CHAPTER XII.
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH .-- AGE, 24, 25.
Mother was suffering when I reached her, as I had not dreamed of.

After a consultation, Drs.

Gazzam and Fahnestock thought she could not live more than four weeks; but Spear said she might linger three months.

This blanched the cheek of each one.

Three months of such unremitting pain, steadily on the increase, was appalling; but mother faced the prospect without a murmur, willing to bear by God's grace what He should inflict, and to wait His good time for deliverance.