Q: CHAPTER XIII

IN WHICH SOME SHOES ARE MISSING

"What do you think of it?"

"Who took them?"

"We can't go downstairs in our bare feet."

Such were some of the remarks made, as the lads of dormitories Nos. 11 and 12 looked at each other. The closets had been searched thoroughly but without success.

"See here, if anybody in these rooms hid those shoes, I want to know it!" demanded Sam, gazing around sharply.

"I hardly think a fellow would hide his own shoes, too," answered Luke.

"He might,--just to hide his own guilt."

"I believe this is the work of some outsider," declared Dave. "Most likely Nat Poole and his crowd."

"By Jove, Dave, I believe you are right!" exclaimed Phil. "It would be just like them to do it, if they got the chance."

"Did you say Nat Poole?" queried Shadow, scratching his head thoughtfully.

"I did. Most likely Nat heard of our feast, and it made him extra sore to think we were having a good time and he wasn't invited."

"That is true, and I guess----" Shadow stopped short, and a curious look crossed his face.

"What is it, Shadow? Do you know anything of this?" asked Roger.

"Why, I--er--that is, I had a dream last night," stammered the story-teller of the school. "Or, maybe it wasn't a dream after all," he went on, in confusion.

"See here, Shadow, have you been sleep-walking again, and did you make off with our shoes?" demanded Phil. He remembered only too well how poor Shadow was addicted to walking in his sleep, and how he had once walked off with a valuable collection of rare postage stamps belonging to Doctor Clay.

1. shoes
2. dormitories Nos. 11 and 12
3. at Poole and his crowd.
4. no
5. our feast,
6. no
7. Most likely
8. He wanted to know who took them
9. No, he was gazing around sharply
10. everyone one around

Numbered questions:
1. What is missing?
2. Where do the owners of the shoes live?
3. Who do they think may have taken the shoes?
4. Are they part of the group?
5. What would have made Nat jealous?
6. Was he invited?
7. Do they think he might have found out about it?
8. How does Sam feel about the situation?
9. Does he have a kind look on his face?
10. Who was he looking at?

Q: (CNN) -- Jorge Lorenzo climbed from fourth on the grid to win the French MotoGP at a rain-soaked Le Mans on Sunday and take the lead in the championship.

Riding his Yamaha flawlessly in the wet conditions, Lorenzo took the lead on the first lap and eventually finished 9.905 seconds clear of Valentino Rossi, who had the consolation of his best finish so far for Ducati.

Rossi held off a determined Casey Stoner, who finished third in the week he announced he was quitting the sport at the end of the season.

"It was really difficult to hold concentration today, in the dry it's complicated but in the wet it's even more," Lorenzo said. "The race feels much longer and you have to remember where the corners are slippery every lap. If you forget one you can crash very easily."

Lorenzo, who won for the second time this season, leads the championship by eight points from Stoner.

"I was pretty happy to hold on for a podium today," Stoner said. "I enjoyed the battle with Valentino at the end, there was clean overtaking and we swapped positions a few times but in the end we knew that Valentino had better pace than us and after he passed there was no way I could stay with him.

"We did everything we could today and to come away with a podium is a good result."

Stoner's Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa started on pole but ended up fourth, and is now 25 points adrift of Lorenzo.

1. Wet conditions?
2. French MotoGP at Le Mans
3. Jorge Lorenzo.
4. 9.905 seconds.
5. Valentino Ross
6. Casey Stoner
7. No, retiring.
8. The end of the season.
9. Lorenzo
10. eight points
11. Stoner.
12. Stoner's Honda teammate
13. fourth
14. 25 points.
15. Valentino Rossi
16. His best.
17. He climbed from fourth.
18. Flawlessly
19. His Yamaha
20. Much longer

Numbered questions:
1. What conditions were there?
2. During what?
3. Who was in the lead?
4. How large was it?
5. Who was he ahead of?
6. Who came in third?
7. Would he be returning?
8. When?
9. Who is ahead in points?
10. By how many?
11. Who is he ahead of?
12. Who is Dani?
13. Where did he place?
14. How far is he behind the leader?
15. Who rides for Ducati?
16. Was this his worst race?
17. How far behind was the winner at the start?
18. How did he ride?
19. On what?
20. Does the race feel shorter in the rain?

Q: CHAPTER IX

KIT'S REWARD

On the morning after their arrival, Kit and Macallister went to the Metropole. Macallister wore a neat blue uniform, a cap with the company's badge, and spotless white deck-shoes. His talk was careless and now and then his eyes twinkled. Kit's look was moody, and he wore plain duck clothes. He did not know if he was the company's servant and rather thought he was not; Don Arturo had sent for him, and he was probably going to be dismissed.

When they went up the drive to the big square hotel Macallister looked about.

"Don Arturo's a great man, but he has no' much eye for beauty," he remarked. "When his architect built the Metropole his model was a block. Maybe the cube style's economical. We get the maist room inside wi' the least span o' wall, but if I was a Spaniard, I'd make a bomb and blow up the ugly thing."

He stopped and putting his head on one side studied the hotel. "Bulk has value, if it's properly relieved. The old Greeks kenned; they used the square but they broke the line wi' pillars and cornices. Maybe, if ye worked in two, three mouldings and ran a _loggia_ along the front----"

"I didn't know you were an architect," Kit said impatiently.

"Ye dinna ken a' old Peter's talents," Macallister rejoined with a grin. "Architecture's useful and man has done fine work in stone, but for a pattern o' lightness, strength and beauty ye'll need to take a modern steel steamship. She must bear strains and stresses ye dinna bother aboot on land. A town hall, for example, is no designed for plunging through a steep head sea. Man! wi' a rule and a scriber, I'd design ye a better building than yon hotel."

1. Don Arturo
2. Beauty
3. Yes
4. Macallister
5. Square
6. The cube style
7. Don Arturo's architect
8. Kit and Macallister
9. The company's badge
10. Kit
11. They would make a bomb and blow up the hotel
12. Yes
13. Macallister
14. Yes
15. Kit
16. Kit
17. He was going to be dismissed
18. Yes
19. His head was on one side
20. Bulk

Numbered questions:
1. Who was said to be a great man?
2. What didn't he have a good eye for?
3. Was anyone wearing blue?
4. Who?
5. What shape was the hotel?
6. What was possibly economical?
7. Who went to the Metropole?
8. Who went to the Metropole on the morning after their arrival?
9. What was on someone's cap?
10. Who seemed impatient?
11. What did someone say they'd do if they were a Spaniard?
12. Was anyone speaking carelessly?
13. Who?
14. Was anyone wearing plain, duck clothes?
15. Who?
16. Who did Don Arturo send for?
17. What reason did he think he got sent for?
18. Did anyone study the hotel?
19. What was his posture like?
20. What did he then say had value?