CHAPTER X 

MARSTON USES HIS POWER 

Soon after Don Felix was buried two strangers visited the schooner. One was white but so burned by the sun and worn by the climate that he looked like a native. Peters was agent for a Hamburg merchant house with a factory on a neighboring lagoon, and told Wyndham he had come because he seldom met a white man. The other was a government officer and stated, apologetically, that his business was to make a few inquiries about Don Felix's death. His skin was nearly white, but his coarse lips and short, curling hair indicated a strain of negro blood. 

Marston knew something about the officials who held small posts on the Caribbean coast. For the most part, they were mulattos, paid low wages and willing to augment the latter by presents and bribes. As a rule, he had found them good-humored and indolent, and he imagined Don Ramon Larrinaga would be satisfied with a few particulars and a little money. There was, he thought, no use in trying to put him on the track of the unknown poisoner. He let Wyndham take the man to the cabin and sat under the awning on deck with Peters, for whom he opened a bottle of vermouth. 

Peters knew much about the country and told him some rather curious stories. He looked shriveled and desiccated, but his glance was keen and Marston imagined he was very shrewd. Marston, however, did not study him much; it was enough that he was an amusing companion while Wyndham was occupied. By-and-by the latter opened the cabin scuttle and beckoned.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is the name of the person that died?
2. What was the person that died called?
3. 
Q2:
1. Was Don Felix buried in the story?
2. Did Don Felix get buried?
3. 
Q3:
1. What did two strangers visit after Don Felix was buried?
2. Once Don Felix had been buried, what did two strangers visit?
3. 
Q4:
1. The schooner was visited by which people?
2. Which people in the story visited the schooner?
3. 
Q5:
1. How does the story describe the race of one of the people that visited the schooner?
2. How is the race of the person that was burned by the sun described in the story?
3. 
Q6:
1. Was the person in the story with coarse lips and short, curling hair completely white?
2. Was the government officer's race completely white?
3. 
Q7:
1. Did the officials in the story receive high wages?
2. Were the officials well paid?
3. 
Q8:
1. Did the officials tend to accept extra gifts on top of their wages?
2. Were the officials reliant on extra gifts in order to complement their low wages?
3. 
Q9:
1. What is the name of the person that opened the bottle of Vermouth?
2. The bottle of Vermouth was opened by which person?
3. 
Q10:
1. Which person did Marston open a bottle of Vermouth for?
2. Marston opened a bottle of Vermouth for which person?
3. 
Q11:
1. Did Peters know a lot about the country?
2. Was a lot of the country known by Peters?
3. 
