Q: CHAPTER XVII

DICK'S ACCUSATION

The party in the gun-room were silent while they waited for Jim. Mrs. Halliday glanced at the others curiously and got a sense of strain. Dick, looking disturbed but resolute, leaned against the table opposite Mordaunt, whose face was rather white; Bernard occupied the bench by the wall and his look was inscrutable. All was very quiet except for the snapping of the stove and the occasional rattle of a cinder falling through the bars. It was something of a relief when Jim came in and Bernard turned on the light.

"Sit down, Jim," he said. "Dick has something to tell us that he thinks you ought to hear. He hints that it is important."

"It is important," Dick replied. "The thing has weighed on me for some time. In fact, the load is too heavy and I feel I must get rid of it. I want to hand over my responsibility, and you are the head of the house, sir."

"Very well," said Bernard. "The post has drawbacks. You had better go on."

"Then I'll begin some time since; the night Lance and I met Jim at the telegraph shack. We talked about England and Jim asked if we knew Langrigg. There was an old French romance on a shelf and Lance read a passage. He studied the book when Jim left the shack, and I found out afterwards that Franklin Dearham's name was written across the front page. You see what this implies, sir?"

"You mean Lance knew who Jim was, although you did not. When did you find out?"

Answer the following questions:
1. Where was the group sitting?
2. Who were they waiting for?
3. Were there only 2 people in the room?
4. How many were there?
5. Were they a loud group?
6. Were they sitting in a heavily lighted room?
7. Are they told to stand?
8. Why?
9. Why is he telling them this?
10. Who does he say he was talking with when reciting the story?
11. Was there a new novel on the bookcase?
12. Who was on the front page?
13. What did that imply?
A: 1. the gun-room
2. Jim
3. No
4. Four
5. No
6. No
7. No
8. Dick has something important to say
9. The thing has weighed on him for some time
10. Lance
11. No
12. Franklin Dearham
13. Lance knew who Jim was

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Is there anything the latest cell phone can't do? It can record movies, surf the net, and download the newest MP3 songs, but don't let those fancy features fool you.

After all, chances are that phones have a Global Positioning System (GPS) chip. GPS lets phone companies determine the location of your phone at all times. If you are hurt and call 911, rescuers can find you by using your phone's GPS.

But emergency officials aren't the only people interested in knowing where you are. Several new companies are using cell phones with GPS to monitor teen drivers for _ parents.

The programs vary, but most of them allow parents to use the Internet to monitor their kids' locations, driving habits and speed. Some programs even let parents set speed and location limits so that they are alerted if their kids drive too fast or go beyond a predetermined boundary.

Supporters of monitoring say that the programs also help if a teen is kidnapped or lost. Andrea Gutierrez uses a driving program to help her daughter get home. "I give her directions by looking at an online map, which shows me where she is".

Jean Nichols, 17, says that parents are forgetting one very important thing: trust. "I don't like the idea of someone using a device that keeps tabs on me."

Others say the information could be misused. "If everyone can find out exactly where your 17-year-old girl is at all times, it will present a potentially dangerous problem," Hohn Lawford told the Ottawa Citizen.

Alana Watenpuhl, 19, says that teens can easily outsmart the programs. "Teens can always leave their cell phones somewhere and then go out with their friends. It's not likely that the chips are attached to their bodies," she told reporters. "But who knows?" she added. "That might be what's coming next."

1. What do programs use to see where people are?
2. What does that stand for?
3. Where can you find this?
4. Are parents using this now?
5. For what?
6. Is Andrea Gutierrez a mother?
7. What does she help her daughter do?
8. How does she locate her?
9. What does Alana Watenpuhl think of the programs?
10. By who?
11. would this be hard for them?
12. What's one simple thing they can do?
13. When?
14. What does she wonder might be next?
15. Is Jean Nichols fond of the programs?
16. What does he think is being violated?
17. How old is he?
18. What kind of restrictions can be set on kids by their parents?
19. What kind of speed would cause an alert to be sent?
20. What kind of boundaries can be broken?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. GPS
2. Global Positioning System
3. cell phones
4. yes
5. tmonitor kid's location and driving habits
6. yrs
7. get home
8. an online map
9. they can be outsmarted
10. teens
11. no
12. leave their phones somewhere
13. when they go out
14. Imicrochips on their bodies
15. no
16. trust
17. 17
18. speed and location
19. high speed
20. location