The little girl with her mother's bundle he had taken to another ranch farther south in the Pine Mountains.

He told the woman the child was his own, and that she was to be kept until he came again.
Where he slept that night, or whether he slept at all, he never knew.
But he had been back on the ground in the morning with the others who came to bury the naked bodies.

He had seen heaps of them piled in little depressions and the dirt thrown loosely over them, and he remembered that the wolves were at them all a day later.
Then Dame and Haight and others of high standing in the Church had come to look over the spot and there another oath of secrecy was taken.

Any informer was to be "sent over the rim of the basin"-- except that one of their number was to make a full report to the President at Salt Lake City.

Klingensmith was then chosen by vote to take charge of the goods for the benefit of the Church.