Mormons is worse'n Indians!" He had ridden quickly away, not noting that some of the men standing by had looked sharply at the boys and then significantly at one another.

Another followed, and then another; he heard the sound of oars, the grinding of keels upon the sand, and where the Mormons had been a few moments before the beach was now alive with mainlanders.

The Mormons were the owners of that city and the smiling country around it.

The Governor returned to Fort Bridger in May, believing the Mormons to be an injured people, whose cause was in the main just.