Halsey understood.

He became completely conscious under Smith's influence, and for the hour almost strong.

He would know where he was and how he came there, who the minister was that had come.

He even required that this stranger should show his license to marry.
The minister was a common-looking man, small, shaggy as to the beard, business-like.

He knew nothing of Joseph Smith's prophetical claims, and cared only to know that Susannah was over eighteen years of age.
Marriage was a thing easily accomplished in that day and region.