“ I really gave myself to God once — or thought I did,” Bill said. “ It seemed real to me. It was so real I got the notion I’d be a missionary. The folks tried to talk me out of it. ‘Go off some place and get sick and never he wo r t h an y t h i n g again,’ they said. They harped on that until I believed it. But before I believed it I tried to he a mission ary to the other kids. Like you’re being with me. Well, I was real eager for awhile. “There was this kid named Dud ley. I had the fear of God in me and worked on him night and day. It seemed I just had to get through to that kid — like all the legions of heaven were behind it — as if it was to he a spectacular conversion like Saul’s or something. And Dud ley Pendleton believed, and that’s about all there is to it. Dudley went off to some atheistic college and that was what became of all the tears and sweat I spilled for him. Oh, I believe in miracles all right, but they ain’t practical.” The name Dudley Pendleton had haunted Joey — it was like the name “Aurora Borealis” or “Horse Latitudes” — something funny about it that held you. Dudley Pen dleton would be a little man in a brown suit and wearing a derby. He’d gone to an atheistic school, Bill had said, and atheistic meant godless. But when Joey had further questioned Uncle Bill, he learned that his uncle hadn’t heard of Dudley in years. Maybe the mira cle that Uncle Bill had worked for had happened late. Like one of those clock radios you set and noth ing happens until it awakens you in the morning. A time-miracle! The idea intrigued Joey like the name “Dudley.” Dad and Uncle Bill had grown up in Grainville, Neb. Wouldn’t it be fun to write a letter to Dudley asking him to prove to Bill that a miracle had taken place; perhaps after college Dudlev had learned that what Bill had said was true. He hadn’t been aware of praying as he wrote the letter but after he stuck it in the envelope and licked the flap, he realized that he had prayed. And after his private devo tions on the ridge when he thought he had been praying for people behind the Iron Curtain, he real ized that he had really been pray-
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