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Show 336 is alleged to have committed sexual intercourse with Sister Kline." Rowbotham shifted uncomfortably, removed his glasses and put them back on. Lorin was sitting with his elbows on the table, his upper lip pressed against his clasped fists, staring at the slowly winding reels of the tape recorder. He glanced up as Rowbotham paused and saw the mission president looking at him with hurt eyes. One of the men to his left was examining a thumbnail. Another was looking out the window. The others sat with bowed heads and open eyes, listening. "It's further alleged," said Elder Rowbotham into his palm, "that the next day, his companion still in the hospital, Elder Hood returned to the home of Brother and Sister Kline and committed the act of sexual relations again. And it's further alleged that the following day, after his companion was back home from the hospital, that Elder Hood left his companion during the day on the pretext of doing laundry, drove his companion's car to the Kline home, and had a sexual relationship with the aforementioned Sister Kline again." Rowbotham coughed, and Lorin looked up. Elder Warnick's forehead was shiny. The mission president had slumped down in his chair, his elbows resting on its arms, and was pressing his own clenched hands against his upper lip. His gaze fell just short of Lorin. "The following Monday," Rowbotham continued, "upon returning to his own residence with his companion after spending the morning tracting, his companion still being ill from his spell of food poisoning, Elder Hood left his companion alone and returned to Brother and Sister Kline's home, and there had a further act of adultery, and it was at this time that the young lady's husband, that is Brother Kline, came home and the act was discovered." Rowbotham removed his glasses and set them on the table. He tapped the edge of his sheaf of papers on the table to straighten them |
