What was the night like when jimmy leaned on the bridge rails?
clear
What boat traveled out of the inlet beneath a black wall of pines?
the  Shasta
Was his character a complex one?
No
What did this allow him to do sufficiently?
the obvious thing
What twinkled over the quarter of the Shasta's port?
the pale lights of the climbing city
Was the place he was Familiar to him?
yes
Even though it was familar what was he going to do?
he was going to leave it behind
Who broke down under a load of debt?
Jimmy's father
Who in the storey is said to of needed Jimmy?
Tom Wheelock
What is it Jimmy couldn't possibly conceive?
the possibility of any man scheming and plotting to ruin a fellow-being for the value of two old schooners.
What had Jimmy cut himself adrift from?
from all that he had been accustomed to,
Did he know where his life was taking him?
no
What rolled away behind the city?
dim forest
What was beyond that?
a faint blink of snow still gleamed against the dusky blueness of the east.