Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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tight. This is a holdup." Anderson, the guard, dozing by the door in his brown uniform. There was Mrs. Elizabeth Clayhorn, depositing her husband's pay check in their joint checking account, and with her was her ten-year-old son Edward (Eddie) Clayhorn, Junior. There was Charlie Casale, getting ten dollars in the grocery store down the street. There was Mrs. Dolly Daniels, withdrawing money from her savings account again. And there were three the others took the pistol away from Mister Anderson, the guard, and with the gun swung violently back, cursing, and fired the gun. But he'd been moving too fast, and so had Miss English, and all he hit was the her best to scratch his eyes out. Meanwhile, Mr. Anderson went scooting out the front door and running down the street toward the police station in the next block, shouting, "Help! Help! Robbery!" The man with the gun cursed some more. The man with the satchel came to keep Miss English from scratching his eyes out. Then the man with the gun hit Miss English on the head. She fell unconscious to the Everyone except Miss English ran out after the bandits, to watch. cars and the getaway car passed one another, with everybody shooting were going to get away after all. The police cars were aiming the wrong when they crawled dazedly out of their car. huh, Mom?" "Come along home," said his mother, grabbing his hand. "We don't want to be involved." "It was the nuttiest thing," said Detective-Sergeant Stevenson. "An Hastings took one look at his car and hit the ceiling. "It's ruined!" he cried. "What did you do to the tires?" "Not a thing, sir. That happened to them in the holdup." did you use, incendiary bullets?" third time. He reported himself sick and spent the two days at home, brooding, a bottle of blended whiskey at all times in his hand. As the police reconstructed it later, Mrs. Higgins had attempted to awaken him on the third morning at seven-thirty, suggesting that he really ought to stop being so foolish, and go back to work. He then allegedly poked her in the eye, and locked her out of the bedroom. Mrs. Higgins then apparently called her sister-in-law, a Mrs. Thelma Stodbetter, who was Mr. Higgins' sister. Mrs. Stodbetter arrived at the house at nine o'clock, and spent some time tapping at the still-locked bedroom door, apparently requesting Mr. Higgins to unlock the door and "stop acting like a child." Neighbors reported to the police that they heard Mr. Higgins shout a number of times, "Go away! Can't you let a man sleep?" At about ten-fifteen, neighbors heard shots from the Higgins residence, a two-story one-family pink stucco affair in the middle of a block of similar homes. Mr. Higgins, it was learned later, had suddenly erupted from his bedroom, brandishing a .30-.30 hunting rifle and, being annoyed at the shrieks of his wife and sister, had fired seven shells at them, killing his wife on the spot and wounding his sister in the hand and shoulder. Mrs. Stodbetter, wounded and scared out of her wits, raced screaming out the front door of the house, crying for the police and shouting, "Murder! Murder!" At this point, neighbors called the police. One position across the street from the scene of carnage and went to work with a Zoomar lens. In the meantime, Mister Higgins had barricaded himself in his house, firing at anything that moved. The two cameramen in the mobile unit worked their hearts out. One concentrated on the movements of the police and firemen and neighbors and ambulance attendants, while the other used the Zoomar lens to search for Mr. Higgins. He found him occasionally, offering the at-home and firemen everywhere, and neighbors milling around down at the corner, where the police had roped the block off, and occasionally Mr. Higgins would stick his rifle out a window and shoot at somebody. The police used loudspeakers to tell Higgins he might as well give up, they had the place surrounded and could eventually starve him out anyway. Higgins used his own good lungs to shout obscenities back and challenge anyone present to hand-to-hand combat. The police fired tear gas shells at the house, but it was a windy day and all the windows in the Higgins house were either open or broken. Higgins was able to throw all the shells back out of the house again. The show lasted for nearly an hour. Then it ended, suddenly and dramatically. Higgins had showed himself to the Zoomar lens again, for the purpose of shooting either the camera or its operator. All at once he yelped and threw the rifle away. The rifle bounced onto the porch roof, slithered down to the edge, hung for a second against the drain, and finally fell barrel first onto the lawn. Meanwhile, Higgins was running through the house, shouting like a wounded bull. He thundered down the stairs and out, hollering, to fall into the arms of the waiting police. They had trouble holding him. At first they thought he was actually trying to get away, but then one of them heard what it was he was were red and blistering, from what looked like severe burns. There was another burn on his right cheek and another one on his right shoulder. Higgins, thoroughly chastened and bewildered, was led away for burn ointment and jail. The television crew went on back to Manhattan. The neighbors went home and telephoned their friends. Stevenson. Stevenson frowned thoughtfully at Higgins as that unhappy He touched the stock, and it was somewhat warm but that was all. Captain Hanks was fond of pointing out, you needed as well to be both best not to mention the fact to Captain Hanks. no reason at all, and somebody burns 'The Scorpion' onto the trunk. all of a sudden got too hot to hold, and he's got the burn marks to says he put it on there. Higgins says he doesn't remember doing it. That's half the lawyer's case. He's trying to build up an insanity defense." "He put it on there himself, Stevenson," said the captain with weary what about the getaway car? What about those tires melting?" "They were defective," said Hanks promptly. that rifle too hot, and left his signature behind." know," the captain told him, "is Higgins put that name on "Hell, man, he'd been firing that thing at people for an hour! What do "He noticed it all of a sudden, when it started to burn him." all upset, and pretty soon they had to put him away in the nut hatch. The day after Jerome Higgins went berserk, the afternoon mail brought a You did not warn your readers. The man who shot all those people could determined that the matter could only be settled in a war. pistols or zip-guns. The time was fixed: eleven P.M. And the winner "Hey, Eddie!" shouted one of the other kids. "Eddie, come back!" Judy wasn't sure what to do next. If she abandoned her post to chase the one kid who'd gotten through, then maybe all the rest of them would come running along after her. She didn't know what to do. "Fuzz!" screamed Judy. She turned and raced down the block toward the the yellow-and-black costume go scooting away down the street. And she had the craziest idea that it was all his fault. threw their jackets away, to try to make believe they hadn't been up a minute later, the schoolyard wouldn't have had anything in it

<question>:
Had the gun barrel not became extremely hot and burned Higgins, what would have likely happened during his standoff?

<options>:
A Higgins' wife would have eventually been able to convince him to surrender.
B The police would have eventually given up on their suspect and left the scene.
C The police would have had to force entry into his home and take him into custody.
D Higgins' sister would have eventually been able to convince him to surrender.

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C