and only child to get my washings and anointings. I was not
admitted, because I was a stranger, and no one to vouch for me. I
was returning with a heavy heart, when I met you. You returned
with me and used your influence, vouched for us and procured our
admittance. I obtained our endowments. I had a cancer on my
breast at that time that was considered incurable. From the hour
I received my endowments it has never pained me and is healing
up. I am thankful I have it in my power to do you a little favor
in return."

So saying, he lifted the lid of a box and counted out five
hundred dollars in gold coin, saying that if it would help me I
was welcome to it. I offered him a team, but he said he had money
enough to buy his outfit and support him while he lived, and that
he felt grateful for an opportunity of returning my favor. This
was to me an unexpected blessing from an honest heart. I wept
with joyful gratitude; I had the means that I desired in my
hands.

The next morning I received my teams and wagons. All had to be
fitted up for the journey. My family went to work making tents
and articles needful for the journey. I sent my wagons to the
Mormon wagonshop and told the men to work night and day, and put
them in order within three days, and I would give them fifty
dollars in gold, which was five dollars for a day and night's
work, quite a difference from fifty cents, the usual price. They
went to work in earnest, and as fast as a wagon was rolled out
finished I had it loaded.

In the meantime Brother Babbitt was urging me to cross the river,
as there was an officer in town looking for me. On the third day
I started one of my ox teams across the river on the ice, and
came near losing the whole outfit, by its breaking through. I
crossed no more teams that way. I got a large wood boat, with
twenty-five men to help me, and cut through the ice across the
river, so that the boat could be towed over. On the fourth day I
had all of my effects at the riverside.

The day before, when I crossed the team that broke through the
ice, I met the officer, to whom I was unknown, at the riverside
looking for me. He purposed to arrest me on the charge of having
more wives than one. I told him I had seen Mr. Lee crossing the
river the day before, and that one of his oxen broke through; I
added that it was a pity Mr. Lee had not broken through also. I
stepped into a saloon with the officer and we took a drink
together. I then went with