post # 6

5 comments
-Holmes wanted to turn his building into a hotel for visitors to the Worlds' Columbian Expositon
- Holmes acts as his own architect
-He began planning the modifications for his hotel
-Holmes was nice to the police and greeted them every time he saw them
-The police thought he was a good person and the valued his gestures of grace

4 questions
-Did the police think it was kind of mysterious that Holmes was always nice to them?
-Did they take the kind gestures as bribery?
-Why did he frequently at the Wilmette?
-Did Myrta like Holmes?

3 vocabulary
dividend-a pro-rata share in an amount to be distributed
transcendent-going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
gallows-a wooden frame, consisting of a crossbeam on two uprights, on which condemned persons are executed by hanging.

2 literary terms
'asking sweetly if might court her, she felt as if a coarse blanket had been lifted from her life' simile
'heat and haze they looked like desert troops gone too long without water' simile

1 overview sentence
This part of the book is basically about hoe Holmes is building the Hotel