CHAPTER XXI

A WOMAN'S CRY

The three men were sitting at a small round dining-table, from which everything except the dessert had been removed. Duncombe filled his own glass and passed around a decanter of port. Pelham and Spencer both helped themselves almost mechanically. A cloud of restraint had hung over the little party. Duncombe raised his glass and half emptied its contents. Then he set it down and leaned back in his chair.

"Well," he said, "I am ready for the inquisition. Go on, Andrew."

Pelham fingered his own glass nervously. He seemed to find his task no easy one.

"George," he said, "we are old friends. I want you to remember it. I want you also to remember that I am in a hideous state of worry and nerves"--he passed his hand over his forehead just above his eyes as though they were hurting him. "I am not behaving to you as a guest should to his host. I admit it freely. I have lost my temper more than once during the last twenty-four hours. I am sorry! Forgive me if you can, George!"

"Willingly, Andrew," Duncombe answered. "I shall think no more about it."

"At the same time," Pelham continued, "there is another point to be considered. Have you been quite fair to me, George? Remember that Phyllis Poynton is the one person whose existence reconciles me to life. You had never even heard her name before I sent for you. You went abroad, like the good fellow you are, to find her for me. You assure me that you have discovered--nothing. Let me put you upon your honor, George. Is this absolutely true?" What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what was left on the table?
2. Who did Pelham apoligize to?
3. why?
4. were they friends?
5. who else was there?
6. anyone else?
7. Does George forgive him?
8. What was George doing abroad?
9. was he looking for her for himself?
10. for who?
11. did he say he found her?
12. Does Pelham believe him?
13. What does Phyllis do to Pelham's life?
14. where were the men sitting?
15. what were the men drinking?
16. from where?
17. who's decanter was it?
18. who had the decanter first?
19. How was Pelham feeling?
20. Was George ready for the questioning?
Answer: 1. the dessert
2. George
3. He wasn't behaving as a guest should and lost his temper more than once int twenty-four hours
4. yes
5. Duncombe
6. Pelham and Spencer
7. yes
8. Looking for Phyllis Poynton for Pelham
9. no
10. Pelham
11. no
12. He isn't sure
13. existence reconciles him to life
14. at a small round dining-table
15. port
16. from a decanter
17. unknown
18. Duncombe f
19. nervous
20. seemed so

CHAPTER II. SHEER GOSSIP

"Where are the other children?" asked Miss Cornelia, when the first greetings--cordial on her side, rapturous on Anne's, and dignified on Susan's--were over.

"Shirley is in bed and Jem and Walter and the twins are down in their beloved Rainbow Valley," said Anne. "They just came home this afternoon, you know, and they could hardly wait until supper was over before rushing down to the valley. They love it above every spot on earth. Even the maple grove doesn't rival it in their affections."

"I am afraid they love it too well," said Susan gloomily. "Little Jem said once he would rather go to Rainbow Valley than to heaven when he died, and that was not a proper remark."

"I suppose they had a great time in Avonlea?" said Miss Cornelia.

"Enormous. Marilla does spoil them terribly. Jem, in particular, can do no wrong in her eyes."

"Miss Cuthbert must be an old lady now," said Miss Cornelia, getting out her knitting, so that she could hold her own with Susan. Miss Cornelia held that the woman whose hands were employed always had the advantage over the woman whose hands were not.

"Marilla is eighty-five," said Anne with a sigh. "Her hair is snow-white. But, strange to say, her eyesight is better than it was when she was sixty."

"Well, dearie, I'm real glad you're all back. I've been dreadful lonesome. But we haven't been dull in the Glen, believe ME. There hasn't been such an exciting spring in my time, as far as church matters go. We've got settled with a minister at last, Anne dearie." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who said Jem made an improper remark?
2. Where did Jem say he'd rather go than Heaven?
3. Who spoils the kids?
4. Who is perfect in her eyes?
5. Who's greeting came across as rapturous?
6. Whose was dignified?
7. Where was Shirley?
8. Where were Walter and the twins?
9. When had they gotten home that day?
10. When did they leave for the valley?
11. What place doesn't hold a candle to the valley to them?
12. Where did Miss Cornelia ask if they'd had a good time at?
13. What did Miss Cornelia get out?
14. Who must be old now?
15. How old is she?
16. What color is her hair?
17. How is her vision?
Answer: 1. Susan
2. to Rainbow Valley
3. Marilla
4. Jem
5. Anne's
6. Susan's
7. in bed
8. Rainbow Valley
9. this afternoon
10. when supper was over
11. the maple grove
12. Avonlea
13. her knitting
14. Marilla
15. eighty-five
16. white
17. better than when she was sixty

(CNN) -- A federal appeals court has upheld an obstruction of justice conviction against Barry Bonds, according to court documents released Friday. The court ruled that the evasiveness of the testimony the former baseball star gave to a grand jury investigating sales of performance-enhancing drugs was sufficient to convict him.

In an opinion filed by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Mary M. Schroeder said the three-judge panel rejected Bonds' contention that he could only have been indicted for obstruction if his testimony had been flatly false. Attorneys for Bonds had argued that Bonds' statements to the grand jury were factually true, and that language in the federal statute under which he was charged is unconstitutionally vague.

The appeals court rejected that argument.

"When factually true statements are misleading or evasive, they can prevent the grand jury from obtaining truthful and responsive answers," Schroeder wrote. "They may therefore obstruct and impede the administration of justice within the meaning of the federal criminal statute."

Bonds' testimony in December 2003 was part of an investigation that targeted his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, and employees of the California drug testing laboratory known as the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO.

The testimony that led to Bonds' conviction came when a grand jury prosecutor asked Bonds whether Anderson ever gave him "anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with."

Bonds told the grand jury that only his personal doctors "ever touch me," and he then veered off the subject to say he never talked baseball with Anderson. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Whose conviction was upheld?
2. What was he convicted of?
3. When were the related documents released?
4. What court made the decision?
5. What was the name of the judge?
6. And her last name?
7. Did the appeals court accept Bonds' attorneys' argument?
8. When was the baseball players' original testimony?
9. Of what year?
10. Who were the targets of this investigation?
11. What does BALCO stand for?
12. Did Bonds ever talk about his sport with his trainer?
Answer:
1. Barry Bonds
2. obstruction of justice
3. Fridayy.
4. federal appeals court
5. Mary
6. Schroeder
7. no
8. December
9. 2003
10. Greg Anderson and BALCO employees
11. Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative
12. no