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a religious fanatic. McGee talks to the mother and in
this way allows the itinerant preacher to remain at
his calling far longer than he would ordinarily have
done, for Dandy Allen McGee is smitten, he is smitten
hard, by this beautiful creature. So much is this true
.that he circles the crowd until he reaches one of his
principle henchmen and drawing him aside, gives
him instructions to have the meeting broken up without
him (Dandy Allen McGee) appearing in it,
because Dandy Allen McGee has plans in which the
young mother is vitally concerned, and he doesn't
wish to off end her.

Under instructions from McGee, the men soon
break up the meeting and disperse the crowd, but Hi
Morton stands his ground and continues to preach
until the last man is gone, and when all are departed,
he utters a silent and sincere prayer of thanks to the
Lord, and then going to his wagon, says, "Come,
mother, we'll find a home in this place. We must re-
main here, for there is work to be done here for the
Lord.''

Upon the same plateau overlooking the town of
Tumble Bluff, sitting upon a tired Pinto horse, is a
frontiersman, and he says, "Paint, old man, you and
me is due to inspect that town down yonder, and then
we'll be travelin' on."

From the stranger's place of view, he can only see
that it is a scattered Western frontier town, but were
he closer he would have seen a man just finishing and
pasting up a large rude drawing, which is a cartoon
of Hi Morton, clergyman; several of the men after a
time trying their marksmanship upon it. It is during