 
 <prompt> ```CHAPTER VIII 

THE HAND OF MISFORTUNE 

Between the two men, wey dey siddon opposite each other for the big but somehow barely furnished office, the radical differences, both in appearance and mannerisms, perhaps, also, in disposition, never dey more evident. Dem be partners for business and dey face ruin. Stephen Laverick, wey be senior member of the firm, even though an air of steadfast gloom don settle for hin clean-cut, powerful face, still get small of that dogged composure, temperamental and wholly British, wey don help am well for the road to fortune. Arthur Morrison, the man wey siddon for the other side of the table, a Jew to hin finger-tips despite hin changed name, siddon like person wey don break, with tears for hin terrified eyes, disordered hair, and parchment-pale face. Words don dey fly from hin mouth like stream. E dey struggle for hin misery, dey cry like pikin. The hand of misfortune don strip am naked, and one man, at least, see am as he really be. 

"I fit no endure am, Laverick,--I no fit face all of them. E too cruel--too horrible! Eighteen thousand pounds don go in one week, forty thousand in one month! Forty thousand pounds! Oh, my God!" 

E dey wriggle for pain. The man wey dey the other side of the table no talk anything. 

"If we fit just hold on small! 'Unions' must turn! Dem go turn! Laverick, you don try all your friends? Think! You don try all of them? Twenty thousand pounds go see us through am. We go get our own money back--I dey sure of am. There's Rendell, Laverick. E fit do anything for you. You dey always shoot or play cricket with am. You don ask am, Laverick? E no go miss the money." 

1. Wetin the men dey discuss?
2. Dem dey work together?
3. Wetin be the room wey dem dey?
4. Who dem suggest make dem ask for money?
5. Wetin be the game wey e dey play with Laverick?
6. Any of the men dey cry?
7. Who?
8. The other man dey emotional?
9. Dem dey siddon beside each other?
10. How long e take dem lose the money?
11. Dem feel say dem for fit prevent am?
12. Wetin?
13. Dem believe say dem go fit?
14. Dem need all the money back to turn things around?
15. How much dem need?
16. E go be burden for Rendell to give them?``` <response>: ```1. Di loss of forty thousand pounds.
2. Yes.
3. An office.
4. Rendell
5. Cricket.
6. Yes.
7. Arthur Morrison
8. no.
9. No.
10. A month
11. Yes.
12. By the Unions turning.
13. One seems to believe the will.
14. No.
15. Twenty thousand pounds
16. No``` 