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"T ravelin' On"

By
William S. Hart

In the year 1880, a wagon schooner wagon was seen
coming along the Montana trail. The driver of the
wagon was a stern visaged man, with an almost holy
light in his eyes. In the wagon, with a meagre amount
of household effects, was a young mother, and by her
side, a little girl.

The wagon comes out of a draw and on to a sort of
a plateau, and Hi Morton, the driver, pulls up his
team and looks into the valley below, where there is
spread out a rude Western town of that period. Mor-
ton turns to his wife and tells her that there are only
a few more miles to travel and that they will be where
they can get food and shelter and continue to spread
the word of the Lord. For Hi Morton is an evangelist,
the type of man of those days who, while they were
uncommon, nevertheiess they did exist, itinerant and
unordained preachers, who in some way got religion
and ever after devoted all their energies toward its
teaching, even to the extent of sacrificing all they
owned and pauperizing not only themselves, but
their families. Such a man is Hi Morton.

COPYRIGHTED 1920 BY WILLIAM S. HART
WILL A. KISTLER CO. PRINTERS, LOS ANGELES, CALIF., U. S. A.