Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona.

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 054

what the children called "a cunning little plain" there, which, by the way, is yearly overflowed. A few huts, partly burrowed into the hillside, and a shanty for the augmentation of the United States revenues, in front of which some Pioche teams had halted for refreshment, were planted on the farther side of the stream. Our horses were unharnessed to rest and feed, and I rambled about with my boys. Although I did not believe one word of Hickman's accusa- tions, I felt myself color with a feeling that I wronged the kind people about me when I caught myself instinctively glancing at the bushes that fringed the bank for the place where Hickman had said the victims tried to hide themselves; and at the swift river, into which, he said, the murderers threw three of them. Then I returned to my carriage, and shared in the bountiful lunch provided for us by the Mistresses Steerforth, forgetful of Mr. Hickman and his accusations of their goodman. After dinner we toiled on steadily until darkness set in, with no other adventure than that of seeing the four horses of a great Pioche wagon take fright, and dashing along the rocky road, just missing President Young's carriage, rush aside into a canon, down which we could hear them crashing on the rocks. We had seen enough of our friend "Lo," to know who would be the wreckers of that broken cargo. It was dark when we reached our halting-place for the night. scIPIo ROUND VALLEY, or SCIPIO, is the poorest and newest of the settlements we stopped at, and has been much troubled with 54