Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-07-30
THE CONSEQUENCES.
By ALICE MACK.

brave eyes and slowly pronounced her
sentence.
The operation must take place within
Il few days Or
"Or what"
81 may be too late to operate at all.
And will get through it safely"
Il hope So
'You are not sure. You think there is
a risk"
There is always a risk III every opera
ton be answered evaSively.
Tell me the truth, doctor; 1 can bear
it,"
The old man looked into the desperate
eyes and put his hand gently on the wom-
ans shoulder.
You are a brave woman. | will tell
you the truth. This operation will be
very serious one iii fact, there is only
chance that you will survive it. But
there is Il chance. and for the sake of it
YOU must not lose heart
Couldn't | wait till next month--just
for a few weeks longer: IL surely would
not make any difference ii il was post
poncd till then.
My child the doctor answered. If
we postpone it for few weeks, for even
one week, YOU will lose your one chance
of recovery Besides. you will suffer
such agony that your life will be unbear-
able. Let me advise YOU and make up
your mind to 60 through ii Immediately"
Immediately"
Within the next few days You must
90 into the hospital tomorrow to be pre-
pared Cor it,
Then he explained the arrangements he
would make for ner, and after listening
N dazed hail stupid fashion, Elizabeth
aid Goodbye to him and YEARLY went
out in the cold and darkness of the De
cember evening.
She drove along in hanson with tears
running down her white checks. and her
heart rebelling ut the cruel hand of fate
that had so unsparingly dealt her this
blow. Had she deserved it? Was this
trial sent 10 her because She hal set one
man upon Il pedestal and worshipped him
To the exclusion of the whole world? Or
was 1t because She like fool, had thrust
away with laughing eyes the happiness
that had been held out to her, and the
gods had guessed it was only freak,
and were furnishing her because she in
SOlently played with the best thing they
had To give: Six months ago, when
David Moore had started to tell her how
dear she was to him she had stopped
him with Il laugh and had warned him
"
turned from abroad before he decided
that she was the only woman in the
world She did not know why she had
done it: why when her heart was crav-
fng for his love, she had coquetted and
wdrdcd him Off. But right deep down
she knew that it was for his own sake.
TO give him fair chance of seeing other
younger ana more beautiful women, be-
fore She let him tell her that she was the
best Of all.
IN bc back in six months, Elizabeth,
ne sad. holding her hands tightly. and
looking into the sweet gray eyes. I'm
. come straight 10 YOU. You will listen
. 10 me then; Won viii then believe that
| am IA "urncSt. And 50 he left her.
And now the six months were ut an
/ end. Ton that morning a telegram had
come telling her of his arrival in Eng
/ land. and to expect to see him tonight.
She had lived every hour OF her life
/ IN these months for David; everything
/ 81" did was for his sake-was TO please
nm. And now, when the time had really
/ come. and he would be with her in few
/ hours. She must gather up her strength
/ ana send him away without Il word of
I love without sign of regret.
I II was because the pain had waged SO
merely through the night that She
/ determined to 90 to Il doctor to beg for
something 20 give her relief for the time
! her srntr,cr nron,,,n-.oJ "N'' "''N nav
/ Although he boJ no+ ao,,ol,, so;l
EIigabrtL ,,ncsIn5 ,h ho, "C,u"';I Snlu 81;
survive The "nerat;c ,,1", . ,'Vm ,, !, S,e az
w. NVHN' 1'I'c3le woman. And III her
/ 0nn hn,,, - '' ,"vl I', I" I''f'ice even
~ W., joy me f"old never bear
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