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S-lS-ts, Si " king Ll iDfl li n r t: I lfi thn "V-k wor-l ttliiil cl u cum agM Fureka eP Harness OH" torn,. . but th 'OK ) m fluid plikbtei putiTtln on- pn j jjf . Uit ion to lat twice J lun( I fff 118 u rtlnr11y w-.uM. ;M tJ " i i Bold trrVr la nimB (Mm r Xi'.Vt STANDARD ,( Chance! itfeffi Exs HI W I I I N If A A A.I4 MALCOM KIRK. 1 A Tale of Moral Heroisnffln Overcoming the World, i f BY CHARLES I Author of "In Hia Steps, "Crucifixion of Philip Strong;," "Eobert Hardy'a Sevan Days." s COPTItlOIIT, 1900, BT TDB ADVA SCI PCBUSItTHO 00. Illustrations fllliiilliiil inn; UN . CHAPTER XI. A IIOltEMT ik DOUBT. Mnlcom read the four li tiers tlironsrh cue uftor (be other without a word of comment Only Dorothy, watching him, noted the expression! n i''s face. When he finished the letter from the Boston magaslne, be looked up. "Well-" said Dorothy slowly, as If Malcom had asked a questlnn. it s a great offer," said Malcom. He was evidently very much moved by It. And be rose and walked up and down. Finally be stopped near the door. "I shall have to go out doors ami walk oir the ezcltemi ut," be said, look Ing at Dorothy, with a faint fiiiIU'. She was familiar with that babit Malcom had often done that when tired of the cramped quartern of his little study in the parsonage. lie walked to the table, took up his bat and went to the door, lie opened. it and then turned bneb to Dorathv. who snt with bor elbow on the table and her chin In her band thinking. "Will you ko with me, dear?" Mal com asked quietly. She rose without a word and, put ting' on her bat and cloak, went out With him. They walked out of the yard, and then, after a moment of hesi tation, they turned and went down the narrow hoard sidewalk toward the main street of the town. It was almost 11 o'clock. Nearly all the stores were closed, but every saloon was wide open. As they went hy one of the largest on the first busi ness comer two or three men near the door recognized Kirk nnd touched their hats, saying very respectfully as they did so, "G I evenlmr. Mr. Kirk." 'Good evening, gentlemen." renlied Malcom, touching his hat. lie passed on with Dorothy, but with all the In ner conflict going on she had time to I think of the little Incident and say to herself proudly, "Even the loafers and drinkers respect my husband." And It was true, because they knew In their hearts that Malcom Kirk lov- eu mem, wretched, useless creatures i lis many of them were, down nt the J very bottom of the human scale, down : j where nothing but love could reach i I them. As they went past one of the dance I houses they could hear the Jingle of spurs on boots, the wild laughter of the women and the clink of glasses nt the bar. Dorothy shuddered and drew up clos er to Malcom. To both of them It is probable that there was borne In upon I them the lost abandoned life that al , wnys goes with the liquor trade, the I desperate, lawless character of young men nnd women who represented so ' large n part of the social life of the ! town. What a relief it would be to : get away from it all, back to the cul ture nnd refinement of books and com panionable people and the life of free dom from moral struggle for the life i of others that awaited them in that ! New England home that might be theirs for the taking! i They had walked through the street nnd were out on the prairie road before either of them said a word. Then Malcom said, while he pressed I Dorothy's arm close lo his own: "What do you think 1 hail better do?" She was not prepared to have him ! usk a question, and she wns not ready , with an answer. j "What would you do in my place?" I he nsked after waiting for her to an swer his first question. "Don't ask me, Malcom," cried Doro thy almost tearfully. lie bent his head and In the starlight saw her face moved with unusual ex citement. "It Is true," he began to talk to him self, "it Is true, ns be says, 'the press Is ns powerful ns the pulpit In these days.' i could certainly do ns much good that way as any. 1 feel as If 1 could use my pen for the good of hu manity." "Yes. yes!" Dorothy cried engerly. She spoke as If Malcotn'f words had been a grent relief to her. Then she went on almost passionately: "What can you do here, Mnlcom? You can slave yourself to denth out here with this little church nnd never accomplish much. You cannot do the church work nnd the writing too. Y'ou will break down under It. How can you ever build again, with the hard times and so many families moving away and winter coming on? And your salary, little ns It Is, so cruelly de layed, It Is a humiliation to keep on this narrow, pinched life, with no com panionship to speak of, no money to buy new books, with n dead lift on a poor struggling church that will wear your life out before you have reached your prime. 1 don't mind for myself, Malcom, you know. It was 'for bet ter, for worse, for richer, for poorer,' I but It seems to me your life will be slnmlv thrown nwnv If von remain nut ... , . r ... . . ..a ...... , , . nunc to you again prouauiy. it i were you"- She stopped, and Malcom eagerly waited for the rest "If I were you," Dorothy went on otrougly, "I would answer the letter nt once and accept tbe offer. I want ta see you succeed In life. I want ts have the world know your strength as Ido," i Ha made no reply, and tbey walked on a little farther. Then Malcom spoke as If again reasoning with blm. M. SHELDON, I bu Herman Ilnirr. self: "I certainly could do as much good thnt way as any." lie wns silent again. They had reached a place where the road branch ed off to "The Forks." They turned and went back toward the town. When they reached the first houses, they took the street which led past the ruins of the church nnd parsonage. They seem ed to do this without saying to each other thnt they would. Their walk back had been in silence. When they reached the corner where the church anil parsonage had stood, they stopped and looked at the ruins. These were mournful, as such ruins always are. The foundation line of' the church building looked pitifully small to Mnlcom as he thought of the' little congregations thai had so often met there for worship or the prayer I service. Anil still he could not even j there, as he v iewed what seemed like n failure In life, he could not shut out Of his silit the picture of Dorothy and himself as they had gone Into the' cburcb that first night of their ar rival In Conrad three years before and bad there made together their solemn 1 promise to redeem the lost of Conrad. Were they about to break that prom-! Ise because difficulties had come into: the struggle? Was h possible that they were going to declare themselves I beaten In the attempt to overcome? ; Weie they about to choose the easy, comfortable physical life and shun the agony of the spiritual conflict with evil forces? Were they about to run away from duty ns cowards? Was It j duty to remain In Conrad? How about bis duty to the temperance conflict? Wert they about to iiraik that promtuct If he had any real strength that way, ought be to abandon tbe cause nt this critical time? But how could Dorothy live this life of privation? How could he go on w ith his meager salary, hu miliated by being in debt to the trades people and dependent for his living on the spasmodic giving of the churches that "Indorsed" home missions, to be sure, but left the Home Missionary of ten unpaid or the recipient of boxes which sometimes were so clearly In tbe nature of charity that no self re specting man could take and use the contents? All this nin more crowded Into Mal coin's mind ns he stood there that night by the ruins of his church and home. The sntne thoughts were nlso In the mind of Dorothy, and with It all It seemed, too. as If to both of them enme a half suppressed doubt as to the course Malcom wus on the point of taking. "Dou't you feel that we have tried our best to keep that promise we made that night in the church?" Dorothy nsked, ns she nervously pushed her foot against one of the stoues at the corner of the foundation. Malcom did not answer nt first Then he snid evasively, ns If he had been thinking of something else, "I'm sure 1 can do as much with my pen as I can In n church." Dorothy did not look up or speak for some time. Then she said with rather eager emphasis: "Why not write at once to tbe editor and tell him that you will accept his offer?" "I will." said Malcom in a low tone. They stood a little while longer by the ruins, and then turned away and went home. Somewhere In tbe great spaces of the Infinite to Malcom and Dorothy It almost seemed as If a sigh from an angel of light breathed over the sleeping town that lny on the black ened surface of the prairie. What they felt was the Inner uneasiness of spirit that tho promise tbey bad made three years before bad been. If not broken, at least not lived out as It might have been. In Malcom's heart as he said to Dorothy, "I will," there was a distinct uncertainty of feeling. There was a lack of spontaneous Joy at his action which he knew well enough meant that somewhere he had not been true to tha best that was In blm. Nevertheless In the morning he wrote tbe letter In answer to tbe editor, ac cepting tbe position and asking him to give blm time to sever his relations with the cburcb, etc. . .. j He took the letter nnd went out early after breakfast to mail It He would baud In his resigns Hon at tbe weekday church meeting and v, rite to the super Ihteadeni later in the day. He was thinking it all over as be neared the main stret. when a farm ' wagon drove up noisily ami stopped near linn "Oh. Mr. Kirk, will you come right at io The Forks' with me? Pbll is In terrible way ami has beeu calling for , you all night:" It was Mrs Rarton, nnd her thin. f.'ioe looked down at Mnlcom as she sat there looking nt him anxiously Into Malcom Kirk's heart there came a dlstim i Knock, almost as if be had been detected In doing a selfish thing. Here again wns this appeal for help coming at a time when it seemed to him as if the burden be was carrying was too great f"r blm. He looked up nt Mrs. Barton. "Why. certainly. I'll go right out With you." he said, every Instinct of belpfulnes In him rising and going out toward the cry for help. Just then Carver came walking by. Kirk had the letter he was going to post in bis band. "Sny, Carver, will you mall this let ter for me as you go by the office?" Malcom asked, and Carver eagerly took the letter, more than willing to do Mr. Kirk a favor. Malcom at once gut up into the wag on with Mrs. Hnrl..n. and they drov out of town rapidly. Carver stood watching them a moment, then he turued i in I . :;i on down the street At the first -.-.loon be hesitated, but finally went In. Before noon be had gone Into tl or four different saloons that lay between blm and the DOStof lice, and the letter remained In his pocket forgotten. On their way to "The Forks" Mai com learned from Mis. Barton that while Philip was on his back, unable to least Ins bed, one of tbe farmer boys living on the nexi ranch had brought out several bottles of wbiskv UK smuggled them into the bouse rhe result w as thai young Barton was having delirium tremens while in tin terrible condition caused by bis de baud) al tlie time of the great tile His mother had spent a fearful night with him, and at last, desperate ami heartbroken, dry eyed, but weepin ner moon -away wituin, sue nail come Into town for Kirk. "It Is all of the devil, this drink bus! ness:" groaned Malcom as be went in to the house and into the room where Phil Barton lay. Never in all his life had Malcom Kirk seen such a sight Barton knew blm as lie came in. nnd he spoke his name. Tie u he begun to curse In tin most awmi manlier. , 1 lie lower part of his body was paralyzed, but hi: arms moved Incessantly, and bis beat rolled baek and forth on the bed while he called on all bell to blast ev ery living creature, on earth. Malcom put MA Barton out of tin room and shut the door. Then for three hours he spent the most trying period he had ever known by the side of a .suffering and sinful human being. At the end of thut time Barton lay quiet nnd Malcom wns weak nnd trembling, wet with perspiration and unnerved as If he had been faclns some great peril. The doctor came Just ns Mnlcom went to tell Mrs. Barton that Philip was sleeping. She had not been able to find any physician when she had gone In that morning nnd hnd left word for one to come out "What Is going to become of my boy, Mr. Kirk?" Mrs. Barton nsked ns he was getting Into tbe doctor's buggy to go back with blm. Mnlcom had not the heart to say nnything at first. In his soul n pro found horror and a divine indignation against the saloon greater than be had ever known had risen. At Insl be said: "Mrs. Hnrton, I hope to live to see the day when your boy will not be near this temptation. The saloon and till It represents Is an ene my of mankind. We will not cease to work and pray and suffer until the curse of It is removed from our life as a state." Tor the time he had forgot teu he was going away. "Promise me, Mr. Kirk, that you will do what you can for PbIL There's no one living he thinks so much of. You saved his life. Snve his soul too. Don't give him i: will you. Mr. Kirk?" Malcom i. in bled. How could he tell this wretched, heartbroken woman, liv ing In that desolate, ruined home, that he had already made his plan to leave Conrad. She clung to blm as the lar gest and only hope for her boy that she knew. What could he say to her? The doctor, who had beeu listening sympathetically, but In silence, had gathered up bis reins, aud the horses Impatiently made n movement to start and still Mnlcom Kirk snld nothing. "I know you won't give film up, Mr. Kirk. If you don't snve blm, no oue else will. Don't you thluk he's worth saving?" She stood by the buggy nnd laid her thin, worn hand on Malcom's arm. As be looked at It he thought of some old verses he had read while In the semi nary about u mother's hands: Not ill the ladles In all the lands, With riches snd titles and fame. Could beast of auch beautiful, shapely hands As one thai 1 could name. Her hands were without a Jeweled ring, And tho nng-crs were thin snd old. But a baby's tinners would ruund them cling, Uors precious than aolid gold. Sty mother has pawed this earth swsy. To the land where death cannot be. But I'll never forget her as she lay, Handi clasped in prayer lor me. They were old verses that some one had translated hastily from a German text, but Malcom remembered them, and they came to blm vividly Just now. "Of course I believe be Is worth sav ing," said Malcom. Mrs. Barton looked up to him again appeallngly. "Yon won't give him up, will your "No; I veou't give blm up," replied Malcom. but be hardly seemed to real- hte what tbe words uieaut. Was he not planning to go away from all this bur den bearing? 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