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do this without her discovering that it

sympathetic. but sympathy in dealing
with sufferer is a good fault and
George would have rather had her
sympathetic than cold. But his swell
ing grew larger and panied him. and
he needed devotion as an invalid rath-
er than a spender of money For
awhile after their marriage they spent
money like water In this George
found his wife all that was to be de-
sired But his sufferings gradually in
creased, and he was obliged to give up
pleasure seeking.
We can never tell for what persons
are fitted until they are tried Lucy,
Of whom her husband had expected
nothing as a nurse, rose to the ocea-
sion. Her sunny disposition proved a
great comfort to him. When he was
much cast down, instead of speaking
words of encouragement which she did
not feel she wept with him. This did
him more good than telling him what
he knew was false, and he would say
to himself: poor little girl. She suf-
fers for me more than suffer.
uuSt brace up lOT uei saihc.
Georges condition grew gradually
worse. He would not have doctors to
visit him, because he had been told
that they could do him no good. DIR.
Franklin came to see him occasionally
and was now and then called in to
effect some temporary relief. George
asked him one day to tell him the ma
ture of his disease, but the doctor con-
WINGED him that it was better for him
to remain in ignorance of it.
One day Mrs. Underhill received
note from DR. Franklin asking her to
bring her husband to his office. Many
cures were being announced for differ
ent diseases by Investigators, but most
of them excited wild hopes only to be
crushed. A cure for her husbands dis
ease had been discovered which-at any
rate, in certain cases-gave temporary
relief. She might tell this to the in
valid, giving him to understand that
the relief was expected to be only
temporary. Any relief was accepta-
BILE, and, ordering a car, George was
carried to the physicians Office.
DIR. Franklin covered his neck with
sheet lead with a hole in it large
enough to admit the swelling. What
else he did George could not see. and,
as for Lucy. she did not understand
what it meant The doctor was bring
ing to bear upon the swelling some in
visible current but what it was she
could not know without an altogether
uncommon scientific knowledge.
Several visits were made to DR..
Franklin's office, and the swelling on
the patients neck began to recede, and
after awhile it became diminutiye.
Then one day Lucy took up morning
newspaper and read to her husband an
item Of news. 1t was an announcement
that the radium rays had been brought
to bear on cancer and that the disease
had been in certain cases undoubtedly
interrupted Whether or not radium
would permanently cure it the opera
tors had not considered themselves
prepared to announce.
Lucy" said George. looking at his
wife with hope lighting his eye, Il
shouldn't wonder If that's what my
trouble is, and DR.. Franklin is apply
ing radium in my case
I'm sure it isr' cried the wife with
that impulsive embrace which was her
treatment for both good and bad con-
ditions
George was to visit the doctor that
morning. When he and his wife reached
the office Lucy said to the physician:
Doctor, my husband has cancer, and
a cure has been found"
"Who told you that?"
''The newspapers"
WELL replied the doctor thought
fully. 1--WE are not yet ready to an
we feel very hopeful
You mean you are certain, but you
won't say so for fear of raising false
expectations"
We're pretty well satisfied that IA
dunn is death to the cancer scourge."
The Underhi.ls left the doctors Of
fee happy couple. Their visits to
the doctor We're continued, and with
the continuance of the treatment the
swelling returned to its original size.
When it had almost entirely disappear
ed Lucy said to her husband one day:
George, don't you think it time We
were beginning to get rid of some of
this property that | married you to
help spend? We haven't used half the
income"
That's just what l was thinking
about l fancy | can keep up the
treatment as well in one city as an
other. Suppose we go abroad?"
Its just the time. of year to go, es-
pecially to Italy"
We'll do it. By the bye, sweetheart,
this discovery of radium as a cure for
my trouble just came in time to pre-
vent you having to spend our fortune
alone"
'Tt wouldn't have been half the fun,
would it?"
81 don't suppose ii would"