 
 <prompt> ```CHAPTER IX. 

THE PLOT AGAINST HAL. 

Hal Carson bin sure say e just miss one very important tori. 

"I wish Ferris bin finish wetin e wan talk," e think. 

E dey wait with bated breath make the two continue. 

"Wetin dey make you dey fear like this?" Ferris ask. "Anybody fit hear us for here?" 

"I think say no fit. But we gats dey careful." 

"Yes, but----" 

"Not another word on that matter, Dick." Hardwick voice come dey strict. "I be man, while you be boy, and I sabi wetin go good for both of us." 

"Well, do wetin you wan do." 

"I think say e go make sense make you find a way make Carson comot. E too sharp pass to dey around," the book-keeper continue. 

"I no think say e dey look sharp," Ferris talk with scorn, as e no fit bear make Hal dey praised. 

"E dey sharp pass you or most people think. That tori about am grow for poor-house fit true, but I get my doubts." 

"Why?" Ferris ask, with high curiosity. 

"I no fit explain now." E get one small pause. "Here, take one cigar. Those nasty cigarettes dey make me sick." 

Dem strike matches, and then another pause. 

"You go continue as book-keeper when Allen waka?" Ferris ask. 

"Of course." 

"I think say you suppose follow Allen for hin new business." 

"I go do am--later." 

"E don make any definite plans yet?" 

"No." 

"The reason why I ask na because I want make you put in one word for me." 

1. How many people dey talk?
2. Who?
3. Wetin dem discuss?
4. Why dem do am?
5. Dem dey jealous of am?
6. Dem get plan that time?
7. Dem dey smoke?
8. Wetin?
9. Why?
10. Who dey keep the books?``` <response>: ```1. two
2. Ferris and Dick
3. to remove Carson from road
4. E too sabi
5. yes
6. No
7. yes
8. cigars
9. cigarettes dey make Dick sick.
10. Dick``` 