question: CHAPTER V.

GKATITUDE.

"There were only two of you, then, in the last carriage?" Guy asked with deep interest, the very next morning, as Cyril, none the worse for his long imprisonment, sat quietly in their joint chambers at Staple Inn, recounting the previous day's adventures.

"Yes. Only two of us. It was awfully fortunate. And the carriage that was smashed had nobody at all, except in the first compartment, which escaped being buried. So there were no lives lost, by a miracle, you may say. But several of the people in the front part of the train got terribly shaken."

"And you and the other man were shut up in the tunnel there for fifteen hours at a stretch?" Guy went on reflectively.

"At least fifteen hours," Cyril echoed, without attempting to correct the slight error of sex, for no man, he thought, is bound to criminate himself, even in a flirtation. "It was two in the morning before they dug us quite out. And my companion by that time was more dead than alive, I can tell you, with watching and terror."

"Was he, poor fellow?" Guy murmured, with a sympathetic face; for Cyril had always alluded casually to his fellow-traveller in such general terms that Guy was as yet unaware there was a lady in the case. "And is he all right again now, do you know? Have you heard anything more about him?"

But before Cyril could answer there came a knock at the door, and the next moment Mr. Montague Nevitt, without his violin, entered the room in some haste, all agog with excitement. His face was eager and his manner cordial. It was clear he was full of some important tidings.
1. Where was the joint chambers?
2. Who was there?
3. What had happened the day before?
4. what kind?
5. was there an accident?
6. Between what?
7. Who was in the carriage?
8. who was one?
9. Did the person in the other vehicle get hurt?
10. Was anyone killed?
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answer: 1. Staple Inn
2. Guy and Cyril
3. adventures
4. shut up in the tunnel
5. Yes
6. Carriage and train
7. two of us
8. Cyril
9. yes
10. no

question: Charleston is the oldest and second-largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the CharlestonNorth CharlestonSummerville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline and is located on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, or, as is locally expressed, "where the Cooper and Ashley Rivers come together to form the Atlantic Ocean."

Founded in 1670 as Charles Town in honor of King Charles II of England, Charleston adopted its present name in 1783. It moved to its present location on Oyster Point in 1680 from a location on the west bank of the Ashley River known as Albemarle Point. By 1690, Charles Town was the fifth-largest city in North America, and it remained among the 10 largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census. With a 2010 census population of 120,083 (and a 2014 estimate of 130,113), current trends put Charleston as the fastest-growing municipality in South Carolina. The population of the Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester Counties, was counted by the 2014 estimate at 727,689 the third-largest in the state and the 78th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
1. What year was Charleston founded?
2. After whom?
3. Of what country?
4. Is it the oldest city in a particular state?
5. Which one?
6. Of what county is it the seat?
7. In what year did the city take on its current moniker?
8. What was it originally known as?
9. In what year did it move to Oyster Point?
10. From where?
11. Is that location associated with a river?
12. Which one?
13. And on what bank of it?
14. Which harbor is Charleston on?
15. And that's associated with what ocean?
16. What two rivers are associated with the harbor?
17. What was the population of the city as of 2010?
18. And the 2014 population count?
19. What counties make up the great metro area of the city?
20. What was the population of this metro area in 2014?
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answer: 1. 1670
2. King Charles II
3. England
4. Yes
5. South Carolina
6. Charleston
7. 1783
8. Charles Town
9. 1680
10. Albemarle Point
11. Yes
12. Ashley River
13. the West
14. Charleston Harbor
15. Atlantic
16. Ashley and Cooper
17. 120,083
18. 130,113
19. Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester
20. 727,689

question: Fifteen years ago, I entered the Boston Globe, which was a temple to me then. It wasn't easy getting hired. But once you were there, I found, you were in.

Globe jobs were for life-guaranteed until retirement. For 15 years I had prospered there--moving from an ordinary reporter to senior editor. I would have a lifetime of security if I stuck with it. Instead, I had made a decision to leave. I entered my boss's office. Would he be angry? I wondered. He had a famous temper. "Matt, we have to have a talk," I began. "I came to the Globe when I was twenty-four. Now I' m forty. There' s a lot I want to do in life. I'm resigning. " "To another paper?" he asked. I reached into my coat pocket, but didn't say anything. I handed him a letter that explained everything. It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. We were at a rare turning point in history. I wanted to be directly engaged in the change. "I' m glad for you," he said, quite out of my expectation. "I just came from a board of directors meeting and it was seventy-five percent discouraging news. Some of that we can deal with. But much of it we can' t," he went on. "I wish you all the luck in the world," he concluded. "And if it doesn't work out, remember, there is always a place here for you."

Then I went out of his office, walking through the newsroom for more good-byes. Everybody was saying congratulations. Everybody--even though I'd be risking all the financial security I had carefully built up.

Later, I had a final talk with Bill Taylor, chairman and publisher of the Boston Globe. He had turned the Globe into a billion-dollar property. "I' m resigning, Bill," I said. He listened while I gave him the story. He wasn't looking angry either. After a pause, he said, "Golly, I wish I were in your shoes. "
1. Was it easy to get a job at the paper?
2. Which paper was it?
3. Did people stay with the job long?
4. How long ago did the person get hired?
5. Were promotions unheard of?
6. Was the person planning on asking the boss for a raise?
7. What was the talk that needed to be had with the boss?
8. Why?
9. What is he going to start?
10. In what?
11. Was the boss upset?
12. How did he feel?
13. How old was he when he took the job at the paper?
14. Where had the boss been before metting with him?
15. Was he told never to return?
16. Who else did he speak with before leaving?
17. What does he do?
18. What did he tell Bill?
19. How did Bill respond?
20. How much of the news from the meeting was upsetting for Matt?
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answer:
1. no
2. Boston Globe
3. Yes
4. Fifteen years
5. no
6. No
7. He was leaving
8. There' s a lot he wants to do
9. start a new company
10. media
11. no
12. He was glad
13. 24
14. board of directors meeting
15. no
16. Bill Taylor
17. chairman
18. I' m resigning
19. Golly, I wish I were in your shoes. "
20. seventy-five percent