A
QUESTION OF TRUST
1.
Who
is Horace Danby
? What type of man
was he ?
Ans
: Horace
Danby was thought
to be a good man
and honest citizen . He
was about fifty years old
and unmarried . He
lived with a
house – keeper who was
very much worried
about his health.
Usually he was
very well and happy
except for attacks
of hay fever
in summer . He
was by profession
a lock maker
. His business was
successful and he
employed two helpers
. Danby was good
and respectable but
not complete by
honest .
Fifteen
years ago, Horace Danby
had served his
first and only
sentence in prison
library . He loved
rare expensive books
. So , every
year he robbed
a safe .
Every year he planned
about what he
would do. He
would steal enough
money to last for
twelve months . Then he
would buy the
books through an
agent . So ,it may
be said that
he was not
completely honest because
no honest man
would stel over
to buy books
or anything her
loves. [ HSLC-2017]
2.
How did
Horace Danby come
to be an assistant
librarian in the
prison ?
Ans
: For
two days Horace
kept his promise
to the young
woman foe he had
opened the safe . On the
morning of the
third day he
began to think of the
books he wanted
and for that
purpose he wanted
a new safe
. but he
never got chance to
begin his plans
. By noon
he was arrested
for the robbery
at Shotover Grange
. His finger prints
were found all over
the room . Pressure
he had opened the
safe without gloves
. He said that the wife
of the house
owner had asked
him to open the
safe to her .
But no
one believed him .
The wife was a
lady of sixty
. She was a
grey haired , sharp
tongued woman . She herself
said that the story told by
Danby was nervous.
In the prison
he was made the assistant librarian .
He often thinks of
the young lady had duped and tricked . [ HSLC - 2018 ]
3.
How did
the young trick
Horace Danby ?
Ans
: Horace Danby
was about to open the safe
that the found in
the drawing room
of the house
at Shotover Garnge . Just
then a
young lady standing in the doorway
said that she
had heard him from
the top of the
house . She pretended
to be the
wife of the
house owners. Horace thought of
running away. But the
woman threatened to telephone
the police . Horace
said that he
would cut the telephone
wires . The lady
asked if he
wanted to kill her
. Horace suggested
that she should forget
that she had always
liked the wrong
type of people . Then
lighting a cigeratte.
she asked
him to open the
safe . Horace Danby
promised to open it
in hour . he did
it because the
women told him
that she wanted
the jewels for a party
that night . Accordingly
Horace opened the safe
within an hour
and gave the jewels
to her . Later
on he found
that the woman
was not the wife of
the house owner but
one of line who
was superior to him
in intelligence and trick . [ HSLC - 2016 ]
4.
Who did Horace
Danby enter the house at Shotover Grange
? What was
his purpose ?
Ans
: For
two weeks Danby had
been studying the house at
Shotover Grange . It
was bright July sunshine
. Walking under the
bright sun he thought
that , that year’s
robbery was going to
be successful as
the others he
had done earlier
. He had been studying the
rooms , the
electric wirings , paths and
gardens in the
room . The house owner and his family
was in London
. The afternoon
the two servants
who remained in the Grange
had gone to the
movies . Horace saw
them go , and
in spite of
a tickle of hay
fever in his
nose , he
felt happy .
He came out
from behind the
garden wall . On his
back was a bag
packed with his
tools . He
knew that there were
fifteen thousand pounds
worth of jewels in the
Grange safe which would be
enough to look him
through a year
and to buy
the three very v interesting
book that were in
the autumn . Danby
hat seen the house
keeper hang the
key on the kitchen
door
. He put of gloves
and opened the door
. Thus Horace
Danby entered the house
.
5.
What did
Horace Danby see after
he entered the
house at Shotover Grange ?
Ans : On
entering the kitchen Horace
Danby found small dog lying
there . It raised a
noise and waved
its tail in a
friendly manner . Horace
called the dog
by its name
sherry and treated it lovingly . Then
entering the drawing
room he saw
the safe behind
a poor painting .
At first Horace wondered whether
he should collect
pictures instead of
books . Then
he saw a great
bowl of flowers
on the table
. Horace felt
irritation in his nose . He
gave a little
sneeze and then
put down his bags
. He arranged
his tools carefully
and knew that
he had only
four hours before
the servants would return . The
burglar alarm in
the house was
poorly built . Horace
, an expert in lock making knew
that it would
not be heard
to open the safe. Coming
back he sneezed loudly as the
smell of the
flowers irritated him again . Horace
then found that
flowers were hindering
him . So he covered his
face with a handkerchief.
Just then he
heard a voice
coming from the
doorway .
6.
Give a
brief account of Horace danby’s
meeting with the
lady in the house at Shotover Grange ?
Ans :
Horace Danby was thinking
of opening the
safe in the
drawing room of
the house . Just
then he heard a
voice coming from
the doorway . Horace saw a woman
standing in the doorway .
She said that
she had heard
him from the top
of the house .
The dog , Sherry was
rubbing against her . Horace
found the woman young
and pretty and
dressed in red .
She want to the
fireplace and straightened
the ornaments there.
The woman pretended to
be the mistress
of the house and
said that she
came just in time but
did not except
to meet a
burglar . Horace
replied that he
did not expect
to meet one of
the family .
The woman said
that she would
have called the police
if he wanted
to ruin away .
Thus they went
on talking .
The woman’s voice grew
sharp telling him
that she would not like to
allow him slip.
Finally
she asked him to
open the
safe with his
tools which she would get
it repaired within a
month when her husband
would be away
from home . Horace
Danby
the safe and gave her
the jewels and happy escaped from the house.
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