Q: CHAPTER IV.

HAL STANDS UP FOR HIMSELF.

Hal now found himself in a tight situation. Felix Hardwick had him by the throat, and was slowly but surely choking him.

"Don't! don't!" cried Mr. Sumner, in great alarm.

"The miserable tramp!" cried Hardwick. "I'll teach him to call a gentleman a thief."

He continued his choking process, paying no attention to his employer's efforts to haul him away.

But by this time Hal began to realize that Hardwick was in earnest. He began to kick, and presently landed a blow in the book-keeper's stomach that completely winded the man.

Hardwick relaxed his hold, and Hal sprang away.

"Stop! stop!" ordered Mr. Sumner. "I will not have such disgraceful scenes in this office."

"But he intimated I was a thief," said Hardwick, trying to catch his wind.

"And he said the same of me," retorted Hal.

"So you are!"

"I never stole a thing in my life, Mr. Sumner." Hal turned to the broker. "And I am not a tramp."

"Then supposing we make it a poor-house beggar," returned Hardwick, with a short laugh.

Hal turned red. The shot was a cruel one.

"Hush! Hardwick," cried Mr. Sumner. "There is no necessity for such language."

The broker turned to Hal.

"You just made a strange statement, Carson," he said. "How do you know Mr. Hardwick contemplated robbing the safe?"

"Because I do."

"That is no answer."

"I overheard him and Mr. Allen talking about the bonds being in the safe."

"When?"

"The evening I came to New York."

1. Hal and Felix
2. Mr. Sumner
3. Felix
4. had him by the throat, and was slowly but surely choking him.
5. He began to kick
6. Yes
7. stomach

Numbered questions:
1. Who is fighting?
2. Who is trying to stop them?
3. Who is being the most aggressive?
4. What is he doing?
5. How did Hal respond?
6. Did he get a good hit in?
7. Where?

Q: CHAPTER VII.

Something between a hindrance and a help. WORDSWORTH.

Etheldred awoke long before time for getting up, and lay pondering over her visions. Margaret had sympathised, and therefore they did not seem entirely aerial. To earn money by writing was her favourite plan, and she called her various romances in turn before her memory, to judge which might be brought down to sober pen and ink. She considered till it became not too unreasonably early to get up. It was dark, but there was a little light close to the window: she had no writing-paper, but she would interline her old exercise-book. Down she ran, and crouching in the school-room window-seat, she wrote on in a trance of eager composition, till Norman called her, as he went to school, to help him to find a book.

This done, she went up to visit Margaret, to tell her the story, and consult her. But this was not so easy. She found Margaret with little Daisy lying by her, and Tom sitting by the fire over his Latin.

"Oh, Ethel, good-morning, dear! you are come just in time."

"To take baby?" said Ethel, as the child was fretting a little.

"Yes, thank you, she has been very good, but she was tired of lying here, and I can't move her about," said Margaret.

"Oh, Margaret, I have such a plan," said Ethel, as she walked about with little Gertrude; but Tom interrupted.

"Margaret, will you see if I can say my lesson?" and the thumbed Latin grammar came across her just as Dr. May's door opened, and he came in exclaiming, "Latin grammar! Margaret, this is really too much for you. Good-morning, my dears. Ha! Tommy, take your book away, my boy. You must not inflict that on sister now. There's your regular master, Richard, in my room, if it is fit for his ears yet. What, the little one here too?"

1. Chapter VII
2. Etheldred
3. Pondered ger visions
4. Margaret
5. to earn money by writing
6. her past romances
7. until there was a little light
8. the school room
9. Norman
10. a book
11. visit margaret
12. concult
13. Daisy and Tom
14. yes
15. Take the baby
16. Daisy
17. she had a plan
18. Tom
19. to practice his latin lesson
20. Dr. May
21. Take your book away

Numbered questions:
1. Which section is this?
2. Who woke up early?
3. What did she do when she woke up?
4. Who was sympathetic?
5. What was her preferred plan?
6. What subject did she think about?
7. Until what time did she ponder this?
8. Where did she run to?
9. Who interrupted her writing?
10. What did he want?
11. What did she do after?
12. What would she do with her?
13. Who was with Margaret?
14. Was Margaret happy to see Ethel?
15. What did she want Ethel to do?
16. What is the baby's name?
17. What news did Ethel give Margaret?
18. Who broke up their conversation?
19. What did he want?
20. Who arrived and stopped the lesson?
21. What did he say to Tom?

Q: CHAPTER VI

THE FUN OF A NIGHT

"My gracious, Plum acts as if he was scared to death," observed Phil, after the bully and his companion had departed, leaving the others a clear field.

"He certainly was worked up," returned Dave. "I wonder what he'll have to say to-morrow?"

There was no answering that question, and the two boys hurried to where they had left Sam without attempting to reach a conclusion. They found their chum watching out anxiously.

"Well?" came from his lips as soon as he saw them.

"It's all right," answered Dave, and told as much as he deemed necessary. "Come, we must hurry, or Job Haskers will get back before we can fix things."

"This ram is going to be something to handle," observed Phil. "No 'meek as a lamb' about him."

"I'll show you how to do the trick," answered the boy from the country, and with a dexterous turn of the horns, threw the ram over on one side. "Now sit on him, until I tie his legs with the straps."

In a few minutes Dave had the animal secured, and the blanket was placed over the ram's head, that he might not make too much noise. Then they hoisted their burden up between them and started toward the Hall.

It was no easy matter to get the ram upstairs and into Job Haskers' room. On the upper landing they were met by Roger and Buster Beggs, who declared the coast clear. Once in the room of the assistant teacher, they cleared out the bottom of the closet and then, releasing the animal from his bonds, thrust him inside and shut and locked the door, leaving the key in the lock.

1. what he'll have to say to-morrow
2. Well?
3. Job Haskers
4. no
5. in the closet
6. Plum
7. as much as he deemed necessary.
8. the boy from the country
9. Now sit on him, until I tie his legs with the straps
10. no
11. watching out anxiously
12. hrew the ram over on one side.
13. so that he might not make too much noise
14. Roger and Buster
15. the coast was clear
16. left it in the lock
17. Job Haskers
18. the assistant teacher,
19. cleared it out
20. No 'meek as a lamb' about him.

Numbered questions:
1. what was dave wondering?
2. what did Sam say when he saw them?
3. who are they afraid will return before they fix things?
4. was it easy to get the ram upstairs?
5. where were they trying to put it?
6. who was acting scared to death?
7. how much did Dave tell Sam?
8. who showed them how to catch the ram?
9. what instructions did he give?
10. did Dave and Phil take their time returning to Sam?
11. how was Sam acting when they reached him?
12. what did the country boy do to the ram?
13. why did Dave cover the animals head?
14. who meet them on the landing?
15. what did they tell them?
16. what did they do with the key?
17. whos room were they in?
18. who is he?
19. what did they do to the closet?
20. what did Phil say about the ram?