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Answer the following questions.
1. Why did Jimmy Valentine go to Mike Dolan's cafe?
2. How did Ben Price guess that the burglaries were done by Jimmy Valentine?
3. How did Jimmy get information about Annabel and the town?
4. Why was the clerk at the Planters Hotel impressed with Ralph Spencer?
5. What happened to Agatha at the bank?
6. Why was Annabel's father worried about Agatha?
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Answer:
1) In his short story A Retrieved Reformation,' O. Henry presents the life-changing experiences of a young man who is a skilled burglar. Released early from prison, the burglar falls in love and opens a shoe business.
2)A week after Jimmy Valentine got released from the prison, a string of bank safe
burglaries in the MidWest came to Ben Price’s attention. Ben Price was a
detective, who arrested Jimmy for his last robbery. Ben was doubting Jimmy for
this robbery too as he was quite confident that Jimmy would surely join back
his business of robbery. So he was hiding and keeping his eyes on Jimmy’s
3)~Jimmy
registered himself in the hotel as “Ralph D Spencer”. Leaning on the
desk of the clerk he declared that he was in search of a location to start his
new business. He also asked whether the shoe business was good in town. The
clerk was quite impressed by his clothes and manners. The clerk positively
replied to Jimmy and said that Elmore does not have a shoe store and that
business was good in the town. He was also said that he would find it a
pleasant town to live with the sociable people.
4) While Mr Adams owner of the bank was busy boasting about his new safe
installed and was explaining about its working, Agatha gets locked in the
safe. Annabel’s niece May and Agatha the two little ones were delighted by the
shining metal of the safe. While playing, May playfully locked Agatha in the
bank vault and threw the bolts.
5) Agatha and May were Annabel’s two little nieces. While playing, May trapped
Agatha in the safe of the bank by accident which created a panic situation.
Adams got worried and exclaimed in horror that it was impossible to open the
safe as the timer and combinations were not yet set. He was worried that the
little girl would soon run out of the air in the vault.
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