Now--I am lost--what is it ?--your father and mother have left the church, and because of what ?" "Because of bad things, because of this doctrine they practise--this wickedness of spiritual wives, plural wives.

Think of it, Joel--that if I were your wife you might take another." "I need not think of it.

Surely you know my love.

You know I could not do that.

Indeed I have heard at last that this doctrine so long gossiped of is a true one.