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going to live.  I think Id better not tell mother this. So I go upstairs to tell mother to be ready to go, and as it is raining and as I have to go to paint Plunkett, mother says I'd better ride too [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] so I won't get wet.  Poor mother, it breaks my heart to see her getting ready to go.  When the car arrives Erin is in it & we all go to the sanitarium.  Mother goes in first and then I and when I approach the bed father puts out his hand and as I take it he says "Oh there's a terrible cavity" meaning the hole left in his abdomen by the operation which removes a tumor as big as the doctors say as a mans hat.  Poor man he speaks low and he looks weak as he turns his head to look at me, this noble big, generous father.  Poor mother sits down and refrains from talking for fear of using up his strength.  After seeing him I have hope of his rallying but the doctors say the kidneys are not acting and the pulse is weak & very slow.  Nan & Sadie are there and after waiting some time we all but Nan [[strikethrough]] go [[/strikethrough]] ride over to Gertie's house & I go over to Kress' studio with my portrait of Plunkett to finish it.  But P does not come.  Find Furyk there who says his father died after an operation for appendicitis.  I return home at 6 to tell Annie who is alone of father's condition and tell her to be ready

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to hear the worst.  Mother a little later arrives from the sanitarium with Gertie who hurries away immediately.  Poor mother comes in and sits down and visits - oh how it wrings my heart - poor mother - who has borne so much and who so seldom shows her grief like this, and when Annie comes down stairs, mother rises from her rocking chair and walking slowly to the kitchen  she says "Oh Annie papa's going to die."  Poor mother, poor Annie.  Annie has to go down stairs and she tells Mrs. Rosenthal who cries and laments it but says there is still a chance.  While Annie is downstairs Mother sits in her rocking chair again and I get down, near her and she [[strikethrough]] says [[/strikethrough]]"[[strikethrough]] Oh [[/strikethrough]] sobs "Oh papa, oh that great big fellow, to see [[strikethrough]] how [[/strikethrough]] him go, oh I never thought I'd I'm to see him die."  I tell mother I'll try to get word to Les & by telephone I finally get his address 312 Asylum St and go down there to leave word so he

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