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with width of 20 miles or SO. But
for Joel Rae it became a ride down
the valley of lost illusions Some saw
Ing grace Of faith was gone from the
people. He passed through sturdy lit
tie settlements, powered in gardens
and orchards, and girded about by
now fertile acres where once had been
the bare, gray desert. Slowly, mile
by mile, the Saints had pushed down
the valley, battling with the Indians
and the elements for every acre Of
land they gained. Yet it seemed to
him now that they had achieved but
mere Goddess prosperity They had
worked miracle of abundance in the
+! desert-but of what avail? For the
soul of their faith was gone. He felt
or heard the proof Of it on every hand.
Through Battle Greek, Provo, and
Springville he went; through Spanish
Fork, Payson, Salt Creek, and Fill
more. He stopped to preach at each
! place, but he did it perfunctorily, and
with shame for himself in his secret
| spirituality was gone from himself and
| from the people. He felt himself wick
edly agreeing with a pessim1st1c elder
at Fillmore, who remarked: II tell
! you what, Brother Rae, it seems like
| when the Book of Mormon goes again
| the Constitution of the United States,
there's sure to be hell to pay, and the
Saints allus has to pay it, He could
not tell the man in words of fire, as
once he would have done, that they
had been punished for lack of faith.
The next evening he reached Cedar
| City. Memories of this locality began
to crowd back upon him with tortur-
ing clearness; especially of the morn
| ing he had left Hamblin's ranch. AS
he mounted his horse two of the chill
dren saved from the wagon-train had
stood near him,-a boy of seven and
another little older, the one who had
fought so viciously with him when he
was separated from the little girl. He
remembered that the younger of the
two boys had forgotten all but the
first of his name. He had told them
| that it was John Calvin-something
! he could not remember what, so great
had been his fright; the people at the
ranch, because of his forlorn appear
ance, had thereupon named him John
Calvin Sorrow.
These two boys had watched him
closely as he mounted his horse, and
! the older one had called to him,
when get to be man, I'm coming
! back with gun and kill you till you
are dead yourself" and the other, lit
tie John Calvin Sorrow, had clenched
his fists and echoed the threat, We'll
come back here and kill you! Nor
mons is worse'n Indians!"
He had ridden quickly away, not
: noting that some of the men standing
i by had looked sharply at the boys and
/ then Significantly at one another. One
OF those who had been present, whom
he now met, told him of these two
I boys.
You see, Elder, the orders from
headquarters was to save only. them
that was too young to give evidence
| in Ia court. But these two was very
forward and knowing. They shouldn't
have been kept in the nrst place So
! two, men--no need Of naming names
! took both of them out one night
They got along all right with the lit
i tie one they called John Calvin Sor-
row-only the little cuss kicked and
Scrambled SO that we both had to see
to him for a minute, and when we
was ready for the other, there he was
at least ten rods away, alleging It
into the scrub oak. Well, they looked
and looked and hunted around till day
break, but he'd got away all right, the.
moon going under cloud. They
! tracked him quite ways when it
come light, till his tracks run into the
trail Of big band of Navajos that
had been up north trading ponies and
was going back south. He was the
one that talked so much. about you,=
but you needn't ever have any fear Of
his talking any more He'd be done
for one way or another"
For the first time in his life that
night, he was afraid to pray, afraid
even to give thanks that others We're
sleeping in the room with him so that
he could hear their breathing and
| know that he was not alone:
He was up betimes to press on to
the south, again afraid to pray, and
threading what was still in store for
him. For sooner or later he would
have to be alone in the night. mus
far since that day in the Meadows he
/ had slept near others, whether in
scabins or in camp, IN some :freighter's,
| wagon or bivouacking IN the SHOWS Of
Echo canyon. Each night he had been
conscious, at certain terrible moments
Of awakening. that others were near
Ihim. He heard their breat thing, or in
the silence a fires light had shown
him q sleeping face, the lines: Of 2.
form. or an arm tossed out. What
would happen on tne night he found
himself alone he knew no death, or
! the loss Of reason.
His way lay through the Meadows,
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