Chapter 1 Section 15 Summary

The gunslinger reaches the shack that belongs to Sylvia Pittston, the woman preacher. He knocks on the door, which has a wooden cross nailed to it. The preacher does not come to the door and after the second knock with no response, he kicks the door in. She is sitting in the hall in a large rocking chair with a shawl drawn around her ample shoulders.

The preacher looks at the gunslinger steadily and tells him that he will never catch the man in black because the gunslinger walks with the devil. The gunslinger asks her if the man in black came to her and she says that he came to her bed and talked to her in the Tongue. She says that the man in black is an angel of God. He told her this and he healed the weed-addicted...