CHAPTER XVI.
It was that same evening, after Smith's commendation of Susannah, that Darling decided to lay the destruction of her letter before the prophet, hoping for approval.
Smith was looking over Darling's accounts in the tithing office, giving voluminous and minute directions.

The May night had closed in.

The men were in a corner of the large shed in which the stores were kept, a corner fenced off for an office by a low wooden partition.

The candle flickered on the table between them.
The business side of Smith's soul was uppermost.

He had power to keep in mind a huge number of details, and to classify them, and he estimated the relative importance of the classes as no other man would have estimated it.
Darling interrupted before Smith's interest in business began to wane.
He prefaced his communication concerning Susannah by speaking of the much shepherding needed by the sheep.