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CHAPTER LIV

"I Don't Think She Is a Snake"

On the following day, Tuesday, the Boncassens went, and then there were none of the guests left but Mrs. Finn and Lady Mabel Grex,--with of course Miss Cassewary. The Duke had especially asked both Mrs. Finn and Lady Mabel to remain, the former, through his anxiety to show his repentance for the injustice he had formerly done her, and the latter in the hope that something might be settled as soon as the crowd of visitors should have gone. He had never spoken quite distinctly to Mabel. He had felt that the manner in which he had learned his son's purpose,--that which once had been his son's purpose,--forbade him to do so. But he had so spoken as to make Lady Mabel quite aware of his wish. He would not have told her how sure he was that Silverbridge would keep no more racehorses, how he trusted that Silverbridge had done with betting, how he believed that the young member would take a real interest in the House of Commons, had he not intended that she should take a special interest in the young man. And then he had spoken about the house in London. It was to be made over to Silverbridge as soon as Silverbridge should marry. And there was Gatherum Castle. Gatherum was rather a trouble than otherwise. He had ever felt it to be so, but had nevertheless always kept it open perhaps for a month in the year. His uncle had always resided there for a fortnight at Christmas. When Silverbridge was married it would become the young man's duty to do something of the same kind. Gatherum was the White Elephant of the family, and Silverbridge must enter in upon his share of the trouble. He did not know that in saying all this he was offering his son as a husband to Lady Mabel, but she understood it as thoroughly as though he had spoken the words.
1. Who was to have no more racing animals?
2. Was he to discontinue taking bets as well?
3. And what would he be interested in?
4. Where is he supposed to have a home?
5. When?
6. What place was an issue?
7. Who stayed there during once a year?
8. During what holiday?
9. For how long?
10. Did the place have a nickname?
11. What day was it?
12. How many people were still there?
13. Anyone else?
14. Who?
15. Who had been specifically requested to stay?
16. By whom?
17. Had he done either of them wrong?
18. Who?
19. Which is?
20. Why did he want the other to stay?

Numbered answers:
1. Silverbridge
2. Yes
3. the House of Commons
4. London
5. as soon as Silverbridge should marry
6. Gatherum Castle
7. His uncle had
8. Christmas
9. a fortnight
10. the White Elephant
11. Tuesday
12. Mrs. Finn and Lady Mabel Grex
13. Yes
14. Miss Cassewary
15. Mrs. Finn and Lady Mabel
16. The Duke
17. Yes
18. the former
19. Mrs. Finn
20. in the hope that something might be settled

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(CNN)"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd," wrote Miguel de Cervantes, the Shakespeare of Spain. And the quest to find his remains has sometimes seemed both, even (dare one say it) quixotic in a time of recession. But forensic scientists have persevered, and appear to have triumphed.

Almost 400 years after Cervantes' death, a team led by Francisco Etxeberria announced Tuesday that they were confident they had found Cervantes' coffin in the crypt of the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in the Barrio de Las Letras (Literary Quarter) in Madrid. Historical records indicated Cervantes had been buried there, but the convent had been substantially rebuilt since. (Etxeberria, incidentally, performed the autopsy on former Chilean President Gen. Salvador Allende, confirming he had committed suicide.)

At a news conference in Madrid on Tuesday, Etxeberria said that while there was no mathematical proof or DNA test available to completely verify the findings, there were "many coincidences and no discrepancies" in the examination of "Osario 32," a common grave in the crypt that contained the remains of 16 people.

"We have Cervantes, represented in some form in this group of bones that are unfortunately very degraded and very fragmented," Etxeberria told national television.

The search for Cervantes' coffin -- using radar -- began last year, funded by the Madrid City Council. It first mapped more than 30 burial cavities in the walls and nearly 5 meters beneath the floor of the church. Mass spectrometry dated fragments of wood and cloth found in these cavities to the 17th century, an encouraging but far from conclusive development.
1. Where was Cervantes coffin found?
2. Who committed suicide?
3. How many bodies were in the tomb?
4. Who paid for the conquest for the tomb?
5. How many graves where charted?

Numbered answers:
1. In the crypt of the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in Madrid.
2. The former Chilean President Gen. Salvador Allende.
3. A common grave in the crypt contained 16 people.
4. Was funded by the Madrid City Council.
5. More than 30 burial cavities.

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Chapter Eleven: The City of Al-Je-Bal

"I pray you have done," said Godwin, "it is but a scratch from the beast's claws. I am ashamed that you should put your hair to such vile uses. Give me a little water."

He asked it of Wulf, but Masouda rose without a word and fetched the water, in which she mingled wine. Godwin drank of it and his faintness left him, so that he was able to stand up and move his arms and legs.

"Why," he said, "it is nothing; I was only shaken. That lioness did not hurt me at all."

"But you hurt the lioness," said Wulf, with a laugh. "By St. Chad a good thrust!" and he pointed to the long sword driven up to the hilt in the brute's breast. "Why, I swear I could not have made a better myself."

"I think it was the lion that thrust," answered Godwin. "I only held the sword straight. Drag it out, brother, I am still too weak."

So Wulf set his foot upon the breast of the lion and tugged and tugged until at length he loosened the sword, saying as he strained at it:

"Oh! what an Essex hog am I, who slept through it all, never waking until Masouda seized me by the hair, and I opened my eyes to see you upon the ground with this yellow beast crouched on the top of you like a hen on a nest egg. I thought that it was alive and smote it with my sword, which, had I been fully awake, I doubt if I should have found the courage to do. Look," and he pushed the lioness's head with his foot, whereon it twisted round in such a fashion that they perceived for the first time that it only hung to the shoulders by a thread of skin.
1. Who pulled a weapon out of something?
2. What kind of weapon?
3. What was it stuck in?
4. Did he call himself a name as he pulled?
5. Who grabbed his hair?
6. What state was the animals neck?
7. What connected the neck to the body?
8. Who had fought the animal?
9. Was he injured?
10. Badly?
11. Who got some H2O?
12. What was it combined with?
13. Did it help?
14. Was he casual about the whole thing?
15. Are the two men related?
16. In what way?
17. Did Godwin take credit for the killing blow?
18. What did he say happened?
Numbered answers:
1. wulf
2. long sword
3. lioness
4. Essex hog
5. Masouda
6. bad
7. unknown
8. Godwin
9. yes
10. no
11. wulf
12. wine
13. yes
14. yes
15. yes
16. brothers
17. no
18. the lion shoved into the sword