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The Mormon Prophet

CHAPTER VIII
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Look! look! does thou not see him ?" His words had the effect of producing in her that maddening fear of the dark which ghostly tales induce, and now he fainted again.

She was afraid to cry for help, afraid even of the rustle of her own garments.
She did not know how far she was from any house.

And it seemed to her that this lover, who was almost a stranger, was dying in her arms.

The misery of this hour governed her action in the next.
Halsey in the bottom of the chaise lay with his head against her knee, and soon, holding the bandages of his wound close upon it with one hand, she took the reins with the other and urged the horse forward.

She had had no thought all that day but to go, as Halsey had said, to Emma Smith's protection.


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