CHAPTER II

ABOUT THE PAST

"Did you get any more particulars?" asked Sam, of the college poet.

"No. The newspaper man was busy, so the Doctor said, and didn't have time to go into details," answered Songbird.

"Did he say who the other prisoners were who got away?" asked Dick.

"Yes, a tramp who was up for robbing a man on the road and a bank clerk who took some money from the bank."

"None of the crowd we are interested in," said Tom.

"I'm glad of it," returned his older brother. "It is bad enough for Crabtree to get away. I hope they keep a strict guard over the others after this."

"Oh, they will, rest assured of that," came from Stanley Browne. "The head jailer will get a raking over the coals for this, mark my words."

"The Stanhopes and the Lanings will be sorry to learn that Crabtree got away," said Sam. "I wonder if they aren't searching for him," mused Sam.

"Oh, they'll search for all of them," put in Songbird. "I think the newspaper man said the sheriff had a posse out."

"Too bad!" said Dick, shaking his head gravely. "And just when we felt sure old Crabtree wouldn't be able to give us any more trouble!"

"It beats the nation, what that man can do!" cried Sam. "Maybe be hypnotized one of the jailers-- just as he hypnotized Mrs. Stanhope years ago.

"He'd be equal to it-- if he got the chance," answered Tom; and then all of the students had to go in to their classes. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How many people escaped from jail?
2. Did any have names?
3. Who?
4. What were the other two?
5. Are any of them who the siblings were looking for?
6. Who was questioning the scholarly poem writer?
7. Did he find any specifics from him?
8. Why not?
9. According to who?
10. What will happen to the employee who let the criminals escape?
11. According to whom?
12. Who will be upset that the named criminal escaped?
13. What has the main cop done?
14. How do they know that?
15. Says who?
16. What special power is possibly attributed to the named criminal?
17. Who would he have dazzled with it?
18. Who else?
19. When?
20. Where do they walk to after they finish talking?
Answer: 1. Three
2. Yes
3. Crabtree
4. a tramp and a bank clerk
5. No
6. Sam
7. No
8. The newspaper man was busy and didn't have time to go into details,"
9. the Doctor
10. They will get a raking over the coals
11. Stanley Browne
12. The Stanhopes and the Lanings
13. had a posse out."
14. the newspaper man said
15. Songbird
16. Ablility to hypnotize
17. one of the jailers
18. Mrs. Stanhope
19. years ago.
20. to their classes.

Several Jamaican sprinters were banned for doping earlier this year and now a footballer from the Caribbean nation has been suspended.

Jermaine Hue, a creative midfielder who has made more than 40 appearances for the national team, received a nine-month suspension after he tested positive for dexamethasone.

But a stiffer penalty was given to the team doctor, Carlton Fraser. He was hit with a four-year punishment after "having administered" the corticosteroid, FIFA said in a statement on its website.

The two were provisionally banned in August after Hue tested positive following Jamaica's World Cup qualifier at Honduras in June.

Hue, 35, has spent most of his career with Jamaica's Harbour View but had brief stints with the Kansas City Wizards of the MLS and Sweden's Mjallby.

According to a report in the Jamaica Observer in August, Fraser was a personal friend of the late Bob Marley and also treated the reggae great.

The sanctions are a further blow to the 'Reggae Boyz' -- they sit last in their qualifying group with only two matches remaining.

Former world-record holder in the 100 meters, Asafa Powell, and Sherone Simpson admitted to testing positive for banned substances in July, a month after double 200-meter Olympic gold medalist Veronica Campbell-Brown received a provisional ban.

What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who is Jermaine Hue?
2. how many appearance has he made?
3. what was he in trouble for?
4. what is his punishment?
5. who else got in trouble?
6. what did he do?
7. his punishment?
8. who told us this info?
9. how old is Hue?
10. has he played in the US?
11. where?
12. dis the doc have a famous friend?
13. who?
14. what group is this suspension hurting?
15. how many matches do they have left?
16. who is Veronica Campbell-Brown?
Answer: 1. a footballer from Jamaica
2. more than 40
3. testing positive for dexamethasone
4. a nine-month suspension
5. Carlton Fraser.
6. administered the corticosteroid
7. a four-year punishment
8. FIFA
9. 35
10. yes
11. Kansas City
12. yes
13. Bob Marley
14. the 'Reggae Boyz'
15. Two
16. a 200-meter Olympic gold medalist

CHAPTER IX.

COUSINS.

"Come in," called Beth, answering a knock at her door.

Louise entered, and with a little cry ran forward and caught Beth in her arms, kissing her in greeting.

"You must be my new cousin--Cousin Elizabeth--and I'm awfully glad to see you at last!" she said, holding the younger girl a little away, that she might examine her carefully.

Beth did not respond to the caress. She eyed her opponent sharply, for she knew well enough, even in that first moment, that they were engaged in a struggle for supremacy in Aunt Jane's affections, and that in the battles to come no quarter could be asked or expected.

So they stood at arm's length, facing one another and secretly forming an estimate each of the other's advantages and accomplishments.

"She's pretty enough, but has no style whatever," was Louise's conclusion. "Neither has she tact nor self-possession, or even a prepossessing manner. She wears her new gown in a dowdy manner and one can read her face easily. There's little danger in this quarter, I'm sure, so I may as well be friends with the poor child."

As for Beth, she saw at once that her "new cousin" was older and more experienced in the ways of the world, and therefore liable to prove a dangerous antagonist. Slender and graceful of form, attractive of feature and dainty in manner, Louise must be credited with many advantages; but against these might be weighed her evident insincerity--the volubility and gush that are so often affected to hide one's real nature, and which so shrewd and suspicious a woman as Aunt Jane could not fail to readily detect. Altogether, Beth was not greatly disturbed by her cousin's appearance, and suddenly realizing that they had been staring at one another rather rudely, she said, pleasantly enough: What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who did Beth meet for the first time?
2. What was their relationship?
3. Were they competing for something?
4. What?
5. What did they do to each other after the saying hello?
6. What was Beth's estimation of Louise?
7. What was Louise's of Beth?
8. What did Beth think of Aunt Jane?
9. Was Beth agitated by Louise's appearance?
10. Is Beth a nickname?
11. What is her full name?
12. Who is older?
13. How did she greet Beth?
14. Did Beth respond?
15. Did she think Louise had any advantage?
16. Did she think she had any disadvantages?
17. What?
18. Did Beth think Aunt Jane would notice?
19. Did Louise think that Beth was stylish?
20. What did she think she lacked?
Answer:
1. Louise
2. They're cousins
3. Yes
4. Aunt Jane's affections
5. Faced one another
6. That she was older and more experienced
7. She was pretty enough
8. She was shrewd and suspicious
9. No
10. Yes
11. Elizabeth
12. Louise
13. Hugged and kissed her
14. No
15. Yes
16. Yes
17. Her evident insincerity
18. Yes
19. No
20. Tact and self-possession