to think of this one.

Halsey, who had learned to drop the Quaker forms of speech when speaking
to others, still, moved by the remembrances of his early home, used them
in speech to Susannah. He inquired somewhat anxiously concerning the
proposed purchase.

"Dost think that they will contain what the prophet has called 'sound
learning,' and that there will be nothing in them to distract thy soul?"

"How can I tell when I do not know what is in them?" She did not speak
with impatience.

"Art wise, dear heart, in this longing?" he asked wistfully.

Then he carried away her order and despatched it.

In the meantime Smith had returned from Missouri, his mind filled and,
as it were, enlarged by the new land which he said was appointed by
revelation as the site of the New Jerusalem. Jackson County, on the
south bank of the Missouri River, was the place. He had already gathered
four or five hundred new converts there, and he was now possessed with
the desire for money to build the new city, and for a million proselytes
to dwell in it. In spite of this, after sending out new relays of
missionaries in all directions, he settled down to the most sober
routine of study. Hebrew was the new language he wished to acquire, and
he felt the call to revise the Old Testament.

CHAPTER II.

Only one unusual incident occurred in Susannah's presently peaceful
life. One day in the golden October she set out to walk some distance up
the valley of the Chagrin River. The object of the walk was a visit to
one of the outlying farmhouses occupied by a family of the Saints; but
Susannah, as was her wont, found more joy in the walk than in the visit.
When she had passed beyond the meeting of the waters, the valley lay
long before her, about a mile in width and quite flat. The stream was
scarcely seen; the ground was covered with flowery weeds, white asters
with their myriad tiny stars, the pale seed feathers of the golden rod,
high grasses, and wild things innumerable which had been turned brown
and gray by the autumn sun, pink clumps of the rice weed, and small
groves of the scarlet stalks of the wild buckwheat. This level sea of
weeds stood so high that when she threaded the narrow path they reached
above her waist. The bees in the white asters were humming as they hum
in apple bloom. The blue jays were calling and flying in low horizontal
flights. The valley stretched to the south-east, then curved; a little
mountain barred the v