Stoyalo the hot June morning.

Mormony worked how bees, not without reason they selected as their emblem bee beehive. Above the fields, above the streets efficient rumble stood. Along the dusty roads were pulled the long files of the loaded with heavy load mules they dispatch to the West, since in California the Gold rush flared up, and way on the land penetrated the city of those chosen. The droves of sheep and oxen from the distant pastures there moved, the caravans of tired migrants were pulled; the interminable journey equally harassed and people and animals.

Dva of the lonely of traveller,

John fer'es and small girl, who divided his fate as the foster daughter, passed with mormonami to the end of their difficult wanderings. Small Of lyusi conveniently travelled in the vehicle Of stendzhersona, where together with it were placed three wives of mormona and its son, brisk, wilful boy of twelve years. Children's soul possesses elasticity, and Lyusi rapidly she were set right from the impact, caused by death of mother; soon it became the favorite of women and privykla to the new life on the wheels under the canvas roof. But Fer'e, after getting stronger after adversities, proved to be by useful conductor and untiring hunter. It rapidly conquered the respect for mormonov, and, after reaching finally the earth obetovannoy, they unanimously solved, what it deserves the same large and fertile section all other settlers all other earth, it goes without saying, with exception of Young and four main elders Stendzhersona, Kembolla, Johnston and Drebbera, which were on the special position.
Na its section To fer'e placed high-quality timbered felling, and during the subsequent years additions made to it, and finally its dwelling became spacious out-of-town house. Fer'e possessed practical sharpness, any matter succeeded in its adroit hands, and iron health made possible for it to work on its earth from the dawn to the dawn; therefore dispatch the matters at the farm excellently. In three years it became more prosperous than all its neighbors, in six years he was well-off person, through nine by rich person, while in twelve years in Solt- leucSiti would not be located even ten people, who could be equaled with it. From Solt- leucSiti to the distant ridge Of uosatch not it was name more known than John fer'e's name.of I only one- only circumstance distressed and offended its fellow believers. No reasons and persuasions could make it necessary it to take to themselves, on an example of other, several wives. It did not explain the reason for refusal, but it were held its solution solidly and inflexible. Some charged it with the insufficient adherence to the faith accepted by it, others considered that it simply miser and does not desire excess expenditures. Some asserted, that to everything by reason old love and that somewhere on the coasts of Atlantic Ocean on it is sad the blond beauty. But however that may be, Fer'e persistently remained bachelor. However, in other respects it strictly followed the faith of settlers and had a reputation by man devout and honest.
of Lyusi Fer'e grew in the timbered house and helped foster father in all his matters. Mother and nurses for it substituted fresh mountain air and healthful aroma of pine trees. Time went, and it became increasingly above with each year and it is stronger, increasingly more brightly glowed its bloom, and of ever of more elastic was done gait. And not in one traveller, who passed along the road past the farm Fer'e, revived the suddenly long ago subsiding feelings with the form of the ordered maidenly figurine, which flickered on the wheaten field or sat by the top on the paternal mustang, by which it guided with ease and refinement of the real daughter of the West. Bud became flower, and into that yr, when John fer'e proved to be richest of the farmers, its daughter was considered as the most beautiful girl in the entire quarter deck.
Konechno, not father was first , who noted the transformation of child into the woman. Fathers generally note this rarely. Change is accomplished so gradually and elusively, that it it is not possible to determine by precise date. It does not realize even girl herself, until from the sound whose- that of voice or touch whose- that of hand not zatrepeshchet her heart and it suddenly with the pride and the fear feels that in it ripens something new and large. Rare woman will not memorize for life that trifling case, which announced to her the dawn of new life. For Lyusi Fer'e this case was by no means trifling, to say nothing of the fact that it influenced its fate and fates of many others.