this grim, righteous man, now that he had emancipated mind and
conscience from his teaching: so true it often is that affection is
possible only where obedience is not demanded. He turned off
sorrowfully to the counter, and a few moments later, getting the
attention of the clerk, asked in a low conscience-stricken tone
for "The Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man"; conscience-
stricken at the sight of the money in his palm to pay for them.

"What are you going to do with these?" inquired a Bible student who
had joined him at the counter and fingered the books.

"Read them," said the lad, joyously, "and understand them if I
can."

He pinned them against his heart with his elbow and all but ran
back to the dormitory. Having reached there, he altered his purpose
and instead of mounting to his room, went away off to a quiet spot
on the campus and, lying down in the grass under the wide open sky,
opened his wide Darwin.

It was the first time in his life that he had ever encountered
outside of the Bible a mind of the highest order, or listened to
it, as it delivered over to mankind the astounding treasures of its
knowledge and wisdom in accents of appealing, almost plaintive
modesty.

That day the lad changed his teachers.

Of the session more than two months yet remained. Every few days he
might have been seen at the store, examining books, drawing money