Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:
About this time there went a rumour throughout the valley that the great man, who to bear a resemblance to the Great Stone Face, had appeared at last. It seems that, many years before, a young man had left the valley and settled at a distant seaport. Gather gold, which was his name, had set up as a shopkeeper and, being sharp in business matters, had become so very rich ‘ that it would have taken him a hundred ‘ years only to count his wealth. In time he thought of his native valley, and decided to go back there, and end his days where he had been born.
Ernest had been deeply stirred by the idea that the great man, the noble man, the man of prophecy, after so many ages of delay, was at length to be seen in his native valley. While the boy was still gazing up the S valley one day and imagining that the Great Stone Pace returned his g size, the noise of wheels was hesiod, and a crowd of people cried. “Here comes the great Mr Gather gold.”
(1) What rumour went about the valley ?
(2) How rich had Gather gold become?
(3) What thought had moved Ernest ?
(4) Who was being waited for by the people in the valley ?
