ung lady counted out the money and departed. Grindley
junior, peeping from behind a tin of Abernethy biscuits, noticed that as
she passed the window she turned and looked back. She was a very pretty,
haughty lady. Grindley junior rather admired dark, level brows and
finely cut, tremulous lips, especially when combined with a mass of soft,
brown hair, and a rich olive complexion that flushed and paled as one
looked at it.

"Might send that telegram off if you've nothing else to do, and there's
no particular reason for keeping it back," suggested Mrs. Postwhistle.

"It's only just been handed in," explained Grindley junior, somewhat
hurt.

"You've been looking at it for the last five minutes by the clock," said
Mrs. Postwhistle.

Grindley junior sat down to the machine. The name and address of the
sender was Helvetia Appleyard, Nevill's Court.

Three days passed--singularly empty days they appeared to Grindley
junior. On the fourth, Helvetia Appleyard had occasion to despatch
another telegram--this time entirely in English.

"One-and-fourpence," sighed Grindley junior.

Miss Appleyard drew forth her purse. The shop was empty.

"How did you come to know Latin?" inquired Miss Appleyard in quite a
casual tone.

"I picked up a little at school. It was a phrase I happened to
remember," confessed Grindley junior, wondering why he should be feeling
ashamed of himself.

"I am always sorry," said Miss Appleyard, "when I see anyone content with
the lower life whose talents might, perhaps, fit him for the higher."
Something about the tone and manner of Miss Appleyard reminded Grindley
junior of his former Rector. Each seemed to have arrived by different
roads at the same philosophical aloofness from the world, tempered by
chastened interest in human phenomena. "Would you like to try to raise
yourself--to improve yourself--to educate yourself?"

An unseen little rogue, who was enjoying himself immensely, whispered to
Grindley junior to say nothing but "Yes," he should.

"Will you let me help you?" asked Miss Appleyard. And the simple and
heartfelt gratitude with which Grindley junior closed upon the offer
proved to Miss Appleyard how true it is that to do good to others is the
highest joy.

Miss Appleyard had come prepared for possible acceptance. "You had
better begin with this," thought Miss Appleyard. "I have marked the
passages that you should learn by heart. Make a note of anything you do
not unders