CHAPTER XXVIII

GERALDINE

On reaching the Landing Andrew learned that Frobisher had returned and he rowed across to visit him. It was evening when he disembarked at the little pier. Geraldine came down across the lawn, and Andrew's heart beat fast as he watched her. She was wonderfully graceful, he thought, her white summer dress and light hat became her, there was a tinge of color in her face, and she was obviously eager to hear his news. She gave him a quick glance before they met, and then smiled in cordial welcome, for the man's expression was suggestive. He had lost his strained and anxious look, there was now an assured tranquillity in his bearing; he had not come back disappointed, and, for his sake, she rejoiced at this. Then as she gave him her hand and noticed the eager light in his eyes she grew suddenly disturbed.

"You have been successful; I'm very glad," she said.

"Yes," responded Andrew, holding her hand; "things have gone well with us, but except for the mineral recorder you are the first person I've told the good news to. That strikes me as particularly appropriate."

"Why?"

"I don't suppose I'd ever have found the lode if you hadn't encouraged me. I felt daunted once or twice. Then I ventured to think that you'd be interested."

"I am interested," Geraldine assured him, gently withdrawing her hand. "You needn't doubt that. But won't you come up to the house?"

Andrew laughed with a trace of awkwardness as he realized that he had been standing at the top of the uncomfortably narrow steps by which one reached the pier. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who has returned?
2. did Andrew go to see him?
3. who was the first person he told his news to?
4. who was the second?
5. what was she wearing?
6. anything else?
7. did she seem pleased to see him?
8. what had Andrew found?
9. who had encouraged him?
10. how did she feel about his sucess?
11. where was Andrew standing?
12. where did she invite him?
13. did they hold hands?
14. is she interested in him?
Answer: 1. Frobisher
2. yes
3. the mineral recorder
4. Geraldine
5. a white summer dress
6. a light hat
7. yes
8. the lode
9. Geraldine
10. very glad
11. at the top of the narrow steps
12. to the house
13. yes
14. yes

CHAPTER XVIII

Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions

Our friend Tom, in his own simple musings, often compared his more fortunate lot, in the bondage into which he was cast, with that of Joseph in Egypt; and, in fact, as time went on, and he developed more and more under the eye of his master, the strength of the parallel increased.

St. Clare was indolent and careless of money. Hitherto the providing and marketing had been principally done by Adolph, who was, to the full, as careless and extravagant as his master; and, between them both, they had carried on the dispersing process with great alacrity. Accustomed, for many years, to regard his master's property as his own care, Tom saw, with an uneasiness he could scarcely repress, the wasteful expenditure of the establishment; and, in the quiet, indirect way which his class often acquire, would sometimes make his own suggestions.

St. Clare at first employed him occasionally; but, struck with his soundness of mind and good business capacity, he confided in him more and more, till gradually all the marketing and providing for the family were intrusted to him.

"No, no, Adolph," he said, one day, as Adolph was deprecating the passing of power out of his hands; "let Tom alone. You only understand what you want; Tom understands cost and come to; and there may be some end to money, bye and bye if we don't let somebody do that."

Trusted to an unlimited extent by a careless master, who handed him a bill without looking at it, and pocketed the change without counting it, Tom had every facility and temptation to dishonesty; and nothing but an impregnable simplicity of nature, strengthened by Christian faith, could have kept him from it. But, to that nature, the very unbounded trust reposed in him was bond and seal for the most scrupulous accuracy. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was careless with funds?
2. who compared himself to joseph?
3. did he learn as he grow with his master?
4. did he take care of his master's property?
5. who was his master?
6. did he always employ Tom?
7. how often did he do so at first?
8. who tried to protect Tom?
9. did tom steal from st clare?
10. was he a christian?
11. who was employed by st clare before tom?
12. was he careless?
13. did tom take over his job?
14. did tom ever make his own suggestions?
Answer: 1. St. Clare
2. Tom
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. St. Clare
6. No
7. occasionally
8. Adolph
9. No
10. Yes
11. Adolph
12. Yes
13. yes
14. Yes

(CNN) -- A jury in Kentucky Friday night acquitted 17-year-old Joshua Young in the beating death of his stepbrother, Trey Zwicker, two years ago.

Young also was found not guilty of tampering with evidence.

Josh Gouker, Young's father, pleaded guilty to murder in Zwicker's death, and was sentenced on July 26 to life in prison. But prosecutors said Young worked with Gouker to beat Zwicker as the teen suffocated in the mud of a ditch behind a Kentucky high school.

"Trey Zwicker was brutally murdered at age 14 ... because Josh Gouker is a control freak and because Josh Young wanted to impress him," prosecutor Elizabeth Brown told the jury in Jefferson County Circuit Court during Friday's closing arguments. She said Gouker was upset with Zwicker's mother after she aborted Gouker's unborn child, and he wanted revenge.

Jurors could have found Young guilty of murder whether they believed he acted alone or with someone else. The tampering with evidence charge accused Young of throwing away clothes and a bloody bat after the murder.

Before deliberations began, Brown told jurors not to feel sorry for the defendant because he's young or because he had a bad father or a bad life.

"You cannot let sympathy add reasonable doubt," Brown said. "He was not coerced into doing this. He bragged about it, laughed about it."

Leslie Smith, delivering the closing argument Friday for the defense, turned the spotlight on Gouker. She called him a "jerk" without a conscience and described him as a master manipulator who killed Zwicker alone. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was acquitted?
2. How old was he?
3. Why was he acquitted?
4. Why did he get into trouble?
5. When did his dad plead guilty?
6. Did Young work with Gouker?
7. What did they do according to prosecutors?
8. Where did this happen?
9. How old was Zwicker when he died?
10. What was the prosecutor?
Answer:
1. Joshua Young
2. 17
3. Young's father pleaded guilty
4. unknown
5. unknown
6. According to prosecutors
7. Young worked with Gouker to beat Zwicker
8. behind a high school.
9. 14
10. Elizabeth Brown