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Show I am a mormon, whose life m not symbolized h the weeds of those drooping willows you see without. I gave myself up to the man I adore uuder the protecting guidance of my religious faith. I believed then, and I have no reason to relinquish that faith now. that happiness in this world and that exaltation in the world to come would follow. If I have been misguided, then the church must be responsible for it." "Then the church must tind a father for this babcf" "There is only one thing left it must legitimize it." "Tou know the father'" "f hiUubtedly." "But Groesbeck in the solemn and august presence of a court of justice denies that he is responsible for it." "Tliat's simply a plea." "Do you urge that In; is the father?" "I am urging nothing." "You are a plural?" "As you designate If yes." "Yen briicve in chastity?" "Without it a womau's life is naught." "Do you believe that chastity is deliver able In job lots f "Now you urc descending to ridicule and gentile seottlng." "Pardon uie; I was putting the question without embellshmcnt." "Then I propose to reply without emhel Ishmeut. I was made the wife under the taction of the church of a man whom 1 idolize. idol-ize. "I am a wife. "You in your gentile views may deny it. I hold thiit haunt; been converted to the belief of the church of which I am a member, that I am as a plural, as you designate it, as pure as any wife or mother iu the land. 1 have no apologies to make to mankind. If I have any It is to myself. I am a plural as any woman, but I deny that my offonso to society have extended beyond my devotion devo-tion to Nick Groesbeck. I am perfectly willing that my record ns ii mormon wife should bo compared with that of any woman in the land. This is uiy child, and if it does not go before the world as the legitimate result of a holy marriage then the doctrine of a church is responsible for it." There is scarcely an opportunity to discount dis-count the fact that Katie Iloutz is devoted to Nicholas Groesbeck, and it wan this belief that induced Ihe commissioner to hold her in the sum of if 1000 as a witness against btm. Mr. Groesbeck in his plea before Judge Zauc denies that he is the father of the child, and the ease promises to be one of the most dramatic that lias yet occurred in the courts of I'tah. WHO IS THE DADDY? A Problem as Astute as Any Ever Turned Out by Old Acquaintance Euclid, Another Dramatic Chapter in the Armours of Nick Groesbeck and His Plural Alliance. THE THIRD WIFE'S STORY. She Declines to Have Her Child go Before the World as an Illegitimate Illegiti-mate Waif. A LEGEND OF LOVE, 4She Is Not Symbolized by the Drooping Weeds of the Widow, Hot Is a Mother in all the Holy Solemnities of the Mormon Church. While Captain Greenmau has no desire whatever to extend his connubial alliances, he yesterday went "courting." Tho result of hit courtship was betrayed this morning in a thonssnd dollar bond in which Kate Hanlz, the plural of Nicholas Groesbeck was the principal. Mrs. Groesbeck has been under the weather for some time, and it is thit fact to which Mr. Groesbeck may charge his ontauglementa with the law. Mrs. Groesbeck is still in bed. A few days airo the sprung a witness on Nick, and that she herself might not lose her position in o 1c-ty, 1c-ty, made the statuesque blonde responsible for it. Nick has not yet replied to the lady's negations unless the plea of not guilty which was recently registered before Judge Zanc may lie coustrucd as a reply. In the presence of this plea the baby naturally inquires: in-quires: "Who is my papa?" This would not wisely lead to the "want" column but there is no one according to Mr. Groesbeck to wtah h to tax the "add." Mrs. Kate will be an important wit. nes In the case. She lias told the deputy United Stales marshal that Groesbeck is the tire and how to get rid of that confession without compromising her own chastity is a problem that is not easily overcome. "Pretty babe," ventured Commissioner Greeuman, with stereotyped phraseology. "Thank you sir," replied the fond mother. "Where Is the daddy? Out celebrating, I tuspect?" "His name ?" "Nick Groesbeck, I suspect." "But he denies it?" . "Never, sir." "Then court records must lie." "Thai's nothing original; they've lied be-fore." be-fore." "In any particular respect?" 'W-e-l-l, about the .natter of paternity." "Any particular ease?" "Not that I cure to mention." "You concede, however, that there are children who are skirmishing for an interest in the leeacy ?" "Well, you have heard of the spring crop nnd the Louisiana lottery. Both of them are guesses, and I suspect that I'tah Is filled with them. As for my child, I propoee that i Jt shall experience no difficulty or cmbar. ro incut iu the ideutilieation of its daddy. I |