It was such prayer only as we come at by inheritance, prayer that is one of the habits by which the fittest have survived.
Before two hours were past Halsey had returned.

He was bruised and much shaken, but appeared unconscious of injury, and made light of it.

The open fight had ended with no decisive victory for either party; the chief result appeared to be that malice on either side was for the hour exhausted.

Whether because of this or because Halsey gave himself to prayer on behalf of his brethren, the polls were opened quietly at noon and the Mormons voted with the other citizens.
In the cool of the evening Susannah was sitting beside her husband holding the sleeping child.

The window of their humble room was open, not to any broad, fair landscape such as their eyes were accustomed to feast upon, but upon the yard of the small tavern.