The Press., 1915-02-17

worse He would not have doctors to
 visit him, because hl had becn told
 that they could do him no good. Dr. 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 na- ture of his disease, but the doctor con-
 vinced him that it was better for him
 to remain ill ignorance of it. 1 One day Mrs. Underhill received a 1 note from Dr. Franklin asking her to
 bring her husband to his office Many i 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 valid, giving him to understand that the relief was expected to be only 1 temporary. Any relief was accepta-
 ble, and, ordering a car, George was
 carried to the physicians office. ! Dr. Franklin covered his neck with sheet lead with hole ill it large enough to admit the swelling. What l else he did George could not see. and, as for Lucy, she did not understand | what it meant The doctor was bring I 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. Franklins office. and the swelling on the patients neck began to recede, and after awhile it became diminutive. 1 Then one day Lucy took up morning | newspaper and read to her husband an l item of news. It was an announcement that the radium rays had been brought l to bear on cancer and that the disease had been in certain cases undoubtedly 1 interrupted. Whether or not radium
 would permanently cure it the opera l tors had not considered themselves prepared to announce.
 Lucy" said George, looking at his
 wife with hope lighting his eye, 'I
 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 physicians: | Doctor, my husband has cancer, and
 a cure has been found"
 "Who told you that?"
 "The newspapers"
 "Well," replied the doctor thought
 fully, i've are not yet ready to an
 nounce that we have found a cure, but
 we feel very hopeful"
 You mean you are certain, but you won't say so for fear of raising false
 expectations
 l We're pretty well satisfied that ra-
 dium is death to the cancer scourge." | The Underhi.ls left the doctors of
 flee d happy couple. Their visits to | the doctor were continued, and with
 the continuance of the treatment the swelling returned to it's 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 1 married you to l help spend? We haven't used half the 1 income"
 That's just what l was thinking | about. I fancy I 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,"
 Well do it. By the bye, sweetheart.
 my trouble just came in time to pre- l vent you having to spend our fortune alone"
 "It wouldn't have been half the fun. l would it?''
 "I don't suppose it would" She gave him a kiss. after which | he wrote ;t note to d Steamship cUm-
 pany asking for room on the vessel to
 sail that day two weeks and to his l banker for letter of credit. They sailed in February for a trip
 to Naples and other Italian cities, and
 before their departure so great had be- come the confidence by the medical
 profession that efforts were being made
 b preserve the radium producing grounds in the United States for the benefit of the sufferers of the dread dis ease. which has always been one of the scourges of humanity.
 And now George and Lucy Underhill are touring in Europe, but the money they were married purposely to devote to keeping up the husbands spirits is
 not needed They have all the com forts and luxuries they require with out encroaching on their capital.