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Part two chapter 1 of a study in
Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan 

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Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Part 2, the country of the 

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Saints, chapter 1 on the great 
Alkali plane. 

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In the central portion of the 
great North American continent. 

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There lies an arid and repulsive
desert, which for many a long 

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year, served as a barrier 
against the advance of 

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civilization from the Sierra, 
Nevada to Nebraska. 

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And from the Yellowstone River 
in the North to the Colorado 

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upon the south is a region of 
desolation and silence nor is 

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nature always in one mood. 
Throughout this Grim District. 

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It comprises snow-capped and 
lofty mountains and Dark and 

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gloomy valleys. 
There are Swift flowing Rivers 

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which dashed through Jagged 
canyons. 

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And there are enormous planes, 
which in Winter, a white with 

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snow and in summer, are gray 
with this A-line Alkali dust, 

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they all preserve. 
However, the common 

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characteristics of barrenness in
hospitality and misery. 

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There are now inhabitants of 
this land of Despair, a band of 

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pawnees, or of blackfeet. 
May occasionally Traverse it in 

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order to reach other hunting 
grounds, but the hardiest of the

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Braves are glad to lose sight of
those awesome planes and to find

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themselves once more upon their 
prairies. 

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The coyote skulks among the 
scrub, the Buzzard flaps heavily

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through the air and the clumsy 
grizzly. 

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Bear Lumbers through the dark 
Ravines and picks up such 

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sustenance as it can amongst the
Rocks. 

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These are the soul dwellers in 
the wilderness. 

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In the whole world that can be 
no more dreary view than that 

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from the northern slope of the 
Sierra Blanco. 

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As far as the eye can reach 
stretches the great flat plane 

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land all dusted over with 
patches of alkali and 

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intersected by clumps of the 
dwarfish Chaparral bushes on the

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extreme verge of the Horizon. 
Liya long chain of mountain 

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peaks with their rugged Summits 
flecked with snow. 

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In this great stretch of 
country. 

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There is no sign of life nor of 
anything a pertaining to life. 

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There is no bird in the steel, 
Blue Heaven, no movement upon 

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the dull grey Earth above all. 
There is absolute silence 

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listeners. 
One may there is no shadow of a 

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sound in all that Mighty 
Wilderness, nothing but silence 

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complete and heart subduing 
silence. 

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It has been said there is 
nothing a pertaining to life 

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upon the broad. 
Plain. 

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That is hardly true looking down
from the Sierra. 

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Blanco one sees a pathway traced
out, across the desert, which 

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wins away and is lost in the 
extreme distance. 

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It is rotted with wheels and 
trodden down by the feet of many

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adventurers here. 
And there, there are scattered, 

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white objects, which glisten in 
the Sun and stand out against 

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the dull deposit of alkali. 
Approach and examine them. 

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They are bones some large and 
course others smaller. 

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And more delicate, the former 
have belonged to oxen and the 

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latter two men for 1,500 miles, 
one may trace. 

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This ghastly Caravan route by 
these scattered remains of those

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who had fallen by the wayside. 
Looking down on this very scene 

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there stood upon the fourth of 
May 1847. 

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A solitary Traveler. 
His appearance was such that he 

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might have been the very genius 
or demon of the region an 

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observer would have found it. 
Difficult to say, whether he was

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nearer to 40 or 260. 
His face was lean and Haggard. 

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And a brown, parchment-like skin
was drawn. 

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Tightly over the projecting 
bones, his long, brown hair and 

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beard were all flecked and 
dashed with white. 

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His eyes were sunken in his head
and burned with an unnatural 

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luster while The hand which 
grasped his rifle was hardly 

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more fleshy than that of a 
skeleton. 

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As he stood, he leaned upon his 
weapon for support and yet his 

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tall figure and the massive 
framework of his bones 

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suggested, a wiry and vigorous 
Constitution, his gaunt face, 

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however, and his clothes, which 
hung, so bag Ali over his 

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shriveled limbs proclaimed. 
What it was that gave him that 

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senile and decrepit appearance. 
The man was dying. 

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Dying from hunger, and from 
thirst. 

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He had toiled painfully down the
Ravine and onto this little 

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elevation in the vain. 
Hope of seeing some signs of 

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water. 
Now, the Great Salt Plains 

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stretched before his eyes and 
the distant belt of savage 

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mountains, without a sign 
anywhere of plant or tree, which

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might indicate the presence of 
moisture in all that broad 

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landscape. 
There was no gleam of Hope, 

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north and east and west. 
He looked with wild questioning 

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eyes and then he realized that 
his wanderings had come to an 

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end. 
And that there on that. 

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And Craig, he was about to die. 
Why not here as well as in 

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featherbed twenty years, hence, 
he muttered as he seated himself

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in the shelter of a boulder. 
Before sitting down, he had 

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deposited upon the ground, his 
useless rifle, and also a large 

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bundle tied up in a gray shawl, 
which he had carried. 

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Slung over his right shoulder, 
it appeared to be somewhat too, 

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heavy for his strength for in 
lowering. 

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It, it came down the ground with
some little violence instantly 

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there, broke from the gray. 
Parcel, a little moaning cry and

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from it, protruded a small 
scared face with very bright. 

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Brown eyes and two Little 
Speckled dimpled fists. 

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You've hurt me. 
So the childish voice 

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reproachfully her by though. 
The man answered penitently. 

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I didn't go for to do it as he 
spoke. 

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He unwrapped, the gray shawl and
extricated, a pretty little girl

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of about five years of age, 
whose dainty shoes and smart 

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pink frock with its little linen
apron. 

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All bespoke a mother's care. 
The child was pale and one, but 

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her healthy arms and legs showed
that she had suffered less than 

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her companion. 
How is it now? 

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He answered anxiously for. 
She was still rubbing the taozi 

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golden curls which covered the 
back of her head, kiss it and 

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make it. 
Well. 

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She said with perfect gravity 
shoving, the injured part up to 

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him. 
That's what mother used to do. 

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Where's mother? 
Mother's gone. 

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I guess you'll see her before 
long. 

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Gone. 
Hey said, the little girl funny.

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She didn't say goodbye. 
She must always did if she was 

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just going over to Aunt, he's 
40. 

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And now she's been away three 
days. 

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Say it's awful. 
Dry. 

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Ain't it? 
Ain't no, no water. 

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No nothing to eat. 
No, there ain't nothing dearie. 

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You'll just need to be patient a
while and then you'll be. 

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All right, put your head up. 
Again, me like that again. 

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You'll feel bullier. 
They need easy to talk when your

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lips is like leather, but I 
guess I'd best. 

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Let you know how the cards lie. 
What's that? 

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You got pretty things, Fine, 
Things, cried the little girl 

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enthusiastically holding up to 
glittering fragments of mica. 

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When we goes back to home. 
I'll give them to my brother 

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Bob. 
You'll see pretty things. 

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And them soon said the man 
confidently, you just wait a 

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bit. 
I was going to tell you though. 

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You remember when we left the 
river? 

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Oh, yes. 
Well, we reckon we'd strike 

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Another River. 
Soon. 

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Do you see? 
But there was something wrong 

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compasses, or map, or something.
And it didn't turn up water ran 

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out. 
Just accept a little drop for 

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the likes of you. 
And and, and you couldn't wash 

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yourself. 
Interrupted His companion. 

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Gravely staring up. 
It is grimy Village. 

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No, nor drink and mr. 
Bender. 

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He was the first to go and then 
Indian Pete and then mrs. 

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McGregor. 
And then Johnny Holmes and then 

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dearie your mother. 
Their mothers are dead. 

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Our to cried the little girl 
dropping her face in a pinafore 

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and sobbing bitterly. 
Yes, they all went except you 

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and me. 
Then I thought there was some 

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chance of water in this 
direction. 

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So I have you over my shoulder 
and we trapped it together. 

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It don't seem as though, we've 
improved matters. 

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There's an Almighty small chance
for us now. 

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Cheap mean, do we can't you die,
too. 

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That's the child. 
Checking her sobs and raising 

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her tear-stained face. 
I guess that's about the size of

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it. 
Why didn't you say? 

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So before she said, laughing 
gleefully, you gave me such a 

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fright. 
Why? 

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Of course. 
Now as long as we die will be 

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with mother again. 
Yes, you will dearie and you 

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too. 
I'll tell her how awful. 

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Good you've been, I'll bet she 
meets us at the door of heaven 

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with a big pitcher of water and 
lot of Buckwheat cakes hot and 

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toasted on both sides like Bob 
and me was fond of how long will

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it be first? 
I don't know, not very long. 

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The Man's eyes were fixed upon 
the northern Horizon in the 

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blue. 
Vault of the heaven. 

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They had appeared three little 
specks which increased in size 

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every moment. 
So rapidly. 

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Did they approach they speedily 
resolve themselves into three 

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large brown birds, which circled
over the heads of the two 

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Wanderers and then settled upon 
some rocks which overlooked 

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them. 
They were buzzards, the vultures

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of the West whose coming is the 
Forerunner of death cocks and 

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hens cried a little girl 
gleefully pointing at their 

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ill-omened forms and clapping 
her hands to make them rise. 

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Say did God make this country? 
In course. 

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He did said, her companion, 
rather startled by this. 

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Unexpected question. 
He made the country down in 

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Illinois, and he made the 
Missouri little girl continued. 

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I guess somebody else made the 
country in these parts. 

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It's not nearly so well done. 
They forgot the water and the 

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trees. 
What would you think of offering

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up prayer? 
The man asked diffidently, it 

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ain't night yet. 
She answered. 

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It don't matter. 
It ain't quite regular but he 

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won't mind that. 
You bet you say over them ones 

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that you used to say every night
in the wagon. 

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When we use on the plains. 
Why don't you say some yourself?

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The child asked with wandering 
eyes. 

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I just remember them. 
He answered. 

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I hain't said nonsense. 
I was half the height of that 

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gun. 
I guess. 

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It's never too late. 
You say them out and I'll stand 

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by and come in on the choruses. 
Then you'll need to kneel down a

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me, too. 
She said, laying the shawl out 

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for that purpose. 
You've got to put your hands up.

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Like this. 
It makes you feel kind of good. 

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It was a strange sight. 
Had there been anything? 

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But the buzzers to see it side 
by side on the narrow shawl. 

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Melt the two Wanderers. 
The little prattling child, and 

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The Reckless hardened Adventurer
her chubby face and his Haggard.

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Angular visages were both turned
up to the cloudless heaven. 

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In heartfelt and treaty to that 
dread being with whom they were 

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face-to-face. 
While the two voices, the one 

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Thin and clear the other deep 
and harsh United in the entreaty

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for mercy and forgiveness. 
The prayer finished, they 

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resumed their seat in the shadow
of the boulder until the child 

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fell asleep. 
Nestling upon the broad breast 

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of her protector. 
He watched over her Slumber for 

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some time, but nature proved to 
be too strong for him for three 

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days and three nights. 
He allowed himself. 

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Neither rest nor oppose slowly. 
The eyelids drooped over the 

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tired eyes and the head sunk 
lower and lower upon the breast.

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Until the man's grizzled beard 
was mixed with the gold Tresses 

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of His companion and both slept 
the same deep and dreamless 

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slumber. 
How'd the Wonder a remained 

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awake for another half-hour. 
A strange sight would have met 

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his eyes far away on the extreme
verge of The Alkali plane There.

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Rose up a little spray of dust 
very slight at first and hardly 

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to be distinguished from The 
Mists of the distance, but 

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gradually growing higher and 
broader until it formed a solid 

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well-defined Cloud. 
This Cloud continue to increase 

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in size until it became evident 
that it could only be raised. 

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By a great multitude of moving 
creatures. 

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In more fertile spots, The 
Observer would have come to the 

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conclusion that one of these 
great herds of bisons which 

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graze upon the Prairie Land was 
approaching him. 

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This was obviously impossible in
these arid Wilds as the world of

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dust grew nearer to the solitary
Bluff upon, which the two 

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Castaways were reposing, the 
canvas covered tilts of wagons 

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and the figures of armed, 
Horsemen, began to show up 

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through the haze and The 
Apparition revealed itself as 

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being a Great Caravan upon its 
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But what a caravan when the head
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the mountains. 
The rear was not yet visible on 

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the horizon right across the 
enormous. 

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Plain stretched a straggling 
array, wagons and carts men on 

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Horseback and Men on foot 
innumerable women. 

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Who staggered along under 
burdens and children, who toddle

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beside the wagons or peeked out 
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This was evidently No Ordinary 
party of immigrants. 

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But rather some Nomad people who
had been compelled from stress 

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of circumstances to seek 
themselves. 

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A new country, their Rose 
through. 

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The clear are a confused 
clattering and rumbling from 

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this great mass of humanity, 
with the creaking of wheels and 

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the neighing of horses. 
Loud. 

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As it was, it was not sufficient
to Rouse the two tired Wayfarers

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above them. 
At the head of the column there,

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rode a score or more of grave. 
Iron faced men, clad, in Samba, 

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Homespun garments and armed with
rifles on reaching the base of 

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the bluff. 
They halted and held a short 

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Council among themselves. 
The wells are to the right. 

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My brothers said, one, the hard 
lipped clean-shaven, man with 

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Grizzly hair. 
To the ride of the Sierra 

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Blanco. 
So we shall reach the Rio Grande

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said, another fear. 
Not for water, cried the third, 

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he you could draw it from the 
rocks, will not now abandon his 

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own chosen people. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
Responded the whole party. 

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They were about to resume their 
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youngest and keenest, I'd 
uttered, an exclamation and 

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pointed up at the rugged Crag 
above them from its Summit. 

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The fluttered, a little wisp of 
pink showing up hard and bright 

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against the grey rocks behind at
the site. 

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There was a general raining up 
of horses and done slinging of 

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guns. 
While fresh Horseman came. 

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Galloping up to reinforce the 
Vanguard. 

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The word redskins was on every 
lip. 

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There can't be any number of 
engines here. 

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Said, the elderly man who 
appeared to be in command. 

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We have passed the pawnees. 
And there are no other tribes 

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until we cross the great 
mountains. 

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Shall I go forward and see 
brother, stangerson asked one of

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the band and I and I cried a 
dozen voices. 

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Leave your horses below and we 
will await you here. 

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The Elder answered in a moment. 
The young fellows had dismounted

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fasten their horses and were 
ascending the precipitous slope,

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which led up to the object, 
which had excited their 

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curiosity. 
They Advanced rapidly and 

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noiselessly with the confidence 
and dexterity of practiced 

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Scouts the watchers from the 
plain below, could see them flit

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from rock to rock until their 
figures stood out against the 

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skyline. 
The young man who had first 

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given the alarm was leading them
suddenly his followers. 

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Saw him throw up his hands as 
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astonishment. 
And on joining him. 

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They were affected in the same 
way by the sight, which met 

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their eyes on the little 
Plateau, which crowned, the 

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Barren Hill there, stood a 
single giant boulder. 

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And against this Boulder, they 
lay a tall man, long-bearded and

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hard-featured, but have an 
excessive thinness, his place. 

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Face and regular breathing 
showed that he was fast asleep. 

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Beside him lay a little child 
with her round white arms and 

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circling is Brown sinewy neck 
and her golden head head resting

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upon the breast of his Velveteen
tunic. 

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Her Rosy lips were parted 
showing the regular line of Snow

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White Teeth within and a playful
smile. 

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Played over her infantile 
features. 

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Her plump little white legs 
terminating in white socks and 

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neat shoes with shining buckles,
offered a strange contrast to 

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the long shriveled members of 
her companion on the ledge of 

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rock Above This Strange couple 
there stood, three solemn 

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buzzards who at the site of the 
newcomers. 

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Rocker screens of 
disappointment, and flapped 

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sullenly Away. 
The cries of the fowl. 

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Birds awoke, the 2 sleepers, who
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bewilderment, the man staggered 
to his feet and looked down upon

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the plane, which had been so 
desolate when sleep had 

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overtaken him and which was Now 
traversed by this enormous body 

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of men and of beasts. 
His face assumed an expression 

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of incredulity as he gazed and 
he passed his bony hand over his

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eyes. 
This is what they call delirium.

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I guess he muttered. 
The child Stood Beside him 

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holding onto the skirt of his 
coat and said nothing but looked

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all around her with the 
wandering questioning gaze of 

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childhood. 
The rescuing party was speedily 

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able to convince the to 
Castaways that their appearance 

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was no delusion. 
One of them sees the little girl

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and hoisted her upon his 
shoulder. 

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While two others supported her 
gaunt companion, and assisted 

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him towards the wagons. 
My name is John, Ferrier, the 

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Wonder explained me and that 
littluns are all that's left are

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21 people. 
The rest is all dead. 

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A thirst and hunger. 
Way down in the south. 

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Is she your child ask someone? 
I guess she is now. 

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The other cry defiantly. 
She's mine because I saved her, 

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no man. 
Will take her from me. 

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She's Lucy Ferrier from this day
on. 

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Who are you though? 
He continued glancing with a 

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curiosity. 
At his stalwart sunburned 

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Rescuers. 
There seems to be a powerful 

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Lottery nigh upon 10,000 said, 
one of the young men. 

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Men. 
We Are The persecuted children 

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of God, the chosen of the Angel 
Moroni, I never heard tell on 

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him said the Wondra he appears 
to have chosen effect. 

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Rowdy. 
Do not just at that, which is 

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sacred said. 
The other sternly we are of 

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those who believe in those 
sacred writings drawn in 

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Egyptian letters on plates of 
beaten gold, which were handed 

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on to the holy. 
Joseph Smith. 

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That Palmyra we have come from 
Nauvoo in the state of Illinois,

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where we had founded our Temple.
We have come to seek a refuge 

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from the violent man. 
And from the Godless even though

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it be the heart of the desert. 
The name of Nauvoo evidently 

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record Recollections to John. 
Ferrier. 

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I see he said you are the 
moments. 

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We are the Mormons answered his 
companions with one voice. 

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And where are you going? 
We don't know the hand of God is

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leading us under the person of 
our Prophet. 

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You must come before him. 
He shall say, what is to be done

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with you? 
They had reached the base of the

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hill by this time and was 
surrounded by crowds of the 

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pilgrims pale-faced meek-looking
women, strong, laughing children

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and anxious. 
Ernest. 

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I'd men many were the cries of 
astonishment and of 

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commiseration which arose from 
them when they perceive the 

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Youth of one of the strangers 
and the destitution of the 

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other. 
Their escort did not halt. 

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However, but pushed on followed 
by a great crowd of Mormons 

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until they reached a wagon which
was Speak Us for its great size 

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and for the gore dienes and 
smartness of its appearance. 

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Six horses were yoked to it, 
whereas the others were 

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furnished with two or at the 
most four apiece beside the 

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driver s at a man who could not 
have been more than 30 years of 

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age. 
But whose massive head and 

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Resolute expression marked him 
as a leader. 

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He was reading a brown, backed 
volume, but as the crowd 

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approached, he laid it aside and
listened attentively to an 

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account of the episode. 
Then he turned to the two 

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Castaways. 
If we take you with us, he said 

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in solemn words, it can only be 
as Believers in our own Creed. 

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We shall have no wolves in our 
fold better far that your bones 

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should bleach in this 
Wilderness. 

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Then at you should prove to be 
that little speck of Decay which

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in time corrupts the whole 
fruit. 

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Will you come with us on these 
terms? 

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Guess I'll come with you on any 
terms said, Ferrier with such 

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emphasis that the grave Elders 
could not restrain a smile. 

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Dalida alone, retained his 
Stern. 

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Impressive expression, take him,
brother stangerson. 

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He said, give him food and drink
and the child likewise, let it 

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be your task. 
Also to teach him our holy 

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Creed. 
We have delayed long enough 

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forward on unto Zion, on unto 
Zion Pride, the crowd of 

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Mormons. 
And the woods Ripple Down The 

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Long Caravan passing from mouth 
to mouth until they died away in

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a dull murmur in the far 
distance. 

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With a cracking of whips and the
creaking of Wheels. 

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The great wagons got into motion
and soon, the whole Caravan was 

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winding along one small, the 
Elder to whose care. 

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The two waves had been 
committed, LED them to his 

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wagon, where a meal was already 
awaiting them. 

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You shall remain. 
Here. 

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He said, in a few days, you will
have recovered from your 

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fatigues. 
In the meantime. 

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Remember that now and forever 
you are of our religion. 

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Brigham Young has said it and he
has spoken with the voice of 

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Joseph Smith, which is the voice
of God. 

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End of chapter 1. 
End of chapter 1.