Excerpt from Helen Drake Beals: A Father's Tribute Helen's second stay in the hospital covered thirteen weeks. Then, on November 17th, she was removed to her home in Stoughton, where she lingered, in increasing pain and weak ness, until Christmas week, when her wish that she might be released before Christmas was gratified, and her beautiful soul was set free. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.