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."  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Did Hal turn red out of embarrassment?
2. What had Hardwick called him?
3. What else?
4. And what was the final insult?
5. Did he confess to ever stealing anything?
6. What's Mr. Sumner's profession?
7. What's Hal's last name?
8. Does Mr. Sumner appreciate profane language?
9. What's Hardwick's first name?
10. Did he contemplate committing a crime, according to Hal?
11. What type of crime?
12. What did he want to rob?
13. By himself?
14. Who did Hal overhear Felix talking to about robbing the safe?
15. What's in the safe?
16. When did Hal overhear them?
17. Where was he coming back from?
18. What had Felix been doing to Hal when Mr. Sumner intruded?
19. Does Felix think of himself as a gentleman?
Answer: 1. yes
2. a thief
3. miserable tramp
4. poor-house beggar
5. no
6. broker
7. unknown
8. no
9. Felix
10. yes
11. thieving
12. the safe
13. yes
14. Mr. Allen
15. bonds
16. evening
17. New York
18. had him by the throat
19. yes

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2. Why does she like it?
Answer: 1. We chat
2. it's fast, convenient and fashionable

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana is the 38th largest by area and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th U.S. state on December 11, 1816. Indiana borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north, Ohio to the east, Kentucky to the south and southeast, and Illinois to the west. 

Before becoming a territory, varying cultures of indigenous peoples and historic Native Americans inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Since its founding as a territory, settlement patterns in Indiana have reflected regional cultural segmentation present in the Eastern United States; the state's northernmost tier was settled primarily by people from New England and New York, Central Indiana by migrants from the Mid-Atlantic states and from adjacent Ohio, and Southern Indiana by settlers from the Southern states, particularly Kentucky and Tennessee. 

Indiana has a diverse economy with a gross state product of $341.9 billion in 2016. Indiana has several metropolitan areas with populations greater than 100,000 and a number of smaller industrial cities and towns. Indiana is home to professional sports teams, including the NFL's Indianapolis Colts and the NBA's Indiana Pacers, and hosts several notable athletic events, such as the Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400 motorsports races. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Which state is this?
2. Of which country?
3. Where is it?
4. Is it the biggest state?
5. Which ranking is it?
6. What about in physical size?
7. When was it created?
8. Which number does that make it?
9. What is above it?
10. And on the right?
11. Left?
12. Below?
13. What body of water is nearby?
Answer:
1. Indiana
2. U.S.
3. located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.
4. no
5. 17th
6. 38th largest
7. December 11, 1816.
8. 19th
9. Michigan
10. Ohio
11. Illinois
12. Kentucky
13. Lake Michigan