CHAPTER VIII 

AN INFORMAL COURT 

One morning, soon after Fuller and his daughter had gone home, Dick stood at a table in the testing house behind the mixing sheds. The small, galvanized iron building shook with the throb of engines and rattle of machinery, and now and then a shower of cinders pattered upon the roof; for the big mill that ground up the concrete was working across the road. The lattice shutters were closed, for the sake of privacy, and kept out the glare, though they could not keep out the heat, which soaked through the thin, iron walls, and Dick's face was wet with perspiration as he arranged a number of small concrete blocks. Some of these were broken, and some partly crushed. Delicate scales and glass measures occupied a neighboring shelf, and a big steel apparatus that looked rather like a lever weighing machine stood in the shadow. 

Where the draught that came through the lattices flowed across the room, Bethune lounged in a canvas chair, and another man, with a quiet, sunburned face, sat behind him. This was Stuyvesant, whose authority was only second to Fuller's. 

"Brandon seems to have taken a good deal of trouble, but this kind of investigation needs the strictest accuracy, and we haven't the best of testing apparatus," Bethune remarked. "I expect he'll allow that the results he has got may be to some extent misleading, and I doubt if it's worth while to go on with the matter. Are you sure you have made no mistakes, Dick?"  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Initially, how many people went home?
2. What is the number of people that went home at first?
3. 
Q2:
1. What was the name of one of the people who went home?
2. Which person whose name is mentioned went home?
3. 
Q3:
1. Which other person went home?
2. Who is the other person that went home?
3. 
Q4:
1. What is the name of the person that was in the testing house?
2. The testing house wad occupied by which person?
3. 
Q5:
1. What was behind the table where Dick was standing?
2. Dick stood at a table placed in front of what?
3. 
Q6:
1. Was the iron building big?
2. Could one consider the iron building as being big?
3. 
Q7:
1. What was the iron building made out of?
2. Rhe iron building was made out of what material?
3. 
Q8:
1. What residue was known to land on the roof of the iron building from time to time?
2. What residue landed on the roof of the iron building from time to time?
3. 
Q9:
1. Were the blinds of the iron building open or closed?
2. Were the iron building's blinds open or closed?
3. 
Q10:
1. What was the reasoning behind the closing of the iron building's blinds?
2. What was the purpose of closing the iron building's blinds?
3. 
Q11:
1. What is the name of the person that lounged in a canvas chair?
2. Who was lounging in a canvas chair?
3. 
Q12:
1. What type of chair was Bethune sitting in?
2. Bethune was spotted sitting in what type of chair?
3. 
Q13:
1. Was there someone next to Bethune?
2. Was Bethune in the same place as someone else?
3. 
Q14:
1. Where was the other person located in relation to Bethune?
2. What was the other person's location relative to Bethune?
3. 
Q15:
1. Who was behind Bethune?
2. What is the name of the person that was behind Bethune?
3. 
