Chapter 1 Section 13 Summary

The gunslinger and Alice are in bed again and he asks about the woman preacher. She tells him that the preacher has been in town twelve years and that she only comes out of her house on Sundays to scare the townspeople with her damnation sermons. He wants to see the preacher but Alice tells him that she won't see him. Alice sounds frightened. The gunslinger asks where the preacher woman comes from and he knows Allie is lying when she tells him that she does not know. He asks again and she confesses that the preacher came from the "dwellers" in the desert. He wants to know where she lives and Alice tells him.

Chapter 1 Section 13 Analysis

The gunslinger now knows that the preacher woman from the desert is the trap set for him by the man in black. Alice...