The Creighton Chronicle, Vol. 1: December 15, 1909 (Classic Reprint)

Name: The Creighton Chronicle, Vol. 1: December 15, 1909 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Creighton Chronicle<br/><br/>At a local hospital very recently, a woman, past middle age, was dying. She had come some weeks before to have an operation performed as a final chance for recovery from an insidious disease. The Operation had been unavailing. She had a little property, including some real estate, and desired to make a will. An attorney was called in. He found the woman in a ward, surrounded by four others in various stages of illness. There she lay, moaning in the agony of weakness, a nurse silently administering to her needs, her husband and brother bending over her in grief. Death was a matter of hours, possibly of minutes. The lawyer was loath to profane this hallowed scene of death by the presence of a stranger, by the cold introduction of business; to snatch away these precious moments which should have been devoted to lingering farewells with dear ones and preparation for the solemn moment so close at hand. But his duty stood opposite his inclination and with great difficulty the woman made clear her wishes, and these, in a race with death, were drafted into the form of a will. And then, once more the woman must be disturbed to exe cute the document. A few hours later she was dead.

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Number of Pages:: 48
Release Date:: 2017-11-11
Publication Date:: 2017-11-11
Publisher:: Forgotten Books
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0260804002

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