"_This do_," he presently evolved. "Well, I should say I came
pretty near it."
"What's yours?" the boy now inquired.
"My family motto? I believe it is _Crux mihi ancora_; but that doesn't
just suit me, so I've adopted one of my own"--he looked straight at
Roberta--"_Dum vivimus, vivamus_. Isn't that a pleasanter one in this
workaday world?"
Ted was struggling hard, but his two months' experience with the
rudiments of Latin would not serve him. "What do they mean?" he asked
eagerly.
"The second one means," said Roberta, with her arm about the slim young
shoulders, "'While we live, let us live--well.'" Her eyes met Richard's
with a shade of defiance in them.
"Thank you," said he. "Do you expect me to adopt the amendment?"
"Why not?"
"Even you--take cross-country runs."
She nodded. "And am all the better teacher for them next day."
He laughed. "I should like to take one with you some time," said he. He
saw Judge Gray coming toward them. "I wonder if I'm likely ever to have
the chance," he added hurriedly.
"_You_ take a cross-country run when you could have a sixty-mile spin in
that motor-car of yours instead?"
"I couldn't go cross-country in that.
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