Baba if He would return to Myrtle Beach, He replied, "It all depends on My wishes. I might come here in future and stay for a longer time."

After these notes were read out by Bili and copies given to all present, Baba went on in jest: "There's this trouble about 'an old man of 62!' So, if Kirpal Singh is 62, and can be called an old man, then I should be called an old man also!"

Laughter . . . someone called, "Baba is 63 years young," to which He replied, "I am very ancient. I am the Ancient One."

He turned then to Doctor Hayman and said, "Ben, you and I are young!"

No TV men of course, had yet arrived, so we followed the Master over to the reception barn. He drove over in the car, and some followed that road and were late in entering the barn. The skies threatened rain and Baba invited everyone into the barn.

During a lull, the Beloved again asked Adele and Beryl to read their parts of the letter to Him—at last the Perfect One was perfectly satisfied!

The skies overhead began to darken, and as no TV men had yet appeared, Baba instructed Charmian to drive to the airport and wait for them there, and asked Mrs. Duce, in another car, to alternately remain posted at the gateway to the Center for 15 minutes and then for 15 minutes at the barn. Don Stevens had been trying all morning to get Mr. Carvalho on the phone in Washington to learn what had happened to them all. Actually, they had some hair-raising misadventures. Due to engine trouble at the Washington airport, their plane was cancelled and Bernie Carvalho contacted 26 private companies before he found one which would loan him a small private plane. The TV men had to abandon most of their heavy equipment and flew through the very worst of the storm on the way to Myrtle Beach. Bernie, an air force pilot with over 200 missions to his credit, took over the controls himself, in rugged determination to get through. Baba's words to Ivy Duce early that morning had come true. He had told her, in regard to the TV program filming, that He would either make it go smoothly, or "put some friction into it."

While we waited, Baba "talked" to us informally as we sat about Him in a circle on chairs and on the floor. He said: