The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-06-19

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Kinks attitude pretty well. showed
the sketch to him in order to save my
self from a feeling that l had possibly
done an unfair thing to take him UNI
awares. and he laughed very good ma
turedly and seemed Very much amused
without a particle of resentment. He
asked me to let him have the sketch,
u | drew him another, which he took
with evident pleasure. He is a gentle
man and will do some good work in his
line, but | should think his general
appearance would always stand in the
way of his advancement in the minis
try"
Dorothy spread the sketch out on the
table and looked at it. Raleigh had not
said too much when he wrote that he
had caught Kinks attitude very we'll.
1t was. besides, a splendid likeness.
There was just a little eXaggeration to
the stubborn brown hair, a little touch
of unnecessary grotesqueness to the
! face, but it was 'Malcom Kirk plain
' enough as he used to say of himself.
The baby lay in his arms satisfied and
smiling. There We're tears in Doro-
thy's eyes after she had looked a little
while. Malcolm Kinks great hearted
love of humanity as it was represented
by that helpless bit of it in his long
arms somehow appealed to her. She
seemed to feel as if there was a world
there into which she had never enter
ed, but which she could enjoy with all
her eager enthusiasm if once she We're
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sketch and carefully laid it away by
itself. She did not put it with a col
lection of drawings which Raleigh had
given her when he finished his course
in art.
Malcolm Kirk went over en- tho CONT
men and spent the year in France,
Italy, Germany and eve two weeks in
Russia. How he lived all that time
would make a story in itself. He
walked a great deal. Always lodged
in the most expensive places. Six
months after he had been away from
home he sent to the president of the
seminary a written report of what he
had been doing. 1t was so remarkable
in many ways that the president show
ed it to Mr.. Gilbert. The Boston pub
Usher urged its publication. The pres
ident wrote that the seminary would
assume the expense of publication,
and Mr.. Gilbert's house printed the re-
port in a neat pamphlet that at once
attracted attention.
The night of the first issue of the
pamphlet Mr.. Gilbert brought a copy
of it home.
by the way, Dorothy, you remem-
Der that theologue who took the Ger
man scholarship, Kirk?"
yes" murmured Dorothy demurely.
II Dorothy's mother had been living, it
is possible she might have told her
about Kinks declaration. Her father
was another person. Besides, he had
not asked her to be his wife. He had
only told her very bluntly that he loved
her. That was i'll one sense his secret
to be kept for him from others.
We'll, here's a bit of work he's been
doing abroad. We brought it out to-
day. Knowing you have always been
interested in this work, / thought yon
might like to look his over"
Her father spoke with his usual pre-
else calmness and left the pamphlet on
the table. The m supper was
ended Dorothy seized the report and
went to her own room.
She read it through as if it had been
a fascinating novel. 1t was written in
a simple style that possessed no merit
except its simplicity. but it was a rec
ord of how humanity lived, and the
pathos, the reality, the fact of how it
lived, stirred Dorothy Gilbert as her
mind and heart had never been stirred.
And all through the reading she seem
ed to see Malcolm Kirk with that baby
in his arms. She knew that if that
sketch had been put in as a frontis-
piece 1t would have exactly expressed
the contents of the pamphlet. She ose
and walked her room strangely excit-
ed. Who was this man to stir her feel
ings so deeply? Francis Raleigh had
never been able to dc it. No man, for
that matter. All the other men she
knew We're busy trying to have a good
time or win fame or make money
This man was interested in people. He
wanted the world to know and feel for
humanity. He was unlike the others.
Besides, he loved her. He had her pic
ture. She glowed at the thought. For
the first time in her life she trembled
at the thought of being loved.
y few days later she read the report
again. People in Hermon We're talking
about it. 1t had actually stirred the
life of the village in some ways. Doro-
thy placed the sketch of Kirk in the
pamphlet and put them away in her
desk.
Malcolm Kirk finished his year and
took passage on II of the French
steamers for New York. He had used
his money well, but he had so little at
the end of the year that he tool steer
! age passage. That was one degre.
l lower than the intermediate, and he
: smiled a little grimly to himself as he
! crowded into his noisy, close quarters
with French peasants and a colony OF
Mennonite emigrants. However, il
!, was literally true that he loved people
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