Question:
Read the text and answer the questions.
CHAPTER XXVIII 

SPENNIE'S HOUR OF CLEAR VISION 

Mr. McEachern sat in the billiard-room, smoking. He was alone. From where he sat, he could hear distant strains of music. The more rigorous portion of the evening's entertainment, the theatricals, was over, and the nobility and gentry, having done their duty by sitting through the performance, were now enjoying themselves in the ballroom. Everybody was happy. The play had been quite as successful as the usual amateur performance. The prompter had made himself a great favorite from the start, his series of duets with Spennie having been especially admired; and Jimmy, as became an old professional, had played his part with great finish and certainty of touch, though, like the bloodhounds in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on the road, he had had poor support. But the audience bore no malice. No collection of individuals is less vindictive than an audience at amateur theatricals. It was all over now. Charteris had literally gibbered in the presence of eye-witnesses at one point in the second act, when Spennie, by giving a wrong cue, had jerked the play abruptly into act three, where his colleagues, dimly suspecting something wrong, but not knowing what it was, had kept it for two minutes, to the mystification of the audience. But, now Charteris had begun to forget. As he two-stepped down the room, the lines of agony on his face were softened. He even smiled. 

As for Spennie, the brilliance of his happy grin dazzled all beholders. 

He was still wearing it when he invaded the solitude of Mr. McEachern. In every dance, however greatly he may be enjoying it, there comes a time when a man needs a meditative cigarette apart from the throng. It came to Spennie after the seventh item on the program. The billiard-room struck him as admirably suitable in every way. It was not likely to be used as a sitting-out place, and it was near enough to the ball-room to enable him to hear when the music of item number nine should begin. 
1. Whose smile radiated?
2. Whose alone time did he interrupt?
3. Had he stopped smiling by then?
4. At what time in the party did McEachern decide to have isolation time?
5. What vice was he partaking in?
6. What room did he partake in?
7. Did he like it there?
8. Was it far enough away that he couldn't hear the party?
9. What mood was everyone in?
10. How did the show go?
11. Who did people like the most from the beginning?
12. Did he sing with anyone?
13. Who?
14. Who wasn't supported well?
15. Were the people watching the show mean?
16. What it put on by a bunch of pros?
17. What happened to the 2nd part of the show?
18. Because of what?
19. Did this totally throw someone off?
20. Who?

Numbered answers:
1. Spennie's
2. Mr. McEachern
3. no
4. After  the theatricals
5. smoking
6. the billiard-room
7. yes
8. no
9. a happy one
10. It had been successful
11. The prompter
12. yes
13. Spennie
14. The prompter
15. no
16. no
17. it got jerked into act three
18. Spennie gave a wrong cue
19. yes
20. Charteris


Question:
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Chapter 14: The Battle Of Clissow. 

Charlie sent in his name, and was shown in at once. 

"I glad, indeed, to see you, Captain Carstairs," the minister said, as he entered. "We had given you up for lost. We heard first that you had been murdered in the streets of Warsaw. A month later, a man brought a letter to me from your Scotch friend Ramsay, to say that you were accused of the murder of a Jew trader, a man, it seems, of some importance in Warsaw. Ramsay said that you were in the company of a band of brigands, and that the man who went with you as your servant had joined you, and had taken you some money. He forwarded the letter you had sent him explaining your position, and said he thought that, upon the whole, it was the best thing you could have done, as a vigorous search had been set on foot, at the instance of the Jews, and there would have been but little chance of your making your way through the country alone. He added that he felt confident that, if alive, you would manage somehow to rejoin us before the campaign opened in the spring. 

"I am glad that you have been able to do so, but your appearance, at present, is rather that of a wealthy Polish noble, than of a companion of brigands." 

"I was able to do some service to Count Staroski, as, when travelling with his wife and child, and his brother, Count John, he was attacked by a pack of wolves. I have been staying with him for some weeks, and his brother has now had the kindness to accompany me here. He has thereby made my passage through the country easy, as we have travelled with fast horses in his sledge, and have always put up at the chateaux of nobles of his acquaintance. I have, therefore, avoided all risk of arrest at towns. In the letter forwarded to you I explained the real circumstances of the death of the Jew." 
1. what is the chapter number?
2. what is the title?
3. who is the minister talking to?
4. what is his first name?
5. what did they first hear about him?
6. where?
7. how did they find out this was not true?
8. from who?
9. what did it say?
10. what else did it say?
11. who had joined him?
12. did he look as they thought he would?
13. what did they expect him to look like?
14. how was he instead?
15. who was Charlie able to work for?
16. did John get into a problem?
17. what was that?
18. was he alone?
19. how many people was he with?
20. Did John repay the help?


Numbered answers:
1. 14
2. The Battle Of Clissow.
3. Captain Carstairs
4. Charlie
5. he had been murdered
6. streets of Warsaw
7. they received a letter
8. Ramsay
9. he was accused of the murder of a Jew trader
10. he was in the company of a band of brigands
11. the man who went with him as his servant
12. no
13. a companion of brigands
14. a wealthy Polish noble
15. Count Staroski
16. yes
17. he was attacked by a pack of wolves
18. no
19. Three
20. yes