Word: dirke
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There was a time in the rude past when the cheering stranger extended his right hand to show that it concealed no treacherous dirk. The skeptic seized it to make sure. Like the doffing of helmets, this medieval precautionary measure has persisted to an age when it is usually unnecessary; the deliberate murderer nowadays shoots with his left hand quite as skilfully as with his right. And with the advance of medical science has come the knowledge that this apparently harmless custom is a dangerous spreader of disease germs. President Coolidge is doubtless acting for the health of the nation...
...course Pervus would not understand this. So she keeps her idea a secret. And then, when Dirk is aged ten, Pervus dies...
...friend. Julie's father, Aug Hempel, ex-butcher, is by this time one of the world's largest meatpackers. He offers to give Selina whatever she wishes. She will take nothing, except a loan-enough to modernize her farm. And with her modernized farm she educates Dirk...
...Dirk grows, becomes an architect, with promise of being successful. It seems to Selina that the sacrifice that she has made of her whole life is justified. But Dirk is in love with Julie's daughter, already married. Since the daughter cannot marry him she wishes at least to make him successful, leads him into the world of finance. He thinks that he is successful, but his mother's heart is suffering...
...Selina's heart is mended by the return of Roelf Pool, onetime Dutch boy she used to teach in High Prairie, now a famed artist, who recognizes in her the one who started him on his career. And Dirk discovers that he is really in love with Dallas O'Mara, girl artist, and- realizing that they two don't live in the same world-is led to question (bitterly) his ostensibly shining success...