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Show 144 THE MORMON LION I left at the same time. For the sake of Lucy's good name, I could not stay to comfort her. If it became known that I had spent an hour or more alone with her, we should be liable to public accusation in the Tabernacle on the most shameful charges. The spirit of t he Reformation knew no decency or restramt or mercy. CHAPTER XV A PARTING UNTIL late that night I worked at my office, seeking to deaden the remembrance of Mrs. Sen by's face. Chilcott was at Amanda's breakfast table. But my rage had cooled. I was able to give a civil answer to his (l"ruffiy cordial greeting. After all, he too was a victim of the false doctrines and cunning system d evised by J oseph and Brigham. Had he escaped conversion, he might have been a just, perhaps even a kindly man. I could not believe that an entire people could be so given over to perverted doctrines, as were these self-styled Saints, had they not been misled into mistaking good for evil and evil for good. Left to its own dictates, the human heart is not bad. At least I believe t his would have been true as to Chilcott. " Slept well, did you?" he commented. " You look sort of gantered-up, though. Out pretty late last night, I t ake it. At Brother Senby's wedding arty?" p "No, at my office, till midnight, reading up on some of my cases." "Guess you're doing pretty well. You ought to turn in a good fat money-tithe next accounting. I'm mighty glad to know you' re prospering, even if we don't hitch-up on one proposition. After all, we're relatives, if it is only by marriage." The expression forced a smile from me despite its tra~ic associations. ' By marriage .... Tell me. What 's the relationship in families where t he same man marries a ' 45 K |
