_The Order from Headquarters_ He left Parowan the next morning to preach at one of the little settlements to the east.

He was gone three days.

When he came back they told him that the train of Missourians had passed through Parowan and on to the south.

He attended a military council held that evening in the meeting-house.

Three days of reflection, while it had not cooled the anger he felt toward these members of the mob that had so brutally wronged his people, had slightly cooled his ardour for aggressive warfare.
It was rather a relief to know that he was not in a position of military authority; to feel that this matter of cutting off a wagon-train was in the hands of men who could do no wrong.