It had taken her a good many months to think of this one.
Halsey, who had learned to drop the Quaker forms of speech when speaking to others, still, moved by the remembrances of his early home, used them in speech to Susannah.

He inquired somewhat anxiously concerning the proposed purchase.
"Dost think that they will contain what the prophet has called 'sound learning,' and that there will be nothing in them to distract thy soul ?" "How can I tell when I do not know what is in them ?" She did not speak with impatience.
"Art wise, dear heart, in this longing ?" he asked wistfully.
Then he carried away her order and despatched it.
In the meantime Smith had returned from Missouri, his mind filled and, as it were, enlarged by the new land which he said was appointed by revelation as the site of the New Jerusalem.

Jackson County, on the south bank of the Missouri River, was the place.

He had already gathered four or five hundred new converts there, and he was now possessed with the desire for money to build the new city, and for a million proselytes to dwell in it.

In spite of this, after sending out new relays of missionaries in all directions, he settled down to the most sober routine of study.