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12 "TRAVELIN' ON"
the even cool gaze of J. B., who says, "Now you are
the kind of a woman I like. I want you. I'm J. B."
Susan is distressed, but Susan is fearless, a fearlessness
born of innocence, and she tells J. B. to read the book,
and it will teach him oh so much. And J. B. goes to
his stable home and talks to the Pinto horse and talks
to Jacko and tells them they are ornery, no account .
cusses just the same as he is 'cause they cannot read.
Now J. B. is a man who doesn't like to give up. He is
a man who doesn't like to be beaten, and then there
is something that has come into the life of J. B., which,
were he highly educated, he could not explain nor
understand. So J. B., in his simple way, forms a plan.
He sneaks around Hi Morton's cabin, and he gets
little Mary Jane to come and play with Jacko, and he
promises her candy, and they go to a store and J. B.
buys two little A B C books for the little girl and he
puts one in his pocket and he returns to his stable
abode with little Mary Jane, who unwittingly and
unknowingiy gives him his first lesson, with the man
pretending that he is teaching her. There are many
such meetings and many such lessons and, of course, J.B.
becomes immeasurably fond of little Mary Jane.
And at one of these meetings comes Susan, naturally
looking for her little one and she talks much to J. B.,
but J. B. is still, so far as speech is concerned, the same
calloused being, but J. B. is not the same, but there
is only one power that knows this-God must
know it.

Hi Morton finds himself blocked on all sides. He
selis his horse, he sells his wagon, he sells all of their
household belongings, save actual necessities to build
his church. The sale of the Bibles only put up the
skeleton of the building and lumber is high. Hi Morton