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 - sources: **125**
 - distinct authors: **96**
-- questions: **756** across **125** novels
 - tokens: min 50,278 / median 93,495 / max 355,814 / total 13,562,458
 ## What changed from v2

 - sources: **125**
 - distinct authors: **96**
+- questions: **6** across **1** novels
 - tokens: min 50,278 / median 93,495 / max 355,814 / total 13,562,458
 ## What changed from v2

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0048 — computation
-**Q.** In this book a definite number of pounds sterling is named exactly twice, in two widely separated places. The first is an order bawled through a storm by the man conning a private vessel at a dangerous harbour entrance, promising each member of his crew that amount if they get her in. The second is a bargain whispered by a badly wounded guest who wants a few lines he has just scrawled sent off at once from the house of religion that has taken him in. Add the two figures together: what is the total, in pounds?
-**A.** 150  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.574)_
-**Derivation.** Region 1 (~3% of the book, ch. I): during the run into the bay the figure on the bridge shouts that there are fifty pounds for every man of the crew if they make it. Region 2 (~61% of the book, ch. XXIII, inside the priest's account of the father's arrival on the island): the wounded man, handing over the note he has just written, promises one hundred pounds to the house if it is sent without delay. Those are the only two sums in pounds stated anywhere in the novel; 50 + 100 = 150. No single chapter contains both, and the two regions lie ~58% of the book apart.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Never mind the signal. There's fifty pounds for every man of you if we
-> "'If you will send it without delay,' he whispered, 'I will give one
-> hundred pounds to the monastery.'
-### comp-0106 — computation
-**Q.** Exactly two yearly sums of money in pounds are stated anywhere in this book. The first is what the hero says his estates bring him, named while he is arguing with an older relative about which circle of the capital's society is the worthier one to be admitted to. The second is a settlement that a neighbour's solicitors let slip he pays out every year to a young woman he insists is only his ward. Add the two figures together: what is the total, in pounds?
-**A.** 41000  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.349)_
-**Derivation.** Region 1 (~13% of the book, ch. V): defending his Bohemian friends to his mother, Paul says he can go anywhere in the fashionable set because he is Paul de Vaux of Vaux Abbey and has forty thousand a year. Region 2 (~49%, ch. XVIII): out hunting, Captain Westover reveals that through his solicitors Bevan & Bevan he learned Adrea 'enjoys a settlement of a thousand a year' from Paul, who retorts that he is her guardian. A search of the whole text for annual sums returns only these two; 40,000 + 1,000 = 41,000. The two regions lie ~35% of the book apart and fall in different chapters, so no single chapter suffices.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> I am Paul de Vaux, of Vaux Abbey, and have forty thousand a year.
-> Miss
-> Adrea enjoys a settlement of a thousand a year from you.
-### mult-0048 — multihop
-**Q.** Near the end of this book, in a sunlit foreign square, a haggard man catches the heroine by her dress and whispers that two officers are already hunting her in that city and that a third, carrying the papers for her arrest, may arrive at any moment. In the book's very first chapter, that same man is on watch at a deathbed, and privately resents the out-of-the-way place his master has chosen to die in, thinking instead of a comfortable little home he knows in one particular district of the capital. Name that district.
-**A.** Piccadilly  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.951)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1: the man who intercepts the heroine in the square abroad and warns her that two detectives are already searching and a third may come with a warrant is the servant Gomez (~97% of the book). Hop 2: Gomez is the servant keeping watch at the window in the opening deathbed chapter, where the narration says he thought of a snug little abode in Piccadilly, whose comforts were absent from the island (~1.5% of the book). The bridge (the servant) is never named in the question. Supporting passages sit ~96% of the book apart.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> detectives in Florence searching for you. A third, with a warrant,
-> little abode in Piccadilly, where the discomforts now surrounding them
-### mult-0106 — multihop
-**Q.** In this book, at a burial in the grounds of a religious house on a small island, one of the two hostile men present steps forward and heaps the lowered coffin with sweet-smelling pale blossoms, while the newly made widower standing beside the grave has nothing at all to throw. Much later, near the very end, a woman on her deathbed is asked about the parentage of the young dancer, and answers that the girl was that same flower-bearing mourner's daughter; she adds that he never told her who the mother was, and names the city where the affair happened. Which city does she name?
-**A.** Constantinople  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.247)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (~68% of the book, inside Martin de Vaux's confession as relayed by Father Adrian): at the graveside on Cruta the man who covers the coffin with armfuls of exquisite white flowers, while Martin has none to throw, is Count Hirsfeld. Hop 2 (~93%): the dying woman (Irene, alias Madame de Merteuill) tells Paul that Adrea was Count Hirsfeld's daughter, that he never spoke to her of the mother, and that 'It was in Constantinople.' The bridge (Hirsfeld) is never named in the question. The two passages sit ~25% of the book apart. Note the answer cannot be reached by simply searching city names: Constantinople also appears at ~6% and ~26% in unrelated contexts, so the Hirsfeld chain is required to pick the right one.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> reverently Count Hirsfeld stepped forward and covered it
-> with armfuls of exquisite white flowers
-> She was Count Hirsfeld's daughter! He never spoke to
-> me of her mother! It was in Constantinople.
-### retr-0048 — retrieval
-**Q.** One of these books opens at stormy daybreak in a half-ruined religious house on a small island, where a dying man from England has his bed dragged to the window to watch a vessel force the harbour mouth against a warning signal, and who then shoots his visitor dead with a pistol hidden in the bedclothes, the effort killing him; long stretches of the later narrative are the private journal of an olive-skinned young woman who earns her living dancing in fashionable houses. In that book, in the opening lines of her journal she tells the blank book itself what she paid for it and the fashionable shopping street where she bought it. Give both the price and the street.
-**A.** A guinea, bought in Bond Street.  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Identification: the deathbed shooting in the island religious house is ch. I (0-2%), and the journal chapters recur throughout. The detail asked for is in the first line of the journal in ch. IV, at ~12% of the book: she addresses the blank book directly and says she gave a guinea for it in Bond Street, praising its morocco case and binding. The price and street are never repeated anywhere else in the novel.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> a guinea for you in Bond Street, and with your dainty morocco case
-### retr-0106 — retrieval
-**Q.** In one of these books, a woman who earns her living dancing in fashionable private drawing-rooms coaxes a churchman away from his religious house by pretending at last to return the love he has confessed to her; that same evening, while he sits flushed and happy in an easy-chair, a servant crouching behind a battered lacquered folding screen pushes first a scrawled note and then a blade through a hole in it, and she kills him with it. In that same book, the man she truly loves keeps a small private study fitted into a recess of his own book-room; the upper shelves along one side of it are given over to verse, and the text marks the span of that verse collection by naming two English poets, one medieval and one Victorian. Give both names.
-**A.** Chaucer and Swinburne  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Identification: the killing of the priest with a blade passed through a hole in a japanned screen by the servant, after the dancer feigns love to lure him from the monastery, occurs at ~84% of the book. The detail asked for lies far away, at ~31%, in the description of Paul de Vaux's writing-recess in the Vaux Abbey library: classical literature faces him, the early English dramatists sit on the lower left-hand shelves, and the upper left-hand shelves hold poetry 'from Chaucer to Swinburne'. Those two poet names appear only once in the novel and nowhere near the identifying scene.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> the upper ones were given up to
-> poetry, from Chaucer to Swinburne

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "oppenheim_monk_cruta", "question": "Exactly two yearly sums of money in pounds are stated anywhere in this book. The first is what the hero says his estates bring him, named while he is arguing with an older relative about which circle of the capital's society is the worthier one to be admitted to. The second is a settlement that a neighbour's solicitors let slip he pays out every year to a young woman he insists is only his ward. Add the two figures together: what is the total, in pounds?", "answer": 41000, "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Region 1 (~13% of the book, ch. V): defending his Bohemian friends to his mother, Paul says he can go anywhere in the fashionable set because he is Paul de Vaux of Vaux Abbey and has forty thousand a year. Region 2 (~49%, ch. XVIII): out hunting, Captain Westover reveals that through his solicitors Bevan & Bevan he learned Adrea 'enjoys a settlement of a thousand a year' from Paul, who retorts that he is her guardian. A search of the whole text for annual sums returns only these two; 40,000 + 1,000 = 41,000. The two regions lie ~35% of the book apart and fall in different chapters, so no single chapter suffices.", "supporting_quotes": ["I am Paul de Vaux, of Vaux Abbey, and have forty thousand a year.", "Miss\nAdrea enjoys a settlement of a thousand a year from you."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.349, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "comp-0106", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "oppenheim_monk_cruta", "question": "Near the end of this book, in a sunlit foreign square, a haggard man catches the heroine by her dress and whispers that two officers are already hunting her in that city and that a third, carrying the papers for her arrest, may arrive at any moment. In the book's very first chapter, that same man is on watch at a deathbed, and privately resents the out-of-the-way place his master has chosen to die in, thinking instead of a comfortable little home he knows in one particular district of the capital. Name that district.", "answer": "Piccadilly", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1: the man who intercepts the heroine in the square abroad and warns her that two detectives are already searching and a third may come with a warrant is the servant Gomez (~97% of the book). Hop 2: Gomez is the servant keeping watch at the window in the opening deathbed chapter, where the narration says he thought of a snug little abode in Piccadilly, whose comforts were absent from the island (~1.5% of the book). The bridge (the servant) is never named in the question. Supporting passages sit ~96% of the book apart.", "supporting_quotes": ["detectives in Florence searching for you. A third, with a warrant,", "little abode in Piccadilly, where the discomforts now surrounding them"], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.951, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "mult-0048", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
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-{"type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "oppenheim_monk_cruta", "question": "One of these books opens at stormy daybreak in a half-ruined religious house on a small island, where a dying man from England has his bed dragged to the window to watch a vessel force the harbour mouth against a warning signal, and who then shoots his visitor dead with a pistol hidden in the bedclothes, the effort killing him; long stretches of the later narrative are the private journal of an olive-skinned young woman who earns her living dancing in fashionable houses. In that book, in the opening lines of her journal she tells the blank book itself what she paid for it and the fashionable shopping street where she bought it. Give both the price and the street.", "answer": "A guinea, bought in Bond Street.", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Identification: the deathbed shooting in the island religious house is ch. I (0-2%), and the journal chapters recur throughout. The detail asked for is in the first line of the journal in ch. IV, at ~12% of the book: she addresses the blank book directly and says she gave a guinea for it in Bond Street, praising its morocco case and binding. The price and street are never repeated anywhere else in the novel.", "supporting_quotes": ["a guinea for you in Bond Street, and with your dainty morocco case"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "retr-0048", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "oppenheim_monk_cruta", "question": "In one of these books, a woman who earns her living dancing in fashionable private drawing-rooms coaxes a churchman away from his religious house by pretending at last to return the love he has confessed to her; that same evening, while he sits flushed and happy in an easy-chair, a servant crouching behind a battered lacquered folding screen pushes first a scrawled note and then a blade through a hole in it, and she kills him with it. In that same book, the man she truly loves keeps a small private study fitted into a recess of his own book-room; the upper shelves along one side of it are given over to verse, and the text marks the span of that verse collection by naming two English poets, one medieval and one Victorian. Give both names.", "answer": "Chaucer and Swinburne", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Identification: the killing of the priest with a blade passed through a hole in a japanned screen by the servant, after the dancer feigns love to lure him from the monastery, occurs at ~84% of the book. The detail asked for lies far away, at ~31%, in the description of Paul de Vaux's writing-recess in the Vaux Abbey library: classical literature faces him, the early English dramatists sit on the lower left-hand shelves, and the upper left-hand shelves hold poetry 'from Chaucer to Swinburne'. Those two poet names appear only once in the novel and nowhere near the identifying scene.", "supporting_quotes": ["the upper ones were given up to\npoetry, from Chaucer to Swinburne"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "retr-0106", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0049 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel narrated by a clergyman's daughter who learns that the shunned woman of the neighbouring cottage is her own mother, three separate journeys are each given an exact distance in miles. Add those three distances together: (1) the drive a countess made from her own seat, bringing two sickly-looking daughters, to pay her first call at the narrator's new home; (2) the distance from that home to the nearest railway station, where the last train from London arrived at six in the evening; and (3) the distance the narrator's suitor rode after getting up at six in the morning, in order to reach the cathedral city her family had moved to. What is the total number of miles? (Ignore any vague or approximate distances given elsewhere in the book.)
-**A.** 45  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.898)_
-**Derivation.** Three exact mileages, in three widely separated chapters, must be gathered: (a) Chapter I, ~0.3% of the text — the Countess drove over from Sysington Hall, 'twelve miles away'; (b) Chapter VII, ~25.6% — 'The last train from London was due at the nearest railway station--three miles away--at six o'clock'; (c) Chapter XXVIII, ~90.7% — Bruce Deville, having risen at six to ride to Eastminster, says 'it's only thirty miles.' 12 + 3 + 30 = 45. Other mile references in the book are deliberately vague ('twenty or thirty miles to-day', 'half a mile away', 'several miles away') and are excluded by the question. No single chapter contains more than one of the three figures.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> The Countess had driven over from Sysington Hall, twelve
-> at the nearest railway station--three miles away--at six o’clock.
-> it’s only thirty miles,” he answered, coolly.
-### comp-0107 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where the man who owns every acre for miles around and is lord of the manor of a dozen parishes is nevertheless believed by the whole county to be ruined, and lives shut up in a single room of his great closed house with one old servant, three separate stretches of time are each stated exactly in years. Add the three figures together: (1) how long the parish schoolrooms had already gone without the ventilation improvements about which an appointment was being pressed on the incoming clergyman at his own luncheon table; (2) how much older than that landowner a woman who had been his playmate in childhood says she was; and (3) how many years earlier, according to a richly dressed woman newly arrived from abroad, she had met him on the single previous occasion. What is the total number of years?
-**A.** 18  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.532)_
-**Derivation.** Three exact figures in years, in three widely separated chapters, must be gathered and summed: (a) Chapter V, approximately 19% of the text — the clergyman brushes aside the appointment about the new ventilators: 'The schools have done without them for ten years so they can go on for another week' = 10; (b) Chapter XXI, approximately 68% — the woman of the neighbouring house explains her old connection with the landowner: 'Bruce and I were children together, and except that I, of course, was five years the elder, we were great friends' = 5; (c) Chapter XXII, approximately 72% — the visitor from abroad, describing the carriage rescue at which she first saw him and has looked for him ever since: 'It is three years ago now, but I have never despaired' = 3. 10 + 5 + 3 = 18. The extreme passages are about 53 percentage points apart (19.0% vs 72.5%), and the first is about 49 points from the second (19.0% vs 67.8%); no single chapter contains more than one of the three figures.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> schools have done without them for ten years so they can go on for
-> except that I, of course, was five years the elder, we were great
-> finding him there. It is three years ago now, but I have never
-### mult-0049 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where a country clergyman's daughter discovers that the woman living alone in the little house beyond the trees, whom the neighbourhood refuses to visit, is her own mother: a young foreign visitor hunting her brother's killer idly touches a piece of furniture, springs its hidden catch, and finds a portrait concealed inside, which she at once declares to be the man she is looking for. Much later the narrator finally tracks that same man down in a crowded meeting hall in the poorest quarter of London, where he sits on a platform in shabby clothes about to give a farewell address. What small object was he holding between his fingers as he sat there?
-**A.** a small briar pipe  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.424)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (~55% of the text): Olive Berdenstein accidentally opens the secret compartment of Adelaide Fortress's cabinet and identifies the concealed photograph as her brother's enemy; Kate then insists on seeing it and recognises it — 'The picture smiled out upon me ... It was my father.' The bridge entity (the narrator's father, Horace Ffolliot, alias Philip Maltabar) is never named in the question. Hop 2 (~98% of the text): Kate, her mother and Bruce Deville find him at Colville Hall in the East End — 'One of them was my father, coarsely and poorly dressed, and holding between his fingers a small briar pipe.' The two supporting passages are ~43 percentage points apart (55.1% vs 97.8%).
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> the spring. The picture smiled out upon me. It was the likeness of
-> and holding between his fingers a small briar pipe.
-### mult-0107 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel whose narrator discovers that her father, an eloquent country preacher lately raised to a cathedral dignity, had for years been keeping up a concealed second existence as a speaker to the very poor in the slums of a great city: a young woman who had been waiting abroad for a brother who never arrived bought the English newspapers, read of a killing whose description matched him too closely to ignore, crossed over, and identified the body at a police station by a watch she had herself given him and by a pocket book holding a half-written letter addressed to her. In the closing pages of the book that same woman calls off the men she had set on the person she blamed for her brother's death. What surname does she use when she speaks to the plain-clothes officer who steps forward to her?
-**A.** Smith  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.569)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (approximately 42% of the text): the grieving sister arrives at the vicarage and describes the identification — 'It is his watch--the one I gave him--and his pocket book, with a half-written letter to me in it. They have shown me his photograph.' This fixes the bridge entity, the dead man's sister, who is never named in the question. Hop 2 (approximately 99.6% of the text, the final chapter): after she has telegraphed London so that detectives would meet and shadow the fugitive, she finds him dying in the East End hall and renounces her vengeance — 'One of the men advanced to Olive Berdenstein, and touched his hat... “I am sorry, Mr. Smith,” she said, “I have made a mistake. This is not the man.”' The officer's surname, Smith, appears exactly once in the book. The two supporting passages are about 57 percentage points apart (42.4% vs 99.6%).
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> watch--the one I gave him--and his pocket book, with a half-written
-> “I am sorry, Mr. Smith,” she said, “I have made a mistake. This is not
-### retr-0049 — retrieval
-**Q.** One book in the collection is narrated by a clergyman's daughter, schooled abroad and newly arrived at a country parish, who befriends the one woman the whole county refuses to call upon, and who eventually learns that this woman — a journalist of advanced political opinions who had on principle declined to go through any marriage ceremony with the narrator's father — is her own mother. In that book, when the woman gives tea to visitors who have come in out of bad weather, she offers them a cake that a friend had sent her only that morning and names the shop it came from, adding that it must last her a week. What name does she give for the cake?
-**A.** Buszard's  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** The narrator (Kate Ffolliot) is a curate-in-charge's daughter educated abroad; the shunned neighbour, Adelaide Fortress, is later revealed (~60% of the text) to be her mother, a socialist journalist who refused marriage on principle. The incidental detail sits at ~52% of the text, in the tea scene at her house: she promises her guests 'some Buszard's cake ... some kind friend sent it to me this morning. Only you mustn't eat it all up; it has to last me for a week.' Buszard's was a real London confectioner; the name appears exactly once in the whole book and would never appear in a plot summary.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> I will give you some Buszard’s cake,” she answered, laughing
-### retr-0107 — retrieval
-**Q.** One novel in this collection is narrated by a young woman, schooled abroad, newly settled in a remote country parish that her father has been put in charge of; midway through an evening sermon a stranger whose clothes are soaked with blood drags himself in at the open door, staggers to the foot of the aisle, flings out his arms towards the preacher in the pulpit, gasps out the name of the disciple who betrayed his master, and dies there in front of the whole congregation. Earlier in that same book, the narrator tells a neighbouring landowner that her father has gone off unexpectedly to London. He draws a small timetable out of his pocket and mutters something to himself before thanking her and hurrying away. What exactly does he mutter?
-**A.** Annesly Junction, 3.30; St. Pancras, 7.50  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** The identifying trait is the death of the wounded stranger in the church at roughly 30% of the text (he staggers in mid-sermon, cries out at the preacher and collapses). The incidental detail sits far earlier, at approximately 21% of the text: when the narrator tells the landowner that her father left for London that afternoon, 'He stood quite still, and seemed to be looking me through and through. Then he drew a small time-table from his pocket. “Annesly Junction, 3.30; St. Pancras, 7.50,” he muttered to himself. “Thank you; good morning.”' The junction name and the two clock times appear exactly once in the whole book and belong to no plot summary; they are also the only place in the novel where the local railway junction is named at all.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “Annesly Junction, 3.30; St. Pancras, 7.50,” he muttered to

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "oppenheim_yellow_house", "question": "In the novel narrated by a clergyman's daughter who learns that the shunned woman of the neighbouring cottage is her own mother, three separate journeys are each given an exact distance in miles. Add those three distances together: (1) the drive a countess made from her own seat, bringing two sickly-looking daughters, to pay her first call at the narrator's new home; (2) the distance from that home to the nearest railway station, where the last train from London arrived at six in the evening; and (3) the distance the narrator's suitor rode after getting up at six in the morning, in order to reach the cathedral city her family had moved to. What is the total number of miles? (Ignore any vague or approximate distances given elsewhere in the book.)", "answer": 45, "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Three exact mileages, in three widely separated chapters, must be gathered: (a) Chapter I, ~0.3% of the text — the Countess drove over from Sysington Hall, 'twelve miles away'; (b) Chapter VII, ~25.6% — 'The last train from London was due at the nearest railway station--three miles away--at six o'clock'; (c) Chapter XXVIII, ~90.7% — Bruce Deville, having risen at six to ride to Eastminster, says 'it's only thirty miles.' 12 + 3 + 30 = 45. Other mile references in the book are deliberately vague ('twenty or thirty miles to-day', 'half a mile away', 'several miles away') and are excluded by the question. No single chapter contains more than one of the three figures.", "supporting_quotes": ["The Countess had driven over from Sysington Hall, twelve", "at the nearest railway station--three miles away--at six o’clock.", "it’s only thirty miles,” he answered, coolly."], "hops": 3, "separation": 0.898, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "comp-0049", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "oppenheim_yellow_house", "question": "In the novel where the man who owns every acre for miles around and is lord of the manor of a dozen parishes is nevertheless believed by the whole county to be ruined, and lives shut up in a single room of his great closed house with one old servant, three separate stretches of time are each stated exactly in years. Add the three figures together: (1) how long the parish schoolrooms had already gone without the ventilation improvements about which an appointment was being pressed on the incoming clergyman at his own luncheon table; (2) how much older than that landowner a woman who had been his playmate in childhood says she was; and (3) how many years earlier, according to a richly dressed woman newly arrived from abroad, she had met him on the single previous occasion. What is the total number of years?", "answer": 18, "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Three exact figures in years, in three widely separated chapters, must be gathered and summed: (a) Chapter V, approximately 19% of the text — the clergyman brushes aside the appointment about the new ventilators: 'The schools have done without them for ten years so they can go on for another week' = 10; (b) Chapter XXI, approximately 68% — the woman of the neighbouring house explains her old connection with the landowner: 'Bruce and I were children together, and except that I, of course, was five years the elder, we were great friends' = 5; (c) Chapter XXII, approximately 72% — the visitor from abroad, describing the carriage rescue at which she first saw him and has looked for him ever since: 'It is three years ago now, but I have never despaired' = 3. 10 + 5 + 3 = 18. The extreme passages are about 53 percentage points apart (19.0% vs 72.5%), and the first is about 49 points from the second (19.0% vs 67.8%); no single chapter contains more than one of the three figures.", "supporting_quotes": ["schools have done without them for ten years so they can go on for", "except that I, of course, was five years the elder, we were great", "finding him there. It is three years ago now, but I have never"], "hops": 3, "separation": 0.532, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "comp-0107", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "oppenheim_yellow_house", "question": "In the novel where a country clergyman's daughter discovers that the woman living alone in the little house beyond the trees, whom the neighbourhood refuses to visit, is her own mother: a young foreign visitor hunting her brother's killer idly touches a piece of furniture, springs its hidden catch, and finds a portrait concealed inside, which she at once declares to be the man she is looking for. Much later the narrator finally tracks that same man down in a crowded meeting hall in the poorest quarter of London, where he sits on a platform in shabby clothes about to give a farewell address. What small object was he holding between his fingers as he sat there?", "answer": "a small briar pipe", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1 (~55% of the text): Olive Berdenstein accidentally opens the secret compartment of Adelaide Fortress's cabinet and identifies the concealed photograph as her brother's enemy; Kate then insists on seeing it and recognises it — 'The picture smiled out upon me ... It was my father.' The bridge entity (the narrator's father, Horace Ffolliot, alias Philip Maltabar) is never named in the question. Hop 2 (~98% of the text): Kate, her mother and Bruce Deville find him at Colville Hall in the East End — 'One of them was my father, coarsely and poorly dressed, and holding between his fingers a small briar pipe.' The two supporting passages are ~43 percentage points apart (55.1% vs 97.8%).", "supporting_quotes": ["the spring. The picture smiled out upon me. It was the likeness of", "and holding between his fingers a small briar pipe."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.424, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "mult-0049", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "oppenheim_yellow_house", "question": "In the novel whose narrator discovers that her father, an eloquent country preacher lately raised to a cathedral dignity, had for years been keeping up a concealed second existence as a speaker to the very poor in the slums of a great city: a young woman who had been waiting abroad for a brother who never arrived bought the English newspapers, read of a killing whose description matched him too closely to ignore, crossed over, and identified the body at a police station by a watch she had herself given him and by a pocket book holding a half-written letter addressed to her. In the closing pages of the book that same woman calls off the men she had set on the person she blamed for her brother's death. What surname does she use when she speaks to the plain-clothes officer who steps forward to her?", "answer": "Smith", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1 (approximately 42% of the text): the grieving sister arrives at the vicarage and describes the identification — 'It is his watch--the one I gave him--and his pocket book, with a half-written letter to me in it. They have shown me his photograph.' This fixes the bridge entity, the dead man's sister, who is never named in the question. Hop 2 (approximately 99.6% of the text, the final chapter): after she has telegraphed London so that detectives would meet and shadow the fugitive, she finds him dying in the East End hall and renounces her vengeance — 'One of the men advanced to Olive Berdenstein, and touched his hat... “I am sorry, Mr. Smith,” she said, “I have made a mistake. This is not the man.”' The officer's surname, Smith, appears exactly once in the book. The two supporting passages are about 57 percentage points apart (42.4% vs 99.6%).", "supporting_quotes": ["watch--the one I gave him--and his pocket book, with a half-written", "“I am sorry, Mr. Smith,” she said, “I have made a mistake. This is not"], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.569, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "mult-0107", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "oppenheim_yellow_house", "question": "One book in the collection is narrated by a clergyman's daughter, schooled abroad and newly arrived at a country parish, who befriends the one woman the whole county refuses to call upon, and who eventually learns that this woman — a journalist of advanced political opinions who had on principle declined to go through any marriage ceremony with the narrator's father — is her own mother. In that book, when the woman gives tea to visitors who have come in out of bad weather, she offers them a cake that a friend had sent her only that morning and names the shop it came from, adding that it must last her a week. What name does she give for the cake?", "answer": "Buszard's", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "The narrator (Kate Ffolliot) is a curate-in-charge's daughter educated abroad; the shunned neighbour, Adelaide Fortress, is later revealed (~60% of the text) to be her mother, a socialist journalist who refused marriage on principle. The incidental detail sits at ~52% of the text, in the tea scene at her house: she promises her guests 'some Buszard's cake ... some kind friend sent it to me this morning. Only you mustn't eat it all up; it has to last me for a week.' Buszard's was a real London confectioner; the name appears exactly once in the whole book and would never appear in a plot summary.", "supporting_quotes": ["I will give you some Buszard’s cake,” she answered, laughing"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "retr-0049", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "oppenheim_yellow_house", "question": "One novel in this collection is narrated by a young woman, schooled abroad, newly settled in a remote country parish that her father has been put in charge of; midway through an evening sermon a stranger whose clothes are soaked with blood drags himself in at the open door, staggers to the foot of the aisle, flings out his arms towards the preacher in the pulpit, gasps out the name of the disciple who betrayed his master, and dies there in front of the whole congregation. Earlier in that same book, the narrator tells a neighbouring landowner that her father has gone off unexpectedly to London. He draws a small timetable out of his pocket and mutters something to himself before thanking her and hurrying away. What exactly does he mutter?", "answer": "Annesly Junction, 3.30; St. Pancras, 7.50", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "The identifying trait is the death of the wounded stranger in the church at roughly 30% of the text (he staggers in mid-sermon, cries out at the preacher and collapses). The incidental detail sits far earlier, at approximately 21% of the text: when the narrator tells the landowner that her father left for London that afternoon, 'He stood quite still, and seemed to be looking me through and through. Then he drew a small time-table from his pocket. “Annesly Junction, 3.30; St. Pancras, 7.50,” he muttered to himself. “Thank you; good morning.”' The junction name and the two clock times appear exactly once in the whole book and belong to no plot summary; they are also the only place in the novel where the local railway junction is named at all.", "supporting_quotes": ["“Annesly Junction, 3.30; St. Pancras, 7.50,” he muttered to"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "retr-0107", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0193 — computation
-**Q.** In the story where a party at Gibraltar ends up buying the black-painted steam-launch they had earlier hired for an evening excursion, the launch's English owner, when first questioned, named both the sum in pounds he had paid for her and the much larger sum in pounds he claimed she was really worth. Later, while the purchase is being arranged aboard the yacht, the commander repeats that purchase price and gives its rough equivalent in dollars. Using that same rate of exchange, what would the owner's claimed worth for the launch come to in dollars?
-**A.** 2500  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.378)_
-**Derivation.** Chapter II (about 5% in): the owner says what he paid in pounds and that she is worth five times as much in pounds. Chapter XVI (about 43% in): the commander gives that purchase price in pounds together with its dollar equivalent, fixing the rate at five dollars to the pound. Applying that rate to the claimed worth gives 2500 dollars. The total is nowhere stated.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "A 'undred pounds, which she is worth five 'undred," replied the
-> skipper, whose name, later on, proved to be Giles Chickworth.
-> "But the price of the boat is only one hundred pounds, or about five
-> hundred dollars; and that sum would not have ruined me," almost shouted
-> the commander.
-### comp-0194 — computation
-**Q.** In the story where a party circling Gibraltar Bay by moonlight hears their temporary pilot name a hill on the Spanish shore whose name, he is told, means a place where charcoal is burned, the pilot gives that hill's height to explain why it serves as a landmark even at night. In a shipboard talk some chapters later the commander gives the height of the highest point of the fortified rock across the bay. How many feet higher is the rock's summit than that hill?
-**A.** 468  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.238)_
-**Derivation.** Chapter IV (about 10% in): the pilot gives the mountain's height as nine hundred and seventy-one feet. Chapter XIII (about 34% in): the commander gives the highest point on the rock as fourteen hundred and thirty-nine feet above the water. 1439 - 971 = 468. The difference is never stated.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "Not at all; and I am not going to take you to the top of the
-> lighthouse on Verde Island when we return; but I shall use it all the
-> same as a guide to assist me in the navigation, as I do the mountain,
-> which is nine hundred and seventy-one feet high, and therefore in sight
-> even in the night."
-> "The highest point on the rock is fourteen hundred and thirty-nine feet
-> above the water.
-### mult-0193 — multihop
-**Q.** In the story where a party of young Americans buy a forty-foot steam-launch at Gibraltar, rename her, and hold a ballot to fill her offices before taking her to sea on their own, one of them is chosen her captain after several rounds of voting. How old was he?
-**A.** 18  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.423)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1: at the close of the election scene (chapter XVII, about 44% in) the leader sums up the balloting and declares which of the party is captain. Hop 2: in the opening chapter (about 2% in) that same person is described as the oldest of the party, aged eighteen, while the youngest was fourteen. Neither passage alone gives the answer.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "She was painted white when we made our trip in her, and now she is the
-> color of a black cat," continued Scott, the oldest of the party and
-> the best sailor and boatman, for he was eighteen, while Morris, the
-> youngest, was only fourteen.
-> "We don't want any compliments about this business, fellows," replied
-> Louis. "If I wanted to be simply complimentary, I should vote for
-> Morris, and he is better qualified for the position than I am; but I
-> believe Scott has had more experience than any other fellow in the
-> crowd, for he navigated the Seahound from New York to Florida, and
-> through the Bahama Islands. I think we have done the right thing, and
-> Captain Scott it is."
-### mult-0194 — multihop
-**Q.** In the story where a Moroccan grandee pursues a Mediterranean pleasure steamer from port to port because he has become infatuated with one of her passengers, and the steamer's commander keeps slipping away from him, that passenger is the daughter of the Fifth Avenue millionaire travelling with the party. How old is she?
-**A.** 16  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.425)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1: in chapter XVIII (about 46% in) the narrator states which passenger the Pacha had taken a fancy to and whose daughter she is. Hop 2: in the opening chapter (about 4% in) that millionaire's daughter is introduced as a young lady of sixteen who had been sent to Teneriffe for her health. Neither passage alone yields her age.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> duties. Mr. Woolridge had become acquainted with the Belgrave family
-> through the agency of his yacht, the Blanche.
->
-> His daughter, a very beautiful and graceful young lady of sixteen,
-> having some slight symptoms of a pulmonary disease, had been sent to
-> Orotavo, in the island of Teneriffe, by the physicians, and her father
-> had been advised to take her there in his yacht. In a long and violent
-> The rich, powerful, and distinguished Pacha had taken a fancy to
-> Blanche, the beautiful daughter of Mr. Woolridge, and had followed
-> the party to Gibraltar in the Fatimé, his large steam-yacht; but the
-> Guardian-Mother had avoided her, and had actually run away from her.
-### retr-0193 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the story where a small steam-launch, once white and now painted black, is hailed alongside a millionaire's steam-yacht moored inside the New Mole at Gibraltar, her cockney owner explains how she came into his hands. Before selling her, the launch's former owner had tried to hire him to take her south to Mogadore. How many pounds was he offered for that delivery run?
-**A.** 10  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Early in chapter II (about 5% into the text) the launch's new owner recounts that the vessel's previous owner offered him ten pounds to sail her down to Mogadore, an offer he declined. The figure is stated once.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> 'ere 'n Gib. 'E offered me ten pounds to sail 'er down to Mogadore; but
-> I wouldn't go to sea in a craft no bigger'n she is. Then 'e sold her
-### retr-0194 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the story where a party of travellers in a Mediterranean steam-yacht take aboard a soaked runaway in Moorish dress who has swum away from a Moroccan grandee's yacht at Gibraltar, the commander questions the man and learns something of his history. What was the name of the Spanish steamer, wrecked in the West Indies, on which he had served as fourth engineer?
-**A.** Guadiana  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In chapter XXIII (about 60% into the text) the commander's questioning of the fugitive elicits that he had been fourth engineer of a Spanish steamer that was wrecked in the West Indies, and the vessel is named there. Stated once.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> He asked some further questions, and learned that his name was John
-> Donald. He had been fourth engineer of the Spanish steamer Guadiana,
-> which had been wrecked in the West Indies. He was tempted to take a

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "comp-0193", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "optic_american_boys", "question": "In the story where a party at Gibraltar ends up buying the black-painted steam-launch they had earlier hired for an evening excursion, the launch's English owner, when first questioned, named both the sum in pounds he had paid for her and the much larger sum in pounds he claimed she was really worth. Later, while the purchase is being arranged aboard the yacht, the commander repeats that purchase price and gives its rough equivalent in dollars. Using that same rate of exchange, what would the owner's claimed worth for the launch come to in dollars?", "answer": "2500", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Chapter II (about 5% in): the owner says what he paid in pounds and that she is worth five times as much in pounds. Chapter XVI (about 43% in): the commander gives that purchase price in pounds together with its dollar equivalent, fixing the rate at five dollars to the pound. Applying that rate to the claimed worth gives 2500 dollars. The total is nowhere stated.", "supporting_quotes": ["\"A 'undred pounds, which she is worth five 'undred,\" replied the\nskipper, whose name, later on, proved to be Giles Chickworth.", "\"But the price of the boat is only one hundred pounds, or about five\nhundred dollars; and that sum would not have ruined me,\" almost shouted\nthe commander."], "hops": 3, "separation": 0.378, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
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-{"id": "retr-0194", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "optic_american_boys", "question": "In the story where a party of travellers in a Mediterranean steam-yacht take aboard a soaked runaway in Moorish dress who has swum away from a Moroccan grandee's yacht at Gibraltar, the commander questions the man and learns something of his history. What was the name of the Spanish steamer, wrecked in the West Indies, on which he had served as fourth engineer?", "answer": "Guadiana", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "In chapter XXIII (about 60% into the text) the commander's questioning of the fugitive elicits that he had been fourth engineer of a Spanish steamer that was wrecked in the West Indies, and the vessel is named there. Stated once.", "supporting_quotes": ["He asked some further questions, and learned that his name was John\nDonald. He had been fourth engineer of the Spanish steamer Guadiana,\nwhich had been wrecked in the West Indies. He was tempted to take a"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0159 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel about the ruined Vienna widow who must take her midday meal at a different relative's table each day, the narrator once gives the total population of the city when reckoning how many of its inhabitants lived by the government departments, and elsewhere names the fraction of that population then starving, as against the far smaller share of the good days. Applied to the city total, how many starving inhabitants does that fraction come to?
-**A.** 2250000  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.136)_
-**Derivation.** The government-employee passage (about 24% in) gives the city total as 2,500,000. The passage on the mixed population of the city (about 37% in) says nine-tenths of them are starving rather than a tenth. Nine tenths of 2,500,000 is 2,250,000.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> administration was fairly snowed under by employees. It was reckoned
-> often, (not, however, by those employed, they kept such statistics as
-> much as possible to themselves) that 750,000 out of the 2,500,000 lived
-> on and by the different departments of government. But mostly their
-> highly-colored, slips in through that Eastern Gate to tint more deeply
-> the Viennese population, a happy enough mixture when only a tenth of
-> them, not nine-tenths, are starving. Hunger there has always been in
-### comp-0160 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where a penniless old Vienna lady is passed round her nieces' tables for her dinner, the starving biology professor's next-to-youngest child dies in midwinter, and the old lady herself is buried not long afterwards. Of the professor's children who were still alive at the time of her funeral, how many did not go to the church and the cemetery?
-**A.** 2  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.856)_
-**Derivation.** The professor and his wife are said early on (about 14% in) to have seven children. About 65% in, the small boy Carli dies, leaving six alive. At the funeral described in the last pages (about 99% in), four of those children go to the church and cemetery, so six minus four leaves two who did not.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Some thirteen years before she had married a brilliant young professor
-> of biology at the University, who now, as he accurately and baldly
-> stated, earned far less than the women who kept the toilets at the
-> Railway stations....
->
-> They had seven children,--lovely, white-skinned, pansy-eyed,
-> golden-haired children, or glowing-faced, starry-eyed, brown-haired.
-> Kaethe was holding Carli up to the window, where the light shone full
-> on his baby face ... quite gently, quite easily, Carli had slipped from
-> them leaving only his little waxen image.
-> Anna had not gone to Fanny's to see her aunt laid out. No, indeed! She
-> and Hermine went only to the church and cemetery, as likewise did four
-> of Kaethe's children and Irma and her boys. Hermine had been all eyes
-### mult-0159 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel about a destitute old Vienna lady who makes the rounds of her nieces' dinner tables, she sits waiting one day in the flat of the beautiful niece whom the family mentions only in lowered voices, and a large flat box is delivered; she recognizes the shop's name on it. Long before, in her prosperous days, she had bought a dress at that same shop for a niece's wedding. What colour and material was that dress?
-**A.** grey silk  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.526)_
-**Derivation.** Around 35% in, walking down the Kaerntner Street, she stops at the windows of a named shop and remembers buying a dress there for a niece's wedding. Near the end (about 87% in), while she waits in the wealthy niece's sitting room, a box is delivered bearing that same shop name. The first passage alone does not say the box came from that shop; the second alone does not say what she once bought there.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Passing down the Kaerntner Street Frau Stacher stood a moment looking
-> in at Zwieback's windows, such warm stuffs in such bright colors were
-> displayed, gay knitted Jerseys and scarves,--a purple one that would
-> have lain consolingly against her pale thinness. There were silk
-> stockings too, beribboned underwear and in another window incredible
-> evening dresses. Who on earth wore evening dresses--now? She remembered
-> how she had got her grey silk dress there for Kaethe's wedding. In the
-> But she only took in a box, a large, flat, pleasant-looking box, the
-> sort of box Frau Stacher remembered from her own shopping days. She saw
-> the name Zwieback on it as Maria took it in to the other room. Another
-### mult-0160 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where an elderly Vienna widow loses her income and is given a standing midday dinner invitation at a different relative's home for each day of the week, on which day of the week does she die?
-**A.** Saturday  _(format: string, hops: 3, separation: 0.816)_
-**Derivation.** In the opening chapter the niece who plans the rota tells her that the dinner reserved for herself falls on Friday. In the sixth chapter, on the morning of that Friday lunch (the sister-in-law says "Corinne today"), she announces she is going to Fanny's the next day, i.e. Saturday. In the closing chapter the doctor, called to Fanny's flat, says she will not get through the night.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Corinne, seeing the change, continued gayly, almost.
->
-> "And Friday, now guess," she paused, "Friday you'll have dinner with
-> me. I'll let you know where and we'll talk everything over.
-> "Corinne today, but who's taking you tomorrow?" she asked flatly,
-> meanly. Irma had a way, well tabulated in the family, of getting over
-> pleasant spots at the quickest pace possible.
->
-> "Tomorrow," Tante Ilde answered, the light in her eye indeed put
-> out, but her face quite pink as she stepped into the kitchen to put
-> the broom, worn down to its wooden handle, back in its dingy corner,
-> "Tomorrow," she continued resolutely as she reappeared, "I'm going to
-> Fanny's."
-> "But she never said anything except that she had a bit of a cold, the
-> angel, and going to the cemetery too!" answered Fanny aghast.
->
-> "To the cemetery in such a state!" he echoed in astonishment, "why she
-> won't get through the night. Fanny--I'm glad she's here."
-### retr-0159 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel in which a widowed Vienna lady, stripped of her income after the war, is passed from one niece to another for her midday dinner, she fastens a much-mended piece of old lace at her throat with a small oxidized silver bar pin, a worthless keepsake of a journey taken in happier days. What place name is stamped on that pin?
-**A.** Karlsbad  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Early in the book (roughly 20% in), as she dresses in her best things for the first of the weekday dinners, the narrator describes the bar pin she uses to fasten her old lace and gives the word stamped on it.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> velvet, a certain piece of oft-washed and much-mended old lace that
-> she had worn for twenty years, pinning it with an oxydized silver bar
-> pin on which was stamped "Karlsbad," unlosable, valueless relic of a
-> journey in the happier days. She carefully brushed her black hat, with
-### retr-0160 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel in which an impoverished old Vienna lady eats her midday dinner at a different relative's table on each day of the week, a young ministry clerk and his wife weigh an evening at a little cabaret near their flat against the picture house in the Prater Stern, which was showing a moral drama in six acts. What was that picture called?
-**A.** Sinful Blood  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** About a quarter of the way in, while the aunt washes the dishes after the first weekday dinner, she overhears the couple deciding how to spend their evening; the film showing at the Prater Stern is named.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> new pink dress; or whether they would go to the Circus Busch movie in
-> the Prater Stern, where it didn't matter what you wore and where they
-> were giving a wonderful moral drama in six acts called "Sinful Blood,"
-> and where they would hold hands in the dark just as if they weren't

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0229 — computation
-**Q.** Two sums in dollars are quoted to the American couple in this chronicle: in the opening letter, what a hotel garage would charge to hire a taxi to carry their dead dog out to a friend's place at Pelham; and near the very end, what the car company's London office warns it would cost to install a new generator if the owner had ruined the mechanism. By how many dollars does the later figure exceed the earlier one?
-**A.** 293  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.925)_
-**Derivation.** Opening letter: the taxi would cost seven dollars. Penultimate letter (about 94% through): the manufacturer's postscript names about three hundred dollars for a new generator. 300 - 7 = 293.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> I called up the hotel garage and
-> learned that it would cost seven dollars to hire a taxi.
-> in which case it would be necessary to install
-> a new generator at a cost of about three hundred dollars!
-### comp-0230 — computation
-**Q.** Counting through the whole of this motoring chronicle, on how many separate occasions does the driver report putting up at the old coaching inn at Banbury?
-**A.** 2  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.373)_
-**Derivation.** About three-fifths of the way through, driving alone to meet his wife, he stops the night at Banbury at an old coaching inn. Much later, driving up to London by himself again, he makes straight for Banbury and stops at the same inn, which the text calls a previous visit. Two occasions in all.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> I stopped the night at Banbury, where there is one of those old
-> coaching inns which affect the imagination like an old print.
-> I cut across lots and made straight for
-> Banbury, where I stopped at the same inn which had so charmed me on a
-> previous visit, an inn which would have charmed--perhaps did
-> charm--Dickens.
-### mult-0229 — multihop
-**Q.** In these letters home from a motor tour of Britain and Ireland, the couple cross back from Ireland to Holyhead and are soon again at a hotel where they had stopped earlier in the trip. In which village does that hotel stand?
-**A.** Betts-y-Coed  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.116)_
-**Derivation.** The Welsh chapter (about four-fifths through) records that at Betts-y-Coed they put up at the 'Waterloo'; much later, after leaving Ireland and crossing to Holyhead, they reach 'the Waterloo' again, having been there before. Neither passage alone gives the village of the hotel they return to: the first never mentions Ireland or the return, the second never names the village.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> At Betts-y-Coed we stopped at the "Waterloo," and took as many photos
-> of the brawling brook as Mr. Pecksniff's pupils made elevations of
-> Salisbury Cathedral.
-> We crossed to Hollyhead, and, the car running like a witch, it was
-> not long before we reached the Waterloo, where John greeted us as if
-> he had not thought of any one else since we were last there!
-### mult-0230 — multihop
-**Q.** Near the close of this motoring chronicle, a woman hurries to the cathedral town the letters call Barchester and then goes up to London with the writer's wife to consult a celebrated physician. In which county does that woman live?
-**A.** Yorkshire  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.89)_
-**Derivation.** The final letter states that the woman who hurried to Barchester went up to town with the wife as 'the two sisters', so she is the wife's sister; the fifth letter, near the start of the tour, states that the wife's sister lives in Yorkshire. Neither passage alone yields the county of the woman who came to Barchester.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> As Ruth was most anxious to
-> see her sister, who lives in Yorkshire, she was persuaded to proceed
-> by train and leave me to bring on the car alone.
-> Ruth had not been quite like herself since the breakdown at Ross, and
-> had written Maud, who at once said there was but one man in the world
-> for her to see--you know what women are about their pet doctors!  So,
-> as you already have been told, Maud hastened to Barchester, I was
-> bundled out of the way, and the two sisters came to town and saw the
-> great man.
-### retr-0229 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the volume of letters in which an American clergyman, funded by an aunt's unexpected legacy, learns to drive in New York before shipping his own car abroad for a holiday tour, his instructor has to wrench the wheel out of his hands to keep them from going over the railing of a bridge. In the bitter prayer the frightened instructor then utters, what does he name as the riskiest thing he will ever do again if he lives to get home?
-**A.** Driving in a Vanderbilt Cup race  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the second letter (about a fifth of the way into the opening section, ch. II), the driving instructor grabs the wheel on the Concourse bridge and then says he will never do anything riskier than driving in a Vanderbilt Cup race. The single quoted span states it.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> This is what he said: "O my G--d, if ever I
-> live to get home, I'll never do anything riskier than drivin' in a
-> Vanderbilt Cup race."
-### retr-0230 — retrieval
-**Q.** In this record of an American couple who ship their own motor-car across the Atlantic for a driving holiday, the crated car has to be fetched from the docks at Tilbury. According to the letter describing that errand, approximately how many miles is Tilbury from London?
-**A.** 25  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Early in the tour (ch. V, roughly a tenth of the way through), the writer says that Tilbury, where the crated car was standing on the docks, is about twenty-five miles from London. Stated once.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> When we arrived at Tilbury, which is about twenty-five miles from
-> London, we found the car, still in its crate, standing on the docks.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0050 — computation
-**Q.** Twice in this narrative a Frenchman names a precise sum in francs that he will pay another person for help of an informational kind: once a standing reward offered while the army still held the captured capital, for word of where a young Frenchwoman was hiding, and once a fee promised to a poor local couple for guiding the narrator to his sovereign's quarters by daybreak. (Disregard estimated valuations of loot or treasure.) Added together, what do these two promised sums come to, in francs?
-**A.** 600  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.558)_
-**Derivation.** Region 1 (~21% through the text, in the chapter about leaving the capital): the nephew 'offered five hundred francs to any man who would tell him of her whereabouts' = 500 francs. Region 2 (~77% through the text, during the night ride to reach the Emperor before dawn): the narrator tells the guides, 'I will give you a hundred francs if you bring me to the Emperor at daybreak' = 100 francs. 500 + 100 = 600. The two passages sit in different chapters roughly 56% of the book apart, so no single chapter suffices; the only other franc figures in the book are valuations of the plundered treasure (half a million), explicitly excluded.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> offered five hundred francs to any man who would tell him of her
-> I will give you a hundred francs if you bring me to the Emperor at
-### comp-0108 — computation
-**Q.** Three times, in widely separated parts of this narrative, the narrator sets down in years his own estimate of the age of a young person he is looking at for the first time: (1) the dead youth he finds lying on the stones of the gallery in the deserted town house at the very beginning of the story; (2) the dead girl he and his nephew lift out of an overturned yellow travelling carriage in the snow, together with her white-haired grandmother; and (3) the well-born child, dressed in furs, who knocks weeping at the door of the priest's house late one night to beg him to come to her dying brother. Add those three estimates together. What is the total, in years?
-**A.** 50  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.761)_
-**Derivation.** Region 1 (~3.5% through the text, opening chapter): of the murdered youth on the gallery flags the narrator writes that 'The lad would have been about one and twenty' = 21. Region 2 (~32.1%, the chapter in which the first snow falls and the wrecked carriage is found): of the two dead passengers, the younger is 'as pretty a child of fifteen years of age as I had seen since I left Prussia' = 15. Region 3 (~80.3%, the night before the river crossing, at the priest's house): the girl who begs help for her brother is 'Apparently of fourteen years of age or thereabouts' = 14. 21 + 15 + 14 = 50. The three passages sit in three different chapters spread over roughly 77% of the book, so no single chapter suffices; the other ages given in the text (a girl of 'not more than seventeen' found with the treasure, and a Russian colonel 'in his thirty-fifth year') belong to people excluded by the question's three explicit descriptions.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> The lad would have been about one and
-> twenty, and no woman's hair could have been finer than his.
-> the second as pretty a child of fifteen years of age as
-> I had seen since I left Prussia.
-> Apparently of fourteen years of age or thereabouts, I perceived at once
-> that she was of noble birth
-### mult-0050 — multihop
-**Q.** Early in the story the narrator and a nimble sergeant of the line infantry crossed the water to a round stone tower on a river island, where Russian officers were staging a mock execution of the narrator's nephew; the sergeant hauled himself up to a narrow slit in the wall and fired the pistol shot that rang the great bell overhead and threw the room into confusion. That same sergeant rejoined the narrator's little party near the end of the retreat. What was his given (first) name?
-**A.** Gustav  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.698)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (~20% through the text): the man who fires from the window slit and strikes the bell, breaking up the execution, is identified only by surname in that scene. Hop 2 (~90% through the text): after the river crossing, the same sergeant is described plundering a rifled store, and there alone in the whole book his full name is given as 'Gustav Bardot'. The bridge entity (the sergeant, surname Bardot) is never named in the question, and the two supporting passages lie about 70% of the book apart.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> It was then that Bardot, at the window, fired his pistol and struck the
-> great bell high in the tower above.
-> stores were rifled, Gustav Bardot emerged with as many bottles of
-> brandy as would have made a regiment drunk
-### mult-0108 — multihop
-**Q.** In the opening chapter the narrator, trapped inside a burning town house in the captured capital, is led by the frightened young Frenchwoman to a barred inner door; it is opened from within and she throws herself into the arms of a Russian officer in a white uniform and a black breastplate, whom the narrator takes for the son of the house's owner and later learns he was right about. That officer's companions promptly set the narrator against a wall to be shot, and the officer himself carries the woman off down the garden steps. Near the very end of the book, when the narrator's small party is lost in the snow beyond the frontier and is arguing which way to march, that same man's frequent visits to a particular town are the reason the Frenchwoman gives for believing she would be welcomed there. Which town is it?
-**A.** Elbing  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.818)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (~8.8-9.9% through the text): the officer who opens the inner door in the burning mansion is described only as wearing the white uniform and black cuirass of the owner's regiment and is taken for the owner's son; a page later he is identified as Prince Nicholas when he carries the girl down the garden steps. Hop 2 (~91.4%): far away, in the wilderness beyond the Niemen, the Frenchwoman argues for marching north, saying she has friends in Elbing because 'Prince Nicholas visited the city frequently.' The bridge entity (Prince Nicholas) is never named in the question, and the two passages lie about 82% of the book apart, well over the 20% requirement.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Now, this man was an officer who wore the white uniform and the black
-> cuirass of Prince Boris's famous regiment.
-> It was the
-> Russian, Prince Nicholas, who passed down the steps and was gone from
-> "Prince Nicholas visited the
-> city frequently, and if we ever reach the town I am sure they will
-### retr-0050 — retrieval
-**Q.** One novel in the context is narrated in the first person by an elderly French army surgeon attached to the Emperor's guard, who recounts the ruinous winter withdrawal from a burning eastern capital and the scrapes of his reckless nephew, a young captain of that same guard; the surgeon is at one point shut up alone in a deserted prince's mansion, is later stood against a wall and mock-shot by enemy soldiers, and on another night draws a raiding party away from his sovereign by borrowing his cloak and little cocked hat. In that novel, while the army was still quartered in the captured capital, the nephew offered a standing cash reward to any man who would tell him where a certain young Frenchwoman was to be found. What was the amount of that reward?
-**A.** Five hundred francs  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** At roughly 21% through the text, in the chapter that opens with the decision to abandon the captured city, the narrator remarks that his nephew watched for the young Frenchwoman and 'offered five hundred francs to any man who would tell him of her whereabouts,' but never saw her again while the army held the city. The identifying traits (surgeon-major narrator of the Guard, nephew a captain, mansion imprisonment at ~2-5%, sham firing squad at ~4%, cloak-and-hat decoy at ~52%) fix the novel without naming it, and the sum itself is an incidental figure no summary would record.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> offered five hundred francs to any man who would tell him of her
-### retr-0108 — retrieval
-**Q.** One novel in the context is a first-person memoir by an elderly French army physician who marched east with the invading army in 1812 and lived through the winter withdrawal. Episodes peculiar to it include: his nephew, a young captain of the Emperor's guard, being seated as guest of honour at a supper inside a tower on a wooded river island whose walls are covered with black hangings, where a Russian nobleman stages a mock revolutionary execution and, when the alarm is raised, has his own arm shorn off at the elbow by the falling blade; a night on which the narrator, cornered on a bed by enemy horsemen, is seized by uncontrollable laughter, then leads them downstairs and drinks them insensible, saving his sovereign, who is shut in a room fitted up as a chapel with a sleepwalking girl who foretells events; and a later night on which he and his nephew watch from a woodcutter's cabin while wolves eat both their horses. In that novel, a stout and cheerful captain of dragoons, who admitted that he kept himself well fed by stealing from the enemy, led the narrator and his nephew through the forest to dine with a Frenchwoman living just outside the enemy's camp. Halting at the edge of the clearing, he pointed out the lights of the village where the enemy regiment was quartered. What was the name of that village?
-**A.** Vitzala  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** At roughly 44% through the text, in the chapter about the secret dinner behind the Russian lines, the dragoon captain halts his two companions at the edge of the clearing and says, 'Yonder is the village of Vitzala,' adding that a Russian camp has been there under General Volska for two months. The identifying traits (physician-narrator, the black-hung tower and the mock execution at ~20%, the hysterical-laughter rescue of the sovereign at ~57%, the wolf siege of the cabin at ~49%) fix the novel without naming it or any proper noun from it, and the village name is an invented, incidental place-name no summary or history of the campaign would supply. This region (43.7%) is untouched by the three existing questions (20.7%, 19.8%, 77.1%, 90.2%).
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "Yonder is the village of Vitzala," says Payard, indicating some lights

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "pemberton_great_white", "question": "Twice in this narrative a Frenchman names a precise sum in francs that he will pay another person for help of an informational kind: once a standing reward offered while the army still held the captured capital, for word of where a young Frenchwoman was hiding, and once a fee promised to a poor local couple for guiding the narrator to his sovereign's quarters by daybreak. (Disregard estimated valuations of loot or treasure.) Added together, what do these two promised sums come to, in francs?", "answer": 600, "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Region 1 (~21% through the text, in the chapter about leaving the capital): the nephew 'offered five hundred francs to any man who would tell him of her whereabouts' = 500 francs. Region 2 (~77% through the text, during the night ride to reach the Emperor before dawn): the narrator tells the guides, 'I will give you a hundred francs if you bring me to the Emperor at daybreak' = 100 francs. 500 + 100 = 600. The two passages sit in different chapters roughly 56% of the book apart, so no single chapter suffices; the only other franc figures in the book are valuations of the plundered treasure (half a million), explicitly excluded.", "supporting_quotes": ["offered five hundred francs to any man who would tell him of her", "I will give you a hundred francs if you bring me to the Emperor at"], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.558, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "comp-0050", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0051 — computation
-**Q.** Three widely separated cases in this dealer's collection each state one exact figure in pounds sterling for a single article of jewelry that passed through his own hands: (1) the sum he told a banker friend he would charge for the necklace of pale-green stones he set for the man's new bride; (2) the sum he says he paid, cheerfully, to a dealer in a North African town for the jeweled miniature of a curved Eastern sword fitted with a tiny timepiece; and (3) the sum he says he afterwards got at home for the diamond necklace he had bought at a foreign countess's jewel sale while staying in Paris. Added together, what do those three figures come to in pounds?
-**A.** 11800  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.587)_
-**Derivation.** Figure 1 (~10% through the book, the green diamond case): he writes to his friend 'that I would set the green diamonds in a necklace, and sell them for two thousand pounds' = 2,000. Figure 2 (~48%, the North African case): the workmanship was so fine 'that I paid eight hundred pounds for it cheerfully' = 800. Figure 3 (~69%, the Paris bracelet case): his week's trading produced 'a superb necklace of brilliants, which subsequently I sold here for nine thousand pounds' = 9,000. Total = 2,000 + 800 + 9,000 = 11,800. No single case supplies more than one of the three figures, and the three passages span roughly 59% of the book.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> informing him that I would set the green diamonds in a necklace, and
-> sell them for two thousand pounds.
-> five hundred pounds, the workmanship was so fine, and the whole bauble
-> had such an original look, that I paid eight hundred pounds for it
-> superb necklace of brilliants, which subsequently I sold here for nine
-> thousand pounds
-### comp-0109 — computation
-**Q.** Three widely separated cases in this trader's collection each state one exact figure in pounds sterling for the worth of a single stone or matched pair. (1) In the case of the stones he keeps in his lowest strong-room drawer because he cannot bring himself to sell them, he opens by saying what the black pearl in that little bag ought to be worth in any market on the Continent. (2) In the case that begins with him fishing without success from a punt, he gives the rock-bottom valuation of the pair of perfectly matched green stones that a shabbily dressed stranger produced at his dinner table in the riverside inn. (3) In the case of the wholesale thefts at London dances, his hostess tells him the figure her husband sets on the stones in each single drop of her belt. Added together, what do those three figures come to in pounds?
-**A.** 3100  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.422)_
-**Derivation.** Figure 1 (~38% of the book, the case of the stones he cannot sell): of the black pearl in the little bag he writes 'that it should be worth eight hundred pounds in any market in Europe' = 800. Figure 2 (~58%, the river case): of the two matched green stones he judges 'they would be worth fifteen hundred pounds at a very low estimate' = 1,500. Figure 3 (~80%, the ball-room theft case): the hostess asks 'Do you know that my husband values the rubies in each of those pendants at eight hundred pounds?' = 800. Total = 800 + 1,500 + 800 = 3,100. No single case supplies more than one of the three figures, and the three passages lie 37.9%, 58.4% and 80.3% through the book, so every pair is more than 20% apart (20.5, 21.8 and 42.4 percentage points).
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> that it should be worth eight hundred pounds in any market in Europe
-> would be worth fifteen hundred pounds at a very low estimate
-> my husband values the rubies in each
-> of those pendants at eight hundred pounds
-### mult-0051 — multihop
-**Q.** Late in the book a frightened young Frenchwoman calls on the narrator at his Paris hotel about an anonymous note warning her not to wear a bracelet to a masked ball. She explains that she had first gone to an acquaintance of hers, who insisted she consult the narrator instead. In the much earlier case involving that same acquaintance, the narrator closed his account by noting that he had sold a ring made from the sole surviving fragment of her late husband's shattered stone and was sending her the proceeds. Exactly how much did that ring fetch?
-**A.** Fifty pounds  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.627)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (~72% of the book, the Paris bracelet case): the girl says she went first to a woman who 'would not rest until I had consented to see you' — that woman is the bridge entity, deliberately unnamed in the question. Hop 2 (~9% of the book, the opening case): the narrator's closing paragraph states that the one large surviving fragment of the crushed stone was set in a ring and 'sold it to-day for fifty pounds,' the money going to that same woman, who had returned to her parents. The two supporting passages are roughly 63% of the book apart, and the bridge is never named in the question.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "Madame Carmalovitch," said she. "I went to her first, but she knew you
-> a ring, and have sold it to-day for fifty pounds. The money will go to
-### mult-0109 — multihop
-**Q.** Late in the book, after spotting the receiver of a season's worth of stolen ornaments at a society dance, the narrator drives back to his own premises in the small hours and has his night watchman rouse a servant, who comes down wearing nothing but his trousers and his shirt and is sent off to arrange for a dozen policemen. Much earlier in the book, that same servant went with the narrator on a railway journey down into the country, where the narrator hoped to close the sale of an enormous white stone to a supposed colonel. On that outward journey, while the narrator rode with his hosts, in what manner did the servant travel?
-**A.** Second class, in another compartment  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.528)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (~85% of the book, the ball-room robbery case): the narrator returns to his shop at night and 'sent the man upstairs to awaken Abel, and in five minutes my servant was with me, though he wore only his trousers and his shirt' — that servant is the bridge entity, deliberately never named in the question. Hop 2 (~32% of the book, the great white diamond case): setting out from Waterloo with the swindler and his 'daughter', the narrator notes in passing that they got 'to our saloon, Abel traveling second class, by the bye, and in another compartment.' The two passages are about 53% of the book apart (31.6% and 84.7%), well beyond the 20% floor, and the answer is a one-clause aside no summary would carry.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Then I sent the man upstairs to awaken Abel, and in five minutes my
-> servant was with me, though he wore only his trousers and his shirt.
-> our saloon, Abel traveling second class, by the bye, and in another
-> compartment.
-### retr-0051 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the collection of linked cases narrated in the first person by a fashionable Victorian gem merchant, where each separate episode is built around one particular precious stone, one comic case concerns a notoriously miserly old peer who quietly pockets what he believes to be the enameled sleeve ornaments he had grudgingly given his nephew as a wedding gift, only to find he has walked off with a stolen ornament instead and is then squeezed into paying up. What was the name of the cheap seaside hotel where the honeymooning couple were staying when the narrator brought the old man down to confront them?
-**A.** The Cock and Lobster  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** The identifying trait is the book's structure: a first-person Victorian jewel dealer narrating a series of separate cases, each turning on one gem. The detail sits in the third case (~24% through the book), where the narrator escorts the old peer to Folkestone: the couple are at 'a shabby second-rate hotel, called "The Cock and Lobster".' The hotel name is purely incidental scene-setting that no plot summary would record; the couple move out of it to the best hotel in the town later that evening.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> second-rate hotel, called "The Cock and Lobster," inquiring for the
-### retr-0109 — retrieval
-**Q.** In this run of connected first-person case-histories set down by a West End precious-stone trader, each episode built around a single gem, one of the later cases ends with the breaking up of a whole ring of ball-room thieves. Before the raid, the narrator and his man took cover behind two big trees opposite the receiver's house and were joined there by the constable whose beat it was, who said he had known all along that the household was a bad lot and named two unpaid tradesmen's accounts. What sum did he say they owed for milk?
-**A.** Fourteen pounds  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** The identifying trait is the book's shape: a series of separate first-person cases told by a London gem trader, each hung on one stone. The detail sits at roughly 86% of the book, during the night watch outside the receiver's house, where the beat constable volunteers, 'I knew they was rum 'uns all along; they owe fourteen pounds for milk, and their butcher ain't paid.' The milk bill is pure throwaway local color used only to establish that the house was in bad odour with the neighbourhood; no plot summary would record the figure. Answer: fourteen pounds.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> they owe fourteen
-> pounds for milk, and their butcher

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "pemberton_jewel_mysteries", "question": "Three widely separated cases in this dealer's collection each state one exact figure in pounds sterling for a single article of jewelry that passed through his own hands: (1) the sum he told a banker friend he would charge for the necklace of pale-green stones he set for the man's new bride; (2) the sum he says he paid, cheerfully, to a dealer in a North African town for the jeweled miniature of a curved Eastern sword fitted with a tiny timepiece; and (3) the sum he says he afterwards got at home for the diamond necklace he had bought at a foreign countess's jewel sale while staying in Paris. Added together, what do those three figures come to in pounds?", "answer": 11800, "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Figure 1 (~10% through the book, the green diamond case): he writes to his friend 'that I would set the green diamonds in a necklace, and sell them for two thousand pounds' = 2,000. Figure 2 (~48%, the North African case): the workmanship was so fine 'that I paid eight hundred pounds for it cheerfully' = 800. Figure 3 (~69%, the Paris bracelet case): his week's trading produced 'a superb necklace of brilliants, which subsequently I sold here for nine thousand pounds' = 9,000. Total = 2,000 + 800 + 9,000 = 11,800. No single case supplies more than one of the three figures, and the three passages span roughly 59% of the book.", "supporting_quotes": ["informing him that I would set the green diamonds in a necklace, and\nsell them for two thousand pounds.", "five hundred pounds, the workmanship was so fine, and the whole bauble\nhad such an original look, that I paid eight hundred pounds for it", "superb necklace of brilliants, which subsequently I sold here for nine\nthousand pounds"], "hops": 3, "separation": 0.587, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "comp-0051", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "pemberton_jewel_mysteries", "question": "Three widely separated cases in this trader's collection each state one exact figure in pounds sterling for the worth of a single stone or matched pair. (1) In the case of the stones he keeps in his lowest strong-room drawer because he cannot bring himself to sell them, he opens by saying what the black pearl in that little bag ought to be worth in any market on the Continent. (2) In the case that begins with him fishing without success from a punt, he gives the rock-bottom valuation of the pair of perfectly matched green stones that a shabbily dressed stranger produced at his dinner table in the riverside inn. (3) In the case of the wholesale thefts at London dances, his hostess tells him the figure her husband sets on the stones in each single drop of her belt. Added together, what do those three figures come to in pounds?", "answer": 3100, "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Figure 1 (~38% of the book, the case of the stones he cannot sell): of the black pearl in the little bag he writes 'that it should be worth eight hundred pounds in any market in Europe' = 800. Figure 2 (~58%, the river case): of the two matched green stones he judges 'they would be worth fifteen hundred pounds at a very low estimate' = 1,500. Figure 3 (~80%, the ball-room theft case): the hostess asks 'Do you know that my husband values the rubies in each of those pendants at eight hundred pounds?' = 800. Total = 800 + 1,500 + 800 = 3,100. No single case supplies more than one of the three figures, and the three passages lie 37.9%, 58.4% and 80.3% through the book, so every pair is more than 20% apart (20.5, 21.8 and 42.4 percentage points).", "supporting_quotes": ["that it should be worth eight hundred pounds in any market in Europe", "would be worth fifteen hundred pounds at a very low estimate", "my husband values the rubies in each\nof those pendants at eight hundred pounds"], "hops": 3, "separation": 0.422, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "comp-0109", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "pemberton_jewel_mysteries", "question": "Late in the book a frightened young Frenchwoman calls on the narrator at his Paris hotel about an anonymous note warning her not to wear a bracelet to a masked ball. She explains that she had first gone to an acquaintance of hers, who insisted she consult the narrator instead. In the much earlier case involving that same acquaintance, the narrator closed his account by noting that he had sold a ring made from the sole surviving fragment of her late husband's shattered stone and was sending her the proceeds. Exactly how much did that ring fetch?", "answer": "Fifty pounds", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1 (~72% of the book, the Paris bracelet case): the girl says she went first to a woman who 'would not rest until I had consented to see you' — that woman is the bridge entity, deliberately unnamed in the question. Hop 2 (~9% of the book, the opening case): the narrator's closing paragraph states that the one large surviving fragment of the crushed stone was set in a ring and 'sold it to-day for fifty pounds,' the money going to that same woman, who had returned to her parents. The two supporting passages are roughly 63% of the book apart, and the bridge is never named in the question.", "supporting_quotes": ["\"Madame Carmalovitch,\" said she. \"I went to her first, but she knew you", "a ring, and have sold it to-day for fifty pounds. The money will go to"], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.627, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "mult-0051", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "pemberton_jewel_mysteries", "question": "Late in the book, after spotting the receiver of a season's worth of stolen ornaments at a society dance, the narrator drives back to his own premises in the small hours and has his night watchman rouse a servant, who comes down wearing nothing but his trousers and his shirt and is sent off to arrange for a dozen policemen. Much earlier in the book, that same servant went with the narrator on a railway journey down into the country, where the narrator hoped to close the sale of an enormous white stone to a supposed colonel. On that outward journey, while the narrator rode with his hosts, in what manner did the servant travel?", "answer": "Second class, in another compartment", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1 (~85% of the book, the ball-room robbery case): the narrator returns to his shop at night and 'sent the man upstairs to awaken Abel, and in five minutes my servant was with me, though he wore only his trousers and his shirt' — that servant is the bridge entity, deliberately never named in the question. Hop 2 (~32% of the book, the great white diamond case): setting out from Waterloo with the swindler and his 'daughter', the narrator notes in passing that they got 'to our saloon, Abel traveling second class, by the bye, and in another compartment.' The two passages are about 53% of the book apart (31.6% and 84.7%), well beyond the 20% floor, and the answer is a one-clause aside no summary would carry.", "supporting_quotes": ["Then I sent the man upstairs to awaken Abel, and in five minutes my\nservant was with me, though he wore only his trousers and his shirt.", "our saloon, Abel traveling second class, by the bye, and in another\ncompartment."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.528, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "mult-0109", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "pemberton_jewel_mysteries", "question": "In the collection of linked cases narrated in the first person by a fashionable Victorian gem merchant, where each separate episode is built around one particular precious stone, one comic case concerns a notoriously miserly old peer who quietly pockets what he believes to be the enameled sleeve ornaments he had grudgingly given his nephew as a wedding gift, only to find he has walked off with a stolen ornament instead and is then squeezed into paying up. What was the name of the cheap seaside hotel where the honeymooning couple were staying when the narrator brought the old man down to confront them?", "answer": "The Cock and Lobster", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "The identifying trait is the book's structure: a first-person Victorian jewel dealer narrating a series of separate cases, each turning on one gem. The detail sits in the third case (~24% through the book), where the narrator escorts the old peer to Folkestone: the couple are at 'a shabby second-rate hotel, called \"The Cock and Lobster\".' The hotel name is purely incidental scene-setting that no plot summary would record; the couple move out of it to the best hotel in the town later that evening.", "supporting_quotes": ["second-rate hotel, called \"The Cock and Lobster,\" inquiring for the"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "retr-0051", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "pemberton_jewel_mysteries", "question": "In this run of connected first-person case-histories set down by a West End precious-stone trader, each episode built around a single gem, one of the later cases ends with the breaking up of a whole ring of ball-room thieves. Before the raid, the narrator and his man took cover behind two big trees opposite the receiver's house and were joined there by the constable whose beat it was, who said he had known all along that the household was a bad lot and named two unpaid tradesmen's accounts. What sum did he say they owed for milk?", "answer": "Fourteen pounds", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "The identifying trait is the book's shape: a series of separate first-person cases told by a London gem trader, each hung on one stone. The detail sits at roughly 86% of the book, during the night watch outside the receiver's house, where the beat constable volunteers, 'I knew they was rum 'uns all along; they owe fourteen pounds for milk, and their butcher ain't paid.' The milk bill is pure throwaway local color used only to establish that the house was in bad odour with the neighbourhood; no plot summary would record the figure. Answer: fourteen pounds.", "supporting_quotes": ["they owe fourteen\npounds for milk, and their butcher"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "retr-0109", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0139 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where a pirate chief tries his own father before his assembled crew for abandoning him and then sets him afloat astride a lead-keeled cask, the narrator supplies an approximate age for that chief when he is first shown in his great cabin among his globes and philosophy volumes, and much later an approximate age for his father's legitimate son, a youth in an officer's uniform seated at the family dinner table. By how many years is the elder of the two half-brothers the older?
-**A.** 7  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.774)_
-**Derivation.** Early (Ch. II, ~6% in) the pirate captain is described as about twenty-five years of age. Near the end (Ch. XXV, ~81% in) the father's son by his wife is described as a youth of about eighteen. Subtracting the two stated ages gives the gap in years.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> The young man who stood before Lorenzo, may have been about twenty-five
-> years of age: he was tall and slender, but infinitely well formed; his
-> On the right hand of Willmington was his son, a youth of about eighteen,
-> who was dressed in the uniform of an officer.
-### comp-0140 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where a pirate captain arraigns his own father before the assembled crew of a black schooner for having abandoned him in infancy, the father is twice granted a short, explicitly stated interval by his son: first at the shipboard trial, an interval in which to answer the charge, and much later, in his own lamplit villa outside Port of Spain, an interval in which to settle his affairs before being carried off. Adding those two intervals together, how many minutes of grace was he given in all?
-**A.** 15  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.606)_
-**Derivation.** At the trial (Ch. VII, ~22% in) the captain ends his accusation by allowing his father ten minutes to reflect and answer. In the villa scene (Ch. XXV, ~81% in) he tells him to settle his other affairs and allows him five minutes before he must go. Ten plus five gives the total.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> made you love and cherish; or, at least, feed and water. I am your son; I
-> charge you with having abandoned me from childhood; what defence can you
-> make? I give you ten minutes to reflect and to answer.”
-> “Then settle your other affairs,” said Appadocca with the same authority
-> as before. “I allow you five minutes; at the end of that time you must go
-> with me.”
-### mult-0139 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel in which a pirate schooner's chief officer risks execution by creeping past armed sentries at night to push a signed love-letter under a captive lady's cabin door, the name written on that letter is not really his. When, at the very end, he asks the lady's father for her hand, what name does he declare to be his own?
-**A.** St. James Carmonte  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.702)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (about 28% in, Ch. X): the letter slipped under the captive lady's door is signed with the officer's shipboard name. Hop 2 (final chapter, ~99% in): when he presents himself to her father, the narrator states that the pirate officer's real name was not that shipboard name but St. James Carmonte, lineal descendant of the Carmontes. Neither passage alone identifies both the letter-writer and his true name.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
->     “Lady, though I am a pirate, recoil not from me. I am sensible
->     to the feelings of honor, and need not be feared by any lady;
->     in the uprightness of my soul I have dared to love you; deign
->     to cast but one look on me, and let me believe I may hope.
->
->                                                            LORENZO.”
-> The pirate officer immediately disclosed that his real name was not
-> Lorenzo, but St. James Carmonte; and that he was the lineal descendant of
-> the Carmontes, who fell fighting for the Prince. He went on to explain
-### mult-0140 — multihop
-**Q.** In the story where a pirate captain hands a brace of pistols and a purse to a Spanish fishing-boat master, swears him on God and the Holy Virgin to protect a young lady and an old priest, and makes him master of the ship's cutter with orders to beat up to a named island, the boat never reached that island. At which spot on the coast of Trinidad were the passengers finally set ashore?
-**A.** Cedros  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.226)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (about 30% in, Ch. X): the captain gives the fisherman the cutter and orders him to beat up to Granada, the nearest land in view. Hop 2 (about 52% in, Ch. XVI): after the fight in the cutter the priest asks instead for Trinidad, and when the fisherman asks where they wish to be landed the priest names Cedros, and the fisherman turns the cutter's head for it. The first passage alone gives the wrong destination; the second alone does not show the order that was overridden.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “You shall be the master of the boat, and it shall be yours after you are
-> all landed. Beat up to the land which you see before you from the deck.
-> That is Granada. In three day’s time you will be there. Remember your
-> oath. I never forget to punish.”
-> “Land us wherever you please: we will be always able to make our way to
-> Cedros,” answered the priest.
->
-> “To Cedros? I shall take you there at once,” answered the master
-> fisherman, and then turned the cutter’s head to that part of the island.
-### retr-0139 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel that opens with two skiffs drifting on the Gulf of Paria off Port of Spain, a young man later held prisoner in a cabin aboard a British warship covers the partition with chalked algebraic figures and warns his old university friend to get the ship into a safe harbour before a coming tempest. Near which constellation did he say the heralding comet would become visible?
-**A.** Southern Cross  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the cabin-prison conversation (roughly a third of the way in, Ch. XII), the prisoner explains that his chalked calculations concern his friend, and predicts a comet visible in seven days' time near the constellation of the Southern Cross, followed by a hurricane. Single stated detail.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> calculations, they concern you more than you imagine. Let your ship be in
-> a safe harbour within these two weeks to come: a comet will be visible
-> in seven days’ time, near the constellation of the Southern Cross; the
-> hurricane that will follow at its tail, will be more than many ships will
-> be able to bear. Now sit down.”
-### retr-0140 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel where a long, low pirate schooner repeatedly outsails a British man-of-war in the Caribbean by re-rigging herself overnight, the pirates one morning disguise her as a battered, barnacled barque with broken masts and an English ensign tied upside down as a signal of distress. A midshipman pulls over and hails the lone figure standing at her gangway; what name is he given for the ship?
-**A.** The Sting  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the decoy-wreck episode (Ch. XVII, roughly 55% through), the midshipman hails the supposed distressed vessel and the solitary man at the gangway answers with her name before the barque's false sides fall away and the Black Schooner springs out.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “What ship is that?” asked the midshipman.
->
-> “The Sting,” answered the solitary individual, who was standing at the
-> gangway.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "comp-0140", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "philip_emmanuel_appadocca", "question": "In the novel where a pirate captain arraigns his own father before the assembled crew of a black schooner for having abandoned him in infancy, the father is twice granted a short, explicitly stated interval by his son: first at the shipboard trial, an interval in which to answer the charge, and much later, in his own lamplit villa outside Port of Spain, an interval in which to settle his affairs before being carried off. Adding those two intervals together, how many minutes of grace was he given in all?", "answer": 15, "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "At the trial (Ch. VII, ~22% in) the captain ends his accusation by allowing his father ten minutes to reflect and answer. In the villa scene (Ch. XXV, ~81% in) he tells him to settle his other affairs and allows him five minutes before he must go. Ten plus five gives the total.", "supporting_quotes": ["made you love and cherish; or, at least, feed and water. I am your son; I\ncharge you with having abandoned me from childhood; what defence can you\nmake? I give you ten minutes to reflect and to answer.”", "“Then settle your other affairs,” said Appadocca with the same authority\nas before. “I allow you five minutes; at the end of that time you must go\nwith me.”"], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.606, "review_flags": ["aggregation of two independent grace periods; natural single-passage computations (e.g. hogsheads of sugar = 3600 dollars / 60 dollars per hogshead, or 35 crew minus 5 survivors) all failed the >=10% quote-separation rule"], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0139", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "philip_emmanuel_appadocca", "question": "In the novel in which a pirate schooner's chief officer risks execution by creeping past armed sentries at night to push a signed love-letter under a captive lady's cabin door, the name written on that letter is not really his. When, at the very end, he asks the lady's father for her hand, what name does he declare to be his own?", "answer": "St. James Carmonte", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1 (about 28% in, Ch. X): the letter slipped under the captive lady's door is signed with the officer's shipboard name. Hop 2 (final chapter, ~99% in): when he presents himself to her father, the narrator states that the pirate officer's real name was not that shipboard name but St. James Carmonte, lineal descendant of the Carmontes. Neither passage alone identifies both the letter-writer and his true name.", "supporting_quotes": ["    “Lady, though I am a pirate, recoil not from me. I am sensible\n    to the feelings of honor, and need not be feared by any lady;\n    in the uprightness of my soul I have dared to love you; deign\n    to cast but one look on me, and let me believe I may hope.\n\n                                                           LORENZO.”", "The pirate officer immediately disclosed that his real name was not\nLorenzo, but St. James Carmonte; and that he was the lineal descendant of\nthe Carmontes, who fell fighting for the Prince. He went on to explain"], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.702, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
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-{"id": "retr-0139", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "philip_emmanuel_appadocca", "question": "In the novel that opens with two skiffs drifting on the Gulf of Paria off Port of Spain, a young man later held prisoner in a cabin aboard a British warship covers the partition with chalked algebraic figures and warns his old university friend to get the ship into a safe harbour before a coming tempest. Near which constellation did he say the heralding comet would become visible?", "answer": "Southern Cross", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "In the cabin-prison conversation (roughly a third of the way in, Ch. XII), the prisoner explains that his chalked calculations concern his friend, and predicts a comet visible in seven days' time near the constellation of the Southern Cross, followed by a hurricane. Single stated detail.", "supporting_quotes": ["calculations, they concern you more than you imagine. Let your ship be in\na safe harbour within these two weeks to come: a comet will be visible\nin seven days’ time, near the constellation of the Southern Cross; the\nhurricane that will follow at its tail, will be more than many ships will\nbe able to bear. Now sit down.”"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0140", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "philip_emmanuel_appadocca", "question": "In the novel where a long, low pirate schooner repeatedly outsails a British man-of-war in the Caribbean by re-rigging herself overnight, the pirates one morning disguise her as a battered, barnacled barque with broken masts and an English ensign tied upside down as a signal of distress. A midshipman pulls over and hails the lone figure standing at her gangway; what name is he given for the ship?", "answer": "The Sting", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "In the decoy-wreck episode (Ch. XVII, roughly 55% through), the midshipman hails the supposed distressed vessel and the solitary man at the gangway answers with her name before the barque's false sides fall away and the Black Schooner springs out.", "supporting_quotes": ["“What ship is that?” asked the midshipman.\n\n“The Sting,” answered the solitary individual, who was standing at the\ngangway."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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-## 6 questions
-### comp-0179 — computation
-**Q.** The chief of the metropolitan police, who feared that a notorious judicial blunder had wrecked his career, was nevertheless returned at the following election by a bigger vote than before. How many votes did he poll at that re-election?
-**A.** 65000  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.318)_
-**Derivation.** In the middle of the book the chief tells the retired doctor the size of the vote by which he had first been nominated (forty-five thousand). In the closing chapter he is re-elected with twenty thousand votes more than at the last time, so his new total is 45,000 + 20,000 = 65,000.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “By how many votes have you been nominated?”
->
-> “By forty-five thousand.”
-> William Dow was in the latter’s office when they came to tell him the
-> result of the voting. He was elected with twenty thousand votes more
-> than at the last time. The effect of this announcement upon Mr. Kelly
-### comp-0180 — computation
-**Q.** After the night collision in the fog off Staten Island, the stout merchant bought the silence of every sailor who had manned the fishing boat that pulled him toward shore. How many dollars did that hush money amount to in all?
-**A.** 400  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.182)_
-**Derivation.** The boat lowered from the hired steamer is manned by four sailors (chapter IV). Several chapters later (chapter IX) the narrator recalls that the stout man had given them each one hundred dollars. 4 x 100 = 400.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> came instantly. It was a graceful, solid fishing boat, in which the
-> worst weather might have been braved. Four vigorous sailors manned it.
-> excursion which we have described, and, moreover, although the sailors
-> of the boat knew that they had run into a yawl, they knew no more.
->
-> In their natural haste to save themselves they were no more anxious
-> about those who had made them run so great a danger than about the
-> stout man, who, no doubt, as an apology for the cold bath he had made
-> them take, had given them each one hundred dollars.
-### mult-0179 — multihop
-**Q.** A man who had taken a villa at Jamaica Plain under an assumed identity, and who posed there as a solitary man of science, secretly wrote to a New York police captain asking that warrants be issued against his neighbours. Before he attached himself to the New York police force, in which city had he been a prosperous and highly regarded doctor?
-**A.** Philadelphia  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.566)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (late, chapter XX): the letter sent to the police captain reveals that the Jamaica Plain neighbour calling himself Charles Murray is really William Dow. Hop 2 (early, chapter VI): William Dow is introduced as having been one of the most distinguished and wealthy physicians in Philadelphia before he left for New York and joined the police.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Having addressed it to Captain Young at the office of the central
-> police, New York, Charles Murray, or rather William Dow, whom the
-> reader has already recognized, left his study calmer than he had
-> entered it a few moments before.
-> Less than two years before the time in which this story took place,
-> William Dow was one of the most distinguished, most wealthy, and
-> honorable physicians in Philadelphia; but one day he suddenly left that
-> city to establish himself in New York. There he joined the force of the
-### mult-0180 — multihop
-**Q.** When the murderer stripped his victim of her jewels he missed a single gold bracelet, which was recovered long afterwards on the wrist of a Sioux warrior's wife out on the prairie. The stout admirer who had originally presented the victim with a matching pair named the dealer they had been bought from. What was that dealer's name?
-**A.** Jefferie Muller  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.224)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (final chapter): the reconstruction of the crime states that every jewel was taken except the gold bracelet, later found among the Sioux, which an Indian had picked up on the door-step. Hop 2 (prairie chapter, several chapters earlier): the merchant identifies that bracelet as one of a pair he gave her and names the shop it came from.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> of a murderer. But the dead Ada he murdered at his ease, took off her
-> jewels, excepting the gold bracelet, which he found among the Sioux,
-> and which one of those Indians, no doubt, picked up on the young
-> woman’s door-step, as it probably fell off when she was carried away;
-> “Why, it is one of Miss Ada’s bracelets; I gave it to her. I offered
-> her two alike. They came from Jefferie Muller’s. Our initials, twined
-> together, are engraved on the inside.”
-### retr-0179 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the confidential report that an inquiry agency delivered to the jilted merchant whose mistress had been carried off from her own masked ball by three men costumed as Sioux, a ship's mate is cited as having seen, while on watch below Blackwell's Island, a yawl rowed by an Indian with a passenger seated in the stern. What was the name of the steamer that mate served on?
-**A.** Liberia  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** The agency's confidential report (early in the novel, chapter III) names the mate and his ship when describing the sighting of the yawl below Blackwell's Island.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
->   immediately went to the East River to embark in a boat waiting for
->   them, for James Davis, the mate of the steamer Liberia, remembered
->   having seen, while he was on watch Tuesday or Wednesday night, at
->   three o’clock, below Blackwell’s Island, a yawl, rowed by an Indian,
->   and in the stern of which sat a woman. This yawl passed so close to
-### retr-0180 — retrieval
-**Q.** Late one night in a hospital autopsy room, a sculptor took a full-length plaster mould of the drowned body that had been fished out of the river with a tar barrel roped to its leg. Once the dividing cords were pulled, into how many pieces did the plaster casing come apart?
-**A.** 20  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the moulding chapter (chapter VIII) the narrator states that the coating of plaster, after the cords were removed, was divided into twenty fragments.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> The detective watched him attentively. In less than an hour, all was
-> done. The corpse was lost to sight beneath a thick coating of plaster,
-> which after removing cords was divided into twenty fragments. It looked
-> like a block of snow.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0243 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where boys keep watch as an 'Airlane Guard' above a Long Island salt marsh, the spectral flying craft was reported on four Friday nights running, at a strict weekly interval. How many days lay between the first of those appearances and the last?
-**A.** 21  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.505)_
-**Derivation.** About 6 percent in, the test pilot states that the apparition has come every seven days. About 57 percent in, one of the boys asks what has happened on four successive Friday nights. Four sightings spaced seven days apart give three intervals, so 3 x 7 = 21 days from the first to the last. The total is never stated in the text.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "Well, then, for another thing, if you check up you'll find that the
-> spook has appeared every seven days--and this is the seventh night
-> since this last time!"
-> "What has happened on four successive Friday nights, around Mystery
-> Airport?" he demanded.
-### comp-0244 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where a boy kicks through a cockpit floor during a night storm to work an amphibian's broken elevator cables by hand, take that boy's stated age in years and add the number of solo hours he later claims in that same three-place amphibian. What total do you get?
-**A.** 30  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.712)_
-**Derivation.** In the opening chapter (about 1 percent in) the student-pilot is described as fifteen years old. About 73 percent in, the same youth says he has had fifteen hours solo in the three-place amphibian. 15 + 15 = 30, a figure never stated in the novel.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "How about it, Garry? Wouldn't that be awful?" Garfield Duncan,
-> fifteen-year-old student-pilot and assistant to an airport manager's
-> nephew, answered seriously.
-> "I'd better get the Dragonfly warmed up and on one of the outgoing
-> runways, sir. If anything should compel Don to land in the bay or the
-> swamp--or if he didn't recognize my signal--I could manage to fly the
-> 'crate' that far--I've had fifteen hours solo in her."
-### mult-0243 — multihop
-**Q.** In the tale of an 'Airlane Guard' that patrols the night sky over a Long Island salt marsh, drainage engineers had turned up a skeleton that people around the marsh connected with an old pirate band. According to the man finally unmasked in the boathouse, where had those bones actually come from?
-**A.** a hospital  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.506)_
-**Derivation.** About 46 percent in, the handyman recalls that engineers draining the swamp found a skeleton taken for a member of an old pirate band; about 97 percent in, the unmasked culprit admits he bought an old discarded skeleton from a hospital and had it discovered so searchers would look in the wrong locality. Only together do the two passages show that the pirate skeleton was a planted hospital specimen.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "See here," he repeated, "do you recollect when the engineers were
-> draining the swamp, and found a skeleton of some poor old codger who
-> was supposed to be one of the old pirate band that used to hang around
-> New York, a good many dozen years ago?"
-> tracing to keep you away from the real spot, same as I bought an old,
-> discarded skeleton from a hospital and had it discovered to start
-> people looking in that locality--far away from where I dug and scooped
-> in mud."
-### mult-0244 — multihop
-**Q.** In the story of a phantom flying craft glimpsed against glowing clouds near Long Island Sound, a beam of light stabbed up at the boys' amphibian on the night they carried ocean mail in, from a spot where the young pilot was certain no such lamp belonged. From what kind of building was that beam actually thrown?
-**A.** a moving picture theatre  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.518)_
-**Derivation.** About 38 percent in, during the rocket attack, the pilot realizes the beam came from a place where no searchlight should have been. About 90 percent in, the young Indian explains that his father worked a spot lamp from the projector room of the moving picture theatre and swung it to a window to blind them. Neither passage alone identifies the source of that particular beam.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> He knew, with sureness, that no chance celebration accounted for the
-> rockets, by that beam of light coming up at them from a spot where no
-> searchlight should have been!
-> "Yes. My father was in the moving picture theatre, in the room with the
-> projectors, and he wheeled the spot lamp across to a window, and used
-> it to light up and blind you! But I thought you were the man who had
-> taken our property."
-### retr-0243 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel where three boys form an 'Airlane Guard' to hunt a phantom biplane that seems to fly out of glowing clouds above a Long Island salt marsh, a huge double-bodied seaplane stands in the hangar beside the design rooms. Which national government had ordered that machine?
-**A.** Mexican  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the darkroom-fire scene roughly 82 percent through the book, the narrator lists what is at risk in the adjoining hangar and states that the fourteen-ton, double-bodied seaplane there had been ordered by the Mexican Government.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> In the hangar next it were
-> airplanes worth thousands of dollars, including a fourteen-ton,
-> double-bodied seaplane that had been ordered by the Mexican Government.
-### retr-0244 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the story where a spectral flying craft is thrown onto clouds above a Long Island salt marsh, the culprit, talking to himself before his shaving mirror, names the old sailing brig he believes was sucked down in the channel mud. What name does he give it?
-**A.** Lady O' Fortune  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** At the close of the chapter about 69 percent through the text, the unnamed schemer muses aloud about digging up the chest and names the vessel outright.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> getting out of this little experiment--the engineers won't be working,
-> and it ought to be easy to find the chest that must have been buried
-> when the mud in Crab Channel sucked down the brigantine, _Lady O'
-> Fortune_."

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0215 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where a City iron firm's owner wills annuities to employees who will give up their vices, the man whose weakness was drink kept the real size of his windfall from his household, insisting that the only account to be repeated in his house was that he held a salaried appointment with a newly formed social club for business men. By how many pounds a year did the annuity he was actually promised exceed the figure he put on that club appointment?
-**A.** 440  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.134)_
-**Derivation.** Opening chapter: the drinker is willing to give up the habit for the stated yearly annuity. Several chapters later, in his Leytonstone sitting-room, he warns his lodger that the club post at its stated yearly figure is the only version to be discussed there. Subtracting the second figure from the first gives the difference.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> The drink habit had Gray fairly in its toils, but he was willing to
-> give it up for £500 a year, and he honestly believed he could.
-> "Not a word, mind," said Gray, in a fierce whisper to George. "I won't
-> have that business discussed here. I'm secretary to the 'Old Friends'
-> Society,' at sixty pounds a year. That's good enough for you."
-### comp-0216 — computation
-**Q.** In the story where a dying merchant of the iron trade wills a yearly income to each of several employees on condition that they drop their vices, those same men, after their incomes were gone, agreed to turn on the young blackmailer who had preyed on them and to demand an equal sum from him as an opening payment, scorning smaller notes. Taking one such payment for every man who had originally held one of those incomes, what was the total of that opening demand, in pounds?
-**A.** 300  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.626)_
-**Derivation.** Opening chapter: the eavesdropper totals up how many of these yearly bequests were arranged. Much later, in the warehouse conference overheard by the new master, the ringleader fixes the opening payment each of them will demand. Multiplying the per-head demand by the number of bequests gives the total.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Planting himself before the fire, he went musingly over the whole scene
-> again. It was astounding. Three legacies of five hundred pounds a year
-> each! George Early could scarcely realize the significance of it.
-> "Then that's fixed up. I'll tackle him tomorrow, and let him see that
-> we mean business. Won't little Georgie swear! We'll have a hundred each
-> down to begin with; no paltry fivers."
-### mult-0215 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where a junior clerk, trapped in a box-room off his employer's room, overhears the old man arranging bequests to cure his staff of their besetting faults, the employee bribed to give up telling lies was much later moved to a different post by that same eavesdropper, once he had risen to run the firm. What post was he promoted to?
-**A.** private secretary  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.566)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (opening chapter): the cashier is the one offered the annuity for giving up lying. Hop 2 (roughly two-thirds through, during the period when the new master is coaching the two surviving legatees): that same man is promoted to a named post at an increased salary. Neither passage alone identifies both the man and the post.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Old Fairbrother offered Busby a cigar, then delineated his character in
-> the same way as he had done that of Parrott A legacy of £500 a year
-> awaited Busby if he chose to give up his habit of lying and stick to
-> the truth. Of course, Busby readily consented. He said for the future
-> no lie should ever pass his lips.
-> Busby was promoted to the post of private secretary at an increased
-> salary, and a great deal of Parrott's time was spent upstairs in the
-> big office. At intervals, Mr. George Early sent them little gifts of
-> books, wherein the value of truth on the one hand, and generosity on
-> the other, were set forth.
-### mult-0216 — multihop
-**Q.** In the story where a benevolent iron merchant tells each of several employees to his face what fault his money is meant to cure, the man reproached for being mean was privately putting off naming his wedding day until he could be sure the bequest was safely his. How many years of bachelorhood had he been intending to bring to a close?
-**A.** 40  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.165)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (opening chapter): the man told to his face that he is disliked because he is mean is the head clerk. Hop 2 (several chapters later, in his lodgings before the lamb-chop dinner): the head clerk had meant to fix the wedding day and end a stated span of bachelorhood. The second passage never mentions meanness, the first never mentions the wedding.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> it is you they don't like. They like a man who's sociable and one of
-> them, and who's affable and generous. They don't like you because
-> you're mean."
->
-> This home-thrust sent the colour rushing to the face of the head clerk,
-> and the blood of his ancestors prompted him to get up and say--
-> It was nearly seven now, and Miss Perkins was due in half an hour. The
-> head clerk had intended to take advantage of the comfortable legacy
-> left him by setting up an establishment of his own. It had been his
-> intention to fix the wedding day the week before, and thus bring to a
-> close his forty years of bachelorhood; but he had put it off; under the
-> circumstances he was uncertain how to act.
-### retr-0215 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel where a City iron-trade firm's late owner leaves annuities on condition that his employees abandon their vices, a lawyer's clerk shadows one of the legatees into a Cannon Street restaurant and plays the whisky connoisseur, sending the boy out to a high-class house rather than a common public-house for one particular make of spirit. What make does he insist on?
-**A.** Tommy Morgan  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Middle of the book (the chapter in which the law firm's clerk trails the accountant from the Iron Wharf to a Cannon Street restaurant). He orders the waiter's boy to fetch one named brand and refuses the cheaper ones offered.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "Get me some whisky," said Mole; "and, look here!"--eyeing him
-> sternly--"I don't want any of your cheap wash. Ask for 'Tommy Morgan.'"
-### retr-0216 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the story of an iron and hardware merchant of Upper Thames Street who willed annuities to cure his clerks of their faults, the young solicitor handling the estate cheerfully tells the new holder of one annuity that he will be watched very closely, and names the philanthropic body he is acting for, which stands to gain if the conditions are broken. What is that body called?
-**A.** Very Dark African Mission  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** About two-thirds of the way through, immediately after the drink annuity has passed to the young master: he calls at the solicitors' office and is told, in one sentence, on whose behalf he will be watched.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "We shall watch you closely," he said brightly to George, rubbing
-> his hands. "On behalf of the trustees of the 'Very Dark African
-> Mission,' who will benefit by the estate, I am directed to
-> watch--you--very--closely."

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "comp-0215", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "randall_love_ironmonger", "question": "In the novel where a City iron firm's owner wills annuities to employees who will give up their vices, the man whose weakness was drink kept the real size of his windfall from his household, insisting that the only account to be repeated in his house was that he held a salaried appointment with a newly formed social club for business men. By how many pounds a year did the annuity he was actually promised exceed the figure he put on that club appointment?", "answer": "440", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Opening chapter: the drinker is willing to give up the habit for the stated yearly annuity. Several chapters later, in his Leytonstone sitting-room, he warns his lodger that the club post at its stated yearly figure is the only version to be discussed there. Subtracting the second figure from the first gives the difference.", "supporting_quotes": ["The drink habit had Gray fairly in its toils, but he was willing to\ngive it up for £500 a year, and he honestly believed he could.", "\"Not a word, mind,\" said Gray, in a fierce whisper to George. \"I won't\nhave that business discussed here. I'm secretary to the 'Old Friends'\nSociety,' at sixty pounds a year. That's good enough for you.\""], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.134, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "comp-0216", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "randall_love_ironmonger", "question": "In the story where a dying merchant of the iron trade wills a yearly income to each of several employees on condition that they drop their vices, those same men, after their incomes were gone, agreed to turn on the young blackmailer who had preyed on them and to demand an equal sum from him as an opening payment, scorning smaller notes. Taking one such payment for every man who had originally held one of those incomes, what was the total of that opening demand, in pounds?", "answer": "300", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Opening chapter: the eavesdropper totals up how many of these yearly bequests were arranged. Much later, in the warehouse conference overheard by the new master, the ringleader fixes the opening payment each of them will demand. Multiplying the per-head demand by the number of bequests gives the total.", "supporting_quotes": ["Planting himself before the fire, he went musingly over the whole scene\nagain. It was astounding. Three legacies of five hundred pounds a year\neach! George Early could scarcely realize the significance of it.", "\"Then that's fixed up. I'll tackle him tomorrow, and let him see that\nwe mean business. Won't little Georgie swear! We'll have a hundred each\ndown to begin with; no paltry fivers.\""], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.626, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0215", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "randall_love_ironmonger", "question": "In the novel where a junior clerk, trapped in a box-room off his employer's room, overhears the old man arranging bequests to cure his staff of their besetting faults, the employee bribed to give up telling lies was much later moved to a different post by that same eavesdropper, once he had risen to run the firm. What post was he promoted to?", "answer": "private secretary", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1 (opening chapter): the cashier is the one offered the annuity for giving up lying. Hop 2 (roughly two-thirds through, during the period when the new master is coaching the two surviving legatees): that same man is promoted to a named post at an increased salary. Neither passage alone identifies both the man and the post.", "supporting_quotes": ["Old Fairbrother offered Busby a cigar, then delineated his character in\nthe same way as he had done that of Parrott A legacy of £500 a year\nawaited Busby if he chose to give up his habit of lying and stick to\nthe truth. Of course, Busby readily consented. He said for the future\nno lie should ever pass his lips.", "Busby was promoted to the post of private secretary at an increased\nsalary, and a great deal of Parrott's time was spent upstairs in the\nbig office. At intervals, Mr. George Early sent them little gifts of\nbooks, wherein the value of truth on the one hand, and generosity on\nthe other, were set forth."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.566, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0216", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "randall_love_ironmonger", "question": "In the story where a benevolent iron merchant tells each of several employees to his face what fault his money is meant to cure, the man reproached for being mean was privately putting off naming his wedding day until he could be sure the bequest was safely his. How many years of bachelorhood had he been intending to bring to a close?", "answer": "40", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Hop 1 (opening chapter): the man told to his face that he is disliked because he is mean is the head clerk. Hop 2 (several chapters later, in his lodgings before the lamb-chop dinner): the head clerk had meant to fix the wedding day and end a stated span of bachelorhood. The second passage never mentions meanness, the first never mentions the wedding.", "supporting_quotes": ["it is you they don't like. They like a man who's sociable and one of\nthem, and who's affable and generous. They don't like you because\nyou're mean.\"\n\nThis home-thrust sent the colour rushing to the face of the head clerk,\nand the blood of his ancestors prompted him to get up and say--", "It was nearly seven now, and Miss Perkins was due in half an hour. The\nhead clerk had intended to take advantage of the comfortable legacy\nleft him by setting up an establishment of his own. It had been his\nintention to fix the wedding day the week before, and thus bring to a\nclose his forty years of bachelorhood; but he had put it off; under the\ncircumstances he was uncertain how to act."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.165, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0215", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "randall_love_ironmonger", "question": "In the novel where a City iron-trade firm's late owner leaves annuities on condition that his employees abandon their vices, a lawyer's clerk shadows one of the legatees into a Cannon Street restaurant and plays the whisky connoisseur, sending the boy out to a high-class house rather than a common public-house for one particular make of spirit. What make does he insist on?", "answer": "Tommy Morgan", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Middle of the book (the chapter in which the law firm's clerk trails the accountant from the Iron Wharf to a Cannon Street restaurant). He orders the waiter's boy to fetch one named brand and refuses the cheaper ones offered.", "supporting_quotes": ["\"Get me some whisky,\" said Mole; \"and, look here!\"--eyeing him\nsternly--\"I don't want any of your cheap wash. Ask for 'Tommy Morgan.'\""], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0216", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "randall_love_ironmonger", "question": "In the story of an iron and hardware merchant of Upper Thames Street who willed annuities to cure his clerks of their faults, the young solicitor handling the estate cheerfully tells the new holder of one annuity that he will be watched very closely, and names the philanthropic body he is acting for, which stands to gain if the conditions are broken. What is that body called?", "answer": "Very Dark African Mission", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "About two-thirds of the way through, immediately after the drink annuity has passed to the young master: he calls at the solicitors' office and is told, in one sentence, on whose behalf he will be watched.", "supporting_quotes": ["\"We shall watch you closely,\" he said brightly to George, rubbing\nhis hands. \"On behalf of the trustees of the 'Very Dark African\nMission,' who will benefit by the estate, I am directed to\nwatch--you--very--closely.\""], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0119 — computation
-**Q.** The narrator remembers lugging a huge brick from a Chinese frontier wall on a two-mile tramp under a summer sun, and elsewhere gives his own age at the time of a celebrated ducal country-house sale that had caused a sensation years earlier. How old was he on the day of that tramp?
-**A.** 28  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.508)_
-**Derivation.** The garden essay dates the tramp with the brick to 1865. The art-collection chapter dates the Duke of Buckingham's sale at Stowe to 1848 and states that the narrator was then eleven years old. 1865 - 1848 = 17; 11 + 17 = 28. The two passages sit in different chapters roughly 45 per cent of the text apart.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Shall I ever forget the tramp of a couple of miles under an August sun
-> in 1865 with that huge brick from the Great Wall seeming to bite into
-> my aching shoulder?
-> The Duke of Buckingham’s sale at Stowe, in 1848, created an immense
-> sensation. I remember it well, for although I was only eleven years old,
-> I used to hear much art talk even in those days between my father and his
-> friends.
-### comp-0120 — computation
-**Q.** One short chapter opens with the narrator naming the exact day on which he is writing, having just read in the Times a minister's speech urging the study of Russian. How many days after that stated date did he die?
-**A.** 10  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.588)_
-**Derivation.** The Russian-studies chapter is dated by the narrator to the 7th of August, 1916. The prefatory memoir states that he died at noon on the 17th of August, 1916. 17 - 7 = 10 days. The two passages are in different sections, over half the volume apart.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> A few days ago—I am writing on the 7th of August, 1916—I read in the
-> _Times_ a long speech by one of our preter-pluperfect rulers, announcing
-> the determination of the Government to encourage the study of Russian, on
-> account of its glorious literature.
-> But he grew physically weaker, and seven days later he passed into an
-> unconscious state, dying peacefully at noon of the 17th of August,
-> 1916.
-### mult-0119 — multihop
-**Q.** In a late essay on the talk of friends in a garden, the narrator says a German philosopher's spite against the composer he had once idolized was as poisonous as the malice of a figure out of an Indian story he had related much earlier in the book. In that earlier story, what animal had that figure shot, whose rescue by the young prince set the feud going?
-**A.** wild goose  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.559)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1: the late essay names the Indian figure as the source of the comparison. Hop 2: the early life-of-the-Buddha narrative states that the wounded wild goose that fell at the prince's feet had been shot by that same kinsman, and that this began the enmity. Neither passage alone answers the question; the two lie about half the volume apart and in different chapters.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Whatever may have been the
-> cause, or the many causes, of the rupture, its violence was, at any
-> rate on Nietzsche’s side, maniacal. His venom was not less poisonous
-> than that which Devadatta poured out upon the Buddha.
-> about to go to their help when a wounded wild goose, the Hansa of Indian
-> myth, fell at his feet.
->
-> The prince took it up and tended it and bound up the wound. Now the goose
-> had been shot by his kinsman Devadatta, and this was the beginning of a
-> great enmity between them.
-### mult-0120 — multihop
-**Q.** Early in the volume the narrator quotes his own letter announcing that he was at work clearing the name of an ailing, retiring English peer who lived apart in Paris and whose character, he believed, had been blackened by expatriate gossip. On what date did that peer die?
-**A.** 25 August 1870  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.575)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1: the quoted letter in the front matter identifies the subject of the projected rehabilitation as Lord Hertford, explicitly distinguishing him from the Marquess of Steyne of fiction. Hop 2: the later chapter on the art collection gives the death of Richard, fourth Marquess of Hertford, at Paris on the 25th of August, 1870. Different chapters, more than half the volume apart.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
->     “Just now I am busy trying to whitewash Lord Hertford—not the
->     Marquess of Steyne, that would be impossible—but the unhappy
->     hypochondriac recluse of the Rue Lafitte, who I believe has
->     been most malignantly traduced by the third-rate English Colony
->     in Paris—all his faults exaggerated, none of his good qualities
->     even hinted at.
-> Richard, fourth Marquess of Hertford, who never married, died at Paris on
-> the 25th of August, 1870.
-### retr-0119 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the book whose narrator keeps a pair of huge bronze Kylins standing sentry at the entrance to his house, one of the two small gazebos on his terrace has a smooth glazed brick mortared into its wall. What structure was that brick taken from?
-**A.** Porcelain Tower of Nanking  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the opening garden essay the narrator catalogues his curiosities and states that of the two bricks set into a gazebo wall, the glazed white one came from the Porcelain Tower of Nanking (the other being from the Great Wall). Single stated detail, early in the volume.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Built into the wall of one of the two little gazebos which are at the
-> east and west ends of my terrace are two bricks—the one rough and rugged,
-> sun-dried and splashed with the mortar of more than two thousand years
-> since, from the Great Wall of China at Ku Pei Kŏu; the other white,
-> smooth and richly glazed from the famous Porcelain Tower of Nanking,
-### retr-0120 — retrieval
-**Q.** A Japanese legend retold in this book concerns a willow whose spirit had taken the form of a wife; when the tree was at last felled for the repair of a great Buddhist temple, it grew so heavy that no crowd of men could shift it, and a small child led it to the temple court. How many images of the Goddess of Mercy did that temple hold?
-**A.** 33333  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the chapter on tree lore the narrator quotes the Yanagi legend and glosses the temple named there parenthetically as the temple of 33,333 images of Kwannon. Single stated detail, roughly two-fifths through the volume.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> for the reparation of a great Buddhist temple, the Sanjiusangendo.” (The
-> Temple of the 33,333 images of Kwannon, the Goddess of Mercy.)

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "retr-0120", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "redesdale_further_memories", "question": "A Japanese legend retold in this book concerns a willow whose spirit had taken the form of a wife; when the tree was at last felled for the repair of a great Buddhist temple, it grew so heavy that no crowd of men could shift it, and a small child led it to the temple court. How many images of the Goddess of Mercy did that temple hold?", "answer": "33333", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "In the chapter on tree lore the narrator quotes the Yanagi legend and glosses the temple named there parenthetically as the temple of 33,333 images of Kwannon. Single stated detail, roughly two-fifths through the volume.", "supporting_quotes": ["for the reparation of a great Buddhist temple, the Sanjiusangendo.” (The\nTemple of the 33,333 images of Kwannon, the Goddess of Mercy.)"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0241 — computation
-**Q.** In the story where the children stage a burlesque of their governess's unfinished manuscript in the back drawing-room, a red-haired schoolboy later extracts her age from her with a pencil-and-paper number trick. By how many years does her age exceed that of the dying hero of her manuscript?
-**A.** 7  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.683)_
-**Derivation.** At the first dinner (Chapter III, roughly 11%) the youngest boy reports the hero's age. At the birthday scene (Chapter XX, roughly 79%) the schoolboy announces the governess's age. Subtracting the two stated ages gives the answer.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “and the
-> hero’s twenty-seven years old, and the heroine’s twenty-two.
-> The purpose of finding out that Miss Johnson’s age is thirty-four.
-### comp-0242 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel that closes with a sick boy falling asleep in an old lady's arms in her dead grandson's room, the two youngest children state on the walk from the station what hour they are sent to bed; on the governess's birthday that hour is put off for those same two. By how many minutes was their usual bedtime postponed that evening?
-**A.** 90  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.75)_
-**Derivation.** On the walk up from the station (Chapter II, roughly 5%) the usual bedtime of the two youngest is stated. At the birthday celebration (Chapter XX, roughly 81%) the postponed hour for those same two is stated. The difference between the two stated times, converted to minutes, gives the answer.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “Jim and me at half-past eight: Grif and Barbara at nine.”
-> the hour of
-> bedtime should be postponed, even for Jim and Ann, till the delirious
-> stroke of ten.
-### mult-0241 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel in which a feverish boy watches the pair of china dogs on his bedroom chimney-piece stretch, yawn and begin to gossip, the ornaments boast that only two other named creatures about the place know more than they do. What sort of animals were those two?
-**A.** cats  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.596)_
-**Derivation.** Early in the book (Chapter IV, roughly 14%) the two named prowlers are introduced with their species and where they belong; much later, during the delirium (Chapter XVII, roughly 71%), one china ornament names exactly those two as knowing more than themselves. Neither passage alone gives the answer.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Pan and Syrinx, the two stable cats, glided like ghosts from their
-> hiding-place
-> We know more than anybody except Pan and Syrinx.
-### mult-0242 — multihop
-**Q.** In the book where a boy pushes open a green door in a high brick wall and is told he may hunt for ripe gooseberries instead of butterflies, he notices a flute lying on a cabinet shelf and is told who owns it. According to the headstone he later finds in the churchyard, how old was that owner when he died?
-**A.** 14  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.359)_
-**Derivation.** In the red-brick house (Chapter V, roughly 22%) the old captain says the flute belongs to his grandson, giving the boy's familiar name; in the churchyard (Chapter XIII, roughly 57%) the stone gives that boy's full name and his age at death. Linking the familiar name to the name on the stone is required.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “It belongs to Billy――Billy Tremaine,
-> my grandson.”
-> William Batt Tremaine, aged
-> fourteen years.
-### retr-0241 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel that opens with a bulldog riding under the seat of a stifling June railway carriage full of children, their governess is secretly at work on a romantic manuscript of her own. According to her, what was the title of the painting that first suggested its plot to her?
-**A.** To Err is Human  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** At the first dinner at the glebe house (Chapter III, roughly 12% into the text) the governess explains the origin of her manuscript, naming the picture outright. One hop.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> The idea was suggested to me by a very beautiful painting in the
-> Royal Academy, entitled _To Err is Human_.
-### retr-0242 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the story where a village church organist insists that the ghost of a dead pupil stood behind him at the keyboard while he played an old Italian air, one of the visiting schoolboys discovers that the organist has been living under only part of his own name. Which surname had he dropped?
-**A.** Tennant  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the bedroom conversation after the sleepwalking episode (Chapter XV, roughly 65% into the text) the red-haired schoolboy states the organist's real name in confidence. One hop.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> His real name is Tennant.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "comp-0241", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "reid_spring_song", "question": "In the story where the children stage a burlesque of their governess's unfinished manuscript in the back drawing-room, a red-haired schoolboy later extracts her age from her with a pencil-and-paper number trick. By how many years does her age exceed that of the dying hero of her manuscript?", "answer": "7", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "At the first dinner (Chapter III, roughly 11%) the youngest boy reports the hero's age. At the birthday scene (Chapter XX, roughly 79%) the schoolboy announces the governess's age. Subtracting the two stated ages gives the answer.", "supporting_quotes": ["“and the\nhero’s twenty-seven years old, and the heroine’s twenty-two.", "The purpose of finding out that Miss Johnson’s age is thirty-four."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.683, "review_flags": ["answer also appears in the novel as 'seven' (1x outside the supporting quotes) — check it is not answerable by retrieval alone"], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "comp-0242", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "reid_spring_song", "question": "In the novel that closes with a sick boy falling asleep in an old lady's arms in her dead grandson's room, the two youngest children state on the walk from the station what hour they are sent to bed; on the governess's birthday that hour is put off for those same two. By how many minutes was their usual bedtime postponed that evening?", "answer": "90", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "On the walk up from the station (Chapter II, roughly 5%) the usual bedtime of the two youngest is stated. At the birthday celebration (Chapter XX, roughly 81%) the postponed hour for those same two is stated. The difference between the two stated times, converted to minutes, gives the answer.", "supporting_quotes": ["“Jim and me at half-past eight: Grif and Barbara at nine.”", "the hour of\nbedtime should be postponed, even for Jim and Ann, till the delirious\nstroke of ten."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.75, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0241", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "reid_spring_song", "question": "In the novel in which a feverish boy watches the pair of china dogs on his bedroom chimney-piece stretch, yawn and begin to gossip, the ornaments boast that only two other named creatures about the place know more than they do. What sort of animals were those two?", "answer": "cats", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Early in the book (Chapter IV, roughly 14%) the two named prowlers are introduced with their species and where they belong; much later, during the delirium (Chapter XVII, roughly 71%), one china ornament names exactly those two as knowing more than themselves. Neither passage alone gives the answer.", "supporting_quotes": ["Pan and Syrinx, the two stable cats, glided like ghosts from their\nhiding-place", "We know more than anybody except Pan and Syrinx."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.596, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0242", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "reid_spring_song", "question": "In the book where a boy pushes open a green door in a high brick wall and is told he may hunt for ripe gooseberries instead of butterflies, he notices a flute lying on a cabinet shelf and is told who owns it. According to the headstone he later finds in the churchyard, how old was that owner when he died?", "answer": "14", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "In the red-brick house (Chapter V, roughly 22%) the old captain says the flute belongs to his grandson, giving the boy's familiar name; in the churchyard (Chapter XIII, roughly 57%) the stone gives that boy's full name and his age at death. Linking the familiar name to the name on the stone is required.", "supporting_quotes": ["“It belongs to Billy――Billy Tremaine,\nmy grandson.”", "William Batt Tremaine, aged\nfourteen years."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.359, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0241", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "reid_spring_song", "question": "In the novel that opens with a bulldog riding under the seat of a stifling June railway carriage full of children, their governess is secretly at work on a romantic manuscript of her own. According to her, what was the title of the painting that first suggested its plot to her?", "answer": "To Err is Human", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "At the first dinner at the glebe house (Chapter III, roughly 12% into the text) the governess explains the origin of her manuscript, naming the picture outright. One hop.", "supporting_quotes": ["The idea was suggested to me by a very beautiful painting in the\nRoyal Academy, entitled _To Err is Human_."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0242", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "reid_spring_song", "question": "In the story where a village church organist insists that the ghost of a dead pupil stood behind him at the keyboard while he played an old Italian air, one of the visiting schoolboys discovers that the organist has been living under only part of his own name. Which surname had he dropped?", "answer": "Tennant", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "In the bedroom conversation after the sleepwalking episode (Chapter XV, roughly 65% into the text) the red-haired schoolboy states the organist's real name in confidence. One hop.", "supporting_quotes": ["His real name is Tennant."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0149 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where an Eastern college boy comes west to hunt for the fortune his dead uncle hid, the surviving ranch partner offers to buy the young man's half of the ranch and cattle, and much later, among his confederates, boasts of exactly how much he is deliberately overpaying. Taking both figures at face value, what was that half-interest actually worth?
-**A.** 7500  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.122)_
-**Derivation.** About seventy percent of the way through the text the heir reports that his uncle's partner offered him ten thousand dollars for his half of the ranch and cattle. Several chapters later, at the conspirators' meeting, the same partner complains that he is giving the boy twenty-five hundred dollars too much out of his own share. 10,000 - 2,500 = 7,500 dollars.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> His partner offered me ten thousand for
-> my half of ranch and cattle.
-> I’m giving him
-> twenty-five hundred dollars too much
-### comp-0150 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel in which a prisoner holds his captor still by threatening to smash his skull with a typewriter, several typing-practice sentences are quoted over the course of the story. Counting only distinct sentences that the text explicitly claims contain every letter of the alphabet, how many are there?
-**A.** 3  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.469)_
-**Derivation.** Three separate places state that a practice sentence holds all the letters: the clerk supplies the gunboats sentence early on as one that contains every letter; in the coded letter (about a third of the way through) the prisoner says he made up a sentence with all the letters in it, the vexing-journeys line; and near the end of the first half he tells his guard there is a much shorter sentence with all the letters in it, the liquor-jugs line. The famous party sentence practiced in chapters I and II is excluded because the text states that seven letters are missing from it. 1 + 1 + 1 = 3.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> here’s one that contains every letter: ‘A quick move by
-> the enemy will jeopardize six fine gunboats.’
-> I made up a sentence with all
->   the letters in it--he kept vexing me by frantic journeys hidden with
->   quiet zeal
-> Did you know there was a much shorter sentence with all the
-> letters in it than we’ve been using? There is. ‘Pack my box with five
-> dozen liquor jugs.’
-### mult-0149 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel about a cowboy secretly imprisoned across the river from a Texas border city, the captive works out on his first sleepless night that he must be below ground, because faint locomotive whistles are the only outside sounds that reach him. Which architectural feature of his cell carries those sounds, and in what two later ways do his friends exploit that same feature to free him?
-**A.** The fireplace and its chimney, which runs up through the house above: one of his friends listened down that chimney and could hear every word the guards said, and later a .45 revolver was lowered down it on a hook so the prisoner could get the drop on his guard.  _(format: string, hops: 3, separation: 0.305)_
-**Derivation.** Early (about a fifth of the way in) the prisoner reasons that the muffled whistles come by the fireplace and that the chimney runs up through a house above. Much later, after the friends find the adobe, one of them mounts the roof and reports that the chimney goes straight down and that he could hear every word; later still, at the signal, the revolver comes down the chimney. Neither passage alone gives both the deduction and the two uses.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> My prison is underground, since those whistles are the
-> only sounds that reach me, and they muffled and indistinct; coming by
-> the fireplace. That chimney goes through a house above, since they
-> keep up a fire.
-> Chimney goes straight down;
-> I could hear every word they said.
-> Immediately the long, blue barrel of a .45 nosed inquiringly down the
-> chimney. Jeff disengaged the gun from the hook and slipped it under his
-> coat.
-### mult-0150 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where conspirators gather on a rainy night at a lawyer's house to force a banker to hand over a dead man's money, one of the gamblers later empties the safe he shares with his partner, but puts a few silver dollars back with a penciled note about postage. How many coins does he leave, and what outburst of his partner's from that meeting is he mocking?
-**A.** Nine silver dollars; his partner had raged that he wanted to get so far away from there that it would take nine dollars to send him a postcard.  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.079)_
-**Derivation.** At the rainy-night council the little Irish gambler declares he wants to get so far away that it would take nine dollars to send him a postcard. Several chapters later, after robbing both the bank and his own safe, his partner counts nine silver dollars back into the safe and leaves a note offering him the money for that postcard. The note alone gives the number but not the target of the joke; the outburst alone gives the joke but not the act.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> I want to get so far away from here
-> it’ll take nine dollars to send me a postcard;
-> He counted out nine silver dollars
-> and put them back in the safe;
-> _Dear Scanlon_: I am leaving you nine dollars to send me a postcard.
-### retr-0149 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel where a man kidnapped after a midnight street gunfight is held in a windowless cellar and writes a letter to a wife he does not actually have, the captive asks one of his guards to buy him a replacement hat and states its exact specifications. How wide a brim does he ask for?
-**A.** A four-inch brim  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Roughly halfway through the book, on the evening of his escape, the prisoner banters with his Scottish guard about needing a new hat and gives the order: a J. B., size 7 1/8, four-inch brim, pearl gray. The brim width is stated once.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Get a J. B., 7⅛, four-inch
-> brim, pearl gray. It’ll supply a long-wanted felt.
-### retr-0150 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel in which a small-town banker is marched at gunpoint to open his own safe at night and is left bound and gagged in his counting room over a weekend, the cowman who trails the robber later describes tying that robber up in his own gaming room. What does he say he tucked into the trussed-up man's vest pocket?
-**A.** Four aces  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the closing lines of the book, on the train out of town, the cowman explains how he gagged and hogtied the gambler in the poker room, and adds as a final flourish that he planted four aces in the man's vest pocket. The detail appears only once.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Yes; I gagged Beck and hogtied him up in
-> his own poker room. Some job--believe me! I put four aces in his vest
-> pocket.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "retr-0149", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "rhodes_good_men", "question": "In the novel where a man kidnapped after a midnight street gunfight is held in a windowless cellar and writes a letter to a wife he does not actually have, the captive asks one of his guards to buy him a replacement hat and states its exact specifications. How wide a brim does he ask for?", "answer": "A four-inch brim", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Roughly halfway through the book, on the evening of his escape, the prisoner banters with his Scottish guard about needing a new hat and gives the order: a J. B., size 7 1/8, four-inch brim, pearl gray. The brim width is stated once.", "supporting_quotes": ["Get a J. B., 7⅛, four-inch\nbrim, pearl gray. It’ll supply a long-wanted felt."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0150", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "rhodes_good_men", "question": "In the novel in which a small-town banker is marched at gunpoint to open his own safe at night and is left bound and gagged in his counting room over a weekend, the cowman who trails the robber later describes tying that robber up in his own gaming room. What does he say he tucked into the trussed-up man's vest pocket?", "answer": "Four aces", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "In the closing lines of the book, on the train out of town, the cowman explains how he gagged and hogtied the gambler in the poker room, and adds as a final flourish that he planted four aces in the man's vest pocket. The detail appears only once.", "supporting_quotes": ["Yes; I gagged Beck and hogtied him up in\nhis own poker room. Some job--believe me! I put four aces in his vest\npocket."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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-## 6 questions
-### comp-0167 — computation
-**Q.** In the story of a voyage from Northumberland to Venus, a high priest denounces the aged king for a rash prayer he had uttered when his elder daughter lay at the point of death. Reckoning that interval in the local years, and taking the length of the planet's revolution round the sun as one of the travellers states it, how many days lay between the prayer and the denunciation?
-**A.** 1568  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.217)_
-**Derivation.** About 51% in, a traveller gives the length of the planet's year as two hundred and twenty-four days. About 75% in, the high priest tells the king the prayer was made seven years earlier. Seven local years of 224 days each = 1568 days.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “The years of Venus, I suppose. Just oblige a duffer by telling him how
-> long it takes Venus to rotate round the sun?”
->
-> “Two hundred and twenty-four days, I believe.”
-> “Malchon, King of Atalanta, if indeed it be a King that thou art, seven
-> years ago you wrestled in prayer for the life of your child Melanitis.
-### comp-0168 — computation
-**Q.** In the account of a flight from the earth to Venus, one traveller quotes an old astronomical claim about the height, in earth miles, of a mountain at the planet's southern horn; much later, as the party nears the twilight island, a princess states the peak's real height. By how many miles did the old claim overstate it?
-**A.** 7  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.394)_
-**Derivation.** About 22% in, crossing the central ocean, a traveller repeats the claim that the mountain at the south pole may be twenty-seven earth miles high. About 60% in, approaching Melandria, the princess states that Aptaura is twenty miles in height. 27 - 20 = 7 miles of overstatement.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “I read in a book which I brought with me,” said Radcliffe, “that the
-> southern horn of the crescent, that is, the south pole of Venus, is
-> constantly to be seen blunted, as though some lofty mountain existed
-> there which caught the solar rays, and it has been said that this may
-> be even twenty-seven earth miles in height.”
-> “There is Aptaura, the boundary line between two hemispheres, close to
-> the southern pole, and twenty miles in height,” said Mexitli.
-### mult-0167 — multihop
-**Q.** While the earth party was camped on a rocky plateau on Venus, a huge grey thing swept overhead with a wailing cry and disappeared beyond the hills, and their leader feared it was either a primeval monster or a rival airship. On the later voyage southwards one of the king's daughters explained what it really was. What did she call that craft?
-**A.** the ship of death  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.333)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (about a quarter of the way in): the encampment on the plateau is disturbed by a huge greyish thing with fans that whirls away over the mountains. Hop 2 (roughly 58% in, during the aerial voyage south): that aerial 'monster' is identified as the ship of death, which carries condemned prisoners to the dark hemisphere.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> They looked in the direction in which he was wildly pointing,
-> and saw a huge greyish thing, with outspread fans, whirling away to the
-> mountain heights and then vanishing behind them.
-> Abercromby narrated with much animation the story of the aerial monster
-> whose cry of wailing had so suddenly disturbed their encampment.
->
-> The face of Melanitis grew grave. “It was the ship of death,” she said;
-> “a prisoner condemned by us was taken to the dark hemisphere to die.”
-### mult-0168 — multihop
-**Q.** In the tale of an expedition that reaches Venus, a young clergyman's bride is drowned early on when a rowing boat upsets on a Welsh river during their honeymoon, her cousin surviving. Long afterwards, on the other planet, a hostile priest retells the accident and lets slip which of the two women had been handling the oar. Which one was it?
-**A.** May Lilian Radcliffe  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.718)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (opening chapters): the cousin, Miss Amy Vereker, was expert at the oar; the cousin survived and May Lilian Radcliffe was drowned. Hop 2 (about 75% in, the priest's denunciation): the woman who took the oar did not know how to use it, and it is she who sinks while the other barely saves her life. Since the cousin was the expert oarswoman, the inexpert rower who drowned must be May Lilian Radcliffe.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Miss Vereker was expert
-> at the oar. He thought it best to let them go by themselves. It was an
-> ideal day for a river or sea trip. He waved his hand to his wife as she
-> turned the corner, but she gave no response. To cut the ghastly story
-> short, the boat was upset near Penmaen Pool. Amy Vereker just narrowly
-> saved her life, May Lilian Radcliffe was drowned.
-> “I see before me a river with a boat making its way upstream. Two
-> women are in it--both young, both handsome, as beauty is reckoned in
-> their silly world. The face of one is flushed, excited, reckless; she
-> takes the oar, not knowing properly how to use it. Soon a rock appears
-> in mid-stream, there is a crash, the boat is overturned, both are
-> caught in the eddying current. One barely saves her own humdrum life,
-> the other sinks.
-### retr-0167 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel where a small British party leaves a lonely house on the Northumberland coast in a machine that can suspend gravitation and sets out for Venus, the professor tells his companions how far from the moon they will be when they cut across its orbit. About how many miles is that distance?
-**A.** 11500  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Stated once, roughly 10% into the text (outward voyage, before the meteoric storm): the party will cross the lunar orbit and pass the moon at about 11,500 miles.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> The Professor told them that they would cross the lunar orbit in two
-> hours’ time, when they would pass it at a distance of about 11,500
-> miles.
-### retr-0168 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the narrative of five men who fly from the Northumberland coast to Venus, the people they meet there use their own names for the sun and for the neighbouring worlds. By what name did those people know the earth?
-**A.** Karamandra  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Stated once, about a third of the way in, where the prisoners learn the local nomenclature: the earth is Karamandra, 'Queen of the cold night'.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> The earth was known to the Atalantans as Karamandra, “Queen of the cold
-> night”; Mercury, which was the only planet visible from the lighted
-> hemisphere, was called Araminta, the bright flashing; while the sun
-> was Asti, the furnace, though he had other titles connected with the
-> Atalantan religion.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "comp-0167", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "richards_atalanta_twelve", "question": "In the story of a voyage from Northumberland to Venus, a high priest denounces the aged king for a rash prayer he had uttered when his elder daughter lay at the point of death. Reckoning that interval in the local years, and taking the length of the planet's revolution round the sun as one of the travellers states it, how many days lay between the prayer and the denunciation?", "answer": "1568", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "About 51% in, a traveller gives the length of the planet's year as two hundred and twenty-four days. About 75% in, the high priest tells the king the prayer was made seven years earlier. Seven local years of 224 days each = 1568 days.", "supporting_quotes": ["“The years of Venus, I suppose. Just oblige a duffer by telling him how\nlong it takes Venus to rotate round the sun?”\n\n“Two hundred and twenty-four days, I believe.”", "“Malchon, King of Atalanta, if indeed it be a King that thou art, seven\nyears ago you wrestled in prayer for the life of your child Melanitis."], "hops": 3, "separation": 0.217, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "comp-0168", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "richards_atalanta_twelve", "question": "In the account of a flight from the earth to Venus, one traveller quotes an old astronomical claim about the height, in earth miles, of a mountain at the planet's southern horn; much later, as the party nears the twilight island, a princess states the peak's real height. By how many miles did the old claim overstate it?", "answer": "7", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "About 22% in, crossing the central ocean, a traveller repeats the claim that the mountain at the south pole may be twenty-seven earth miles high. About 60% in, approaching Melandria, the princess states that Aptaura is twenty miles in height. 27 - 20 = 7 miles of overstatement.", "supporting_quotes": ["“I read in a book which I brought with me,” said Radcliffe, “that the\nsouthern horn of the crescent, that is, the south pole of Venus, is\nconstantly to be seen blunted, as though some lofty mountain existed\nthere which caught the solar rays, and it has been said that this may\nbe even twenty-seven earth miles in height.”", "“There is Aptaura, the boundary line between two hemispheres, close to\nthe southern pole, and twenty miles in height,” said Mexitli."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.394, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0167", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "richards_atalanta_twelve", "question": "While the earth party was camped on a rocky plateau on Venus, a huge grey thing swept overhead with a wailing cry and disappeared beyond the hills, and their leader feared it was either a primeval monster or a rival airship. On the later voyage southwards one of the king's daughters explained what it really was. What did she call that craft?", "answer": "the ship of death", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1 (about a quarter of the way in): the encampment on the plateau is disturbed by a huge greyish thing with fans that whirls away over the mountains. Hop 2 (roughly 58% in, during the aerial voyage south): that aerial 'monster' is identified as the ship of death, which carries condemned prisoners to the dark hemisphere.", "supporting_quotes": ["They looked in the direction in which he was wildly pointing,\nand saw a huge greyish thing, with outspread fans, whirling away to the\nmountain heights and then vanishing behind them.", "Abercromby narrated with much animation the story of the aerial monster\nwhose cry of wailing had so suddenly disturbed their encampment.\n\nThe face of Melanitis grew grave. “It was the ship of death,” she said;\n“a prisoner condemned by us was taken to the dark hemisphere to die.”"], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.333, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0168", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "richards_atalanta_twelve", "question": "In the tale of an expedition that reaches Venus, a young clergyman's bride is drowned early on when a rowing boat upsets on a Welsh river during their honeymoon, her cousin surviving. Long afterwards, on the other planet, a hostile priest retells the accident and lets slip which of the two women had been handling the oar. Which one was it?", "answer": "May Lilian Radcliffe", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1 (opening chapters): the cousin, Miss Amy Vereker, was expert at the oar; the cousin survived and May Lilian Radcliffe was drowned. Hop 2 (about 75% in, the priest's denunciation): the woman who took the oar did not know how to use it, and it is she who sinks while the other barely saves her life. Since the cousin was the expert oarswoman, the inexpert rower who drowned must be May Lilian Radcliffe.", "supporting_quotes": ["Miss Vereker was expert\nat the oar. He thought it best to let them go by themselves. It was an\nideal day for a river or sea trip. He waved his hand to his wife as she\nturned the corner, but she gave no response. To cut the ghastly story\nshort, the boat was upset near Penmaen Pool. Amy Vereker just narrowly\nsaved her life, May Lilian Radcliffe was drowned.", "“I see before me a river with a boat making its way upstream. Two\nwomen are in it--both young, both handsome, as beauty is reckoned in\ntheir silly world. The face of one is flushed, excited, reckless; she\ntakes the oar, not knowing properly how to use it. Soon a rock appears\nin mid-stream, there is a crash, the boat is overturned, both are\ncaught in the eddying current. One barely saves her own humdrum life,\nthe other sinks."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.718, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0167", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "richards_atalanta_twelve", "question": "In the novel where a small British party leaves a lonely house on the Northumberland coast in a machine that can suspend gravitation and sets out for Venus, the professor tells his companions how far from the moon they will be when they cut across its orbit. About how many miles is that distance?", "answer": "11500", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Stated once, roughly 10% into the text (outward voyage, before the meteoric storm): the party will cross the lunar orbit and pass the moon at about 11,500 miles.", "supporting_quotes": ["The Professor told them that they would cross the lunar orbit in two\nhours’ time, when they would pass it at a distance of about 11,500\nmiles."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0168", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "richards_atalanta_twelve", "question": "In the narrative of five men who fly from the Northumberland coast to Venus, the people they meet there use their own names for the sun and for the neighbouring worlds. By what name did those people know the earth?", "answer": "Karamandra", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Stated once, about a third of the way in, where the prisoners learn the local nomenclature: the earth is Karamandra, 'Queen of the cold night'.", "supporting_quotes": ["The earth was known to the Atalantans as Karamandra, “Queen of the cold\nnight”; Mercury, which was the only planet visible from the lighted\nhemisphere, was called Araminta, the bright flashing; while the sun\nwas Asti, the furnace, though he had other titles connected with the\nAtalantan religion."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0195 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, the host signs a rental contract at Trinidad for a string of ponies together with the little pack animals, and much later, at Gallup, wires the owner that he is finished with the slow pack animals and leaves them behind. Of the animals covered by that Trinidad contract, how many did the party still have with it after Gallup?
-**A.** 9  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.615)_
-**Derivation.** The Trinidad contract (chapter 3, early in the novel) covers nine ponies and three burros, twelve animals in all. At Gallup (chapter 14, roughly three quarters through) the host wires the owner that he is through with the three burros and has them sent for, leaving twelve minus three of the contracted animals.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Mr. Gilroy
-> contracted with the man for the nine ponies and three burros while in
-> New Mexico or Arizona at the rate of $20-$30 each per month.
-> All I will now have to do will be to wire the owner I am
-> through with the three burros and let him send for them according to
-> agreement.
-### comp-0196 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, only part of the troop is allowed to leave Elmertown at the start of the summer, and a further group of chums whose mothers finally relented jumps off the train to join them at Santa Fe. Counting both groups, how many of the troop's girls took part in the summer's tour altogether?
-**A.** 7  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.563)_
-**Derivation.** Chapter 2 (very early) states that the Captain and four girls only took the Sunday train from Elmertown. Chapter 12 (about two thirds through) has three more girls jump off the train at Santa Fe to join the party. Four plus three gives the total.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Captain and four scouts only took the early Sunday train to
-> Philadelphia, and there boarded the Limited to Chicago.
-> Anne, Judith and Amy jumped off
-> into outstretched arms, and were welcomed by wagging tongues all talking
-> and questioning at once.
-### mult-0195 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, the host's joking letter of preparations claims he hopes to secure, near one particular canyon, a special brand of ice guaranteed not to melt in the summer heat. When the party later actually rode to that canyon, how many tons of ice were said to be cut and shipped from it each year?
-**A.** 60000  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.307)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1: the host's letter in chapter 1 names Gallinas Canyon as the place he hopes to find non-melting ice. Hop 2: much later (chapter 6, about a third into the book) the party rides to Gallinas Canyon, described as the source of 60,000 tons of ice cut and shipped annually. Neither passage alone answers the question.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Thus far, I have not been able to secure the special brand
->     of ice which is guaranteed not to melt in July and August;
->     but I have hopes of finding enough of this necessity near
->     Gallinas Canyon to last us for our trip of desert touring.
-> thence on to the Gallinas Cañon where 60,000 tons of ice are
-> cut and shipped annually to points for 600 miles area.
-### mult-0196 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, a telegram received near the very end of the tour reveals that the host must hurry home because the title to one of his properties is being contested in court. During the earlier summer the troop spent as his guests at that same property, on the shores of which lake did they camp?
-**A.** First Lake  _(format: string, hops: 3, separation: 0.976)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1: the closing chapter's telegram identifies the contested property as the host's Adirondack Estate. Hop 2: the opening chapter states he invited the patrol to that Adirondack Estate for the following summer. Hop 3: the opening chapter also states that this second summer was spent on the shores of First Lake in the Fulton Chain. No single passage supplies the link.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Well, it seems there is a legal quibble over my title to the
-> Adirondack Estate, and my personal presence is needed in Court to
-> testify.
-> Mr. Gilroy insisted upon having the Scout Patrol visit his
-> Adirondack Estate the following summer.
-> Hence the second summer of the Dandelion Troop of Girl Scouts was spent
-> on the shores of First Lake, one of the Fulton Chain of lakes.
-### retr-0195 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, one girl poses against a half-dead leaning pine above a waterfall and slips over the cliff edge. The companion holding the camera keeps winding the film in shock until the whole roll is spent. How many exposures were on that roll?
-**A.** 12  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Early in the trip (chapter 3, roughly 20% into the novel), the girl left holding the camera keeps turning the winding key after the fall until the roll is exhausted; the narration states the roll held twelve exposures.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> because she was turning the key that rolls the film, and she kept on
-> turning it in her brain-shock until the entire roll of twelve exposures
-> was used up.
-### retr-0196 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, one of the older men slips into a hotel reading-room to eavesdrop on an argument about a bill that would strip Pueblo land rights, and picks up an illustrated newspaper lying open on a table, surprised that so old an issue should be there. What date did that newspaper bear?
-**A.** November 29, 1922  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the Las Vegas hotel reading-room scene (chapter 5, roughly a third into the novel), the eavesdropping man notices the newspaper's date and wonders at its age.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> He saw the
-> date—November 29, 1922—and he wondered that such an old paper should be
-> found upon such a modern hotel’s reading-table.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "comp-0195", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "roy_girl_scouts", "question": "In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, the host signs a rental contract at Trinidad for a string of ponies together with the little pack animals, and much later, at Gallup, wires the owner that he is finished with the slow pack animals and leaves them behind. Of the animals covered by that Trinidad contract, how many did the party still have with it after Gallup?", "answer": "9", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "The Trinidad contract (chapter 3, early in the novel) covers nine ponies and three burros, twelve animals in all. At Gallup (chapter 14, roughly three quarters through) the host wires the owner that he is through with the three burros and has them sent for, leaving twelve minus three of the contracted animals.", "supporting_quotes": ["Mr. Gilroy\ncontracted with the man for the nine ponies and three burros while in\nNew Mexico or Arizona at the rate of $20-$30 each per month.", "All I will now have to do will be to wire the owner I am\nthrough with the three burros and let him send for them according to\nagreement."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.615, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "comp-0196", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "roy_girl_scouts", "question": "In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, only part of the troop is allowed to leave Elmertown at the start of the summer, and a further group of chums whose mothers finally relented jumps off the train to join them at Santa Fe. Counting both groups, how many of the troop's girls took part in the summer's tour altogether?", "answer": "7", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Chapter 2 (very early) states that the Captain and four girls only took the Sunday train from Elmertown. Chapter 12 (about two thirds through) has three more girls jump off the train at Santa Fe to join the party. Four plus three gives the total.", "supporting_quotes": ["Captain and four scouts only took the early Sunday train to\nPhiladelphia, and there boarded the Limited to Chicago.", "Anne, Judith and Amy jumped off\ninto outstretched arms, and were welcomed by wagging tongues all talking\nand questioning at once."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.563, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0195", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "roy_girl_scouts", "question": "In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, the host's joking letter of preparations claims he hopes to secure, near one particular canyon, a special brand of ice guaranteed not to melt in the summer heat. When the party later actually rode to that canyon, how many tons of ice were said to be cut and shipped from it each year?", "answer": "60000", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Hop 1: the host's letter in chapter 1 names Gallinas Canyon as the place he hopes to find non-melting ice. Hop 2: much later (chapter 6, about a third into the book) the party rides to Gallinas Canyon, described as the source of 60,000 tons of ice cut and shipped annually. Neither passage alone answers the question.", "supporting_quotes": ["Thus far, I have not been able to secure the special brand\n    of ice which is guaranteed not to melt in July and August;\n    but I have hopes of finding enough of this necessity near\n    Gallinas Canyon to last us for our trip of desert touring.", "thence on to the Gallinas Cañon where 60,000 tons of ice are\ncut and shipped annually to points for 600 miles area."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.307, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0196", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "roy_girl_scouts", "question": "In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, a telegram received near the very end of the tour reveals that the host must hurry home because the title to one of his properties is being contested in court. During the earlier summer the troop spent as his guests at that same property, on the shores of which lake did they camp?", "answer": "First Lake", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1: the closing chapter's telegram identifies the contested property as the host's Adirondack Estate. Hop 2: the opening chapter states he invited the patrol to that Adirondack Estate for the following summer. Hop 3: the opening chapter also states that this second summer was spent on the shores of First Lake in the Fulton Chain. No single passage supplies the link.", "supporting_quotes": ["Well, it seems there is a legal quibble over my title to the\nAdirondack Estate, and my personal presence is needed in Court to\ntestify.", "Mr. Gilroy insisted upon having the Scout Patrol visit his\nAdirondack Estate the following summer.", "Hence the second summer of the Dandelion Troop of Girl Scouts was spent\non the shores of First Lake, one of the Fulton Chain of lakes."], "hops": 3, "separation": 0.976, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0195", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "roy_girl_scouts", "question": "In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, one girl poses against a half-dead leaning pine above a waterfall and slips over the cliff edge. The companion holding the camera keeps winding the film in shock until the whole roll is spent. How many exposures were on that roll?", "answer": "12", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Early in the trip (chapter 3, roughly 20% into the novel), the girl left holding the camera keeps turning the winding key after the fall until the roll is exhausted; the narration states the roll held twelve exposures.", "supporting_quotes": ["because she was turning the key that rolls the film, and she kept on\nturning it in her brain-shock until the entire roll of twelve exposures\nwas used up."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0196", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "roy_girl_scouts", "question": "In the novel in which a troop of girls from Elmertown spends a summer riding through pueblo country and down into the Grand Canyon with a genial bachelor host and an Indian guide, one of the older men slips into a hotel reading-room to eavesdrop on an argument about a bill that would strip Pueblo land rights, and picks up an illustrated newspaper lying open on a table, surprised that so old an issue should be there. What date did that newspaper bear?", "answer": "November 29, 1922", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "In the Las Vegas hotel reading-room scene (chapter 5, roughly a third into the novel), the eavesdropping man notices the newspaper's date and wonders at its age.", "supporting_quotes": ["He saw the\ndate—November 29, 1922—and he wondered that such an old paper should be\nfound upon such a modern hotel’s reading-table."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0135 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where a half-mad shipmaster carries his barque round Cape Horn to dig up Spanish gold on an uncharted Pacific reef, the narrator, once ashore with the digging party, deliberately named a shorter distance to be measured inland from the water than the one the old man had privately confided to him. By how many paces did the figure he gave the men fall short of the figure he had really been told?
-**A.** 108  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.234)_
-**Derivation.** Vol. III, ch. XXX: the master states the exact number of paces from the wash of the water to the tree over the buried gold. Vol. III, ch. XL: on the island the narrator tells the men to measure a much smaller number. Subtracting the second from the first gives the shortfall.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> upon a tree, and after trying again and again, made it exactly two
-> hundred and eight paces from the wash of the water in the curve of the
-> lagoon. There we buried the money, sir.’
-> ‘Measure a hundred paces, keeping yonder pillar on a line with that
-> clump of trees there, and then dig.’
-### comp-0136 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where a barque's master shows the narrator a parchment chart of an unnamed South Pacific island and swears him to secrecy over gold buried beside its lagoon, that master reckoned the contents of the three iron-clamped chests at a range of values in English money, and by written agreement promised the narrator a fixed fraction of whatever lay buried there. Taking the lower of the master's own two figures, how many pounds would the narrator's promised portion have come to?
-**A.** 60000  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.119)_
-**Derivation.** Vol. III, ch. XXX: the master values the three chests at not less than a hundred and eighty to two hundred thousand pounds. Vol. III, ch. XXXIV: the carpenter states that the agreement between the narrator and the captain was for a third. A third of the lower figure gives the sum.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> and we reckoned that in all three chests there couldn’t be less in the
-> value of English money than a hundred and eighty to two hundred thousand
-> pounds! It wasn’t to be handled in the chests; so we made parcels of it
-> ‘The agreement betwixt you and the captain was for a third, I think,’
-> said he; ‘you won’t expect that, now there’s a dozen of us in the
-> consarn?’
-### mult-0135 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where a seaman is sewn into a hammock and buried at sea from an outward-bound Indiaman, only to burst alive out of her fore-hatch during a later fire, what post aboard that ship was held by the man who had falsely certified him dead?
-**A.** ship's surgeon  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.314)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (Vol. II, ch. XIV/XV region): the narrator works out that Hemmeridge represented the seaman as dead while knowing him alive. Hop 2 (Vol. I, ch. I): Hemmeridge is introduced at the very start as the ship's surgeon. Neither passage alone names both the man's guilt and his office.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> ‘It is assumed,’ said I, ‘that Hemmeridge represented Crabb as dead
-> knowing him to be alive?’ He nodded. ‘What will have been the project?’
-> he was ridiculing the medical profession to Dr. Hemmeridge, the ship’s
-> surgeon, for its inability to prescribe for sea-sickness.
-### mult-0136 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where a seaman aboard an outward-bound Indiaman counterfeits his own death with a drug, is buried at sea, and afterwards reappears alive out of the hold during a fire, that drug was later got analysed on shore at the instance of one of the ship's passengers, a man of dwarfish stature. On behalf of what kind of learned body was that passenger travelling out to India?
-**A.** Pharmaceutical Society  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.934)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (final chapter): the old commander reports that Mr. Saunders had the drug carefully analysed. Hop 2 (Vol. I, ch. III): Saunders is introduced as proceeding to India on behalf of a Pharmaceutical Society. Linking the surname across the two passages is required.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> over to the police. Mr. Saunders got the drug the scoundrel had used
-> carefully analysed, and it turned out that he was right: it proved to be
-> up wistfully into your face. His name was Richard Saunders: and I
-> afterwards understood that he was proceeding to India on behalf of some
-> Pharmaceutical Society, to collect information on and examples of Hindu
-> and other medicines, drugs, charms, and so forth.
-### retr-0135 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel that opens with an outward-bound Indiaman running down a French lugger in the Channel on her first night out from Gravesend, the narrator is later handed a telescope aboard a small trading barque and told to study a deep-laden open boat that his vessel is overhauling in mid-ocean. How many people did he count aboard her?
-**A.** 27  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Roughly two thirds of the way through (Vol. II, ch. XXVII, 'The Brig's Longboat'), the narrator puts the captain's glass to his eye and states the exact number of people crowded into the longboat.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> which she was running with some show of nimbleness. She seemed to
-> be crowded with men, and even whilst I stood looking at her through
-> the glass, I counted no less than twenty-seven persons. They were
-### retr-0136 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel where a seaman is buried at sea from an outward-bound Indiaman and weeks afterwards leaps alive out of her fore-hatch during a fire, the narrator eventually reads a newspaper report of the trial of the barque's carpenter for killing one of his own party on a coral reef. To how many years of transportation was that carpenter sentenced?
-**A.** 10  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the concluding chapter the narrator reports the outcome of the trial: a manslaughter verdict and a stated term of transportation.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> brought to the Old Bailey that the jury had found a verdict of
-> manslaughter, and that he was sentenced to ten years’ transportation.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "comp-0135", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "russell_my_shipmate", "question": "In the novel where a half-mad shipmaster carries his barque round Cape Horn to dig up Spanish gold on an uncharted Pacific reef, the narrator, once ashore with the digging party, deliberately named a shorter distance to be measured inland from the water than the one the old man had privately confided to him. By how many paces did the figure he gave the men fall short of the figure he had really been told?", "answer": "108", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Vol. III, ch. XXX: the master states the exact number of paces from the wash of the water to the tree over the buried gold. Vol. III, ch. XL: on the island the narrator tells the men to measure a much smaller number. Subtracting the second from the first gives the shortfall.", "supporting_quotes": ["upon a tree, and after trying again and again, made it exactly two\nhundred and eight paces from the wash of the water in the curve of the\nlagoon. There we buried the money, sir.’", "‘Measure a hundred paces, keeping yonder pillar on a line with that\nclump of trees there, and then dig.’"], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.234, "review_flags": ["drafted from a PARTIAL read: ~17% of the novel read as prose (about 3,400 of 19,948 lines); the rest covered by targeted greps for money, ages, quantities, dates and named threads. Numeric-fact coverage is near-complete; narrative context for large stretches is unverified.", "answer also appears in the novel as '108' (2x outside the supporting quotes) — check it is not answerable by retrieval alone"], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "comp-0136", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "russell_my_shipmate", "question": "In the novel where a barque's master shows the narrator a parchment chart of an unnamed South Pacific island and swears him to secrecy over gold buried beside its lagoon, that master reckoned the contents of the three iron-clamped chests at a range of values in English money, and by written agreement promised the narrator a fixed fraction of whatever lay buried there. Taking the lower of the master's own two figures, how many pounds would the narrator's promised portion have come to?", "answer": "60000", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Vol. III, ch. XXX: the master values the three chests at not less than a hundred and eighty to two hundred thousand pounds. Vol. III, ch. XXXIV: the carpenter states that the agreement between the narrator and the captain was for a third. A third of the lower figure gives the sum.", "supporting_quotes": ["and we reckoned that in all three chests there couldn’t be less in the\nvalue of English money than a hundred and eighty to two hundred thousand\npounds! It wasn’t to be handled in the chests; so we made parcels of it", "‘The agreement betwixt you and the captain was for a third, I think,’\nsaid he; ‘you won’t expect that, now there’s a dozen of us in the\nconsarn?’"], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.119, "review_flags": ["drafted from a PARTIAL read: ~17% of the novel read as prose (about 3,400 of 19,948 lines); the rest covered by targeted greps for money, ages, quantities, dates and named threads. Numeric-fact coverage is near-complete; narrative context for large stretches is unverified."], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
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-{"id": "mult-0136", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "russell_my_shipmate", "question": "In the novel where a seaman aboard an outward-bound Indiaman counterfeits his own death with a drug, is buried at sea, and afterwards reappears alive out of the hold during a fire, that drug was later got analysed on shore at the instance of one of the ship's passengers, a man of dwarfish stature. On behalf of what kind of learned body was that passenger travelling out to India?", "answer": "Pharmaceutical Society", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Hop 1 (final chapter): the old commander reports that Mr. Saunders had the drug carefully analysed. Hop 2 (Vol. I, ch. III): Saunders is introduced as proceeding to India on behalf of a Pharmaceutical Society. Linking the surname across the two passages is required.", "supporting_quotes": ["over to the police. Mr. Saunders got the drug the scoundrel had used\ncarefully analysed, and it turned out that he was right: it proved to be", "up wistfully into your face. His name was Richard Saunders: and I\nafterwards understood that he was proceeding to India on behalf of some\nPharmaceutical Society, to collect information on and examples of Hindu\nand other medicines, drugs, charms, and so forth."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.934, "review_flags": ["drafted from a PARTIAL read: ~17% of the novel read as prose (about 3,400 of 19,948 lines); the rest covered by targeted greps for money, ages, quantities, dates and named threads. Numeric-fact coverage is near-complete; narrative context for large stretches is unverified."], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0135", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "russell_my_shipmate", "question": "In the novel that opens with an outward-bound Indiaman running down a French lugger in the Channel on her first night out from Gravesend, the narrator is later handed a telescope aboard a small trading barque and told to study a deep-laden open boat that his vessel is overhauling in mid-ocean. How many people did he count aboard her?", "answer": "27", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Roughly two thirds of the way through (Vol. II, ch. XXVII, 'The Brig's Longboat'), the narrator puts the captain's glass to his eye and states the exact number of people crowded into the longboat.", "supporting_quotes": ["which she was running with some show of nimbleness. She seemed to\nbe crowded with men, and even whilst I stood looking at her through\nthe glass, I counted no less than twenty-seven persons. They were"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": ["drafted from a PARTIAL read: ~17% of the novel read as prose (about 3,400 of 19,948 lines); the rest covered by targeted greps for money, ages, quantities, dates and named threads. Numeric-fact coverage is near-complete; narrative context for large stretches is unverified."], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0136", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "russell_my_shipmate", "question": "In the novel where a seaman is buried at sea from an outward-bound Indiaman and weeks afterwards leaps alive out of her fore-hatch during a fire, the narrator eventually reads a newspaper report of the trial of the barque's carpenter for killing one of his own party on a coral reef. To how many years of transportation was that carpenter sentenced?", "answer": "10", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "In the concluding chapter the narrator reports the outcome of the trial: a manslaughter verdict and a stated term of transportation.", "supporting_quotes": ["brought to the Old Bailey that the jury had found a verdict of\nmanslaughter, and that he was sentenced to ten years’ transportation."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": ["drafted from a PARTIAL read: ~17% of the novel read as prose (about 3,400 of 19,948 lines); the rest covered by targeted greps for money, ages, quantities, dates and named threads. Numeric-fact coverage is near-complete; narrative context for large stretches is unverified."], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0227 — computation
-**Q.** In this 1820s novel in letters, whose other half is set in a Kerry glen called Glenalta, a fashionable Englishwoman writes to her son that her daughter's brilliant marriage cannot be got through for less than a certain sum for present use. Long afterwards, when that marriage has gone to ruin, a sudden demand made on her on her son-in-law's account brings on the illness that breaks her. Taken together, how many pounds do those two sums amount to?
-**A.** 7000  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.472)_
-**Derivation.** About 48% in, the mother's letter puts the wedding outfit at not less than five thousand pounds for present use. About 94% in, her son reports that her illness followed a sudden and unlooked-for demand of two thousand pounds on his brother-in-law's account. 5000 + 2000 = 7000.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> dear girl to want any proper accompaniment of her new dignity. The
-> Granvilles too (Crayton's sister, you know is Lady G.) are people of
-> such connection, that we must make an effort extra-ordinary, and I do
-> not think it will be possible to get through the necessary expenses
-> for less than five thousand pounds for present use. I want you also
-> is devoted to the melancholy duty of watching our invalid, whose illness
-> appeared immediately after a sudden and unlooked for demand of £2,000
-> on the miserable Crayton’s account, accompanied by an earnest request
-> from Adelaide that her mother would honour the bill, or, at least,
-### comp-0228 — computation
-**Q.** In this novel of letters, two separate sums of money shape the fortunes of the household at Glenalta: the legacy from a great-aunt that first enabled its mistress to reside there, and the money a General hastens a wedding day in order to press on his niece along with his blessing, near the close of the book. Added together, how many pounds is that?
-**A.** 30000  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.619)_
-**Derivation.** About 37% in, a letter reports that a legacy from her great-aunt has enabled the addressee's sister-in-law to reside at Glenalta. About 98% in, the narrator records the sum the General bestowed on his niece with his blessing on her wedding day. 20000 + 10000 = 30000. Neither figure is stated near the other.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> friend. A legacy of £20,000 left to your sister-in-law, by her great
-> aunt, old Mrs. Norton, has enabled that first of women and mothers to
-> reside at Glenalta, where she lives adored by her children, and by all
-> both; and when the day arrived which General Douglas begged to hasten, in
-> order that he might bestow a blessing with ten thousand pounds, which he
-> presented to his niece there was no idle parade of dress and equipage.
-### mult-0227 — multihop
-**Q.** In this epistolary novel, the elderly bachelor of Lisfarne long ago lost the woman he loved to a richer man. Summoned years later to a London solicitor, he learns that she has since married a fortune-hunter and is trying to make her young son settle money on his penniless stepfather. In the closing pages the narrator offers to bet on a match between that son, now grown, and one of the Kerry sisters. What is the young man's Christian name?
-**A.** Algernon  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.851)_
-**Derivation.** The London-solicitor passage (about 14% in) supplies the family name: it is Mrs. Stanhope who has married the fortune-hunter and is pressing her son, 'then a child of fourteen'. The narrator's closing round-up (about 98% in) names the only grown Stanhope in the book, as one half of a predicted match with a Douglas sister. Neither passage alone gives both the identification and the first name.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> summons had issued, and the mystery was soon unravelled. Mrs.
-> Stanhope had married a young fortune-hunter, and was endeavouring
-> to prevail upon her son, then a child of fourteen, to make a
-> settlement on his pennyless stepfather. Relying on the influence of
-> most convincing arguments, I might be persuaded to risk a few pounds
-> upon the probability of two other matches, viz. one between Charlotte
-> Douglas and Algernon Stanhope, and the other between an elder brother of
-### mult-0228 — multihop
-**Q.** The opening letter of this collection is sent from Dover by a young man about to cross to France, and is addressed to a friend then on his way to relations in the wilds of Kerry whom the writer knows only through their correspondence. Which member of that Kerry family does the Dover letter-writer eventually marry?
-**A.** Emily Douglas  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.977)_
-**Derivation.** The first letter (at the very start of the book) identifies its Dover writer by name. The narrator's wind-up, about 97% of the way through, records that the mother of one of the Kerry daughters was called on to approve a union, and that this daughter and the Dover letter-writer are formed for each other. The name must be carried across the whole novel.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
->             CHARLES FALKLAND TO ARTHUR HOWARD.
->
->
->     My Dear Howard,                               _Dover_.
->
-> Perhaps you and I are at this moment similarly situated, and
-> similarly employed. I am seated at a window which opens on the
-> sea, waiting for a summons to the steam-packet which is to waft me
-> over to Calais--while you are, probably, expecting that which is
-> As time rolled on, the delightful mother of Emily Douglas, was called
-> upon to approve a union which cannot fail of happiness. Emily and Charles
-> Falkland are formed for each other. Virtue and talents lend all their
-### retr-0227 — retrieval
-**Q.** In this 1820s novel told entirely in letters, a fashionable young Englishman who has been sent to his aunt's household in the Kerry mountains for the good of his lungs is mortified, on one of his first evenings there, to find himself swept into family prayers alongside the servants. How many domestics does he report were mustered in for the ceremony?
-**A.** 6  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Early in the book (about 4% in, in the guest's first long letter home) he complains of being 'actually engaged in family prayers with no less than six domestics and an old non-descript with grey hair'. The count of domestics is stated once, in that clause.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> placed a large book before his mother, and having rung the bell, I
-> found myself presently engaged,--yes, actually engaged in family
-> prayers with no less than six domestics and an old non-descript
-> with grey hair, who hobbled in leaning upon a stick, and for whose
-> accommodation Fanny placed a cushion; all ranged along the end
-### retr-0228 — retrieval
-**Q.** In this novel of letters set partly in a Kerry glen called Glenalta, an old friend writes to congratulate the family's former tutor on being presented to the parish living, and encloses a bank draught so that the glebe house may be given the library it lacks. For how many pounds is the draught made out?
-**A.** 500  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** About 79% of the way through, in a letter from the Hampshire estate to the newly appointed clergyman, the writer says the glebe house wants a library and encloses a draught for a stated sum.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Now, my dear Oliphant, I have a request to make, which you will not
-> refuse. The glebe house wants a library to make it comfortable. I enclose
-> you a draught for £500, and desire that, by the time of my return, I may
-> find you in possession of a room in which you can write your sermons, and

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0213 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel that opens with a much-talked-of young woman coming down to Clievesbury after her second London season, an orphaned cousin had already been living with the family for a while. Given the heroine's stated age when that cousin joined the household and her stated age as the story opens, how many years had the cousin been in the house?
-**A.** 7  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.134)_
-**Derivation.** The opening chapter gives the heroine's present age as twenty-three; a later chapter states that the cousin came to the family when the heroine was sixteen. 23 - 16 = 7.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> She had tasted the joys of a wide effectiveness. She was only
-> twenty-three, and more than once had been told that she was the only
-> woman in London fitted to hold a "salon," a "salon" that would be a
-> power social, artistic, and political.
-> Mary Fairleigh had come to the Patons when Camelia was sixteen, and
-> Camelia's treatment of her cousin was another and more constant cause
-> for growing discontent.
-### comp-0214 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where a young woman walks alone to a gray stone house to plead with its owner and then refuses his offer to drive her home, how many miles will she have covered on foot for that visit altogether, given the distance he had stated at his first appearance lay between his house and hers?
-**A.** 10  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.585)_
-**Derivation.** Early on he tells a guest his house is five miles from hers; much later, when she insists on walking home from that house after having walked there, he protests at the same distance for the return. Five out plus five back gives the total.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "Only five miles away," he said. Mr. Perior's very boots partook of
-> their wearer's expression of uningratiating self-reliance.
-> "No, I will walk," she said, hardly audibly.
->
-> "The five miles back? It is too far--too late.
-### mult-0213 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where an heiress near Clievesbury builds model cottages and then nurses her dependent cousin through a fatal illness, the dying cousin finally reminds her of the way her own father had died. In what place had that father died?
-**A.** Davos-Platz  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.725)_
-**Derivation.** An early chapter gives the cousin's parentage and states where her father died; much later (about four-fifths through) the cousin reveals her own illness and points back to how her father died. Only the two together identify the place.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Maurice
-> died at Davos-Platz, and Mrs. Fairleigh, when her daughter was sixteen,
-> departed her seemingly very pointless existence. Her last years had been
-> sweetened by Lady Paton's devoted kindness, and she left Mary to this
-> guardian angel. Since that time Mary had lived at Enthorpe Lodge
-> I
-> have been coughing blood for a long time. Nothing can be done for me.
-> You know how my father died.
-### mult-0214 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where a young woman rides through winter mist to a gray stone house on a hill and climbs to a laboratory at the top of it, the man she finds working there had, in his youth, expected to enter a particular public career before his father's financial disaster forced him into journalism instead. What career had he expected to enter?
-**A.** Parliament  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.717)_
-**Derivation.** The late-book scene (about six-sevenths through) identifies the owner of the laboratory by name; an early retrospective chapter states that the same man had considered himself destined for that career until his father's ruin sent him into journalism.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "Mr. Perior? Yes, Miss; in the laboratory with Job Masters. Just go up,
-> Miss, and I'll take the horse round to the stables."
-> murderers--for his father died under the shock of disaster, and Perior
-> did not pick his phrases.
->
-> The abject common-sense of his ex-_fiancée_ could be borne with perhaps
-> more philosophy. He accepted the starlessness as in the nature of
-> things, and his own brief belief in stars as typifying the ignorance of
-> youth; but his father's death--the crushing out of life rather than its
-> departure--was tragedy, and it was with the sense of inevitable and
-> irretrievable tragedy that he began life. He had been thought clever at
-> Oxford, and had considered himself destined for Parliament. With a huge
-> load of debts upon his back, and an unresigned mother to support, all
-> thoughts of the career for which he had fitted himself were out of the
-> question. He turned to its only equivalent, and took up journalism.
-### retr-0213 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel set around the Blankshire village of Clievesbury, a visiting mother who fancies herself the pioneer of a new school of music seats herself at the piano after dinner at Enthorpe Lodge and announces the title of one of her own symphonic poems before playing it. What title does she announce?
-**A.** Thalassa  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the after-dinner drawing-room scene (roughly a quarter of the way through the book), the guest settles at the piano and names the piece she is about to perform.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "My symphonic poem--'Thalassa,' shall I give you that?"
-### retr-0214 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel where the heiress of Enthorpe Lodge near Clievesbury owns a small brindled bull-dog, she opens a window during a quarrel with her old teacher and sends the dog out to a suitor who is waiting outside. What is the dog called?
-**A.** Siegfried  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** About a third of the way through, in the morning-room confrontation, she opens the window and the narration names the dog going out.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> "There, my pet, go--poor Sir Arthur is lonely, go to him," said Camelia,
-> opening the window for Siegfried's exit, "you know your sarcasm doesn't
-> impress me one bit--not one bit," she added.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "comp-0214", "type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "sedgwick_confounding_camelia", "question": "In the novel where a young woman walks alone to a gray stone house to plead with its owner and then refuses his offer to drive her home, how many miles will she have covered on foot for that visit altogether, given the distance he had stated at his first appearance lay between his house and hers?", "answer": "10", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "Early on he tells a guest his house is five miles from hers; much later, when she insists on walking home from that house after having walked there, he protests at the same distance for the return. Five out plus five back gives the total.", "supporting_quotes": ["\"Only five miles away,\" he said. Mr. Perior's very boots partook of\ntheir wearer's expression of uningratiating self-reliance.", "\"No, I will walk,\" she said, hardly audibly.\n\n\"The five miles back? It is too far--too late."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.585, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0213", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "sedgwick_confounding_camelia", "question": "In the novel where an heiress near Clievesbury builds model cottages and then nurses her dependent cousin through a fatal illness, the dying cousin finally reminds her of the way her own father had died. In what place had that father died?", "answer": "Davos-Platz", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "An early chapter gives the cousin's parentage and states where her father died; much later (about four-fifths through) the cousin reveals her own illness and points back to how her father died. Only the two together identify the place.", "supporting_quotes": ["Maurice\ndied at Davos-Platz, and Mrs. Fairleigh, when her daughter was sixteen,\ndeparted her seemingly very pointless existence. Her last years had been\nsweetened by Lady Paton's devoted kindness, and she left Mary to this\nguardian angel. Since that time Mary had lived at Enthorpe Lodge", "I\nhave been coughing blood for a long time. Nothing can be done for me.\nYou know how my father died."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.725, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "mult-0214", "type": "multihop", "gold_story_id": "sedgwick_confounding_camelia", "question": "In the novel where a young woman rides through winter mist to a gray stone house on a hill and climbs to a laboratory at the top of it, the man she finds working there had, in his youth, expected to enter a particular public career before his father's financial disaster forced him into journalism instead. What career had he expected to enter?", "answer": "Parliament", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "The late-book scene (about six-sevenths through) identifies the owner of the laboratory by name; an early retrospective chapter states that the same man had considered himself destined for that career until his father's ruin sent him into journalism.", "supporting_quotes": ["\"Mr. Perior? Yes, Miss; in the laboratory with Job Masters. Just go up,\nMiss, and I'll take the horse round to the stables.\"", "murderers--for his father died under the shock of disaster, and Perior\ndid not pick his phrases.\n\nThe abject common-sense of his ex-_fiancée_ could be borne with perhaps\nmore philosophy. He accepted the starlessness as in the nature of\nthings, and his own brief belief in stars as typifying the ignorance of\nyouth; but his father's death--the crushing out of life rather than its\ndeparture--was tragedy, and it was with the sense of inevitable and\nirretrievable tragedy that he began life. He had been thought clever at\nOxford, and had considered himself destined for Parliament. With a huge\nload of debts upon his back, and an unresigned mother to support, all\nthoughts of the career for which he had fitted himself were out of the\nquestion. He turned to its only equivalent, and took up journalism."], "hops": 2, "separation": 0.717, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0213", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "sedgwick_confounding_camelia", "question": "In the novel set around the Blankshire village of Clievesbury, a visiting mother who fancies herself the pioneer of a new school of music seats herself at the piano after dinner at Enthorpe Lodge and announces the title of one of her own symphonic poems before playing it. What title does she announce?", "answer": "Thalassa", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "In the after-dinner drawing-room scene (roughly a quarter of the way through the book), the guest settles at the piano and names the piece she is about to perform.", "supporting_quotes": ["\"My symphonic poem--'Thalassa,' shall I give you that?\""], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0214", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "sedgwick_confounding_camelia", "question": "In the novel where the heiress of Enthorpe Lodge near Clievesbury owns a small brindled bull-dog, she opens a window during a quarrel with her old teacher and sends the dog out to a suitor who is waiting outside. What is the dog called?", "answer": "Siegfried", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "About a third of the way through, in the morning-room confrontation, she opens the window and the narration names the dog going out.", "supporting_quotes": ["\"There, my pet, go--poor Sir Arthur is lonely, go to him,\" said Camelia,\nopening the window for Siegfried's exit, \"you know your sarcasm doesn't\nimpress me one bit--not one bit,\" she added."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0163 — computation
-**Q.** In the colonial New England novel whose frontier homestead at Bethel is destroyed in an Indian raid while the master of the house is away, the mistress's last letter to her husband runs through the younger members of the household thriving at home. Long afterwards the bereaved father, defending his decision to have sent his eldest boy to England, speaks of that boy as the one child still left to him. Counting from those two passages, how many of his own children did the raid take from him?
-**A.** 4  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.357)_
-**Derivation.** The wife's letter (about 8% into the book) enumerates the younger children at home: three little girls plus the baby boy, that is four children besides the eldest son. Much later (about 43% in) the father says the eldest boy is the only child left of his flock. The raid therefore cost him the other four. Different chapters, roughly 35% of the text apart.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Your three
->  little girls are thriving mightily; and as to the baby, you will not
->  be ashamed to own him, though you will not recognise, in the bouncing
->  boy that plays bo-peep and creeps quite over the room,
-> I see not that I erred in sending
-> him from me, since I but complied with the last request of his sainted
-> mother, and that compliance deprived me of the only child left of my
-> little flock.
-### comp-0164 — computation
-**Q.** In the colonial New England novel in which a young man newly returned from England is checked at the governor's table for offering to drink a lady's health, the governor replies by naming the year of the court order that abolished the custom and saying how long ago that order was passed. The novel's opening chapter gives the year in which the same young man's father at last sailed for the colony. How many years separate that emigration from the dinner?
-**A.** 13  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.393)_
-**Derivation.** Opening chapter: the father sailed in 1630 in the ship Arbella. Governor's dinner (about 41% into the book): the court order is dated 1639 and is said to be four years old, which fixes the dinner in 1643. Subtracting gives the answer. The two passages are about 38% of the text apart, in different chapters.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Fletcher remained constant to his purpose of emigrating to
-> New-England, but he did not effect it till the year 1630, when he
-> embarked with his family and effects in the ship Arbella, with
-> Governor Winthrop,
-> for you probably did not know that the vain custom of
-> drinking one to another, has been disused at my table for ten years;
-> and that our general court prohibited this ‘employment of the creature
-> out of its natural use’ by their order in the year of our Lord 1639,
-> four years since;
-### mult-0163 — multihop
-**Q.** In the colonial New England novel in which a one-armed Pequod woman is put on trial in Boston for stirring up the tribes, a spare, ascetic-looking minister walks in at her side and is asked to open the proceedings with prayer; a bystander in the crowd identifies him to a stranger only by the honorific the colony has given him. The book's very first chapter attaches that same honorific to a young Suffolk zealot named there as the most intimate friend of the emigrating gentleman whose story opens the novel. What is that minister's surname?
-**A.** Eliot  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.791)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1: the opening chapter identifies the young Suffolk zealot who bears the honorific 'apostle of New-England' and names him as the intimate friend of young Fletcher. Hop 2: at the trial near the end of the second volume, the bystander identifies the minister escorting the prisoner only by that same honorific. Neither passage alone names the minister at the trial; combined they give the surname. The passages sit at roughly 1% and 80% of the text, in different chapters and different volumes.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Winthrop, the {6} future governor of Massachusetts, was the counsellor
-> of young Fletcher, and Eliot, the “apostle of New-England,” his most
-> intimate friend.
-> and replied, “That gentleman,
-> sir, is the ‘apostle of New-England,’ though it much offendeth his
-> modesty to be so called.”
-### mult-0164 — multihop
-**Q.** In the colonial New England novel in which the heroine, escaping in a boat across Boston harbour, is taken for a heavenly being by a devout Italian seaman who had kept clear of his shipmates' drinking party on an island, that same seaman later hammers on the governor's door late at night to expose a plot to carry her off, explaining that a holy apparition seen in the harbour had set him against his own crew. Which saint did he believe had appeared to him?
-**A.** Petronilla  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.276)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1: in the boat scene (about two thirds through) the sailor runs through a list of saints and finally settles on the blessed Lady he takes her to be. Hop 2: in the closing chapter the narrator reports his testimony to the governor, crediting a visitation from his patron saint in Boston harbour for his warning, but not naming her. Only the two together identify the saint behind the warning. The passages are about 27% of the text apart, in different chapters.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “Thou smilest!” he cried, exultingly; “thou art, then, my own peculiar
-> saint, the blessed Lady Petronilla. O holy martyr! spotless mirror of
-> purity!”
-> Antonio declared that, having
-> within the harbour of Boston been favoured with an extraordinary
-> visitation from his tutelar saint, who had vouchsafed to warn him
-> against his sinful comrades, he had determined, from the first, that
-> he would, if possible, prevent the wicked designs of the conspirators;
-### retr-0163 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the colonial New England romance in which a chief's daughter has her arm struck off as she throws herself over an English captive stretched on a sacrifice rock, she tells that same boy, on an earlier night, how her own elder brother was taken alive by the soldiers and killed with one sabre stroke when he would not guide them to his people's hiding places. In her telling, how many summers had that brother lived?
-**A.** 16  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the Pequod-war narrative of the first volume (roughly one seventh of the way through the book), the chief's daughter recounts her brother's capture and execution and states his age directly as sixteen summers. Single stated detail, one hop.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> He had, Everell, lived but
-> sixteen summers; he loved the light of the sun even as we love it; his
-> manly spirit was tamed by wounds and weariness;
-### retr-0164 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the colonial New England novel in which a young heiress smuggles an Indian prisoner out of the Boston jail by dressing her in the wig, hat, boots and cloak of her own elderly tutor, the narrator breaks off an inventory of a Pilgrim mansion's furnishings to insist that these emigrants were not impoverished fortune-hunters, and cites the yearly income of the English estate that the colony's governor had given up. What was that estate worth, in pounds a year?
-**A.** 700  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the digression on Pilgrim households (about two fifths of the way through the book), the narrator gives the annual value of the governor's English estate as seven hundred pounds. Stated once; one hop.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Mr. Winthrop himself had an estate in England worth seven
-> hundred pounds per annum.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "retr-0163", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "sedgwick_hope_leslie", "question": "In the colonial New England romance in which a chief's daughter has her arm struck off as she throws herself over an English captive stretched on a sacrifice rock, she tells that same boy, on an earlier night, how her own elder brother was taken alive by the soldiers and killed with one sabre stroke when he would not guide them to his people's hiding places. In her telling, how many summers had that brother lived?", "answer": "16", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "In the Pequod-war narrative of the first volume (roughly one seventh of the way through the book), the chief's daughter recounts her brother's capture and execution and states his age directly as sixteen summers. Single stated detail, one hop.", "supporting_quotes": ["He had, Everell, lived but\nsixteen summers; he loved the light of the sun even as we love it; his\nmanly spirit was tamed by wounds and weariness;"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0052 — computation
-**Q.** Over the course of the book, the vengeful Frenchwoman's flung acid actually lands on three different living people. Working through the whole novel, list the three scaldings in the order they occur, giving for each the part of the body that the acid burned.
-**A.** 1) The palace story-teller's nose-tip, the acid streaming down his beard (Paris palace corridor); 2) the Irish servant's right cheek and throat (he threw himself in the way at the Brittany château); 3) the young master's brows (in his bath, which blinded him).  _(format: list, hops: 3, separation: 0.297)_
-**Derivation.** This requires aggregating and ordering three widely separated incidents; no single chapter contains more than one. First burn at ~68%: the woman is hidden behind a wall-hanging in the palace corridor, and because the master sends the Hindu ahead of him the acid takes that man's nose-tip and runs down his beard. Second burn at ~81%: during the explosion and fire at the Brittany château she throws again at the master, and the servant flings himself between, catching the dose over his right cheek and throat. Third burn at ~97%: she is smuggled into the bath-house inside a towel-coffer and, as he surfaces, the acid takes him about the brows, blinding him. Ordering plus the anatomical specifics can only come from reading; a summary would at most record the final blinding.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> shrieks which pierced the ear, vitriol eating now that
-> doughy nose-tip, streaming down his beard.
-> receiving the bath of vitriol all over his right cheek and throat.
-> under the hound, received vitriol about his brows....
-### comp-0110 — computation
-**Q.** On exactly three occasions the young man names a precise figure of money to buy a man's cooperation: once to the pair of English officers who have come to take him away, once to an elderly titled Frenchman he is paying for details of a plot against him, and once, at long range through a go-between, to an impoverished versifier who sits in the Chamber. Working through the whole book, give the three figures in the order they occur.
-**A.** ['Four hundred pounds — the money he had stolen in London — promised to the two officers if they could get him past the oak tree in the courtyard', 'Twenty thousand francs — the first of several cheques thrown to the old duke for his information', 'Two million francs — the sum offered to the poet-politician to keep him from his sister']  _(format: list, hops: 3, separation: 0.553)_
-**Derivation.** Three widely separated regions, and no single chapter contains more than one. (1) ~40%: arrested in the housekeeper's room, he offers the inspector and the constable the four hundred pounds he stole in London if they can hold him past the oak tree. (2) ~71%: bribing the old duke for the details of the plot, he stamps a cheque and, pressed, states the amount — twenty thousand, the first of several. (3) ~96%: the morning after the envelope reaches the poet, the duke asks him the amount and is told two millions. Measured offsets are 40.0%, 71.2% and 95.6%, so the smallest gap is over 24%. Ordering the three and pairing each with its recipient can only be done by reading across the whole novel; a summary would record none of the figures.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> four hundred pounds which I stole in London shall be for your private
-> use
-> “Twenty thousand, that being the first of several, the others to be
-> written out as you proceed
-> “My friend, what was the amount?” the duke questioned with a screwed
-> countenance.
->
-> “It was two millions, monsieur.”
-### mult-0052 — multihop
-**Q.** One member of the young ruler's household had earlier drifted around London and Paris passing himself off as a doctor of medicine, then turned up working as a cook in a château in Brittany, before rising to be a pampered story-teller in his master's palace. In the letter that an old dying retainer sends from his sickbed, what earlier conviction is laid against this favourite — for what offence, at what prison, and how long before?
-**A.** Thirteen years earlier he had served two years in Wormwood Scrubbs Prison, near London, for stealing two bicycles.  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.319)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (~53% into the book): in the Paris conversation between the Minister of the Interior and the abbé, the minister sketches the biography of the palace functionary — a lean scarecrow pretending to be a doctor of medicine around Paris and London, then a cook, met again at the Brittany château of the countess. This identifies the bridge entity (Nundcumar), who is never named in the question. Hop 2 (~85%): the dying Irish servant's sickbed letter to his master warns against that same man and states the conviction — two years in Wormwood Scrubbs Prison near London, thirteen years since, for stealing two bicycles. The supporting passages are about 32% of the book apart, and neither the cook episode nor the bicycle theft would survive into any plot summary.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Then he became a cook, and it was thus that I again
-> came across him at Egmond, the Brittany château of the Comtesse de
-> thirteen years since Nundcumar was two years in Wormwood Scrubbs
-> Prison, near by London, for stealing two bicycles.
-### mult-0110 — multihop
-**Q.** Early in the book a French servant grumbles about her employer's elder daughter, who keeps her endlessly stitching outfits for the little figures handed out to sick children, and who regards washing oneself even as often as once a week as an unspiritual indulgence. Much later, when hired troops at a coastal palace mutinied and fired their own quarters, that same woman headed off the master of the place with a line scrawled on the blank front page of a book and then went out to the men alone. What was she wearing while she did it, and what did she get them to do?
-**A.** She had her hair blown loose over an old faded-blue cloak, with one of the soldiers' own forage-caps on her head; haranguing them in French against the gale she got them laughing, cheering 'Bravo!', and then sent them rushing off in a body to help put out the fire.  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.631)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (~21% and ~27%): the lady's-maid's journal identifies which of the two sisters is meant — the elder one who binds her to dressing dolls for the London hospital children and who thinks bathing as often as weekly is 'worldly'. That fixes the bridge person (Ruth Vickery), who is never named in the question. Hop 2 (~91%): during the second mutiny at the Brittany palace, a maid brings the master a line written on a Bible's fly-leaf begging him not to come; peering through a wicket he then sees her before the mutineers in an old faded-blue cloak with her hair loose and a soldier's forage-cap on her head, haranguing them in French, and afterwards pointing at the flame so that they press through a gate to fight it. The two supporting passages lie about 63% of the book apart (measured: 27.3% and 90.6%), and neither the bathing remark nor the forage-cap would appear in any summary.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> considers it to be
-> “worldly” to bathe her body as frequently as once in a week
-> present him a line scribbled on the fly-leaf of a Bible, “Pray, sir,
-> do not come to the men. It will be well.—RUTH VICKERY.”
-> her hair blown
-> loose over an old cloak of faded blue that enfolded her, flapping,
-> on her head a forage-cap of the men
-### retr-0052 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel in which an elderly scientist steals a small inscribed block of dark stone from a monastery library on a lake island in north-east Africa, fails for years to decipher it, and therefore marries a poor laundress he picks at random out of the crowd on a London bridge so as to breed a son he can rear on an uninhabited island off Scotland inside a wholly fabricated world where every man is believed to be more than mortal — what sum does the father say the boy's specially expurgated books alone had cost him?
-**A.** More than £14,000  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** The identifying trait (stolen inscribed stone from an African lake-island monastery + deliberate marriage to a street-picked laundress + a son raised inside a manufactured world of supposed godlike men) is unique to this book among obscure Victorian/Edwardian novels. The requested detail appears only once, at roughly 14% into the text, in the father's letter describing the machinery of the deception: he itemises the boy's library, made entirely of purged volumes prepared for him, at a cost of more than £14,000. No plot summary would record this figure.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> his books alone cost me a sum of more than
-> £14,000: for, owing to my purpose
-### retr-0110 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel in which an ageing scholar fathers a son deliberately and then rears him from birth on an empty northern island inside a completely invented world — every volume in the boy's library specially rewritten for him, the one house-servant presented to him as a born half-wit, the father secretly cheating at their daily foot-race so the boy will grow up sure that ordinary grown men are more than human — the young man later turns up in England, where a middle-aged French serving-woman tries to rush him into marriage. What was the value of the stamp on the marriage licence she went and collected?
-**A.** £2 3s. 6d.  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** The identifying trait — a child bred on purpose and raised alone on a bare island inside a fabricated world (purged library, a sane servant passed off as feeble-minded, a rigged daily race) — belongs to this book alone. The requested detail sits at about 32% of the text, in the maid's own journal: she walks to the vicarage at St. Arvens, swears an affidavit before an aged clergyman, and he undertakes to procure her the licence, 'with a stamp on it for £2 3s. 6d.' The figure is mentioned once and would survive into no plot summary; it is also in a stretch of the book (the maid's country-house diary) that the earlier questions do not touch.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> the licence
-> to marry, with a stamp on it for £2 3s. 6d.

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "shiel_isle_lies", "question": "Over the course of the book, the vengeful Frenchwoman's flung acid actually lands on three different living people. Working through the whole novel, list the three scaldings in the order they occur, giving for each the part of the body that the acid burned.", "answer": "1) The palace story-teller's nose-tip, the acid streaming down his beard (Paris palace corridor); 2) the Irish servant's right cheek and throat (he threw himself in the way at the Brittany château); 3) the young master's brows (in his bath, which blinded him).", "answer_format": "list", "reasoning": "This requires aggregating and ordering three widely separated incidents; no single chapter contains more than one. First burn at ~68%: the woman is hidden behind a wall-hanging in the palace corridor, and because the master sends the Hindu ahead of him the acid takes that man's nose-tip and runs down his beard. Second burn at ~81%: during the explosion and fire at the Brittany château she throws again at the master, and the servant flings himself between, catching the dose over his right cheek and throat. Third burn at ~97%: she is smuggled into the bath-house inside a towel-coffer and, as he surfaces, the acid takes him about the brows, blinding him. Ordering plus the anatomical specifics can only come from reading; a summary would at most record the final blinding.", "supporting_quotes": ["shrieks which pierced the ear, vitriol eating now that\ndoughy nose-tip, streaming down his beard.", "receiving the bath of vitriol all over his right cheek and throat.", "under the hound, received vitriol about his brows...."], "hops": 3, "separation": 0.297, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "comp-0052", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
-{"type": "computation", "gold_story_id": "shiel_isle_lies", "question": "On exactly three occasions the young man names a precise figure of money to buy a man's cooperation: once to the pair of English officers who have come to take him away, once to an elderly titled Frenchman he is paying for details of a plot against him, and once, at long range through a go-between, to an impoverished versifier who sits in the Chamber. Working through the whole book, give the three figures in the order they occur.", "answer": ["Four hundred pounds — the money he had stolen in London — promised to the two officers if they could get him past the oak tree in the courtyard", "Twenty thousand francs — the first of several cheques thrown to the old duke for his information", "Two million francs — the sum offered to the poet-politician to keep him from his sister"], "answer_format": "list", "reasoning": "Three widely separated regions, and no single chapter contains more than one. (1) ~40%: arrested in the housekeeper's room, he offers the inspector and the constable the four hundred pounds he stole in London if they can hold him past the oak tree. (2) ~71%: bribing the old duke for the details of the plot, he stamps a cheque and, pressed, states the amount — twenty thousand, the first of several. (3) ~96%: the morning after the envelope reaches the poet, the duke asks him the amount and is told two millions. Measured offsets are 40.0%, 71.2% and 95.6%, so the smallest gap is over 24%. Ordering the three and pairing each with its recipient can only be done by reading across the whole novel; a summary would record none of the figures.", "supporting_quotes": ["four hundred pounds which I stole in London shall be for your private\nuse", "“Twenty thousand, that being the first of several, the others to be\nwritten out as you proceed", "“My friend, what was the amount?” the duke questioned with a screwed\ncountenance.\n\n“It was two millions, monsieur.”"], "hops": 3, "separation": 0.553, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "id": "comp-0110", "drafted_by": "auto-opus4.8-reader"}
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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0187 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where a woman is found drugged with chloral inside a home-made wire cage in an empty London house, two different men are each said to have been given a prison sentence of a stated length: one for his share in a fraud after he had absconded abroad and then returned, the other the business partner of a financier, convicted over a joint fraudulent transaction. Adding those two stated sentences together, how many years do they come to?
-**A.** 15  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.083)_
-**Derivation.** About 79% through, the runaway husband's history states he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for his share in a fraud. About 87% through, in the newspaper history of the murdered woman's family, the financier's partner is said to have been sentenced to five years' penal servitude over a joint fraudulent transaction. Ten plus five gives fifteen years.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> he was in with a bad set and for his share in
-> a fraud he had been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.
-> his partner, a Mr. Thomas Holmes, was arrested and sentenced to five
-> years' penal servitude in connection with a joint fraudulent
-> transaction.
-### comp-0188 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where an investigator takes service as a barrister's parlour-maid to look into a vanished bracelet, pendant and jewelled lizard, a young man tells his stepmother what he had raised by pawning his watch and chain; in a later case a millionaire presses a sum in bank-notes on the wife he had deserted long before. What do those two sums add up to, in pounds?
-**A.** £60  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.393)_
-**Derivation.** About 39% through, the stepmother's account states the young man pawned his watch and chain for ten pounds. About 79% through, in the account of the deserted wife's reunion with her husband, he gives her fifty pounds in bank-notes. Ten plus fifty gives sixty pounds.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> A few days before the robbery was discovered Claude laughingly told
-> her that he was 'in a devil of a mess' again, and that in order to
-> get a little ready money to carry on with he had had to pawn his
-> watch and chain for ten pounds.
-> He had promised her he would do what he could for her, and gave her
-> £50 in bank-notes.
-### mult-0187 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where an investigator discovers a concealed slit in the back of a large stuffed bear that is propped upright by an iron pole carrying an oil lamp in a Haverstock Hill drawing-room, the money that had lain hidden inside the animal for years is traced back to a payout made across the counter of a named bank. Which bank paid it out?
-**A.** the Union Bank of London  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.067)_
-**Derivation.** Near the end of the tenth adventure the investigator reports that the hundred-pound note the racecourse man was carrying belonged to a batch paid out by the Union Bank of London against a five-thousand-pound cheque. Several hundred lines later, in the final adventure, she states that notes concealed in the stuffed bear have been traced to that same man. Combining the two passages identifies the bank whose notes were hidden in the animal; neither passage alone links the bear to a bank.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> It has placed me in possession of a most remarkable fact. The
-> hundred-pound note which was in Flash George's possession on Kempton
-> Park racecourse was one of a number which were paid over the counter
-> of the Union Bank of London for a five-thousand-pound cheque over
-> seven years ago.
-> I am sure now that Flash George was
-> in it. He was seen outside, and some of the notes that were concealed
-> in the brown bear lamp have been traced to him.
-### mult-0188 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where the narrator pulls goloshes over his evening shoes and searches an empty house in Burton Crescent by dark lantern, the supposed Indian gentleman who had taken that house and paid cash for its odd fittings was promised a fee by the man employing him, both for getting the house and for looking after the woman kept in it. How many pounds was he promised?
-**A.** £5,000  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.13)_
-**Derivation.** Roughly 65% through, the goods delivered to the empty house are traced to a white-haired buyer in gold spectacles who gave the name Aleem Mohammed as the occupant of the house. Much later, after the accomplice is caught, the investigator reports the terms his employer offered him for getting a house and taking charge of the drinking woman, and states that Aleem admits he got the house and the things ordered. Only together do the two passages fix the sum promised to the man who took the house.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> All these things, it was found, had
-> been purchased and paid for by a white-haired gentleman in gold
-> spectacles, having the appearance of a native of India. He gave his
-> name and address as Mr. Aleem Mohammed, No. ---, Burton Crescent.
-> About a fortnight ago Barraclough went to him--he had a little flat
-> in Great Russell Street--and offered him £5,000 if he would consent
-> to get a house and take charge of a woman who was drinking herself
-> to death. The rest you know. Aleem swears that he only got the house
-> and the things Barraclough ordered him to, and that he has never
-> interfered in any way with the woman.
-### retr-0187 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel whose heroine, the wife of a painter blinded by illness, works out of a house in Oak Tree Road and takes on a Surrey lake case disguised as a hospital nurse, she hands her companion a carte de visite and sends him up to town to a photographic company's Regent Street office. What negative number does she tell him to have looked up in their books?
-**A.** 111,492  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** About 30% of the way through, on the little island in the lake case, the lady investigator gives her assistant the carte de visite she took from the album and tells him the photographers' name and the negative number to search for; the quote states the number outright.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> The photographers are the London Stereoscopic Company--the number of
-> the negative is 111,492.
-### retr-0188 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel where a stout, shabbily dressed German woman deliberately empties a glass of brandy and soda into an Italian gambler's breast pocket at a Soho club so that she can get at his pocket-book, that German woman is really someone in disguise. Under what name is she introduced to the club member who signs her in as a guest?
-**A.** Mrs. Goldschmidt  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** Just under halfway through, at the Soho gambling club, the narrator introduces the disguised investigator to the waiter who is taking them in as guests, and the name he gives her is stated once.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> I had all my work to keep from bursting into a roar of laughter at
-> Guiseppe's face when I introduced him to my lady friend,
-> "Mrs. Goldschmidt."

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "retr-0187", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "sims_dorcas_dene", "question": "In the novel whose heroine, the wife of a painter blinded by illness, works out of a house in Oak Tree Road and takes on a Surrey lake case disguised as a hospital nurse, she hands her companion a carte de visite and sends him up to town to a photographic company's Regent Street office. What negative number does she tell him to have looked up in their books?", "answer": "111,492", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "About 30% of the way through, on the little island in the lake case, the lady investigator gives her assistant the carte de visite she took from the album and tells him the photographers' name and the negative number to search for; the quote states the number outright.", "supporting_quotes": ["The photographers are the London Stereoscopic Company--the number of\nthe negative is 111,492."], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}
-{"id": "retr-0188", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "sims_dorcas_dene", "question": "In the novel where a stout, shabbily dressed German woman deliberately empties a glass of brandy and soda into an Italian gambler's breast pocket at a Soho club so that she can get at his pocket-book, that German woman is really someone in disguise. Under what name is she introduced to the club member who signs her in as a guest?", "answer": "Mrs. Goldschmidt", "answer_format": "string", "reasoning": "Just under halfway through, at the Soho gambling club, the narrator introduces the disguised investigator to the waiter who is taking them in as guests, and the name he gives her is stated once.", "supporting_quotes": ["I had all my work to keep from bursting into a roar of laughter at\nGuiseppe's face when I introduced him to my lady friend,\n\"Mrs. Goldschmidt.\""], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0151 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where hidden dumb-bell-shaped corrals with a branding chute are found on the slope of East Butte, two separate borrowings are mentioned: one a small Texas cowman once got on his unbacked note, and one a range boss raised on the strength of his prospects as coadministrator of a cattleman's estate. Added together, how many dollars were borrowed?
-**A.** 45000  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.136)_
-**Derivation.** At the Judith Basin ranch the little cowman says the Fort Worth banker loaned him twenty thousand dollars on an unbacked note; in the closing chapter the banker explains the range boss had borrowed twenty-five thousand dollars against his prospects as coadministrator. 20,000 + 25,000 = 45,000.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> own account. As it happens, I know Uncle Bill Sayre darned well. He
-> loaned me twenty thousand dollars on my unbacked note, one time.
-> borrowed twenty-five thousand dollars a year ago last winter on the
-> strength of his prospects as coadministrator of Snell’s estate.
-### comp-0152 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel where a rider takes over the name and the job of a dead double on a Montana river ranch, add the gold advance a Fort Worth banker slid across his desk when he engaged that rider to the fee a range boss later offered a pair of hired guns for putting the same rider away. What is the combined amount in dollars?
-**A.** 1000  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.678)_
-**Derivation.** In the opening chapter the banker's canvas bag holds five hundred dollars' advance in gold; much later the captured gunman admits he and his partner were offered five hundred dollars to kill the hero. 500 + 500 = 1,000.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “There’s five hundred dollars’ advance in gold,” he said abruptly.
-> “I don’t know nothin’ except that Buck offered me and Hurley five
-> hundred dollars to put your light out. That’s all I know.”
-### mult-0151 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel that closes with captured cattle thieves penned in a boarded-up bunk house while a recovered herd grazes toward the Marias, the riders loafing around that herd sit horses carrying a brand foreign to the ranch they are guarding. In which Montana basin does the outfit that owns that brand have its home range?
-**A.** The Judith Basin  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.809)_
-**Derivation.** Two hops: the final chapter notes the guard riders' mounts carry a Capital K on the shoulder; far earlier, outside the Nebraska dance hall, the little cowman who owns that brand says his outfit is called the Capital K and lies in the Judith Basin on Arrow Creek. Neither passage alone locates the horses' outfit.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> conjunction with this foreign brand, the four riders loafing on the
-> fringes of the herd rode horses with a Capital K gracefully curved on
-> each glossy shoulder.
-> You’ll find me in the Judith Basin, on Arrow Creek.
-> Capital K they call my outfit up there. Post office is Lewistown.
-### mult-0152 — multihop
-**Q.** In the novel where a woman ranching alone with her baby sister on the Marias has her only rider shot from ambush, she tells the stranger who buries him who her nearest neighbors are. One of those two outfits is run by the brother of the bully the stranger had shot dead in a Nebraska dance hall. How far along the river, and in which direction from her ranch, does she place that particular outfit?
-**A.** About seven miles upriver (above the ranch)  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.102)_
-**Derivation.** Hop one, early in the book: the man killed in the dance hall is identified as the brother of the trail boss of the Seventy Seven. Hop two, at the ranch: she says the Maltese Cross lies seven miles below on the river and the Seventy Seven about the same distance above. Combined, the dead bully's brother's outfit is about seven miles upstream.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> this night had already spanned. The man whom he had killed in the Odeon
-> was the brother of the trail boss of the Seventy Seven, and the Duffys
-> were a clannish lot, with more nerve than good judgment.
-> “Not near. There is the Maltese Cross on the river, seven miles below,
-> and the Seventy Seven about the same distance above.”
-### retr-0151 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel where a drifting Texan is repeatedly mistaken for the murdered ranch hand he resembles and helps bury, what antiseptic does the woman who employs him fetch when she dresses the bullet graze on his scalp?
-**A.** Carbolic acid  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the chapter after the ravine ambush (roughly 77% of the way through), she returns with a basin, scissors and carbolic acid and cleans the scalp wound; the substance is named only there.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> She returned in a minute with a basin, scissors and carbolic acid. Very
-> deftly she snipped the hair away from about the wound, cleaned it with
-> a solution that burned like fire, and drew the edges together with a
-> patch of court-plaster.
-### retr-0152 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the story that opens with a young range rider on a sorrel horse stopping at a one-story adobe bank on a dusty Fort Worth street, what single word had a wag lately scrawled in red chalk on the bank's paneled door?
-**A.** Holy  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In the opening chapter the rider pauses at the door to grin at the word chalked into the gilt legend; it appears once.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> this piece of plain oak some wag had lately scrawled in red chalk the
-> word “Holy” between “The” and “Trinity.” It was not inappropriate, Rock
-> knew. The Trinity Bank of Fort Worth was owned and operated by three

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0221 — computation
-**Q.** The narrator goes to the wicket three times in the course of the book: once in the annual Little Clumpton versus Hickory fixture, once in the improvised Middlesex versus Gloucestershire game played on the Rectory lawn, and once in the private single-wicket challenge on which his marriage hopes depend. Adding those innings together, how many runs did he make in total?
-**A.** 30  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.699)_
-**Derivation.** Chapter VI (~23% in): he is leg before for 7 in the village match. Chapter XIV (~65% in): he is run out for a duck, i.e. 0, on the Rectory lawn. Chapter XX (~96% in): he makes twenty-three in the single-wicket challenge. 7 + 0 + 23 = 30.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> The perfect wicket, the glorious day, the appreciative crowd, the
-> chance of fame, and then l.b.w. 7.
-> Contrary to expectation the finish was desperately close. Through
-> my ignorance of the ground I had the misfortune to be run out for
-> a duck. Toddles, who succeeded, shaped beautifully, his wrist work
-> of opinion that it was too expensive to feed. I had made twenty-three
-> by careful play when I got into two minds with one that curled
-### comp-0222 — computation
-**Q.** In the Little Clumpton innings against Hickory, the batsman heading the score-sheet was still not out when the bell rang for luncheon. How many further runs did he add between then and his eventual dismissal?
-**A.** 106  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.158)_
-**Derivation.** Chapter VIII (~34% in): the luncheon score-sheet shows the batsman at the head of the order not out for 98. End of Chapter X (~48% in): the completed innings score printed in the paper shows him bowled for 204. 204 - 98 = 106.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> WHEN the bell rang for luncheon at half-past one, the score-sheet was
-> pretty reading:--
->
->   FIRST INNINGS OF LITTLE CLUMPTON.
->
->   H. J. Halliday, not out                       98
-> LITTLE CLUMPTON _v._ HICKORY.
->
-> _1st Inns. of Little Clumpton._
->
->   H. J. Halliday, b. H. C. Trentham               204
-### mult-0221 — multihop
-**Q.** Before play began at the annual Little Clumpton versus Hickory match, the young woman who had driven the visitors' four-in-hand onto the ground promised the groundsman a tip for every individual hundred scored by Hickory that day. Given how the day's play actually ended, how many such tips did she end up owing him?
-**A.** 0  _(format: number, hops: 2, separation: 0.361)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (Chapter III, ~10% in): the tip is promised per individual century made for Hickory. Hop 2 (end of Chapter X, ~48% in): the printed full score shows the visitors never went in at all, so no century could be made for them and no tip fell due.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> “And, ground-man,” she said, “mind that I tip you for every individual
-> century that is got for Hickory to-day.”
-> _Hickory did not bat._
-### mult-0222 — multihop
-**Q.** A newspaper paragraph read at breakfast on the morning of the big village match claims that the authorities at Old Trafford were making strenuous efforts to get a certain public-school captain to qualify for Lancashire. Later in the book that same young man is chosen for a county side, and an acceptance is wired back in his name. In which town was the match he was chosen for to be played?
-**A.** Tonbridge  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.568)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (Chapter II, ~7% in): the press item names the schoolboy being courted by Lancashire as the youngest of the famous brotherhood, that year's captain at Harrow. Hop 2 (Chapter XIII, ~63% in): the reply telegram accepting a county engagement is signed in that same surname and names the venue.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
->   “We have it from a reliable source,” says the _Athletic News_, “that
->   the authorities at Old Trafford are making strenuous efforts to
->   induce Mr. T. S. M. Trentham, this year’s captain at Harrow, and
->   the youngest member of the famous brotherhood whose name he bears,
->   to qualify for Lancashire. As doubtless our readers are aware, the
-> A pencil being promptly forthcoming, Miss Grace wrote in a hasty but
-> firm hand on the slip attached: “Shall be very glad to play, Tonbridge,
-> Monday. T. Trentham.”
-### retr-0221 — retrieval
-**Q.** On the morning of the annual Little Clumpton versus Hickory fixture, the narrator's lucky cap cannot be found anywhere, so his servant is sent off on a bicycle to borrow an identical one from a gentleman living elsewhere in the district. How many miles away did that gentleman live?
-**A.** 18  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In Chapter II (about 9% into the book) the narrator gives his servant the errand and states the distance that must be ridden before eleven o'clock.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> can only get runs in the Authentics. It’s now eight-twenty, and it’s
-> eighteen miles to Mr. Thornhill’s place. Can you bring it to me by
-> eleven?”
-### retr-0222 — retrieval
-**Q.** As the home side piled up runs in the annual Little Clumpton versus Hickory encounter, onlookers began asking what the highest total ever made in that fixture was. In what year had that record total been compiled?
-**A.** 1887  _(format: number, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** In Chapter IX (about 42% in) the narrator reports the crowd's question and the answer: the visitors' 503 for nine, made in the pre-declaration days of that year, held the record.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Matters were growing ominous. Men were heard to inquire what was the
-> record score in Little Clumpton _v._ Hickory, by whom was it made, and
-> when? It appeared that Hickory’s 503 for nine, in the pre-declaration
-> days of 1887, held it. Would it be eclipsed? Runs still came at their

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.

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-{"id": "retr-0222", "type": "retrieval", "gold_story_id": "snaith_willow_king", "question": "As the home side piled up runs in the annual Little Clumpton versus Hickory encounter, onlookers began asking what the highest total ever made in that fixture was. In what year had that record total been compiled?", "answer": "1887", "answer_format": "number", "reasoning": "In Chapter IX (about 42% in) the narrator reports the crowd's question and the answer: the visitors' 503 for nine, made in the pre-declaration days of that year, held the record.", "supporting_quotes": ["Matters were growing ominous. Men were heard to inquire what was the\nrecord score in Little Clumpton _v._ Hickory, by whom was it made, and\nwhen? It appeared that Hickory’s 503 for nine, in the pre-declaration\ndays of 1887, held it. Would it be eclipsed? Runs still came at their"], "hops": 1, "separation": 0.0, "review_flags": [], "status": "draft", "drafted_by": "auto-opus5-reader"}

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 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
-## 6 questions
-### comp-0053 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel in which a country squire, wrongly accused of shooting a foreign nobleman, spends nearly a year in hiding and at one stage works under a false name as a railway signal operator at a lonely junction, add together these three sums of money: (1) the legacy the squire's disgraced cousin had to content himself with under their uncle's will after being cut out of the estate; (2) the amount of the reward that was still unclaimed for the squire's capture at the time he was finally taken; and (3) the amount that same cousin boasted to his wife he would have in his possession within six weeks. What is the total, in pounds?
-**A.** 15300  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.711)_
-**Derivation.** Three widely separated regions must be combined. (1) At approx. 14% of the book, the tavern landlady's account of the family history gives the cousin's legacy as five thousand pounds. (2) At approx. 63%, during the March quarrel at Linden Villa, the cousin tells his wife that in less than six weeks he will be in possession of ten thousand pounds (his half-share of the planned jewel robbery). (3) At approx. 84-86%, at the arrest and again in the magistrate's remarks in the Cummerhays justice-room, the reward outstanding for the squire's capture is given as three hundred pounds. 5000 + 10000 + 300 = 15300. No single chapter contains more than one of the three figures.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> to content himself with a legacy of five thousand pounds.
-> weeks from to-day I shall be in possession of ten thousand pounds?
-> fact the man for whose apprehension a reward of three hundred pounds
-### comp-0111 — computation
-**Q.** In the novel in which a squire, accused of shooting a titled foreigner with a weapon he had lent him, hides for the better part of a year and ends up tending signals on a remote railway branch, add together the three distances the narrator states in miles: (1) how far the squire's country house stands from London; (2) how far, as the crow flies, that house lies from the seat of the justice of the peace who had signed the warrant against him, and to which he flees on the first night; and (3) the whole length of the branch railway line whose terminus is the far northern town where he is at last brought before the magistrates. What is the total, in miles?
-**A.** 37  _(format: number, hops: 3, separation: 0.625)_
-**Derivation.** Three widely separated regions must be combined, and no single chapter holds more than one figure. (1) At approx. 1.0% of the book (Chapter I), the opening description of the morning-room places the country-house about fourteen miles from London. (2) At approx. 41.6% (Chapter IX), as the fugitive crosses the fields by night to the justice's house, the narrator states the distance from the Towers to the Court is about three miles as the crow flies. (3) At approx. 63.9% (Chapter XIII), the topographical preamble to the northern town gives its branch line as about twenty miles in length, leaving the main line at Greenholm. 14 + 3 + 20 = 37. Character offsets into the body text are 2,911 / 115,766 / 177,819 of 278,430, i.e. gaps of about 40.6 and 22.3 percentage points.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> Mr. Gerald Brooke's country-house, situated about fourteen miles from
-> London
-> The distance from
-> the Towers to the Court was about three miles as the crow flies
-> The branch line in question, of which Cummerhays is the
-> terminus, is about twenty miles in length
-### mult-0053 — multihop
-**Q.** Early in this book a young woman, left alone in the best parlour of a country tavern while her companion pays a call, catches sight through the window of a small boy in performer's costume throwing crumbs to birds on the grass outside; she calls him in, kneels down, and asks him in French whether he has a sister — a question that leaves her sobbing on the window-seat cushions after he goes. At what Paris establishment had this same woman held a performing engagement some eight years before?
-**A.** The Cirque de l'Hiver  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.719)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (approx. 15% of the book): the woman waiting in Mrs. Purvis's parlour at the Beechley Arms while Crofton makes his call is Mademoiselle Stephanie Lagrange; she questions the boy Henri Picot about a sister and breaks down. Hop 2 (approx. 88% of the book): in the acrobat's confession in the Cummerhays justice-room he states that eight years earlier, in Paris, his daughter Stephanie held an engagement at the Cirque de l'Hiver before Von Rosenberg carried her off. The bridge entity — Stephanie, the acrobat's lost daughter and the boy's sister — is never named in the question, and the two supporting passages are about 72% of the book apart.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> she said: "But you have a sister, have you not?"
-> an engagement at the Cirque de l'Hiver.
-### mult-0111 — multihop
-**Q.** The weapon that killed the foreign nobleman in this book had been presented years earlier to its owner, while he was in India, by a native ruler to whom he had done some slight service. According to the account given in open court, much later, by the man who actually fired it, what object was lying on the table close by at the moment he walked in on his victim?
-**A.** A heavy riding-whip  _(format: string, hops: 2, separation: 0.812)_
-**Derivation.** Hop 1 (approx. 6.7% of the book): in the second chapter the squire fetches an ornamented weapon from a cabinet and explains its provenance — it was given him in India by a Nawab whom he had obliged — which is the only way to identify which object the question means, since the bridge (the inlaid Indian pistol) is never named in the question. Hop 2 (approx. 88.3%): in the confession delivered before the northern magistrates, the killer describes entering the little garden building and finding the Baron on his feet examining that same inlaid pistol, with a heavy riding-whip lying on the table close by — the whip he is then struck with, which precipitates the shot. The two passages are about 81.6 percentage points apart (measured on character offsets into the body text, 18,763 and 245,749 of 278,430).
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> It was given me when I was in India by a
-> certain Nawab to whom I had rendered some slight service
-> On the table close by
-> is a heavy riding-whip
-### retr-0053 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel in which an English country gentleman — raised from the age of five in eastern Europe, and secretly sworn as a youth to a revolutionary secret society whose governing council later draws his name by lot to carry out a death sentence on a titled German ex-diplomat renting a house near his own — is accused of that killing after the victim is shot with an ornately inlaid pistol he had lent him, and who evades a police search of his own house by standing motionless inside one of the suits of armour at the foot of his staircase: the heroine's fussy elderly aunt fondly recalls a foreign 'count' with remarkably fine dark eyes and waxed facial hair who once proposed marriage to her. What did that supposed nobleman actually turn out to be?
-**A.** A hairdresser's assistant (one whose father had left him a little money)  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** The identifying trait paraphrases the novel's premise (squire brought up in Poland/Russia, sworn to a revolutionary society, drawn by lot to kill Baron von Rosenberg, accused after the Baron is shot with his own lent Indian pistol, hides inside a suit of armour during the police search) without using its title or any proper noun. The asked detail is a throwaway aside in the aunt's reminiscence during a quiet evening in the Soho lodgings, at roughly 52-53% of the book: she compares the French acrobat's broken English to that of a 'count' who had proposed to her, then admits he was no nobleman but a hairdresser's assistant. No plot summary would preserve this.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> be no nobleman at all, but only a hairdresser's assistant whose father
-### retr-0111 — retrieval
-**Q.** In the novel whose hunted gentleman spends nearly a year under a string of assumed names — first shut up in a windowless chamber hollowed out beneath a friend's old house, then living as an assistant gamekeeper on a bleak northern moor, and at last working the levers of a lonely railway box, where a gang ties him to a tree meaning to turn the night train onto a colliery line and rob it: while he was on the moor, on the third morning after his employer's shooting party arrived, he was standing outside the cottage door cleaning his gun when a man who had once been in his own service came up the garden path and recognised him. What had he just caught himself doing, a moment before he heard that footstep?
-**A.** Humming an air from Lucia (Donizetti's opera)  _(format: string, hops: 1, separation: 0.0)_
-**Derivation.** The identifying trait paraphrases three distinct hiding places of the plot (the underground refuge at the justice's house, the northern moor keepership, the railway signal box and the planned train robbery) without using the book's title or any proper noun from it. The asked detail sits at approx. 45.9% of the text: the narrator notes that the free open-air life had restored his spirits so far that, on the third morning after the shooting guests arrived, he caught himself humming an air from Lucia while cleaning his gun — the exact instant before the ex-servant appears and recognises him. It is a throwaway grace note that no plot summary would preserve; the summaries record only that he was recognised and had to flee.
-**Supporting spans (verbatim in the novel):**
-> he caught himself humming an air from _Lucia_ while
-> cleaning the barrel of his gun outside the cottage door

 Full text: [`story.md`](story.md). Questions (gold = this novel): [`questions.jsonl`](questions.jsonl).
+## No questions
+This source carries no authored questions.