midnight
He found himself in this long walk full of a pained discouragement ; not questioning or doubting , for he had been too well trained ever to do either . But he was disturbed by a feeling of bafflement , as might be a ground-mole whose burrow was continually destroyed by an enemy it could not see . This feeling had begun in Salt Lake City , for there he had seen that the house of Israel was no longer unspotted of the world . Since the army with its camp-followers had come there was drunkenness and vice , the streets resounded with strange oaths , and the midnight murder was common . Even Brigham seemed to have become a gainsayer in behalf of Mammon , and the people , quick to follow his lead , were indulging in ungodly trade with Gentiles ; even with the army that had come to invade them . And more and more the Gentiles were coming in . He heard strange tales of the new facilities afforded them .