The priesthood tried every way to make him; they counselled him, and that didn't do; then they ordered him away on mission, but he wouldn't go; and then they counselled the girl, but she was stubborn too.

The Bishop saw there wasn't any other way, so he had him called to a meeting at the schoolhouse one night.

As soon as he got there, the lights was blowed out, and--well, it was unfortunate, but this boy's been kind of an idiot ever since." "Unfortunate! It was awful!" "Not so awful as refusing to obey counsel." "What became of the girl ?" "Oh, she saw it wasn't no use trying to go against the Lord, so she married the Bishop.

He said at the time that he knew she'd bring him bad luck--she being his thirteenth--and she did, she was that hifalutin.

He had to put her away about a year ago, and I hear she's living in a dugout somewhere the other side of Cedar City, a-starving to death they tell me, but for what the neighbours bring her.