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Show 35 "Doan't trouble your heart, Hyrum. They won't find out who did the printin." There was little of solace in his words for Hyrum. "That's thy opinion, not a fact!" Again the front door opened. This time it was Thomas, the eldest son in the Lathrop family. He was a handsome young man of 19 whose eyes had the same gentle look of his mother. Elise took his cloak while family members called out their greetings. "Doan't let me interrupt," remarked Thomas while he was following the aromas to the pot of stew Elise had cooking on the coal burning stove. When Thomas took a spoon and began to dip it in the stew pot, Elise gave him a look of warning that he was not to partake. Thomas complied and turned his attention to Hyrum who was gearing up for his last argument against printing the letter. "John, Alexander Leighton's book was against Bishops." "Ah knows." "Thou knaw'st what 'appened to him!" "Aye, but ye remember what he said when the executioner cut off his ear? 'Blessed be God, if I had a hundred, 1 would lose them all for the cause!" The words came hauntingly back to Hyrum. |