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A minister is called West to a camp, and takes farewell of his fiance when she has dismissed her pupils at the school. He arrives at his destination, and enter the house, where the boys, reeling drunk, scoff at him. He takes up his quarters with a store-keeper, and posts up a bill inviting the boys to service. Their reply is to shoot the bill down with their revolvers, burst into the store, and tell him that they do not want any sky pilot there. Mary arrives in camp to help the minister in his work. She falls in with Black Pete, just after he has been wounded in a tussle at the saloon. Once more the bill is posted up, and once more it is shot down. Mary reproves the boys, and coaxes them into service. Next day Pete invites Mary for a walk. Later he sends her a proposal of marriage. She, to help on the minister's work, decides to sacrifice herself by accepting the proposal, but the storekeeper, on the wedding morning, seeks out Black Pete and lays the true state of the case before him. Black Pete liberates. Mary from her promise, and rides off into he wild.
Written by The Bioscope - February 6, 1913
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