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kindly to sleepin' out. Kin you tell me if there is an
empty barn anywhere in town?" The passerby re-
plies, "Go straight ahead and you'll find one, tthelast
shack on the left, leaving town. It's the one just
beyond where that preacher and his family have hung
up their hats." And, thanking him, J. B. leads his
Pirito horse up the street with Jacko perched upon the
saddle.

As the bystander had told J. B., Hi Morton and his
wife and baby are already settled in their tumbled
down shack. They are even already working out their
plans in the service of the Lord. They are working
out their plans to complete a church. They are wrap-
ping many small books in brown paper, such as they
would get from the little trading store.

And next we see Susan behind an upturned dry
goods box upon the main street with a little child by
her side, and over the box there is a rudely lettered
sign-"A book every gambler should read.-Price
$5.00." At another part of the street, we see Hi Morton
paying his last fifty dollars for a lot upon which to
build his church. The sign naturally attracts the
attention of some passersby, and one of them enters
the Palace to get his morning drink and tells the bar-
tender, and the bartender tells Three-fingered Alec, a
dealer; and they all go to the door and look out and
Three-fingered Alec finally removes his eye-shade and I
goes out to where Susan is timidly awaiting her cus-
tomers. Alec reads the sign and sees some twenty
little brown pap·er parcels. He walks up and pays
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his five dollars and takes one, and then returns inside
of the saloon, and, going to a corner of the room, he
unties the paper and examines the book. There is