The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-12-20

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mons forced to leave by the soldiers OF
the state.
CHAPTER II-Rae has encounter in
dark with Luke Wright, who mistook him
Tor one of the soldiers. From him Rae
learns of conditions in the city and gets
news of his sweetheart, Prudence Corson.
CHAPTER III-Rae meets his sweet
heart and Capt. Girnway Of the soldiers
who Is in love with her and has pro-
tected her and her family. The soldier
notifies Rae to be ready to move in the
morning.
CHAPTER 1V-Prudence tells Rae Of
her intention not to go to the promised
land with the Mormons. She tells him of
Joseph Smiths proposal of polyge nous
marriage to her, and her loss of belief in
his teachings.
CHAPTER V-Last Of the Mormons
leave Nauvoo Rae parts with his sweet
heart. Soldiers drown Rae's father at the
ferry landing. Rae hears Of it after the
crossing.
CHAPTER VI-Rae's mother dies on
the march, and he joins the Sons of Dan.
CHAPTER VII-The saints pass the
winter at Council Bluffs. Brigham Young
breaches the doctrine of plural mar
riages to Rae, who is ordained an elder.
CHAPTER vIII-The march to the
promised land is begun through Nebraska.
CHAPTER 1X-Miracles occur on the
march. The saints arrive at Fort Lara
nlie.
CHAPTER X-From the tops of the
mountains the saints view their promised
land.
CHAPTER XI-Rae witnesses a second
miracle. He meets Mara Cavan., who falls
in love with him.
CHAPTER XII-A failure of crops re-
suits in famine and the saints are threat
ened witt determination by hunger. Gold
in California brings Gentiles to the new
Zion. Rae returns to the Missouri to act
az guide for another party Of the saints.
He hears of the marriage of Prudence, to
whom he had remained faithful, to Capt.
Girnway.
CHAPTER xIII-Rae, back at Salt
Lake, leads in a movement for the re-
pentance of the people. Chilled from
standing in the river to offer baptism to
the repentants he is cared for by Mara
Cavan, now fifth wife of Elder Pixley.
He embraces her and they confess their
love. Brigham proclaims the doctrine of
blood atonement.
CHAPTER XIv-Mara, fifth wife of
Elder Pixley, suffers "blood atonement''
for her love of Joel Rae. Rae goes to the
southern settlements to live and preach.
CHAPTER xv-Gentile immigrants are
surrounded by Mormons n Indians at
Mountain Meadows. Rae objects to the
carrying out of orders for their massacre.
CHAPTER xVI-Gentile immigrants
murdered at Mountain Meadows. Rae
rescues two children, a little boy and girl,
and roa0ori1ac in tho r,7,,rIoro1 vooNthot. NF
the girl his sweetheart, Prudence. Rae
took a blood-stained Bible he had given
her years before from her. He sent the
rescued boy to a church institution, and
took the girl with him.
Incn III an InSJanu-now IL 1au
come about he never knew-he was
struggling with a man who shouted
his name and cursed him,-a dark
man with blood streaming from a
wound in his throat. He defended
himself easily, feeling his assailant's
strength already waning. Time after
time the man called him by name and
cursed him, now in low tones, as they
swayed. Then the Saint whose al
lotted victim this man had been, hav-
ing reloaded his pistol, ran up, held it
C1O0S I LIS uSdu, uI0u, dllu ldu UdSh
to the line.
He felt the mans grasp Of his Shout
ders relax, and his body grow sudden
ly limp, as if homeless. He let it down
to the ground, looking at last full
upon the face. At first glance it told
him nothing. Then a faint q of
its familiarity pushed up through
roorry o1J ~ 90 -r C0poNfiTo a Cnr1n.
where, he had known the face.
The dying man opened his eyes
wide, not seeing, but convulsively, and
then he felt himself enlightened by
something in their dark color,-some@
thing in the line of the brow under
the black hair;-a face was brought
back to him, the handsome face of the
man who had helped expel his people,
who had p~atronized them with his
airs of protector,-the man who had
It did not come to him until that in
stant-this man was Girnway. In the
flash of awful comprehension he
dropped, "a sickened and n%erveless
heap, beside the dead man, turning
his head on the ground, and feeling
for any sign of life at his heart.
Forward there, where the yells OF
the Indians had all but replaced the
screams of frantic women-butchered
already perhaps, subjected to he knew
not what infamy at the hands of saw
age or Saint-was the yellow-haired,
pink-faced girl he had loved and kept
so long imaged in his heart; yet she
might have escaped, she might still
llive-she might even not have been
in the party.
He sprang up and found himself
facing a white-haired boy, who held
a little crying girl by a tight grasp OF
her arm, and who eyed him agrees
sively.
What did you hurt Prudence's
father for? He was a good man. Did
you shoot him."
He seized the boy roughly by the
shoulder.
prudence Prudence where is
she?"
"Hera"