Q: Chapter XXIV.

"March--march--march! Making sounds as they tread, Ho-ho! how they step, Going down to the dead."

Coxe.

The time Maud consumed in her meditations over the box and its contents, had been employed by the captain in preparations for his enterprise. Joyce, young Blodget, Jamie and Mike, led by their commander in person, were to compose the whole force on the occasion; and every man had been busy in getting his arms, ammunition and provisions ready, for the last half-hour. When captain Willoughby, therefore, had taken leave of his family, he found the party in a condition to move.

The first great desideratum was to quit the Hut unseen. Joel and his followers were still at work, in distant fields; but they all carefully avoided that side of the Knoll which would have brought them within reach of the musket, and this left all behind the cliff unobserved, unless Indians were in the woods in that direction. As Mike had so recently passed in by that route, however, the probability was the whole party still remained in the neighbourhood of the mills, where all accounts agreed in saying they mainly kept. It was the intention of the captain, therefore, to sally by the rivulet and the rear of the house, and to gain the woods under cover of the bushes on the banks of the former, as had already been done by so many since the inroad.

The great difficulty was to quit the house, and reach the bed of the stream, unseen. This step, however, was a good deal facilitated by means of Joel's sally-port, the overseer having taken, himself, all the precautions against detection of which the case well admitted. Nevertheless, there was the distance between the palisades and the base of the rocks, some forty or fifty yards, which was entirely uncovered, and had to be passed under the notice of any wandering eyes that might happen to be turned in that quarter. After much reflection, the captain and serjeant came to the conclusion to adopt the following mode of proceeding.

1. Joel and his followers
2. in distant fields
3. no
4. the side of the Knoll
5. it would have brought them within reach of the musket
6. the woods
7. under cover of the bushes
8. Maud
9. Five
10. Joyce, young Blodget, Jamie, Mike and their commander
11. the last half-hour
12. arms, ammunition and provisions ready
13. captain Willoughby
14. yes
15. no
16. forty or fifty yards
17. the palisades and the base of the rocks
18. yes
19. two
20. the captain and serjeant

Numbered questions:
1. Who was still working?
2. Where at?
3. The entire area?
4. Where didn't they go?
5. Why?
6. Where did the lead want to get to?
7. In what way?
8. Who spent time thinking about what was in a package?
9. How many people were going on patrol?
10. And they were?
11. How long had they been preparing?
12. What were they getting prepared?
13. Who was leaving his relatives?
14. Was everyone ready to go then?
15. Was it easy to be sneaky?
16. What amount of space was open?
17. What was to either side of the space?
18. Did they decide to risk it?
19. How many people decided?
20. And they were?

Q: Having not seen or heard from her daughter in two weeks, Alexis Murphy's mother said in a CNN interview she is keeping strong with support from family and friends.

"A mother would know if her daughter is really gone, but I still have hope," Laura Murphy said.

Alexis Murphy was last seen at a gas station earlier this month. Police have arrested a suspect in her abduction, but the suspect's attorney told a CNN affiliate his client split ways with the 17-year-old after a drug deal.

Murphy's disappearance set off a search that extended 30 miles outside of Lovingston, Virginia, and involved helicopters, search parties with canine units, the Nelson County Sheriff's Office, Virginia State Police and FBI.

Where is Alexis Murphy?

Alexis left her Shipman, Virginia, home to visit Lynchburg on August 3, and police have surveillance video showing her at a Lovingston gas station, according to affiliate WVIR-TV in Charlottesville.

Randy Taylor, 48, was seen on the video and was arrested in her abduction Sunday, police told CNN affiliate WRC-TV, but Taylor's attorney, Michael Hallahan, told WVIR that Taylor was arrested because they found one of Alexis' hairs in his camper.

The attorney also told WVIR his client wasn't the last person to see Alexis and that police need to be looking for a "black male, mid- to late-20s, cornrows and a 20-year-old burgundy Caprice with 22-inch wheels."

Taylor saw the girl the night she disappeared, the lawyer said. They were both parked at the gas pumps, and Alexis made a reference to smoking marijuana, Hallahan said. Taylor told her he'd like some marijuana, the attorney said.

1. Alexis Murphy's mother.
2. Laura.
3. two weeks
4. At a gas station
5. 17.
6. Virginia
7. August
8. Yes.
9. No, state police as well.
10. Nelson County Sheriff's Office and FBI.
11. Lovingston
12. Police have surveillance video.
13. Yes.
14. Randy Taylor
15. 48
16. He was.
17. They found a hair in his camper.
18. The attorney said there was.
19. As a black male with corrows and in his 20's.
20. Marijuana.

Numbered questions:
1. Who was interviewed by CNN?
2. What's her name?
3. How long has it been since she's seen her daughter?
4. Where's the last place Alexis was seen?
5. How old is Alexis?
6. What state does the story take place in?
7. And what month?
8. Have the police been involved?
9. Only local police?
10. Any other agencies?
11. What town was Alexis seen last in?
12. Do police have evidence of this sighting?
13. Is anyone else in the video?
14. Who?
15. How old is he?
16. Was he arrested?
17. Why?
18. Is there anyone else who might have seen Alexis after him?
19. How was he described?
20. What did Alexis and Taylor talk about?