CHAPTER IV. 

Signor Andrea D'Arbino, searching vainly through the various rooms in the palace for Count Fabio d'Ascoli, and trying as a last resource, the corridor leading to the ballroom and grand staircase, discovered his friend lying on the floor in a swoon, without any living creature near him. Determining to avoid alarming the guests, if possible, D'Arbino first sought help in the antechamber. He found there the marquis's valet, assisting the Cavaliere Finello (who was just taking his departure) to put on his cloak. 

While Finello and his friend carried Fabio to an open window in the antechamber, the valet procured some iced water. This simple remedy, and the change of atmosphere, proved enough to restore the fainting man to his senses, but hardly--as it seemed to his friends--to his former self. They noticed a change to blankness and stillness in his face, and when he spoke, an indescribable alteration in the tone of his voice. 

"I found you in a room in the corridor," said D'Arbino. "What made you faint? Don't you remember? Was it the heat?" 

Fabio waited for a moment, painfully collecting his ideas. He looked at the valet, and Finello signed to the man to withdraw. 

"Was it the heat?" repeated D'Arbino. 

"No," answered Fabio, in strangely hushed, steady tones. "I have seen the face that was behind the yellow mask." 

"Well?" 

"It was the face of my dead wife." 

"Your dead wife!" 

"When the mask was removed I saw her face. Not as I remember it in the pride of her youth and beauty--not even as I remember her on her sick-bed--but as I remember her in her coffin."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who was searching around in vain?
2. Who was searching rooms in the palace in vain?
3. 
Q2:
1. Who was Signor Andrea D'Arbino searching for?
2. Who was Signor Andrea D'Arbino looking for?
3. 
Q3:
1. Where was Signor Andrea D'Arbino searching for Count Fabio d'Ascoli?
2. Signor Andrea D'Arbino was looking around what area?
3. 
Q4:
1. What area did Signor Andrea D'Arbino look at towards the end of his search?
2. Where in the palace did Signor Andrea D'Arbino try searching last?
3. Where did Signor Andrea D'Arbino check last for Count Fabio d'Ascoli?
Q5:
1. Did Signor Andrea D'Arbino find Count Fabio d'Ascoli in the corridor?
2. Was Count Fabio d'Ascoli found in the corridor by Signor Andrea D'Arbino?
3. Did Signor Andrea D'Arbino find his friend, Count Fabio d'Ascoli, in the corridor?
Q6:
1. What was Count Fabio d'Ascoli doing in the corridor?
2. What was Count Fabio d'Ascoli doing when Signor Andrea D'Arbino found him?
3. What did Signor Andrea D'Arbino find Count Fabio d'Ascoli doing in the corridor?
Q7:
1. Who did Signor Andrea D'Arbino go to for help?
2. Signor Andrea D'Arbino went to get help from whom?
3. Who did Signor Andrea D'Arbino go to to seek help for his friend?
Q8:
1. Did Signor Andrea D'Arbino find anyone in the antechamber?
2. Was anyone in the antechamber when Signor Andrea D'Arbino came to get help?
3. Did Signor Andrea D'Arbino see anyone in the antechamber?
Q9:
1. What was the marquis's valet doing when Signor Andrea D'Arbino found him?
2. What was the valet doing when Signor Andrea D'Arbino arrived at the antechamber?
3. What did Signor Andrea D'Arbino find the marquis's valet doing?
Q10:
1. Where did Signor Andrea D'Arbino and the valet carry Count Fabio d'Ascoli to?
2. Where was Count Fabio d'Ascoli taken to by Signor Andrea D'Arbino and the valet?
3. With the valet's help, where did Signor Andrea D'Arbino carry Count Fabio d'Ascoli to?
