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Book 2 chapter 3, of a study in 
Scarlet by Sir. 

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Arthur Conan Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Book 2 chapter 3, John Ferrier 

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talks with the prophet. 
Three weeks had passed since 

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Jefferson hope and his comrades 
had departed from Salt Lake 

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City. 
John farriers heart was sore 

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within him when he thought of 
the young man's return and of 

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the impending loss of his 
adopted child yet, her bright 

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and happy face reconciled him to
the arrangement. 

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More than any argument, could 
have done. 

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He'd always determined deep down
in his Resolute, heart. 

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The nothing would ever induce 
him to allow his daughter, to 

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Wed a Mormon. 
Such a marriage, he regarded as 

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no marriage at all. 
But as a shame and a disgrace, 

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whatever, he might think of the 
Mormon doctrines of on that one 

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point. 
He was inflexible. 

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He had to seal his mouth on the 
subject. 

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However, for to express an 
unorthodox opinion was a 

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dangerous matter. 
In those days in the land of the

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Saints. 
Yes, a dangerous matter. 

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So dangerous that even the most 
saintly dared, only whisper 

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their religious. 
With bated breath lest something

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which fell from their lips might
be misconstrued and bring down a

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swift retribution upon them. 
The victims of persecution had 

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now turned persecutors on their 
own account and persecutors of 

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the most terrible description. 
Not to the Inquisition of 

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Seville, nor the German Vega 
reached, nor the secret 

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societies of Italy were ever 
able to put a more formidable 

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Machinery in motion than that 
which cast a cloud. 

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Loud over the state of Utah. 
It's invisibility and the 

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Mystery which was attached to it
made this organization doubly 

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terrible. 
It appeared to be omniscient and

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omnipotent and yet was neither 
seen nor heard the man who held 

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out against the church vanished 
away and non-new with a, he had 

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gone, or what had befallen him, 
his wife and his children, 

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awaited him at home. 
But no, father, ever returned to

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tell them how he had fared at 
the hands of Secret judges. 

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A rash word or a hasty Act was 
followed by Annihilation and yet

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non knew what the nature might 
be of this terrible power which 

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was suspended over them. 
No wonder that men went about in

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fear and trembling and that even
in the heart of the Wilderness. 

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They dared not whisper the 
doubts which oppressed them. 

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At first, this vague and 
terrible power was exercised 

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only upon the recalcitrance who 
having embraced the Mormon faith

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wished afterwards to pervert, or
to abandon it soon. 

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However, it took a wider range. 
The supply of adult women was 

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running short and polygamy 
without a female population on 

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which to draw was a Barren 
Doctrine. 

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Indeed, strange rumors began to 
be bandied about rumors of 

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murdered immigrants and rifled 
camps in regions. 

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Where Indians had never been 
seen fresh. 

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Women appeared in the harms of 
the elders women who pined and 

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wept and bore upon their faces, 
the traces of an 

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unextinguishable horror. 
Belated Wanderers upon the 

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mountains. 
Spoke of gangs of armed, men, 

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masked stealthy, and a noiseless
who flitted by them in the 

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darkness. 
These tales and rumors took 

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substance and shape and were 
corroborated Andre, corroborated

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until they resolve themselves 
into a definite name. 

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To this day in the lonely, 
ranches of the West. 

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The name of the denied band or 
the avenging, Angels is a 

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Sinister and an ill-omened one. 
Full of knowledge of the 

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organization, which produce such
terrible results. 

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Serve to increase rather than to
lessen the horror, which it 

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inspired in the minds of men 
non-new who belonged to this 

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ruthless Society, the names of 
the participators in the Deeds 

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of blood and violence, done, 
under the name of religion were 

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kept profoundly secret. 
The very friend to whom you 

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communicated, your misgivings as
to the prophet and his mission 

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might be one of those who would 
Come for that night with fire 

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and sword to exact a terrible 
reparation. 

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Hence, every man, feared, his 
neighbor and non spoke of the 

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things which were nearest, his 
heart one. 

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Fine morning. 
John, Ferrier was about to set 

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out to his wheat Fields when he 
heard the click of the latch. 

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And looking through the window 
saw, a stout sandy-haired 

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middle-aged man. 
Coming up the pathway. 

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His heart leaped to his mouth 
for this was none other than the

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great Brigham Young himself. 
Full of trepidation for, he knew

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that such a visit boded him. 
Little good farrier ran to the 

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door, to greet, the Mormon Chief
the latter. 

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However, received his 
salutations coldly and followed 

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him with a Stern, face into the 
sitting room. 

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Brother farrier. 
He said, taking a seat and 

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eyeing the farmer keenly from 
under his light-colored, 

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eyelashes. 
The True Believers have been 

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good friends to you. 
We picked you up when you were 

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starving in the desert. 
We share our food with you laid.

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You safe to The Chosen Valley, 
gave you a goodly share of land 

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and allowed you to wax Rich 
under our protection. 

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Is this not so? 
It is so and so, John Ferrier. 

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In return for all this, we 
asked. 

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But one condition that was that 
you should embrace the true 

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faith and conform in every way 
to its usage. 

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Has this you promise to do? 
And this if common reports is 

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truly, you have neglected. 
And how have I neglected? 

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It asked Faria throwing out his 
hands in expostulation. 

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Have I not given to the common 
fund. 

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Have I not attended at the 
temple. 

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Have I not? 
Where are your wives asked young

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looking around him. 
Call him in that. 

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I may greet him. 
It is true that I have not 

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married fairy answered, but 
women were few and there were 

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many who had better claims and 
I, I was not a lonely, man. 

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I had my daughter to attend to 
my once. 

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He is of that daughter that I 
would speak to, you said the 

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leader of the Mormons. 
She has grown to be the flower 

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of Utah and has found favor in 
the eyes of many who are high in

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the land. 
John Ferrier groaned internally.

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There are stories of her which I
would Fain disbelieve stories 

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that she is sealed to some 
Gentile. 

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This must be the gossip of idle 
tongues. 

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What is the 13s? 
Rule in the code of the sainted 

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Joseph Smith. 
Let every maiden of the true 

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Faith. 
Marry one of the elect for if 

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she wed a gentile she commits a 
grievous sin. 

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This being so it is impossible 
that you who profess the holy 

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Creed should suffer your 
daughter to violate it. 

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John Ferrier made, no answer, 
but he played nervously with his

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riding-whip. 
Upon this one point, your whole 

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face shall be tested. 
So it has been decided in the 

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sacred Council of four. 
The girl is Young and we would 

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not have her wed. 
Gray hairs. 

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Neither would we deprive her of 
all choice? 

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We Elders have many heifers, but
our children must also be 

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provided stangerson has a son 
and driba has a son and either 

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of them would gladly, welcome 
your daughter to their house. 

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Let her choose between them. 
They are young and Rich and of 

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the true Faith. 
What say you to that? 

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Fairy remain silent for some 
little time with his brows 

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knitted. 
You will give us time. 

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He said at last, my daughter is 
very young. 

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She is scarce of an age to 
marry. 

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She shall have a month to choose
said young rising from his seat 

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at the end of that time. 
She shall give her answer. 

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He was passing through the door 
when he turned with flushed face

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and flashing eyes. 
It were better for you. 

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John. 
Ferrier. 

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He thundered that you and she 
were now, lying Blanche 

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skeletons upon the Sierra 
Blanco, then that you should put

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your weak Wills against the 
orders of the Holy for. 

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With a threatening gesture of 
his hand, he turned from the 

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door and Ferrier heard his heavy
steps crunching along the 

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shingly path. 
He was still sitting with his 

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elbows upon his knees, 
considering how he should 

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broached the matter to his 
daughter. 

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When a soft hand was laid upon 
his and looking up. 

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He saw her standing beside him. 
One glance at her pale. 

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Frightened face, showed him that
she had heard what had passed. 

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I couldn't help it. 
She said, in answer to his look,

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his voice rang through the 
house. 

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Oh, Father, father. 
What should we do? 

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Don't you scare yourself? 
He answered. 

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Drawing her to him. 
And passing his broad rough. 

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Hand caressingly over chestnut. 
Hair. 

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Will fix it up somehow or other.
You don't find your fancy kind 

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of listening for this chap. 
Do you? 

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A sob and a squeeze of his hand.
Was her only answer. 

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No, of course not. 
I shouldn't care to Bear. 

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You say you did. 
He's a likely lad and he's a 

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Christian, which is more than 
these folk here in spite, all 

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they're praying and preaching. 
There's a party starting for 

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Nevada tomorrow, and I'll manage
to send him a message, letting 

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him know, the whole we're in. 
If I know anything of that young

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man, he'll be back here with a 
speed would whip Electra 

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telegraph's. 
Lucy laughs, through her tears 

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at her father's description. 
When he comes, he will advise us

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for the best, but it is for you 
that I'm frightened, dear one. 

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He is one. 
He has such Dreadful stories 

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about those who oppose the 
profit. 

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Something terrible, always 
happens to them. 

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But we haven't opposed him yet. 
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It'll be time to look out for 
squalls. 

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When we do, we have a clear 
month before us. 

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At the end of that, I guess we'd
best Shin out of Utah. 

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Leave Utah, that's about the 
size of it. 

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But the farm will raise as much 
as we can and money and let the 

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rest go to tell the truth. 
Lucy. 

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It isn't the first time. 
I've thought of doing it. 

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I don't care about knuckling 
under to any man as these folk 

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due to their Don profit. 
I'm a Freeborn American and it's

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all new to me. 
I guess I'm too old to learn if 

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he comes browsing about this 
farm. 

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He might chance to run up 
against a charge of Buckshot 

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traveling in the opposite 
direction. 

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But they won't let us. 
Leave his daughter. 

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Objected wait till Jefferson 
comes and will soon manage that 

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in the meantime, don't you fret 
yourself my dearie and don't get

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your eyes swelled up else. 
He'll be walking into me when he

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sees you. 
There's nothing to be a feared 

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about and there's no danger at 
all. 

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John Ferrier, uttered these 
consoling remarks in a very 

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confident tone, which she could 
not help observing that, he paid

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unusual care to the fastening of
the doors that night and that he

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carefully cleaned and loaded the
rusty old shotgun which hung 

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upon the walls of his bedroom. 
End of chapter 3. 

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End of chapter 3.