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CHAPTER II

DEW OF MORNING

Outside, the Ingleside lawn was full of golden pools of sunshine and plots of alluring shadows. Rilla Blythe was swinging in the hammock under the big Scotch pine, Gertrude Oliver sat at its roots beside her, and Walter was stretched at full length on the grass, lost in a romance of chivalry wherein old heroes and beauties of dead and gone centuries lived vividly again for him.

Rilla was the "baby" of the Blythe family and was in a chronic state of secret indignation because nobody believed she was grown up. She was so nearly fifteen that she called herself that, and she was quite as tall as Di and Nan; also, she was nearly as pretty as Susan believed her to be. She had great, dreamy, hazel eyes, a milky skin dappled with little golden freckles, and delicately arched eyebrows, giving her a demure, questioning look which made people, especially lads in their teens, want to answer it. Her hair was ripely, ruddily brown and a little dent in her upper lip looked as if some good fairy had pressed it in with her finger at Rilla's christening. Rilla, whose best friends could not deny her share of vanity, thought her face would do very well, but worried over her figure, and wished her mother could be prevailed upon to let her wear longer dresses. She, who had been so plump and roly-poly in the old Rainbow Valley days, was incredibly slim now, in the arms-and-legs period. Jem and Shirley harrowed her soul by calling her "Spider." Yet she somehow escaped awkwardness. There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced. She had been much petted and was a wee bit spoiled, but still the general opinion was that Rilla Blythe was a very sweet girl, even if she were not so clever as Nan and Di.
1. Who is the Blythe girl mentioned?
2. How old is she?
3. How many people are with her?
4. Was she the oldest?
5. What was the weather like?
6. Was she sitting on the ground?
7. What was she doing?
8. Was she popular with boys?
9. What color were her eyes?
10. Did she have red hair?
11. What color was her skin?
12. Did she have freckles?
13. What was her nickname?
14. Was she skinny?
15. Had she always been skinny?
16. Who gave her that nickname?
17. Was she awkward?
18. How tall was she?
19. How was her personality?
20. Was she doted on by her family?

Numbered answers:
1. Rilla
2. nearly fifteen
3. Two
4. Rilla was the "baby"
5. sunny
6. no
7. swinging in the hammock
8. yes
9. hazel
10. ruddily brown
11. milky white
12. yes
13. "Spider."
14. yes
15. no
16. Jem and Shirle
17. no
18. unknown
19. very sweet girl,
20. yes

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(CNN) -- Three people, including two former Auburn University football players, were killed late Saturday and three others were wounded in a shooting in an off-campus apartment complex in Auburn, Alabama, police said Sunday.

A manhunt was under way in Montgomery, about 55 miles west of Auburn, for a suspect in the case, said Auburn Police Chief Tommy Dawson. He identified the suspect as Desmonte Leonard, 22, of Montgomery.

Officers received a call reporting the shooting at the University Heights apartments clubhouse about 10:03 p.m. Saturday, Dawson said. Arriving officers found Edward Christian, 20, dead at the scene. Christian, of Valdosta, Georgia, was off the football team due to an injury, Dawson said.

Former player Ladarious Phillips, 20, and Auburn resident Demario Pitts, 20, died later at a hospital, he said. Two others, including current Auburn sophomore offensive lineman Eric Mack, 20, of Cameron, South Carolina, were taken to East Alabama Medical Center in the nearby town of Opelika.

Mack was released from the medical center about 11 a.m. Sunday after being treated for a gunshot wound, hospital spokesman John Atkinson said.

Dawson said 20-year-old John Robertson was in critical condition and undergoing surgery Sunday at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. Robertson was shot in the head, Dawson said.

A third man, 19-year-old Xavier Moss, was treated and released from East Alabama Medical Center. Both Moss and Robertson are from Roanoke, Alabama, authorities said.

Police have a motive in the shooting, but Dawson would not release it, saying "that's for the courtroom, later on."
1. who was the gunman?
2. how old is he?
3. where is he from?
4. how far is this from where the incident took place?
5. who died at the scene?
6. what time was the police called?
7. were they on campus?
8. what is the name of the apartments?
9. how many died at the hospital?
10. please name one
11. how old was he?
12. who was the other?
13. Where was Christian from?
14. is he a football player?
15. why?
16. who is in serious condition?
17. is he the same age as Ladarious?
18. where was he shot?
19. where is he from?
20. do the police have a reason for this happening?

Numbered answers:
1. Desmonte Leonard
2. 22
3. Montgomery
4. 55 miles
5. Edward Christian
6. about 10:03 p.m.
7. no
8. University Heights
9. Two
10. Ladarious Phillips
11. 20
12. Demario Pitts
13. Valdosta, Georgia
14. not at the time
15. due to an injury
16. John Robertson
17. yes
18. in the head
19. Roanoke, Alabama
20. yes

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CHAPTER XIV

WILLIAM BENT PITMAN HEARS OF SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE

On the morning of Sunday, William Dent Pitman rose at his usual hour, although with something more than the usual reluctance. The day before (it should be explained) an addition had been made to his family in the person of a lodger. Michael Finsbury had acted sponsor in the business, and guaranteed the weekly bill; on the other hand, no doubt with a spice of his prevailing jocularity, he had drawn a depressing portrait of the lodger's character. Mr. Pitman had been led to understand his guest was not good company; he had approached the gentleman with fear, and had rejoiced to find himself the entertainer of an angel. At tea he had been vastly pleased; till hard on one in the morning he had sat entranced by eloquence and progressively fortified with information in the studio; and now, as he reviewed over his toilet the harmless pleasures of the evening, the future smiled upon him with revived attractions. "Mr. Finsbury is indeed an acquisition," he remarked to himself; and as he entered the little parlour, where the table was already laid for breakfast, the cordiality of his greeting would have befitted an acquaintanceship already old.

"I am delighted to see you, sir"--these were his expressions--"and I trust you have slept well."

"Accustomed as I have been for so long to a life of almost perpetual change," replied the guest, "the disturbance so often complained of by the more sedentary, as attending their first night in (what is called) a new bed, is a complaint from which I am entirely free."
1. what happened the day before?
2. what did Pitman think about the lodger?
3. did he change his mind about him?
4. what is the story about?
5. what day does it take place?
6. did he wake up at usual time?
7. what was different this morning?
8. what did he say to himself about Finsbury?
9. what was on the table when he entered?
10. what room was this in?
Numbered answers:
1. an addition had been made
2. more than the usual reluctance.
3. yes
4. WILLIAM BENT PITMAN HEARS OF SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE
5. Sunday
6. yes
7. more than the usual reluctance.
8. Mr. Finsbury is indeed an acquisition,
9. breakfast
10. the little parlour,