Question: CHAPTER XIX 

WHAT HAPPENED TO TOM AND SAM 

Let us return to Tom and Sam, at the time they were left alone at Binoto's hostelry. 

"I wish we had gone with Dick and Uncle Randolph," said Tom, as he slipped into his coat and shoes. "I don't like this thing at all." 

"Oh, don't get scared before you are hurt, Tom!" laughed his younger brother. "These people out here may be peculiar, but --" 

Sam did not finish. A loud call from the woods had reached his ears, and in alarm he too began to dress, at the same time reaching for his pistol and the money belt which Randolph Rover had left behind. 

"I -- I guess something is wrong," he went on, after a pause. "If we -" 

"Tom! Sam! look out fo' yourselves!" came from Aleck, and in a second more the negro, burst on their view. "Come, if yo' is dressed!" he added. 

"Where to?" asked Tom hurriedly. 

"Anywhar, Massah Tom. De others is took prisoners! Come!" And Aleck almost dragged the boy along. 

The Rover boys could readily surmise that Aleck would not act in this highly excited manner unless there was good cause for it. Consequently, as Sam said afterward, "They didn't stand on the order of their going, but just flew." Pell-mell out of the hostelry they tumbled, and ran up the highway as rapidly as their nimble limbs would permit. 

They heard several men coming after them, and heard the command "Halt!" yelled after them in both French and bad English. But they did not halt until a sudden tumble on Tom's part made the others pause in dismay.  1. Was Tom getting undressed?
2. Who was he talking to?
3. Are they related?
4. How?
5. What did they hear in the forest?
6. Who arrived to warn them?
7. What race was he?
8. What did he say occurred to the rest of them?
9. What was the sibling's last name?
10. Where were they going to leave from?
11. How many men fell on their tracks?
12. Did they tell the brothers to stop?
13. Whose money belt did they have?
14. Did the men chasing them speak the same tongue?
15. In which did they speak? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. No
2. Sam
3. Yes
4. Brothers
5. loud call
6. Aleck
7. negro
8. took prisoners
9. Rover
10. Binoto's hostelry
11. several men
12. yes
13. Randolph Rover
14. No
15. French and bad English

Q: Ashton Carter, the former second-in-command at the Pentagon, appears to be the top choice to replace outgoing Secretary Chuck Hagel. 

Barring any last minute complications, Ash Carter will be President Barack Obama's choice as the new Secretary of Defense, several U.S. administration officials told CNN. 

An administration official had said that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, a former General Counsel at the Pentagon, was also still on the list of possibilities, but on Tuesday morning, sources said Johnson was no longer being considered. The prospect of an additional confirmation hearing for Johnson's replacement if he were to move to the Pentagon as the Senate switches to Republican control would have been problematic for the White House. 

Related: Was Hagel doomed from the start? 

Hagel announced his resignation last week, but has said he will stay on until his successor is confirmed by the Senate. 

Carter, who served as Deputy Defense Secretary under both Leon Panetta and Hagel, would bring a wide range of experience to a department confronting multiple crises in the Middle East and preparing to enter a new phase in Afghanistan as the NATO combat mission ends. 

Carter's ability to hit the ground running from his past experience at the Pentagon, in addition to the respect many senior military leaders have for him are seen as major benefits to winning confirmation should Obama nominate him. 

"His career has sort of prepared him perfectly for this kind of a moment," says Michael O'Hanlon, a defense industry analyst at the Brookings Institution. 

1. Jeh Johnson
2. Hagel
3. until his successor is confirmed
4. the Senate
5. Barack Obama
6. Ash Carter
7. second-in-command
8. Pentagon
9. the respect many senior military leaders have for him
10. Leon Panetta and Hagel
11. Deputy Defense Secretary
12. yes
13. Michael O'Hanlon,
14. a defense industry analyst
15. Brookings Institution
16. Johnson
17. yes
18. Chuck
19. yes
20. Middle East
21. preparing to enter a new phase in Afghanistan

Numbered questions:
1. who is the homeland security secretary?
2. who resgined last week?
3. how long will he stay?
4. by?
5. who is the president in question here?
6. who is his choice as the new secretary of Defense?
7. what was carter doing before?
8. where?
9. what is one benefit for him?
10. who has he served under?
11. as?
12. has his career prepared him?
13. according to who?
14. who is Michael?
15. where?
16. who was not being considered anymore?
17. could there be complications?
18. what is Hagel's first name?
19. has carter handled crises internationally?
20. where?
21. and what else?

input: We have heard about people who have special memories. Recently there has been a report about a woman from Australia who can remember almost every detail of all the events in her daily life. Rebecca Sharrock, 25, is one of just 80 people worldwide who have been identified as having Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory ( HSAM,). It means she can remember every small event-which most people would forget with in (......) days-as if it had happened just minutes ago. "I remember my mum putting me in the driver's seat of a car and taking a picture of me when I was 12 days old," she said. "That's my earliest memory. I remember every day since then. I can't tell all the dates exactly because I was too young to understand calendars, but I remember what I did that every day, what the weather was like and so on." Rebecca can also re-experience taste. If she's eating something that she doesn't like, she thinks about Black Forest cake, her favorite food, and the memory will be so strong that she can nearly "taste" it. However, sometimes her memories prove to be painful. Because they're not just events that she remembers. "When I relive memories, the feelings return, too," Rebecca said. "For example, I remember falling over when I was three at my grandparents' house and hurting my left knee. Talking about it now, I feel painful in my left knee. " "At night, I have to sleep with the radio/recorder and a soft light on, she added. "1f it's too dark or quiet, my mind would be filled with all these memories and I can't sleep. " 1. How old is Rebecca Sharrock?
2. Where is she from?
3. What special talent does she have?
4. Which means what?
5. How old was she in the first thing she remembers?
6. Where was she then?
7. What did her mom do after that?
8. What kinds of things does she remember about each day?
9. Which sense of hers has an unusual feature?
10. How is it unusual?
11. What thing does she enjoy eating the most?
12. How many people have incredible memories like her?
13. Are they all in Australia?
14. How old was she during her first memory?
15. What body part did she hurt when she was little?
16. Where was she when that happened?
17. How old was she then?
18. What happened when she talked about it?
19. What does she listen to when she rests?
20. Why? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. 25
2. Australia
3. Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory
4. she can remember almost every detail of all the events in her daily life
5. 12 days old
6. in the driver's seat of a car
7. take a picture
8. what she did and what the weather was like
9. taste
10. she can re-experience taste
11. Black Forest cake
12. 80
13. no
14. 12 days old
15. her left knee
16. her grandparents' house
17. three
18. she felt pain in her left knee
19. radio/recorder
20. if it's too dark or quiet she can't sleep