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Pastor Dellenbaugh, when he heard the news, sank into his study chair and threw up his hands as if to ward off some blow. "Miss Jane going abroad!" he cried; "and you say nobody knows when she will come back! I can't realize it! We might as well close the school; no one else in the village can keep it together."
At first Pastor Dellenbaugh had been considerate enough to mount the long path to inquire for news of the travelers and to see how Martha was getting along, but after the receipt of the earlier letters from Jane telling of their safe arrival and their sojourn in a little village but a short distance out of Paris, convenient to the great city, even his visits ceased.
Along this same line, Dellenbaugh wrote of the southern Utah settlements: "As pioneers the Mormons were superior to any class I have ever come in contact with, their idea being homemaking and not skimming the cream off the country with a six-shooter and a whiskey bottle.
The Cromartins and the others all expressed similar opinions, the younger ladies' sorrow being aggravated when they realized that with Lucy away there would be no one to lead in their merrymakings. Martha held her peace; she would stay at home, she told Mrs. Dellenbaugh, and wait for their return and look after the place.
Doctor John first, with his grave manner and low voice so perfectly dressed and quiet: Lucy thought she had never seen his equal in bearing and demeanor, nor one so distinguished-looking not in any circle in Europe; and Uncle Ephraim, grown fat and gouty, leaning on a cane, but still hearty and wholesome, and overjoyed to see her; and Pastor Dellenbaugh his hair was snow-white now and his complacent and unruffled wife; and the others, including Captain Holt, who came in late.
Cromartin now bustled in, accompanied by her two daughters slim, awkward girls, both dressed alike in high waists and short frocks; and after them the Bunsbys, father, mother, and son all smiles, the last a painfully thin young lawyer, in a low collar and a shock of whitey-brown hair, "looking like a patent window-mop resting against a wall," so Lucy described him afterward to Martha when she was putting her to bed; and finally the Colfords and Bronsons, young and old, together with Pastor Dellenbaugh, the white-haired clergyman who preached in the only church in Warehold.
Underneath was a date, rather indistinct, but found to have been 1825, by Dellenbaugh, after carefully tracing the career of Colonel Ashley who was responsible for the record. Accompanied by a number of trappers, he made the passage through this canyon at that early day. We found a trace of the record. There were three letters A-s-h the first two quite distinct, and underneath were black spots.
Neither did she make any comment on the child's christening a ceremony which took place in the church, Pastor Dellenbaugh officiating except to write that perhaps one name was as good as another, and that she hoped he would not disgrace it when he grew up. These things, however, made but little impression on Jane.
See The North Americans of Yesterday, by F. S. Dellenbaugh, p. 234; and for complete details see papers by Cosmos Mindeleff, Thirteenth An. Rep, Bu. Eth. and Fifteenth An. Rep. Bu, Eth.; also Font's description in Coues's Garces, p. 93.
In Warehold village they were looked upon as two most charming and delightful people, rich, handsome, and of proper age and lineage, who were exactly adapted to each other and who would prove it before the year was out, with Pastor Dellenbaugh officiating, assisted by some dignitary from Philadelphia. At the hostelry many of the habitues had come to a far different conclusion.
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