er fail to give to pure and high-minded women.

The Don was full of work. He visited the camps, treated the sick and
wounded there, and brought down to the hospital such as needed to be
moved thither, and gradually won his way into the confidence of all who
came into touch with him. Even Ike, after long hesitation and somewhat
careful observation, gave him once more his respect and his friendship.

The doctor was kept busy by an epidemic of diphtheric croup that had
broken out among the children of the Loon Lake district, and began to
take once more pride in his work, and to regain his self-respect and
self-control. He took especial pride and joy in the work of The Don at
the Pass, and did all he could to make the hospital and the club room
accomplish all the good that Shock had hoped for them.

But though the hospital and club room had done much for the men of the
Pass, there was still the ancient warfare between the forces that make
for manhood and those that make for its destruction. Hickey still ran
his saloon, and his gang still aided him in all his nefarious work. Men
were still "run" into the saloon or the red-light houses, there to be
"rolled," and thence to be kicked out, fit candidates for the hospital.
The hospital door was ever open for them, and whatever the history, the
physical or moral condition of the patient, he was received, and with
gentle, loving ministration tended back to health, and sent out again
to camp or mine, often only to return for another plunge into the abyss
of lust and consequent misery; sometimes, however, to set his feet upon
the upward trail that led to pure and noble manhood. For The Don, while
he never preached, took pains to make clear to all who came under his
charge the results of their folly and their sin to body and to mind, as
well as to soul, and he had the trick of forcing them to take upon
themselves the full responsibility for their destiny, whether it was to
be strength, soundness of mind, happiness, heaven, or disease,
insanity, misery, hell. It was heart-breaking work, for the
disappointments were many and bitter, but with now and then an
achievement of such splendid victory as gave hope and courage to keep
up the fight.

At Loon Lake during the winter Shock had devoted himself to the
perfecting of his church organization A Communion Roll had been formed
and on it names entered of men and women whose last church connection
reached back for ten or fifteen or twenty