CHAPTER VI 

A CLOUDY NIGHT 

It was not needed that I should walk very far in order to find Seth Jepson. He was on the westerly side of the dock when I came into the square, talking to two or three lads whom I had good reason to believe were of Tory leanings. 

Instead of appearing disconcerted because of my finding him in such company, he acted much as if it gave him pleasure that I was come, and straightway leaving his companions, advanced eagerly to meet me. 

"Have you been up to the prison in the hope of having speech with Archie Hemming?" he asked as soon as we were within speaking distance, and I, suspicious of the lad, believed he thus counted on learning what we might have in mind to do, therefore replied with somewhat of sourness in my tone: 

"It is too dangerous a matter to be seen loitering about that place, especially for a lad like me, whose father is known to be a Son of Liberty." 

"I have seen Harvey Pearson there more than once, and thought most like you had sent him." 

By this time it was clear to me that Seth was striving to learn if we had any plan on foot to release Archie, and striving to appear indifferent, as if to my mind the matter was so fraught with difficulties that it would be useless to make any attempt, I said: 

"If Harvey chooses to loiter where there is great danger of being taken into custody, it is no affair of mine. On first learning that Archie had been imprisoned, I was so foolish as to say, without really believing it could be done, that we would form some plan for his rescue; but came to see right soon that it would be a piece of folly to raise our hands in such direction."  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Who was the narrator going to meet up with?
2. Who was the narrator on their way to see?
3. Who was the narrator on a walk to go see?
Q2:
1. Where did the narrator find Seth Jepson?
2. What was Seth Jepson's location?
3. In what location did the narrator come across Seth Jepson?
Q3:
1. Did the narrator have to go far to reach Seth Jepson?
2. Did it take the narrator a long time to arrive at Seth Jepson's location?
3. Did the narrator take awhile to get to Seth Jepson?
Q4:
1. What was Seth Jepson up to?
2. What was Seth Jepson in the middle of doing?
3. What was Seth Jepson's business?
Q5:
1. Who was Seth Jepson talking to?
2. Who was Seth Jepson's conversation partener?
3. Who was Seth Jepson addressing?
Q6:
1. What political party did the narrator think Seth Jepson's interlocutors supported?
2. Of what belief did the narrator assume the lads to be?
3. What were the lads' politics in the opinion of the narrator?
Q7:
1. Was Seth Jepson not happy about running into the narrator?
2. Did it displease Seth Jepson to bump into the narrator?
3. Was seeing the narrator something that Seth Jepson didn't like?
Q8:
1. Who did Seth Jepson ask the narrator about?
2. Seth Jepson inquired after the narrator on the subject of whom?
3. Who did Seth Jepson have a question for the narrator regarding?
Q9:
1. Did the narrator trust Seth Jepson?
2. Did the narrator find Seth Jepson to be trustworthy?
3. Did the narrator feel like he could trust Seth Jepson?
Q10:
1. Did the narrator admit they spent time in prison?
2. Was the narrator forthcoming about his prison time?
3. Did the narrator talk about going to prison?
Q11:
1. What did the narrator say his father belonged to?
2. What was the narrator's father?
3. What organization was the narrator's dad in?
Q12:
1. Who did Seth Jepson allegedly see in jail?
2. Who did Seth Jepson say he spotted in jail?
3. Who did Seth Jepson allege he noticed in prison?
Q13:
1. did Seth Jepson think the narrator told Harvey Pearson to go to him?
2. Did Seth Jepson believe it was the narrator who sent Harvey Pearson?
3. Did Seth Jepson think that Harvey Pearson came on the narrator's behalf?
Q14:
1. How was the narrator trying to present himself?
2. In what light was the narrator trying to present himself?
3. How did the narrator wish to appear?
Q15:
1. Did the narrator seem excited?
2. Did the narrator appear to be excited?
3. Did the narrator seem riled up?
