AID TO A BEAUTY IN DISTRESS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 2485, 16 June 1893, Page 6

AID TO A BEAUTY IN DISTRESS.

A girl with soft brown hair and earnest eyes sat in an electric car bound from Cambridge to Boston the other morning, says the Boston Herald. In her lap liy several booka, and in har han-ls she held a Latin copy of Horace's Sitiren, which she was studying diligently. At her side sat a young man who looked steadily over her shoulder at her open hook. The young man did not look like one who might understand Latin. He wore an immense pair of rubb.ir boots, a rough overcoat much the worse for wear, and a dingy hat thafc was pulled far down over his eyes. Fina ly the girl came to a line thafc seemed fco give her trouble. Ifc was not difficult Latin. The construction was simple and direct, but ifc was one of those treacherous idioms that say one thing and mean another, and hence appear altogether incongruous in their context. The girl looked afc the Latin in a puzzled way, and then turned to the notes in fche back of the bo>k. Then ahe consulted the vocabulary, and finally turned to the text again, and gazed afc it meditatively. The young man next to her, who waa still lookiog over her shoulder, showed considerable uneasines at her seemiugly futile efforts. He smiled faintly, turned once or twice in his seat, and beat a tattoo ou the floor with the toe of his rubber boot. And as her struggles continued his disquietude became still more apparent. He looked around the car in a helpless way, bit his lips, and beat upon the floor more violently than ever. Then suddenly he leaned slightly toward her and said — 4 And I agree fco be a witness.' Ifc was the translation of fche recalcitrant phrase. The passengers afc the end of the car, however, did not understand, and looked at him in amazement. The young girl started slightly, then smiled and said, * Oh, thank you,' and looked into his eyes in a friendly way, but wonderingly. She did not know that he was a classical honour man afc Haryard a few years ago.