Arizona republican., 1901-03-18
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Nluly described.
 At the end of a week he told her she must go to bed: that the pains in her back (she had erfelt any pains there before) were but forerunners of dia- betes. He said the severe ache at the base of her brain (she had never had an ache there in her life before but 1t be- gan as he spoke). was but premoni- tory symptom of brain fever. Her heart Ut beganto fiutter) was badly af- fected, and her digestive organs (she had never had an hours discomfort from them in twenty years) were all most entirely worn out.
 She begun to fancy herself very sick woman and took to her bed, and allowed him to call in a doctor. The great man came, examined her pulse looked at her tongue, placed his ear against her heart, talked low and sad ly. used big words. shook his bushy head and looked as wise as an owl; as he was.
 Then Billie buttonholed him and led him to a corner of the room, where they sat on chairs drawn close togeth- CT. They talked in whispers for long time, every little while looking pity ingly toward her, and her Billies eyes were red and his nose troubled him a great deal.
 When the wise man left he placed a Cong row of bottled tonics to be taken three or four times a day; very bitter powder to be swallowed in jam just be- fore meals; black looking liquid to be taken just after eating: a box Of nauseating pills for the liver; mustard plasters for the back and several other things for other organs of the body.
 Mrs. Black decided she was very sick woman, indeed.
 She grew rapidly worse from that day. Billie proved himself to be the best man in the world. He would sit for hours by her side. talking and read ing. It was the strangest thing how ne could diagnose her case, He seemed to know exactly how she felt, and the seat of every individual pain and acne. And when she wondered at his knowl- edge he allayed her curiosity by telling her that her case was precisely like that of another woman he had known who had died in three weeks; no one had ever, in the whole hostory of med ical science. been known to recover. That was what made him 50 sad. he said. He knew she would die; no man in the world could save her; she was doomed And his voice would be full of tears and tremu!ous little quavers. as he told her how lonesome he would be. How he wished he was going in her stead; or. better yet. how he wish ed they could go together.
 And his sorrow was so sincere she felt great deal sorrier for him than for herself, and thought the creator very cruel to leave him so. Poor Billie!
 He often spoke of Vahatha. wiiGt would become of her? What would she do? Her own father was as crazy as loon. and now her mother was to be .ta- ken, too. What a cruel, cruer fate. He could not imagine how they would live when she. their prop and stay, was ta ken away. He had big mind to shoot himself. so he had. Existence without her was worse than he'll
 And so the days went by and each day she felt herself nearer the grave. Yet she did not feel i'll. and she had no pain. except when her husband was with her and described her ailments. She knew she was sick, of course: for Billie, who knew all things. said so. She knew she would soon die because Billie had told her she would, and Bill lie knew. This conviction was like bullet in the body that could not be probed or located, yet gradually and