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Updated: June 2, 2025
And now, looking at the woman, she saw what Trevison had seen staring back at her, naked and repulsive. She shuddered, and her face whitened. "There are hotels at Manti, Mrs. Harvey," she said coldly. "Oh, very well!" The woman did not change her smile. "I shall be very glad to take advantage of your kind invitation.
He got up, with a grunt of resentment for all heavy-fisted fools abroad on midnight errands, and went downstairs to admit a grim-faced stranger who looked positively bloodthirsty to the Judge, under the nervous tension of his midnight awakening. "I'm 'Brand' Trevison, owner of the Diamond K ranch, near Manti," said the stranger, with blunt sharpness that made the Judge blink.
She murmured thankfully when they wheeled, and without looking in her direction loped their horses toward a wide, vacant space between some buildings, which led out into the plains, and through which she had ridden often when entering Manti. Watching the men, shuddering at the ominous aspect they presented, she saw a tremor run through them as though they all formed one body.
Half an hour later the entire outfit twenty men besides Barkwell and Weaver left the ranchhouse and spread, fan-wise, over the plains west of Manti. They lost all sense of time. Several of them had ridden to Manti, making a round of the places that were still open, but had returned, with no word of Trevison. Corrigan had claimed to have seen him.
In an instant the town had become a bedlam of portentous force; it was the first time in its history that the people of Manti had looked with collective vision, and the girl reeled against the iron wall of the shed, appalled at the resistless power that had been set in motion.
"This is Manti, I suppose," she said acridly, shoving the curtain aside and looking out of the window. "We should consider ourselves fortunate not to have had an adventure with Indians or outlaws. We have that to be thankful for, at least." Agatha's sarcasm failed to penetrate the armor of Rosalind's unconcern as Agatha's sarcasms always did.
Yea, even those who had been compelled to flee from the land of Manti, and from the land round about, had come over and joined the Lamanites in this part of the land. And thus being exceedingly numerous, yea, and receiving strength from day to day, by the command of Ammoron they came forth against the people of Nephihah, and they did begin to slay them with an exceedingly great slaughter.
Manti dominated the landscape, not because it was big and imposing, but because it was new. Manti's buildings were scattered there had been no need for crowding; but from a distance from Trevison's distance, for instance, which was a matter of three miles or so Manti looked insignificant, toy-like, in comparison with the vast world on whose bosom it sat. Manti seemed futile, ridiculous.
And shortly afterwards the locomotive glided silently away into the darkness toward that town in which a judge of the United States Court had, a few hours before, received orders which had caused him to remark, bitterly: "So does the past shape the future." Banker Braman went to bed on the cot in the back room shortly after Corrigan departed from Manti.
He came to Utah when eighteen years old, and settled in Sanpete county. He was made an Apostle in 1889. He has filled a number of foreign missions, and at one time he presided over the European mission. He has also been president of the Manti Temple.
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