question: CHAPTER XIX 

THE TREASURE 

The next morning Harry said: 

"I will go upstairs to that look-out place again. I have been up there pretty nearly every day, and stared down. I can't get it out of my mind that the key of the mystery lies there, and that that hole was made for some other purpose than merely throwing stones out on to any of those who might go in behind the rocks. I have puzzled and worried over it." 

"Shall I come up with you, Harry?" 

"No, I would rather you didn't. I will go up by myself and spend the morning there; some idea may occur to me. You may as well all have a quiet day of it." 

He lit his pipe and went upstairs. José went off to the mules, and Bertie descended the ladder, and strolled round what they called the courtyard, looking for eggs among the rocks and in the tufts of grass growing higher up. Dias scattered a few handfuls of maize to the chickens and then assisted Maria to catch two of them; after which he descended the ladder and sat down gloomily upon a stone. He had become more and more depressed in spirits as the search became daily more hopeless; and although he worked as hard as anyone, he seldom spoke, while Harry and his brother often joked, and showed no outward signs of disappointment. An hour passed, and then Harry appeared suddenly at the window. 

"Bertie, Dias, come up at once, I have an idea!" 
1. what lies at the look out place?
2. who thinks this?
3. when was he to go there?
4. alone?
5. did anyone offer to go with him?
6. what did he do before he went there?
7. How did Dias feel?
8. why?
9. Where did BErtie go?
10. why?
11. where?
12. Did she try to catch some bugs?
13. what did she try to catch?
14. How did Harry seem to feel about the search
15. Did he feel anything about the hole?
16. Did Harry have any siblings?
17. How did they interact?
18. Did they seem upset at all?
19. Did Dias joke with them?
20. Did Harry come up with anything while upstairs?
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answer: 1. The key of the mystery.
2. Harry.
3. The morning.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.
6. Lit his pipe and went upstaairs.
7. Gloomy.
8. He was depressed because the search seemed hopeless.
9. The courtyard
10. To look for eggs.
11. Among the rocks and grass.
12. No.
13. Chickens
14. Puzzled and worried.
15. That it had some other purpose than throwing stones in it.
16. Yes
17. They often joked.
18. There were no signs of disappointment.
19. No.
20. Yes.


question: CHAPTER II. 

THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR. 

1. Wars of Edward III.--By the Salic law, as the lawyers called it, the crown was given, on the death of Charles IV., to _Philip, Count of Valois_, son to a brother of Philip IV., but it was claimed by Edward III. of England as son of the daughter of Philip IV. Edward contented himself, however, with the mere assertion of his pretensions, until Philip exasperated him by attacks on the borders of Guienne, which the French kings had long been coveting to complete their possession of the south, and by demanding the surrender of Robert of Artois, who, being disappointed in his claim to the county of Artois by the judgment of the Parliament of Paris, was practising by sorcery on the life of the King of France. Edward then declared war, and his supposed right caused a century of warfare between France and England, in which the broken, down-trodden state of the French peasantry gave England an immense advantage. The knights and squires were fairly matched; but while the English yeomen were strong, staunch, and trustworthy, the French were useless, and only made a defeat worse by plundering the fallen on each side alike. The war began in Flanders, where Philip took the part of the count, whose tyrannies had caused his expulsion. Edward was called in to the aid of the citizens of Ghent by their leader Jacob van Arteveldt; and gained a great victory over the French fleet at Sluys, but with no important result. At the same time the two kings took opposite sides in the war of the succession in Brittany, each defending the claim most inconsistent with his own pretensions to the French crown--Edward upholding the male heir, John de Montfort, and Philip the direct female representative, the wife of Charles de Blois. 
1. Who declared the war?
2. Who did the kings demand to be surrendered?
3. How man kings took opposite sides?
4. What is Edward III's relation to Philip IV?
5. What did the French kings wish to complete?
6. Was the French peasantry in good shape?
7. What kind of shape was it in?
8. Where did the war start?
9. Where was the French fleet defeated?
10. Was that in important victory?
11. What role did Charles de Blois's wife play?
12. Where the two counties fairly matched?
13. What did the French to to make themselves more worthless?
14. Who was Jacob van Arteveldt?
15. And John de Montfort?
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answer: 1. Edward
2. Robert of Artois
3. two
4. son of the daughter of Philip IV
5. their possession of the south
6. no
7. down-trodden
8. Flanders
9. Sluys
10. no
11. the direct female representative
12. The knights and squires were fairly matched
13. plundered the fallen on each side
14. leader of Ghent
15. the male heir


question: CHAPTER XXII—A WARNING 

In the luxuriously appointed smoking-room of the hotel Clay leaned forward in the deep leather chair into which he had dropped and looked keenly at Osborne. 

“Tell me how you are interested in this fellow Farquhar,” he demanded. 

“I don’t know that I am much interested,” Osborne replied. “He was of some service to us during our voyage from Japan, and seemed a smart young fellow. It merely struck me that I might give him a lift up in return for one or two small favors.” 

“Let him drop! Didn’t it strike you that your daughter might have her own views about him? The man’s good-looking.” 

Osborne flung up his head, and his eyes narrowed. 

“I can’t discuss—” 

“It has to be discussed,” Clay interrupted. “You can’t have that man at your house: he’s one of the fellows who were working at the wreck.” 

“Ah! That makes a difference, of course. I suppose you have been on their trail, but you have told me nothing about it yet.” 

“I had a suspicion that you didn’t want to know. You’re a fastidious fellow, you know, and I suspected that you’d rather leave a mean job of that kind to me.” 

“You’re right,” Osborne admitted. “I’m sure you would handle it better than I could; but I’m curious to hear what you’ve done.” 

“I’ve gone as far as seems advisable. Had the fellows fired from several jobs and made it difficult for them to get another; but it wouldn’t pay to have my agents guess what I’m after.” Clay laughed. “Farquhar and his partners are either bolder or smarter than I thought; I found them taking my own money at the Clanch Mill.” 
1. are people having a conversation?
2. where?
3. is the room sparse?
4. what building is the room in?
5. named?
6. who is conversing?
7. what is the subject?
8. did he take something?
9. what?
10. from who?
11. where?
12. what country is mentioned?
13. did someone go there?
14. who?
15. did someone one help him on this trip?
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answer:
1. yes
2. In the smoking-room
3. No
4. the hotel
5. unknown
6. Clay and Osborne
7. Farquhar
8. Yes
9. money
10. Clay
11. at the Clanch Mill.
12. Japan
13. Yes
14. Osborne
15. Yes