The news spread like wildfire that Milly had run off from her husband.

Everybody but Frank believed it an' wasn't slow in tellin' why she run off.

Mother had always hated that strange streak of Milly's, takin' up with the new religion as she had, an' she believed Milly ran off with the Mormon.

That hastened mother's death, an' she died unforgivin'.

Father wasn't the kind to bow down under disgrace or misfortune but he had surpassin' love for Milly, an' the loss of her broke him.
"From the minute I heard of Milly's disappearance I never believed she went off of her own free will.