CHAPTER VI.
In the meantime an interval of comparative peace had come to Kirtland.
The Gentiles, because they discovered that the town was a good market for the produce of more fields than the Saints could till, allowed their religious zeal to slumber.
A female relative of Halsey, having lost her friends by death, came from the east to Kirtland upon his invitation.
Susannah went down the hill one summer day to meet the travelling company of new converts which brought Elvira Halsey.

That young lady had seen about twenty-five years of life's vicissitudes, and had sharpened her wits thereon.

Slight, pretty, and dressed with an effort at fashion that was quite astonishing in the Kirtland settlement, Elvira sprang from the waggon.
"I've come to be a Mormon.

How do you begin ?" With these words she presented to Susannah a new type of character, fresh, and in some ways delightful.
There was quite a crowd at the stopping place of the waggons.

Halsey, with other elders and Smith, came to welcome the newcomer.