The siege was being continued.
The misgiving that this tale caused Joel Rae he put down to unmanly weakness--and to an unfamiliarity with military affairs.

A sight of the order in Brigham's writing for the train's extermination would have set his mind wholly at rest; but though he had not been granted this, he was assured that such an order existed, and with this he was obliged to be content.

He knew, indeed, that an order from Brigham, either oral or written, must have come; otherwise the local authorities would never have dared to proceed.

They were not the men to act without orders in a matter so grave after the years in which Brigham had preached his right to dictate, direct, and control the affairs of his people from the building of the temple "down to the ribbons a woman should wear, or the setting up of a stocking." Late on the following day, Wednesday, while they were anxiously waiting for news, a messenger from Lee came with a call for reinforcements.

The Indians, although there were three hundred of them, had been unable to prevail over the little entrenched band of Gentiles.