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Read the following passages and answer the questions given below?

“You’re not Jimmy Wells, ” he snapped. “Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man’s nose from a Roman to a pug.”

“It sometimes changes a good man into a bad one” , .said the tall man. “You’ve been under arrest for ten minutes, ‘Silky’ Bob. Chicago thinks you may have dropped over our way and wires us she wants to have a chat with you. Going quietly, are you? That’s sensible. Now, before we go on to the station here’s a note I was asked to hand you. You may read it here at the window. It’s from Patrolman Wells.”

The man from the West unfolded the little piece of paper handed to him. His hand was steady when he began to read, but it trembled a little by the time he had finished. The note was rather short.

“Bob, I was at the appointed place on time. When you struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face of the man wanted in Chicago. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself so I went around and got a plainclothes man to do the job.”

(a) How did Bob find out that the plainclothes man was not Jimmy Wells?

(b) How did the plainclothes man respond to Bob’s discovery of the identity?

(c) How did New York police get scent of Bob’s presence in New York?

(d) What did the plainclothes man give Bob?

(e) Why did the note shock Bob?

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(a) Under the brilliant lights of the drug stone, Bob noticed the pug nose of the policeman in plainclothes. Jimmy Wells had a sharp Roman nose.

(b) The policeman said that twenty years, sometimes, is long enough to change a good man to a bad man.

(c) Chicago police had sent a telegram describing Bob’s facial features. Thus New York police got scent of his presence in New York.

(d) The plainclothes man gave Bob a note written by patrolman Wells.

(e) The note read that Jimmy Wells had arrived at the appointed spot. In the cigar light, he had noticed the features of a man wanted by Chicago police. As he could not arrest him himself, he had sent a police clothes man to do the job. The realization that his boyhood friend had got him arrested shocked him.

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