Q: CHAPTER XXV.

TOM CLOVER.

For a moment Richard could not realize the discovery that he had made. Could this weak, delirious man be Doc Linyard's brother-in-law, the one for whom the old sailor had been searching so diligently and so unsuccessfully?

If such was the fact then his visit to Frying Pan Court would undoubtedly be productive of more than one good result.

"What makes you think he is the man?" asked Frank Massanet, with considerable astonishment.

"Because he mentioned his own name as Tom, and I know Betty is the sailor's wife's name," replied Richard.

"He doesn't look very respectable," went on Frank. "He isn't a relative for even a man like Mr. Linyard to be proud of."

"He may look better after he's shaved and washed and fixed up a bit," returned Richard; "that is, if he gets well," he added, in sudden alarm.

"Pep, Pep," went on the sufferer, "where's the water?"

"Here you are, dad, nice and fresh," and Pep entered with his pail full. "Whew! but he does drink a pile!" he added to the two, as he held a cup to his father's lips.

"I've brought something you can give him," said Frank, going to his basket and depositing the articles upon a rickety table that stood in a corner.

"And we'll send a doctor around here, too," he added. "You haven't had one lately, I guess."

"Not this week. He charged too much, and he wouldn't come if I didn't pay aforehand," replied the street urchin.

1. yes
2. yes
3. Tom
4. yes
5. yes
6. Frank Massanet
7. no
8. Yes
9. no
10. no
11. yes
12. yes
13. no
14. He charged too much
15. yes
16. Tom
17. shaved and washed
18. he is not well
19. He asked.
20. yes
21. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Was anyone unaware of somthing?
2. Was it a mistaken identity?
3. Who was the person?
4. What we can assume Richard's profession?
5. Was anyone else surprised too?
6. Who was that?
7. Did he think high of the guy?
8. Did he doubt his credential?
9. Was the guy in good health?
10. Did they feed him something?
11. Was there any drink for him then?
12. Did they call any physician for him?
13. Did is seem he visited any lately?
14. What was his excuse?
15. Going back did anone think he would look better with some tries?
16. Who was that?
17. What was his suggestions?
18. Did he have other concerns?
19. Did the guy ask for water or they gave him that without him asking?
20. Did he drink a lot?
21. Was the water in a container?

Q: (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. 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

Numbered questions:
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?

Q: CHAPTER XXIII

CHECK TO THE QUEEN

How long they stood thus, heart to heart, they themselves could never have said. The sound of many voices in the near distance roused them from their dream. Ursula started in alarm.

"Holy Virgin!" she exclaimed under her breath, "if it should be the Queen!"

But Wessex held her tightly, and she struggled in vain.

"Nay! then let the whole Court see that I hold my future wife in my arms," he said proudly.

But with an agitated little cry she contrived to escape him. He seemed much amused at her nervousness; what had she to fear? was she not his own, to protect even from the semblance of ill? But Ursula, now fully awakened to ordinary, everyday surroundings, was fearful lest her own innocent little deception should be too crudely, too suddenly unmasked.

She had so earnestly looked forward to the moment when she would say to him that she in sooth was none other than Lady Ursula Glynde, the woman whom every conventionality had decreed that he should marry, and whom--because of these conventionalities--he had secretly but certainly disliked.

Her woman's heart had already given her a clear insight into the character and the foibles of the man she loved. His passion for her now, sincere and great though it was, was partly dependent on that atmosphere of romance which his poetical temperament craved for, and which had surrounded the half-mysterious personality of exquisite, irresistible "Fanny."

Instinctively she dreaded the rough hand of commonplace, that ugly, coarse destroyer of poetic idylls. A few hastily uttered words might shatter in an hour the mystic shrine wherein Wessex had enthroned her. She had meant to tell him soon, to-morrow perhaps, perhaps only after a few days, but she wished to find her own time for this, when he knew her inner soul better, and the delicate cobwebs of this great love-at-first-sight had fallen away from his eyes.

1. Ursula and Wessex
2. yes
3. no
4. she hears people
5. the Queen
6. no
7. yes
8. her deception might be unmasked.
9. amused
10. yes
11. proud
12. yes
13. yes
14. his character
15. ove-at-first-sight
16. the mystic shrine
17. in her own time for
18. tomorrow or a few days
19. her inner soul better
20. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. Who is embracing?
2. Is Ursula ready to stop?
3. is Wessex?
4. Why does she want free?
5. Who is she worried might be coming?
6. Does Wessex care?
7. Does she get free?
8. What's making her nervous?
9. How does Wessex feel about her fears?
10. Are they planing to get married?
11. How does that make Wessex feel?
12. Would their marriage be the traditional thing to do/
13. Is she thinking that maybe he doesn't like her?
14. What has she gotten a good picture of?
15. What kind of love is he feeling?
16. What does she think might get shattered?
17. When does she want to talk to him about it?
18. What are the possible days she might talk to him?
19. What does she want him to learn about
20. Where are they standing?