Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1902 — And the “Horrid Man” Fled. [ARTICLE]

And the “Horrid Man” Fled.

He was a Columbia man and she was a Barnard girl. Chance sent them down town side by side In an Amsterdam avenue car. He was big and good looking, and dressed in typically collegian style. She was quite pretty and refuted the aphorism that there are pretty girls and girls who go to Barnard. She was writing vigorously in a blue and white notebook, and he kept trying to see what she was writing by peering over her shoulder. She seemed not to mind at first, for apparently# she thought him rather nice. Gradually he became more flirtatious and more eu-* rious. Suddenly she lifted her paper so he saw quite plainly that she was writing to a girlfriend. “There is,” she wrote, “a horrid man staring over my shoulder at every word I write.” He started, but she didn’t act as if she thought he saw, so he continued unabashed. Then he read*. “Dofi’t you think you have read all you really need to of this letter, Mr. Man?” He took one glance'at her, says the New York Times, and fled hastily from the car, while she erased her last sentence and serenely continued her missive.