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Show 11 her, followed by a big scene with police and locals. While Grandfather comforted Evelyn, his wife, Charlotte, wrestled with her seven children and her feelings. She had promised to accept the Mormon Principle of Plural Marriage wholeheartedly, and to be obedient to the wishes of her husband and to the secret instructions of the Church authorities. But after five days sleeping upright and persuading the fidgety children to do likewise, after five days enduring rocking cars and her husband's attentions to a younger, cooler woman, after five days vascillating between her commitment to live polygamy and her commitment to herself, Charlotte's nerves writhed like maggots gnawing at her resolution and strength. While laying over in the hot, dry border-town of El Paso, Charlotte dreamed something so vivid, so prescient, and so horrible that Grandfather recorded it in his journal: "She dreamed that I was faithless to her, that I deserted her while crossing a muddy river in which [our children] Ezra and Othello were lost...and that in her great struggle to save them, I would not come to her assistance." Grandfather explained that the nightmare came true in all aspects but one: "Never for one second...in my hard life was I indifferent to my darling wife's suffering and sorrow." Grandfather set up residence in Colonia Dublan, a village of extremes where the expatriated Mormons busied themselves building adobes and cultivating bright flowers in clay pots |