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 version during the last possible and precious moments. A fit came on in consequence, from which there was no subsequent rally; but he could assure the surviving sister that the last sparkle of the eye looked that of true faith. The sister was thus also converted; and she afterwards emigrated to Utah, to be safely sealed for Mormon paradise as thirteenth wife of a Mormon elder.

Reed was furious when he heard of this business, and spoke freely of the benefit of diverting such murderous zeal by twelve months of the treadmill. He even called upon the coroner to consider about having Gray arrested, with the view of having him tried for manslaughter. The coroner stood aghast at the new field of work thus opened out to himself, and asked where, in the discrimination of such doings, he was to stop; for Reed had clearly enough intimated that he had no idea of limiting his action to Mormonism.

White was Wesleyan, while Brown was Calvinist. Quiet old Brown held the stern and iron faith, while that of love and gentleness had fallen to vehement old White. Yet in religious matters Brown was anything but quiet, and was ever seeking a fling at White, whom he usually and easily discomfited by throwing at him a ready succession of Scripture texts. A remark of Reed's one day, that the only effectual way to settle an extreme sectary was to bring down upon him another sectary still more extreme, was duly treasured up, for defensive purposes, in White's mind. Accordingly, the next time he argued with Brown, White had