Heaven’s My Destination

Contents

Foreword by J. D. McClatchy

Chapter 1: George Brush tries to save some souls in Texas and Oklahoma. Doremus Blodgett and Margie McCoy. Thoughts on arriving at the age of twenty-three. Brush draws his savings from the bank. His criminal record: Incarceration No. 2.

Chapter 2: Oklahoma City. Chiefly conversation. The adventure in the barn. Margie McCoy gives some advice.

Chapter 3: Good times at Camp Morgan. Dick Roberts’ nightmares. Dinner with Mississippi Corey.

Chapter 4: Further good times at Camp Morgan. Important conversation with a girl named Jessie Mayhew. Dick Roberts’ nightmares concluded. George Brush refuses some money.

Chapter 5: Kansas City. Queenie’s boarding-house. First word of Father Pasziewski. George Brush drunk and disorderly.

Chapter 6: Kansas City. Sunday dinner at Ma Crofut’s. More news of Father Pasziewski. A moment of dejection in a Kansas City hospital.

Chapter 7: Three adventures of varying educational importance: the evangelist; the medium; first steps in ahimsa.

Chapter 8: Kansas City. The courting of Roberta Weyerhauser. Herb’s legacies.

Chapter 9: Ozarksville, Missouri. Rhoda May Gruber. Mrs. Efrim’s hold-up man. George Brush’s criminal record: Incarceration No. 3.

Chapter 10: Ozarksville, Missouri. George Brush meets a great man and learns something of importance about himself. The trial.

Chapter 11: A road in Missouri. Chiefly conversation, including the account of a religious conversion. George Brush again sins against ahimsa.

Chapter 12: Kansas City. Serious conversation in a park. A wedding. Practically an American home.

Chapter 13: George Brush loses something. Last news of Father Pasziewski. Thoughts on arriving at the age of twenty-four.

A Nephew’s Note to a New Edition

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Thornton Wilder

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