input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (Tribune Media Services) -- Look out for cancellation penalties. Beware of energy surcharges. And watch for facilities fees.

Hertz lost $73 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.

No, not on your airline ticket. Not on your hotel folio. You may find these new extras on your next car rental bill.

Beleaguered auto rental firms are quietly adding new surcharges designed to lift revenues in a recessionary economy.

To get an idea of how absurd it's becoming meet Jim Swofford. He found a mysterious $5 fee on his Hertz bill recently, which a representative described as a cancellation fee. Car rental companies typically don't charge their customers for cancellations, so Swofford, who frequently rents from Hertz, said he didn't want another car he'd reserved for later.

"That'll be $25," the agent told him.

"So I jokingly said I would not cancel but just be a no-show," he remembers. "She said that would result in a $50 fee."

Or talk to Eric Hegwer, a photographer from Austin, Texas, who spotted a $1 "energy surcharge" on his Hertz car rental bill recently. "My previous rentals didn't have one," he says.

I asked Hertz about the two new surcharges. Company spokeswoman Paula Rivera told me the cancellation fee, which was added in December, applied only to prepaid reservations and is meant to "reimburse Hertz for the paperwork and billing involved with a prepaid reservation."

The fee also covers part of the company's cost of holding vehicles for prepaid reservations. The energy surcharge, which was added in October, bills all rentals in most states an additional $1 a day "to offset the increasing costs of utilities, bus fuel, oil and grease," she said. 1. who lost something?
2. what?
3. when did the lose it?
4. was something new added?
5. what?
6. what was their purpose?
7. who made the addition?
8. who takes photos?
9. where is he from?
10. who spoke for the corporation?
numbered_answers: 1. Hertz
2. $73 million
3. Fourth quarter of 2008.
4. Yes.
5. Surcharges.
6. To lift revenues.
7. Auto rental firms.
8. Eric Hegwer
9. Austin.
10. Paula Rivera.

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER I. THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER VI

Unfortunate Naples was a battle-field once more. France and Spain were engaged there in a war whose details belong elsewhere.

To the aid of France, which was hard beset and with whose arms things were going none too well, Cesare was summoned to fulfil the obligations under which he was placed by virtue of his treaty with King Louis.

Rumours were rife that he was negotiating secretly with Gonzalo de Cordoba, the Great Captain, and the truth of whether or not he was guilty of so base a treachery has never been discovered. These rumours had been abroad since May, and, if not arising out of, they were certainly stimulated by, an edict published by Valentinois concerning the papal chamberlain, Francesco Troche. In this edict Cesare enjoined all subjects of the Holy See to arrest, wherever found, this man who had fled from Rome, and whose flight "was concerned with something against the honour of the King of France."

Francesco Troche had been Alexander's confidential chamberlain and secretary; he had been a diligent servant of the House of Borgia, and when in France had acted as a spy for Valentinois, keeping the duke supplied with valuable information at a critical time, as we have seen.

Villari says of him that he was "one of the Borgias' most trusted assassins." That he has never been so much as alleged to have murdered anyone does not signify. He was a servant--a trusted servant--of the Borgias; therefore the title of "assassin" is, ipso facto, to be bestowed upon him. 1. Who was Alexander's secretary?
2. Where did the secretary serve?
3. How was his service described?
4. Did he do any other thing other than being a secretary?
5. Was he a killer?
6. Could he be described as someone good at this?
7. What is the tittle of this page?
8. Which place was described as a battle field
9. Which people fight there?
10. What was the rumours goinh on?
11. Did they eventually find out the truth
12. When did the rumor start to spread?
numbered_answers: 1. Francesco Troche
2. the House of Borgia
3. he had been a diligent servant
4. and when in France had acted as a spy
5. yes
6. yes
7. CHAPTER I. THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER VI
8. Naples was a battle-field once more.
9. France and Spain
10. he was negotiating secretly with Gonzalo de Cordoba
11. no
12. since May,

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER XVIII.

A CYCLONE.

"WHAT on earth is it all about?" Arthur Hill asked his comrades as the three boys gathered together after the work was done. "Why, there is not a breath of wind. Is it all done for practice, do you think?"

Jim shook his head. "I expect we are going to have one of those cyclones Mr. Timmins was speaking about the other day, though I don't see any signs of it, except the queer colour of the sky. I expect the glass must have been going down very fast. There is the captain popping into his cabin again. Well, he is not long about it," he added, as Captain Murchison hurried out again and spoke to Mr. Timmins, who immediately gave the order, "Furl mizzen and main topsails! Lower down the fore-staysail!"

"Well, there can't be more to do now," Jack said, when the order was carried out, "unless we set to work to set them all again."

"Look, Jack!" Arthur Hill said, grasping his arm and pointing away on the starboard beam.

A wall of black mist seemed to hang upon the horizon, rising momentarily higher and higher.

"The squall is coming, lads!" the captain shouted. "When it strikes her hold on for your lives. Carpenter, put a man with an axe at each of the weather-shrouds. We may have to cut away before we have done with it."

All eyes were now turned towards the bank of cloud, which was rising with extraordinary rapidity. Small portions of the upper line seemed at times to be torn off and to rush ahead of the main body, and then to disappear, suddenly blown into fragments. A low moaning sound was heard, and a line of white could be made out at the foot of the cloud-bank. The water around the ship was still as smooth as glass, though there was a slight swell, which swayed her to and fro, and caused the shrouds and blocks to rattle. 1. Were they on a ship?
2. What was the captains name?
3. What was headed their way?
4. Who is giving the orders?
5. What did he order?
6. What was on the starboard side?
7. Was it the cyclone?
8. What was it doing?
9. What did the skipper yell?
10. What did he order of Carpenter
numbered_answers:
1. yes
2. Murchison
3. cyclones
4. Mr. Timmins
5. "Furl mizzen and main topsails! Lower down the fore-staysail!"
6. A wall of black mist
7. yes
8. rising momentarily higher and higher
9. "The squall is coming, lads!
10. put a man with an axe at each of the weather-shrouds. We may have to cut away before we have done with it."