"It's on the Mississippi River, and boats are passing the town every few hours."
"The idea of going from Chicago to where there isn't even a railroad! What place is it?"
"Nauvoo."
"Nauvoo! That miserable Mormon place?"
"Harrison says there is only an occasional Mormon there now—that it's largely settled by Germans engaged in wine-making."
"Grapes?" asked Napoleon.
"That boy never comes out of his dreaming except for something to eat. Dear me! the idea of living among a lot of Germans!" said Mrs. Lively, returning to the subject.
"There's a French element there, the remnants of the Icarians—a colony of Communists under Cabet," the doctor explained.
"What! those horrid Communists that turned Paris upside down?" Mrs. Lively exclaimed.
"Oh no," said the doctor. "They settled in Nauvoo some twenty years ago, I believe."