CHAPTER XXIII. THE OVERWHELMING ODDS 

At half-past ten that same evening, Blakeney, still clad in a workman's tattered clothes, his feet bare so that he could tread the streets unheard, turned into the Rue de la Croix Blanche. 

The porte-cochere of the house where Armand lodged had been left on the latch; not a soul was in sight. Peering cautiously round, he slipped into the house. On the ledge of the window, immediately on his left when he entered, a candle was left burning, and beside it there was a scrap of paper with the initials S. P. roughly traced in pencil. No one challenged him as he noiselessly glided past it, and up the narrow stairs that led to the upper floor. Here, too, on the second landing the door on the right had been left on the latch. He pushed it open and entered. 

As is usual even in the meanest lodgings in Paris houses, a small antechamber gave between the front door and the main room. When Percy entered the antechamber was unlighted, but the door into the inner room beyond was ajar. Blakeney approached it with noiseless tread, and gently pushed it open. 

That very instant he knew that the game was up; he heard the footsteps closing up behind him, saw Armand, deathly pale, leaning against the wall in the room in front of him, and Chauvelin and Heron standing guard over him. 

The next moment the room and the antechamber were literally alive with soldiers--twenty of them to arrest one man.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Did the story take place at 5 pm?
2. Was it five o clock in the afternoon in the passage?
3. 
Q2:
1. When did the story take place?
2. What time was it in the passage?
3. 
Q3:
1. Who wasn't wearing shoes?
2. What was the name of the barefoot person?
3. 
Q4:
1. Why was Blakeney barefoot?
2. What was Blakeney's reason for not wearing shoes?
3. 
Q5:
1. Was Blakeney dressed to the nines?
2. Was Blakeney wearing nice clothes?
3. 
Q6:
1. What was Blakeney wearing?
2. What kind of clothes did Blakeney have on?
3. 
Q7:
1. What did Blakeney do before slipping into the home?
2. What did Blakeney do prior to entering the house?
3. 
Q8:
1. What did Blakeney suddenly see?
2. What did Blakeney notice all of the sudden?
3. 
Q9:
1. What object did Blakeney come across all of the sudden after entering the house?
2. What thing did Blakeney abruptly notice after going in the house?
3. 
Q10:
1. Was the candle lit?
2. Did the candle continuously burn?
3. 
Q11:
1. How many policeman came to arrest Blakeney?
2. How big was the group of cops who arrived to take Blakeney away?
3. 
Q12:
1. What was lying next to the candle?
2. What appeared in close proximity to the burning candle?
3. 
Q13:
1. How was S. P. written on the page?
2. In what manner had something been written on a scrap of paper?
3. 
Q14:
1. Were the initials nicely written on the page?
2. Was S. P. scribbled in attractive script?
3. 
Q15:
1. How were the initials written on the page?
2. In what manner was S. P. written on the scrap?
3. 
