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They, the women, gathered together and pressed into Peckaby's shop, and stared at Brother Jarrum with eager eyes, and listened with strained ears, only looking off him to cast admiring glances one to another.
If this Brother Jarrum represented things in rose-coloured hues, could nobody open to their view the other side of the picture? I should have endeavoured to do it, had I been here. If they chose to risk the venture after that, it would have been their own fault." "You'd have done no good," said Jan. "Once let 'em get the Mormon fever upon 'em, and it must run its course.
"Brother Jarrum thinks as the head saint, the prophet hisself, has a favour to me! Wives is as happy there as the day's long." Peckaby grinned; the reply amused him much. "You poor ignorant creatur," cried he, "you have got your head up in a mad-house; and that's about it. You know Mary Green?" "Well?" answered she, looking surprised at this divertissement.
Had Brother Jarrum proved to be a real missionary from Jerusalem though, so far as my knowledge goes, such messengers from that city are not common genuinely desirous of converting them from wrath to grace, I fear his audience would, after the first night or two, have fallen off considerably.
It's Zion it's Paradise it's anything beautiful you may like to call it. There's a ballroom in it." This abrupt wind-up rather took some of the audience aback. "A ballroom!" "A ballroom," gravely repeated Brother Jarrum. "A public ballroom not far from a hundred feet long; and we have got a theatre for the acting of plays; and we go for rides in winter in sleighs.
You'd never forget the silver lake at the base of Antelope Island, once you set eyes on it." Several haggard eyes were lifted at this. "Do silver grow there, like the sage?" "I spoke metaphorical," explained Brother Jarrum. "Would I deceive you? No.
"Who has she gone with?" "With the rest from Deerham. They have gone off in the night. That Brother Jarrum and a company of about five-and-twenty, they say." Jan could scarcely keep from exploding into laughter. Part of Deerham gone off to join the Mormons! "Is it a fact?" cried he. "It is a fact that they are gone," replied Mrs. Baynton.
That he invented the fable of the white donkey to keep you quiet while he and the rest got clear off." Mrs. Peckaby Went into a storm of shrieking sobs. "It couldn't be! it couldn't be! Oh, sir, you be as cruel as the rest! Why should Brother Jarrum take the others, and not take me?" "That is Brother Jarrum's affair," replied Lionel. "I only say it looks like it."
About a month thus passed on, and Lionel Verner and his wife were expected home, when Deerham woke up one morning to a commotion. A flitting had taken place from it in the night. Brother Jarrum had departed, conveying with him a train of followers. One of the first to hear of it was Jan Verner; and, curious to say, he heard it from Mrs. Baynton, the lady at Chalk Cottage.
"I say, master, if this is as you're a-telling us, how is it that folks talk so again' the Mormons? I met a man in Heartburg once, who had been out there, and he couldn't say bad enough of 'em." "Snakes! but that's a natural question of yours, and I'm glad to answer it," replied Brother Jarrum, with a taking air of candour. "Those evil reports come from our enemies.
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