Q: CHAPTER XXIII.

GUY IN LUCK.

Guy Waring reached Waterloo ten minutes too late. Nevitt had gone on by the West of England express. The porter at the labelling place "minded the gentleman well." He was a sharp-looking gentleman, with a queer look about the eyes, and a dark moustache curled round at the corners.

"Yes, yes," Guy cried eagerly, "that's him right enough. The eyes mark the man. And where was he going to?"

"He had his things labelled," the porter said, "for Plymouth."

"And when does the next train start?" Guy inquired, all on fire.

The porter, consulting the time-table in the muddle-headed way peculiar to railway porters, and stroking his chin with his hand to assist cerebration, announced, after a severe internal struggle, that the 3.45 down, slow, was the earliest train available.

There was nothing for it then, Guy perceived, but to run home to his rooms, possessing his soul in patience, pack up a few things in his Gladstone bag, and return at his leisure to catch the down train thus unfavourably introduced to his critical notice.

If Guy had dared, to be sure, he might have gone straight to a police-station, and got an inspector to telegraph along the line to stop the thief with his booty at Basingstoke or Salisbury. But Guy didn't dare. For to interfere with Nevitt now by legal means would be to risk the discovery of his own share in the forgery. And from that risk the startled and awakened young man shrank for a thousand reasons; though the chief among them all was certainly one that never would have occurred to any one but himself as even probable.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where did Guy run home to?
2. What kind of bag did he have?
3. What was Guy's last name?
4. Where did he arrive too late?
5. Who was Guy asking about?
6. Was he stylish?
7. Where was he headed to?
8. When was the next train scheduled to go?
9. What could Guy have dared?
10. Why?
11. What would happen if he took legal measures?
12. For how many reasons did he not want to do that?
13. Which train had Nevitt gone on?
14. Who said Nevitt had a weird look in his eyes?
15. What did Guy say mark a man?
16. What did the porter look at for the next train?
17. How did he know where Nevitt was going?
18. Who was muddle-headed?
19. Where was the porter?
20. What did Guy say excitedly?
A: 1. to his rooms
2. a Gladstone bag
3. Waring
4. Waterloo
5. Nevitt
6. He was a sharp-looking gentleman
7. Plymouth
8. 3.45
9. he might have gone straight to a police-station
10. and got an inspector to telegraph along the line to stop the thief
11. he would risk the discovery of his own share in the forgery
12. a thousand reasons
13. the West of England express
14. the porter
15. the eyes
16. the time-table
17. Nevitt's things were labeled
18. the porter
19. the labeling place
20. "Yes, yes,"

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

(CNN) -- On North Halsted Street, between Buckingham and Roscoe in Chicago, a monument stands with a plaque in honor of a brilliant thinker who is as responsible for the way we live our lives today as any person who has ever lived.

His name is Alan Turing, a Brit, and among his many credits and accolades, many historians refer to him as "the father of computer science." When Time magazine listed him among its 100 most influential people of the 20th century, it said "that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine."

A pretty high honor to say the least. And yet in 1952, while filing a robbery report with the police, Turing -- the man whose algorithms cracked the Enigma code used by the Nazis in World War II -- found himself arrested at his home in England.

His crime? Being gay.

Turing was convicted of "gross indecency," a felony in Britain at that time. He was forced to choose between prison and being injected with female hormones, a form of chemical castration.

He reluctantly chose the latter. Despite his accomplishments, he lost his job. And in June 1954, he lost his will to live. He was 41.

If the Western world is somewhat haunted by what Steve Jobs might have accomplished had cancer not taken him from us, we should be downright tormented by what we lost from the senseless excommunication of his predecessor.

1. Who does the monument honor?
2. Was he heterosexual?
3. Did he take his own life?
4. How old was he when he died?
5. Why was he excommunicated?
6. What were the circumstances of his arrest?
7. Was he a British citizen?
8. What do historians call him?
9. What honor did he get from Time magazine?
10. What were his options after being arrested?
11. What did he pick?
12. Did he choose willingly?
13. What crime was he convicted of?
14. Is this a misdemeanor?
15. Is it a felony?
16. Where is the statue located?
17. What street is it on?
18. Does the monument have a plaque?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Alan Turing
2. no
3. yes
4. 41
5. Being gay.
6. he was filing a robbery report
7. yes
8. the father of computer science
9. one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century
10. choose between prison and being injected with female hormones
11. being injected with female hormones
12. no
13. gross indecency
14. no
15. yes
16. Chicago
17. North Halsted Street
18. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Dallas (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has delayed the scheduled execution on an inmate on death row in Texas amid questions about a psychologist who testified that blacks and Hispanics were more likely to commit future crimes.

Duane Edward Buck already had eaten a final meal of fried chicken, fried fish, french fries, salad, jalapeno peppers and apples when news came of the court's decision on Thursday evening, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said.

"Praise the Lord Jesus," Clark quoted the condemned man as saying. "God is worthy to be praised. God's mercy triumphs over judgment, and I feel good."

Buck had been set to die by lethal injection, but the court delayed the execution to give it time to review the way a lower court handled the case. While that happens, Buck remains on death row.

Buck was convicted of the 1995 killings of Debra Gardner and Kenneth Butler. According to Texas officials, Buck shot Gardner in front of her daughter, who begged for her mother's life.

A third person, Phyllis Taylor, was shot, but she sought clemency for Buck this week. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, however, recommended against granting Buck clemency

Buck's attorney, Katherine C. Black, said the recommendation, "fails to recognize what the highest legal officer in the state of Texas has acknowledged: No one should be executed based on a process tainted by considerations of race."

Black is referring to U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who was the state's attorney general in 2000, when he spoke of seven death row inmates, including Buck. Cornyn said he believed the inmates had been unfairly sentenced to death based on testimony that was racially tainted by psychologist Walter Quijano, who repeatedly told juries that black or Hispanic defendants were more likely to commit future crimes.

1. What was delayed?
2. Who delayed it?
3. What was the prisoner's name?
4. What was his lawyer's name?
5. In what state was he incarcarated?
6. Who is the spokesperson for Criminal Justice there?
7. What was Buck convicted of?
8. When did the crime happen?
9. Was anyone else hurt?
10. Who?
11. How were they hurt and killed?
12. How was Buck set to die?
13. Was he released from prison?
14. What did they do with him?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. scheduled execution on an inmate
2. The U.S. Supreme Court
3. Duane Edward Buck
4. Katherine C. Black
5. Texas
6. Jason Clark
7. killings of Debra Gardner and Kenneth Butler
8. 1995
9. A third person
10. Phyllis Taylor
11. Buck shot Gardner
12. lethal injection
13. No
14. Buck remains on death row.