said Monday.

He was acquitted by an Egyptian military court and will be released Tuesday, said attorney Nizar Ghorab.

Mohamed al-Zawahiri was imprisoned in 1999 after being detained and extradited from the United Arab Emirates on allegations that he was linked to the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Al-Zawahiri was acquitted on the assassination charges but later was accused of conspiring against the Egyptian government.

He was sentenced to death, but then appealed the ruling.

Last year, Egypt's interim government released him along with scores of other political prisoners after a general pardon was issued by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which ruled the country after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. But al-Zawahiri was arrested again shortly after.

Ahmed al-Zawahiri, nephew of Mohamed al-Zawahiri, told CNN that after the release last year, security forces stormed his uncle's home, beat him up and rearrested him for no apparent reason.

"It was a day after my uncle spoke to a local paper and spoke of the torture he endured inside prison for years," Ahmed al-Zawahiri told CNN.

"He paid a high price for being Ayman's brother and he has denounced any sort of violent ideologies now that his main enemy, the Mubarak regime, has been removed," the nephew added.

"Zawahiri has been tortured for years by Mubarak's state security officers because he is the brother of Ayman Zawahiri," Ghorab said.
1. When did Mohamed go to prison?
2. How long was he locked up?
3. What brought about his release?
4. Were others released as well?
5. Who's his nephew?
6. Was Mohamed tortured in prison?
7. Because of his brother?
8. Which is whom?
9. Who was the Al Qaeda leader?
10. What crime were they originally trying to link him with?
Answer: 1. 1999
2. 13 years
3. a general pardon was issued
4. yes
5. Ahmed al-Zawahiri
6. yes
7. yes
8. unknown
9. Ayman al-Zawahiri
10. assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat

question: "Oh,you must have been a spoiled kid.You must be really bossy.I wonder what you're going to be like to deal with?" That's often the response Angela Hult gets when people find out she's an only child,she told ABC News.Despite such negative remarks,Hult has decided to have only one child herself.And she's not alone.

According to the US' Office for National Statistics,women approaching the end of their childbearing years had an average of 1.9 children in 2004,compared with 3.1 for their counterparts in 1976.The percentage of onechild families in Britain had risen from 18 percent in 1972 to 26 percent in 2007.

But even though only children are becoming increasingly common,the traditional view that they're selfish,spoiled and lack social skills holds strong.Even parents of only children,like Hult,are made to feel guilty about having only one child.Worried that they're being selfish and endangering their child's future,they flock to online discussion forums seeking advice.Soon,however,they ask themselves:is this social prejudice really reasonable?

"There have been hundreds and hundreds of research studies that show that only children are no different from their peers ," Susan Newman,a social psychologist at Rutgers University in the US,told ABC News.

This raises another question:why are only children still viewed with such suspicion?

"There is a belief that's been around probably since humans first existed that to have just one child is somehow dangerous,both for you and for the continuation of your race," Toni Falbo,a professor of educational psychology,told the Guardian."In the past a lot of children died.You'd have had to be crazy to only have one."

Times,of course,have changed and infant mortality has largely reduced.So what do only children themselves say?

Kayley Kravitz,a blogger for The Huffington Post,grew up as an only child and highly recommends the experience."Being an only child taught me the most valuable skill of all:the ability to be alone," she said.
1. What office presented statistics on women?
2. Is Angela Hult an only child?
3. Do people tell her that she is spoiled?
4. How many children is she having?
5. Does she feel guilty about it?
6. Why?
7. How many families in Britain have only one child?
8. Is that an increase or decrease from the 70s?
9. From what?
10. From what percent?
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answer:
1. US' Office for National Statistics
2. yes
3. yes
4. one
5. yes
6. of being selfish and endangering their child's future
7. 26 percent
8. increase
9. onechild families
10. 18 percent