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BRIGHAM POPE came in and stood in the aisle beside the sailor who occupied the seat facing the girl
who had the purse they wanted.
Brigham Pope started a business of shaming the sailor into giving up his seat to tired father and infant.

The sailor wasn't very co├╢perative. For this he couldn't be blamed. The girl was nice scenery.

She was a trim, bright girl, not too long and not too short. Hair about the color of good walnut, eyes
about the color of a good lively lion. She was reading a book.

He was astonished when he saw what she was reading.

The name of the book she was reading was Studien ├╝ber Hysterie, by Breuer and Freud. He thought:
we had better watch out; the girl has brains. She didn't look like a girl who would be reading a book of
psychiatry on a train, a book that was, moreover, a first edition in the original. Good God, that's heavy
even for me, he thought.

He felt that the book alone should be enough to discourage the sailor, but it wasn't.

Brigham Pope began pinching the baby to make it squall. The baby co├╢perated. It squalled bloody
murder.

The sailor stood up.

тАЬYou better sit here with the baby, sir,тАЭ he said.

тАЬThanks. Say, thanks, sailor!тАЭ

The girl paid no attention. Brigham Pope took the seat facing the girl, squirmed, settling himself; he
removed the blanket from the baby.

So far, so good.

He was getting a strange feeling about the girl, a hunch. A vague impression. A feeling of a
double-something about her, a Jekyll-Hyde intimation. It wasn't just her neatness. It wasn't just the book.
He didn't know exactly what it was. One thing he had learned long ago: he couldn't tell anything about
women.

Brigham Pope leaned back, sighed, closed his eyes. Tired father. He let his hands drop away from the
baby. The baby tottered. It swayed on Brigham Pope's knee. It started to fall.

That did it.

The girl dropped her book, snatched at the baby, caught it. From there on out, you would think she'd
saved the baby's life.

тАЬOh!тАЭ she cried. тАЬYou poor darling!тАЭ

тАЬWhat happened?тАЭ gasped Brigham Pope. He was an actor.