| 356 "Q-Did he not hold marital relation with women other than yourself?
"A.-He did not have improper relations with any woman that ever came to my knowledge.
"Q.-Was there nothing about spiritual wives that you recollect?
"A.-At one time my husband came to me and asked me if I had heard certain rumors about spiritual marriages, or anything of the kind; and assured me that if I had, that they were without foundation; that there was no such doctrine, and never should be with his knowledge, or consent. I know that he had no other wife or wives than myself, in any sense, either spiritual or otherwise.
"Q.-What of the truth of Mormonism?
"A.-I know Mormonism to be the truth; and believe the church to have been established by divine direction. I have complete faith in it. In writing for your father I frequently wrote day after day, often sitting at the table close by him, he sitting with his face buried in his hat, with the stone in it, and dictating hour after hour with nothing between us.
"Q.-Had he not a book or manuscript from which he read or dictated to you?
"A.-He had neither manuscript nor book to read from.
"Q.-Could he not have had, and you not know it?
"A.-If he had had anything of the kind he could not have concealed it from me.
"Q.-Are you sure that he had the plates at the time you were writing for him?
"A.-The plates often lay on the table without any attempt at concealment, wrapped in a small linen tablecloth, which I had given him to fold them in. I once felt of the plates, as they thus lay on the table, tracing their outline and shape. They seemed to be pliable like thick paper, and would rustle with a metallic sound when the edges were moved by the thumb, as one does sometimes thumb the edges of a book.
"Q.-Where did Father and Oliver Cowdery write?
"A.-Oliver Cowdery and your father wrote in the room where I was at work.
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