She called me on the ’phone and asked what she was to do.
I replied, “It is Saturday, so they won’t sue you today. Your part is to act rich, thereby showing perfect faith that you will receive it by Monday.” She asked me to lunch with her to keep up her courage. When I joined her at a restaurant, I said, “This is no time to economize. Order an expensive luncheon, act as if you have already received the three thousand dollars.”
“All things whatsoever ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” “You must act as if you had already received.” “The next morning she called me on the phone and asked me to stay with her during the day. I said “No, you are divinely protected and God is never too late.”
In the evening she ’phoned again, greatly excited and said, “My dear, a miracle has happened! I was sitting in my room this morning, when the door-bell rang. I said to the maid: ‘Don’t let anyone in.’ The maid however, looked out the window and said, ‘It’s your cousin with the long white beard.’
So I said, ‘Call him back. I would like to see him.’ He was just turning the corner, when he heard the maid’s voice, and he came back.
He talked for about an hour, and just as he was leaving he said, ‘Oh, by the way, how are finances?’
I told him I needed the money, and he said, ‘Why, my dear, I will give you three thousand dollars the first of the month.’
I didn’t like to tell him I was going to be sued. What shall I do? I won’t receive it till the first of the month, and I must have it tomorrow.” I said, “I’ll keep on ‘treating.’”
