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Read these lines: "They noticed that he did not lay down upon the bed prepared for it in the ambulance the form that he carried, and all that he said was: Drive fast, Wilson, to the driver." The next morning a news item ended with these words: "Dr. William Jackson, the ambulance physician who attended the case, says the patient will recover." The last detail matters because it
Areveals the hospital where the young woman was taken
Bgives the doctor the very name she had given her star
Crecords that the ambulance had been called far too late
Dnames the landlady who had refused to help her at all
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. gives the doctor the very name she had given her star
1. The doctor behaves strangely for a stranger, holding the young woman rather than laying her down and hurrying the driver.
2. His name is withheld until the very last line, where it appears in a printed notice.
3. The name is William Jackson, and the star she looked at every night she had called Billy Jackson.
4. The two names are the same, which is why the notice is quoted at all.
5. That match is option B.
6. Option C is contradicted by the closing words, which say the patient will recover.
7. Options A and D pick out facts the notice does not carry.
_Source: O. Henry, The Four Million (1906), public domain_
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