But the imperishable spirit did not cease.

It continued to exist, and, in its next incarnation, became the residing spirit of that apparitional body known as Darrell Standing's which soon is to be taken out and hanged and sent into the nothingness whither all apparitions go.
There is a lifer here in Folsom, Matthew Davies, of old pioneer stock, who is trusty of the scaffold and execution chamber.

He is an old man, and his folks crossed the plains in the early days.

I have talked with him, and he has verified the massacre in which Jesse Fancher was killed.
When this old lifer was a child there was much talk in his family of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

The children in the wagons, he said, were saved, because they were too young to tell tales.
All of which I submit.