Some of his audience felt certain that this was just Dad testing them again, leading them right up to the brink. Surely he’d back off at the last second, as he so often had before. But others weren’t certain. Don Sly, who’d been turned loose the moment that Ryan left the settlement, stood and asked, “Is there any way that if I go, that it’ll help us?” Many in the pavilion cried, “No,” and Jones said it, too: “You’re not going. I cannot live that way. I’ve lived for all, and I’ll die for all.”
