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The Mormon Prophet

CHAPTER VI
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Halsey controlled himself and spoke to Emma.
"She has refused.

For this time she has rejected the truth." Now to Susannah the matter for amazement was that she had come so far from home (although, it was not very far), that she had actually arrived, as it seemed, at an appointed place.

The sting that this gave to her pride was greatly eased by perceiving that she had not by this fulfilled his hopes.
Emma Smith had a pale, patient face, which was at this time made peculiarly dignified by a look of solemn excitement.

Young as she was, she turned to Susannah with a protecting motherly air.
"Perhaps next time the opportunity is offered the young lady will embrace it and save her soul." She spoke consolingly to Halsey, but looked at Susannah with encouraging and respectful eyes.

"You will see this young man baptized ?" she asked.
Under the protection of Emma Smith, Susannah stooped under the willow boughs and found herself upon the bank of the river in the presence of Joseph Smith, his mother, and some half-dozen men.
Lucy Smith was muttering somewhat concerning a vision of angels, and the suppressed excitement of them all was manifest.


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