"Say rather," she cried, "that the prophet did defraud, but has repented." That day was the 6th of August.

The voting for the State legislature had commenced.

The travellers did not know that there was any number of Mormon landholders in this place, but now they could not extricate themselves from the very contest that they had hoped to avoid.

When the two women strolled through the streets to see the town they became involved in a crowd at one of the polling places.
Penniston, a candidate of the Boggs party, standing on a barrel, was haranguing the crowd, and the two women quickly heard the name of their sect mentioned with contumely.
"Shall we," cried Penniston, "allow our State to come under the control of Mormon horse-thieves and robbers by allowing these outlaws the civil rights that are intended only for good citizens ?" There was a commotion in the crowd near him.

Susannah, knowing that her husband was abroad, felt a sudden heart-sick prophecy of evil.