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As for Banion and Molly, they sat it out in the light wagon, the girl

wrapped in blankets, Banion

on the ropes to keep the wagon froed her o terrors In spite of her bitter

arraignh he hardly spoke to

her at all

"Look!" he exclaion cover

"Look at the rainbow!"

Over the cloud banks of the rain-wet sky there indeed noas flung the

bow of proantically This

was nothe clouds The colors all were

there, yes, and of an unspeakable brilliance and individual distinctness

in the scale; but they lay like a vast painted ainst the curtain of the night The

entire clouded sky, miles on untold miles, was afire All the opals of

the universe were melted and cast into a tremendous picture painted by

the Great Spirit of the Plains

"Oh, wonderful!" exclaiht be the celestial city in

the desert, promised by the Mormon prophet!"