"He has only one, and he has always been very kind to her."
"How they have imposed upon you! Where have you been living that you have not heard more of their iniquitous doings than that?"
Susannah was faint and ill with the conflict within her own breast when the dapper Kentucky Governor, on business intent, came to them from a group of the smoking men.
"James," cried his wife, with an edge of sharpness in her low voice, "this lady doesn't even know a tithe of the enormities that are practised in Nauvoo."
He shook his head, and said that it was a compliment to Susannah's heart and mind that the tenth part had been sufficient to alarm.
His manner was stiff and formal, but his disposition seemed very kind.
He asked Susannah if the Mormons had retained all her property, and what destination she now proposed for herself; and then with great delicacy informed her that there was a proposition among the passengers to make a collection, to defray the expenses of her whole journey.
Susannah's cheek paled again.
"How could I return it if it came from so many?" she asked. Her white hands were clasping and unclasping themselves. Must it indeed be by means of such humiliation that she saved herself from Angel's Church?
The Governor determined upon further generosity. "If you would prefer, take it from me as a loan," he said.