"Lakeside wa was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants and a rather pretty one too as towns go in the Far West. It had church ac­commodations for thirty-five thousand which is the way of the Far West and the South where ever­ybody is religious and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of its own. Rank was unknown in Lakeside unconfessed anyway; everybody knew everybody and his dog and a so­ciable friendliness was the prevailing atmosphere."