Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: Dr. James entered the room, and bowed slightly to a young lady standing by the side of a bed. There lay a man as still as the dead. Dr. James examined him and turned to the lady with questioning eyes.

“I am Mrs. Chandler,” She responded. “My husband was taken suddenly ill about ten minutes before you came. He has had attacks of heart trouble before-some of them were very bad.” Saying this, the lady fell, white and swooning, into the arms of an old woman. She was carried to her room, and laid on the bed. She passed from the swoon, into a profound slumber.

‘ The physician returned to the man on the bed; his eyes were open. His lips seemed to form words. Dr. James bent his head to listen. “The money! the money! the twenty thousand dollars.” And the man closed his eyes again.

There arose in Dr. James’s brain and heart the instincts of his other profession. He decided to learn the were about of this money. Going to the door of the inner room, he softly called the old woman, gave her the prescription, and bade her take it to some drug store and fetch the medicine.

“Where-should the money be?” mused the physician, looking about the room. Suddenly, he perceived a small iron safe, half-concealed by the trailing end of a window curtain. He stepped there swiftly with his medicine case which actually contained an elegant set of the latest conceived tools used by an ingenious safe burglar. Underneath the tools was a mass of crumpled banknotes amounting to eight hundred and thirty dollars, a sum the physician had obtained after breaking an old-style safe a few hours ago.

Dr. James examined the safe. With his clamps he drew the knob, punched the tumblers and opened the door in two minutes. The interior of the safe was bare-not even a scrap of paper rested within the hollow iron cube.

Dr. James walked back to the bed. There was a mocking, grim smile on the lis of the dying man. He had been watching the physician at work. “Medicine and burglary wedded! I never saw it before,” he said, painfully. Suddenly, a deep blush suffused the man’s face- the respiration ceased, and, with scarcely a tremor, he expired. Dr. James told her of the end.

“Dear now! It’s in the Lord’s hands. The Madam paid out the last bit of money for this bottle of medicine, and it never came to any use.”

“Do I understand,” asked Dr. James, “that Mrs. Chandler has no money?”

“Money, sir? Why, the Madam had twenty thousand dollars. Mr. Chandler played it at the races and lost every cent of it. There’s nothing to eat in this house but some crumbly crackers in three days.”

Some ten minutes later, Mrs. Chandler entered. Dr. James pointed to the safe with its still wide-open door and spoke kindly and briefly, “Your husband, Mrs. Chandler, toward the end, felt that he could not live; and directed me to open that safe, giving me the number upon which the combination is set. In that safe he said he had placed a sum of money-not large. The money is there on the table-as he described it—eight hundred and thirty dollars.”

Give the meanings of the following words as used in the passage. One word answers or short phrases will be accepted.

1) Swooning
2)profound
3)instincts

Answer the following questions briefly in your own words.

A) What made Mrs Chandler swoon?

B) What was Dr James’ other profession? Give evidence to show how Dr James had come prepared for his other profession.

C)What precaution did James take to ensure that nobody saw what he was going to do?

D)Give the evidence to show that Dr James had done some of his other business recently.

E) Why didn’t Mrs Chandler have any money?

Question 7.

In not more than 60 words ,show that Dr James was a medical doctor as well as a cautious burglar.

Question 8.
Give a title to the passage and give a reason to’justify your choice.
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