<TITLE>21. Par 73-77</TITLE>L-73 So that night we walked in, and he was setting at his desk, typing out something. And I set there. And she kept nodding her head to me, you know. See, it's nine o'clock, time... I had to go home at nine o'clock. And I thought, "It's late." So I got up and I started to the door, and she looked at me kind of strange, why didn't I ask her daddy?
[Brother Branham sighs--Ed.] I done like that, and she knowed what I meant. And her mother sitting back there, doing writing, or doing something. I thought, "Oh, my, I can't ask him right here; it'd be asking them both. Then they'd have it out right here, and them I just--I'd be left blank."

L-74 So I walked to the door, and she walked over to the door with me. And--and I said, "I will come up Wednesday for church?"
And she said, "Uh-huh," and she just kept squeezing my hand.
And she pointed to her dad. I said, "Oh, I couldn't do that." I waited a little bit, I said, "Well, I got to."
I said, "Mm [Brother Branham clears his throat loudly.--Ed.] Mr.--Mr. Brumbach?"
He was typing along, you know, he said, "Yes!"
I said, "Could I speak to you out here just a minute?"
He said, "Yes, Bill, why? What do you want?"
I said, "Could I talk to you out here just a minute, Mr. Brumbach?"

L-75 And he said, "Sure." And he looked over to his wife; his wife looked over at him.
I thought, "Oh..."
So I seen Hope walk over towards her mother, so I walked out on the porch; I got out there. And I--I done got too much nervous shock then, you know. So I said...
He said, "What do you want, Bill?"
And I said, "Sure is warm tonight."
And he said, "Sure is."
And I said, "But, Charlie, it's a pretty night, ain't it?"
Said, "Yes, it is."
I said, "You know, hum, uh..." I said, "I was a..."

L-76 He said, "Yes, you can have her, Bill, you can..." I--I think a lot of him yet today.
I said, "Do you mean that I can...?"
He said, "Yes."
Oh my, took a hold of that big old fat hand of his; I said, "Charlie, look," I said, "you know I am pauper." I said, "Your girl can dress nice and everything, and I have one suit of clothes." I said, "But all my life I've been a vagabond, I've been in search for someone that I thought was a queen, one that I thought was a lady." I said, "I found that in Hope." I said, "I--I can't make her a living like you will, certainly not, Charlie, you make five hundred dollars a month and I'm making about fourteen dollars a week."

L-77 I said, "I got nine down there in the family, some of them beginning to work now," I said, "which will give me a relief. But Charlie, I thought that there was no need in me taking much more of her time. As soon as the other boys get jobs and things can help me with... take care of my mother, I will--I will do everything that I can. I will work, Charlie, as long as there's breath in my body, I will slave and do everything I can, 'cause I really love her. And I will do all that I can to be good to her. I will live true to her; I will do everything I can."
I never forget, the man's gone on now. He put that big arm around me, pulled me up close to him, just about the size of Brother Baxter. He reminds me a lot of him. He pulled me up to me like this; he said, "Billy," he said, "I'd rather you would have her on them grounds, than somebody that would mistreat her, no matter how much money he had." Said, "You'll be more happy." He said, "Happiness does not consist of how much the world's goods you own, but how contented you are with the portion that's allotted to you."
I said, "Thank you, Charlie, thank you."


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