"Mesmerism be damned! It's not that!" "Your sister--is--a Mormon," ventured Nathaniel, remembering what the prophet had said to him that morning.

"Could it be her faith ?--a message revealed through Strang from--" Neil stopped him almost fiercely.
"Marion is not a Mormon!" he said.

"She hates Mormonism as she hates Strang.

I have tried to get her to leave the island with me but she insists on staying because of the old folk.

They are very old, Captain Plum, and they believe in the prophet and his Heaven as you and I believe in that blue sky up there.