Lassiter and Jane were left alone.
Then, if there were anything that a good woman could do to win a man and still preserve her self-respect, it was something which escaped the natural subtlety of a woman determined to allure.

Jane's vanity, that after all was not great, was soon satisfied with Lassiter's silent admiration.

And her honest desire to lead him from his dark, blood-stained path would never have blinded her to what she owed herself.

But the driving passion of her religion, and its call to save Mormons' lives, one life in particular, bore Jane Withersteen close to an infringement of her womanhood.

In the beginning she had reasoned that her appeal to Lassiter must be through the senses.