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STADEM SAGA PRESENT:

He said, "We've got to get to a telephone and call your dad."

He had the number, but we didn't have a phone yet. We had been in the cabin such a short time, from the fall until January.

Anyway, we went to Mrs. Bauer who lived down below the hill. She let us use her phone. And I called Papa. And I said, "Papa, this is Pearl, I am just calling you back."

"Oh really? You're calling me?" he said.

"Yes."

See, we never had a phone on the farm, so that was all new to him.

And he said, "Pearl, I hope that you won't have any hard feelings about anything."

"Of course not, I won't." I surely wouldn't. HE GOT THE MESSAGE! I knew right then and there, it had to have taken both Bob and Art. It wouldn't have been enough if little Joyce had been taken. It wouldn't have been enough. There had to be two."

"The 15th of January."

"I'll get on the train, and I'll get someone to take me there, and it will all work out."

When I got on the train I even saw the telegram, that I would be picked up at Bristol. Here when I got off the train, I had a smile on my face, and they couldn't get over that.

Because I was so relieved to think that Papa had made a change, and so when I got in the car they said, "You can't believe what a change has come over Papa! Oh, we just can't get over it. He's hugging people, kissing people"--which he never would have done otherwise.

God gave him the grace, and showed him, because he reminded me not to have any hard feelings. Because he told me, I knew he had got the message.

He had such love for both Bob and Art. When Bob would write, he would say, "Your pal Bob," and Papa would write, "Your pal Alf." He had the same love for Art. When I got there, he even hugged me, which he hardly ever did."