Butcher's Crossing

He explained to Andrews that he had been saved by a traveling preacher in Kansas City, and had been given a Bible by that same man. At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. He had taken to wearing again the small pistol that Andrews had first noticed back at Butcher’s Crossing; sometimes when he muttered and mumbled to himself, his hand would creep up to his waistband, and gently caress the stock of the pistol. Finally Miller shook his head and handed the remaining thongs to Schneider.