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Clara.”
    “Oh!” said Lorna, her eyes lighting up. “I know who you are. Jack Sparks has told me about you in his letters.”
    “And you’re Lorna Lee,” said Clara. “Jack has told us so much about you. We’ve been eager to meet you.”
    “We sure have,” said the pastor. “I didn’t realize you would be on the same stage with us.”
    “Well, I wouldn’t have been, but my train was delayed getting to Kansas City, so I’m running later than expected. The Fargo agent in Santa Fe told me Jack would be notified of my new arrival time.”
    “I’ll tell you this much,” said Denison, “Jack is one excited young man. He has shown your picture to everybody in the church, and I imagine by now he’s shown it to everybody in town.”
    Lorna smiled. “I’m excited too, Pastor Denison. As you well know, we both have absolute assurance that the Lord has chosen us for each other.”
    “I have counseled him from day one about the mail order bride ad, and he has shown me every letter that came in response. Claraand I have no doubt you are God’s choice for Jack.”
    “I’m so glad. Have you and Mrs. Denison been in Gallup very long?”
    “Just a week. I was preaching a revival meeting for a pastor friend of mine.”
    Lorna nodded. “Jack has told me what a great preacher his pastor is.”
    Denison’s features tinted. “Well, Jack may be a little prejudiced since I’m the one who had the privilege of leading him to the Lord.”
    Rhonda kept her eyes out the window as Lorna and the Denisons talked about Jack and their plans to marry. Lorna asked about Jack’s first approach to the pastor about putting a mail order bride ad in eastern newspapers.
    “Well, Jack came to me back in February. He said he felt it was time he was getting married, but there were no Christian young women in Mogollon who were not already engaged.” He chuckled. “Clara and I have twin daughters, Mary and Martha, who at that time, were sixteen. They’re seventeen, now. But because Clara and I had declared that our daughters could not marry until they were at least eighteen, Jack knew they were too young to consider.”
    Clara smiled at Lorna. “Jack asked my husband what he thought of the mail order bride system.”
    Rhonda flicked a glance at Clara, then looked back out the window.
    “I told him of other Christian couples I know whom the Lord had brought together by the mail order bride system,” said the pastor, “and I told him the Lord could do it for him too. I cautioned Jack to make sure he made it plain in his ad that he is a born-again man looking for a born-again bride, and to ask for her testimony of salvation when she responded to the ad.”
    “Well, he did,” said Lorna.
    Denison grinned, nodding. “He received several letters of response, Lorna. And he let Clara and me read them. Most of them were good letters, but Jack just didn’t have peace about responding to them … until your letter came. Clara and I both felt there was something special about you. Your testimony was as clear as could be, and the three of us prayed together about it. Jack had such peacethat he immediately had that picture taken in front of the hardware store and sent it with the letter.”
    “And it was some letter,” said Lorna. “Jack didn’t want to keep any secrets from me. He sent the picture because he wanted me to see the patch over his eye. He gave me pertinent information about himself and his family, and told me about getting the wound in the battle at Wilson’s Creek. He wanted me to get the full impact of his disfigurement right off and not to have to face a shock when I came to meet him. He even asked that I seriously consider his handicap before we proceeded any further.”
    “That’s Jack,” said Clara.
    “Well, I did consider it. Very seriously. My heart knew before my head did that this was the special man the Lord had reserved for me. I wrote back and told him so, and that after much prayer, I felt I should come