Q: CHAPTER XXII

THE REFUGEE'S RETURN

Sabatini's attitude of indolence lasted only until they had turned from the waterway into the main river. Then he sat up and pointed a little way down the stream.

"Can you cross over somewhere there?" he asked.

Arnold nodded and punted across towards the opposite bank.

"Get in among the rushes," Sabatini directed. "Now listen to me."

Arnold came and sat down.

"You don't mean to tire me," he remarked.

Sabatini smiled.

"Do you seriously think that I asked you to bring me on the river for the pleasure of watching your prowess with that pole, my friend?" he asked. "Not at all. I am going to ask you to do me a service."

Arnold was suddenly conscious that Sabatini, for the first time since he had known him, was in earnest. The lines of his marble-white face seemed to have grown tenser and firmer, his manner was the manner of a man who meets a crisis.

"Turn your head and look inland," he said. "You follow the lane there?"

Arnold nodded.

"Quite well," he admitted.

"At the corner," Sabatini continued, "just out of sight behind that tall hedge, is my motor car. I want you to land and make your way there. My chauffeur has his instructions. He will take you to a village some eight miles up the river, a village called Heslop Wood. There is a boat-builder's yard at the end of the main street. You will hire a boat and row up the river. About three hundred yards up, on the left hand side, is an old, dismantled-looking house-boat. I want you to board it and search it thoroughly."

Answer the following questions:
1. What were they trying to do?
2. Who has been lazy?
3. Did they go to the water for fun?
4. Why then?
5. Who did he ask?
6. What surprised him?
7. Who was he to find?
8. Where was he to go?
9. How far away?
10. Was that his final destination?
11. What was he to do next?
12. Was it a powerboat?
13. What color was the lazy man's face?
14. How far was he to travel up river?
15. Was his destination on the right?
16. What was his destination?
17. What was he supposed to do there?
18. For what?
A: 1. to get to the other side of the hedge.
2. Sabatini
3. no
4. to do a service."
5. Arnold
6. that Sabatini for the first time was in earnest
7. his chauffeur
8. to a village
9. some eight miles
10. no
11. hire a boat
12. no
13. marble-white
14. About three hundred yards
15. no
16. a house-boat
17. search it thoroughly
18. unknown
Q: (CNN)A Georgia police chief who said he accidentally shot and seriously injured his wife while the couple were sleeping in bed has resigned, the Peachtree City Police Department said Wednesday.

William McCollom stepped down as chief of police in Peachtree City nearly a week after a prosecutor announced that although the New Year's Day shooting appeared accidental, McCollom could eventually face a misdemeanor charge accusing him of recklessly taking a gun to bed after drinking alcohol and taking sleeping medication.

The shooting in Peachtree City, an upscale community of 35,000 people south of Atlanta, left Margaret McCollom paralyzed below the waist.

"I have had had two families in Peachtree City -- my police family and my personal family. In light of the recent tragedy in my personal family, I need to continue to focus my time and efforts there," William McCollom said in a message posted Wednesday on the police department's Facebook page.

Medics and police rushed to the McColloms' home early on January 1 after the chief called 911 to say he accidentally shot his wife as both were sleeping -- by inadvertently moving a gun that he had taken to bed with him.

"The gun was in the bed, I went to move it, put it to the side, and it went off," McCollom says in a recording of the 911 call.

Later in the call, the operator asked McCollom, "Were you asleep also when this happened?"

"Yes," the chief, 57 at the time, replied.

Last week, Scott Ballard, district attorney for a several-county area that includes Peachtree City, said a Georgia Bureau of Investigation probe found the following:

Answer the following questions:
1. What day did the shooting happen on?
2. Where was the gun found?
3. Who is William McCollom?
4. What happened to his wife?
5. Did she die?
6. Was she injured?
7. Who shot her?
8. What charges could he get?
A: 1. New Year's Day
2. unknown
3. chief of police
4. shot
5. No
6. Yes
7. William McCollom
8. a misdemeanor
Q: Yahoo! is a web services provider, wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and President of Yahoo until June 2017.

It was globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports, and its social media website. At its height it was one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to third-party web analytics providers, Alexa and SimilarWeb, Yahoo! was the highest-read news and media website, with over 7 billion views per month, being the sixth most visited website globally in 2016. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visited Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo itself claimed it attracted "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages".

Once the most popular website in the U.S., Yahoo slowly started to decline since the late 2000s, and in 2017, Verizon Communications acquired most of Yahoo's Internet business for $4.48 billion, excluding its stakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Japan which were transferred to Yahoo's successor company Altaba.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is Yahoo?
2. When was it started?
3. By whom?
4. Who owns it now?
5. Since when?
6. Where is the headquarters?
7. Was it popular?
8. How popular?
9. Was it the most visited website?
10. What number was it
11. How much was it sold for?
12. About how many visited each month?
13. Was it all in English?
14. How many different ones?
15. What country did the president go to?
16. What company did the president go to?
17. What are some of their services?
A:
1. A web services provider
2. January 1994
3. Jerry Yang and David Filo
4. Verizon Communications
5. 2017
6. Sunnyvale, California
7. Yes
8. Globally
9. No
10. 6th
11. $4.48 billion
12. Roughly 700 million
13. No
14. More than 30
15. unknown
16. Google
17. Email, news, finance, answers