Bientôt il reconnut un Mormon du nom de Cowper auquel il avait, a plusieurs reprises rendu quelques services ; aussi l’aborda-t-il sans hésiter pour tâcher de se renseigner sur le sort de l’infortunée Lucy Ferrier.
As he approached, he recognized him as a Mormon named Cowper, to whom he had rendered services at different times. He therefore accosted him when he got up to him, with the object of finding out what Lucy Ferrier's fate had been.