"This is evasion," said the now thoroughly excited churchman. "There is no place in my district possessed of such peculiar conditions as would place one of its inhabitants under suspicion because of them."
"Nor in mine either, that I know of," calmly rejoined Durant.
"Is not Salt Lake City the headquarters and residence of a class of people known as Mormons who hold exclusive sway there?"
"No, sir."
"That is what I have heard."
"Surely, I am not accountable for what you have heard. There are a great many Mormons in Salt Lake, and just as many that are not Mormons; it is the headquarters of the Church as you suggest, but its members are not in exclusive sway there."
"How can that be?"
"No matter about the means; the fact itself is what concerns us."
The churchman was discomfited and measurably confused; he was compelled to change his course.
"You told us," said he, "that you were an advocate of the Church of Jesus Christ; should there not be a suffix in these words—Latter-day Saints?"