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investigates. He knows that some one is blocking him,
and he finds that it is Dandy Allen McGee. But Hi
Morton can never meet McGee, can never see him, so
he sends Susan and thereby does just what Dandy
Allen McGee wants and has planned for. He dare not
let Morton see him for fear of being recognized, altho
their relationships dated some fifteen years before.
When Susan goes to McGee, he tries to get her, by
every means, using all of the better side of his nature
in every way in which he is capable, but Susan doesn't
understand. And it is at this stage of affairs that
everything is at a stand still and they have nothing
. to eat, much less to build a church, that there comes
a night, a lowering, cloudy, stormy night with great
flashes of lightning tearing the sky and causing the
flimsy board shacks of Tumble Bluff to creak and
groan in the wind. It is this black lowering night
when J. B. comes home to his stable shack and finds
little Jacko's chain broken and little Jacko gone.
He looks outside and up at the sky and there is a blind-
ing flash of lightning and at first J. B. suspects that it
is a trick of Dandy Allen McGee and that little Jacko
has been stolen by one of his henchmen, but the chain
is broken; so J. B. looks around and finds a little lane
in the weeds heading straight toward the foothills
and he knows that Jacko has broken loose and run
away, perhaps he and the Pinto had been playing
and half fighting, as they were in the habit of doing,
and the little fellow in a sudden jump had broken his
chain and so felt his liberty and escaped, for in the
jagged, broken window pain of the one little window
of the barn were a few of Jacko's hairs that had been
scraped off when he had gone thru.
So J. B. goes outside again and ·once more looks at