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Authors: Susan Leigh Carlton
Chapter Seventeen
“Emily, breakfast is ready” Elizabeth called out.
Emily came into the kitchen. “I have a surprise for you.” Elizabeth said.
“What?” the little girl asked.
“You have a baby sister.”
“When did she get borned?” Emily asked.
“Last night. Your mama is in the hospital.”
“When is she coming home?” she asked.
Elizabeth said, “It will probably be four or five days.”
“Can I go to the hospital?”
“They don’t let children in the hospital unless they’re really sick.” Elizabeth said.
“Where’s Papa?”
“He’s at the hospital with your mama?”
“Is he sick?” Emily asked.
“No, he’s not sick. He’s helping take care of your mama.” He’ll come home later.
“You wanted a little sister, didn’t you?”
“Uh huh,”
“Well, now you have one. You’re a big sister, now.
“Eat your breakfast, and I’ll walk you to school,” Elizabeth said.
“Miss Mary Louise had a little girl?” the housekeeper asked.
“Yes, I came home after I was sure they were all right. Patrick called me from the hospital this morning. Both are doing well. Patrick is beside himself.
“I’m excited too. My first grandchild. I’ve waited a long time for this,” Elizabeth said.
At the hospital…
Mary Louise drifted in and out of sleep. When she opened her eyes, Patrick was there. “Did you see our daughter?” she asked.
“I did, and she’s perfect. Beautiful too. I don’t think she’s going to have red hair though.”
“I called home. Emily wasn’t awake, but I told Mom you’re both doing well.
Their first grandchild, besides Emily. I called your mother too.
“Also, Dad announced she is the last baby he will ever deliver. He delivered two generations of Palmer’s and he said that’s enough.
“You go back to sleep. Your body has been through quite an ordeal. You need to give it a chance to rebound and sleep is the best way.”
“You’ve been up most of the night. You need to rest too,” she said.
“I want to stay a while. I’ll go home later and take a nap, a bath, and shave. I want to be there when Emily gets home from school.”
Her eyes were closed. She had drifted off again, a smile on her face.
It’s been a good day. A very good day.
His eyelids drooped; he put his head on the bed and was soon fast asleep.
Patrick Carter practiced medicine into the early stages of World War 2. He was set to retire when a shortage of doctors caused him to postpone his plans.
Together Mary Louise and Patrick raised a family of four girls. Patrick and Mary Louise named their first born Ruth. Their growing family forced them to build a bigger house.
Emily graduated from Montana State University, where she met the young man who convinced her not all boys were dumb. They married after graduation. She and her husband produced a family of two girls and two boys, doted on and spoiled by their grandparents.
Carter Palmer would remain a frontier doctor for the rest of his life, his beloved wife by his side as a helpmate, lover, and his nurse. He would never be rich in the material sense due to the lack of cash money available to his patients. He was paid in kind much of the time, cattle, eggs, chickens and an occasional pig. He would sell some of them to his friend Silas for resale in the general store.
He was unable to keep his vow that Ruth would be the last baby he delivered.
He died at the age of seventy-six from pneumonia after spending two days in a drafty cabin attending a miner’s wife during a difficult birth. She and her baby survived.
Elizabeth was active in the community and in the church. She and Letty were best friends for the rest of their lives. She survived her husband by five years and was laid to eternal rest by his side, just as in life.
Charlotte and Zebulon Parsons both lived to be seventy-five years of age, with Charlotte surviving Zebulon by two weeks. Their will left the Circle P to Hiram and Mary Louise, jointly. Hiram would manage the ranch until his untimely death, at which point Mary Louise would hire a proctor to manage the operation.
Susan lives in a gated community just outside Tomball, a small Texas town, 26 miles northwest of Houston, with her husband; two toy poodles, Bobby and Charlie; and Lissie, the cat.
“The Montana Doctor’s Love” is her latest book to be published by Amazon and is the eighth volume.
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