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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Unbegotten Child, by Winston Marks This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Unbegotten Child Author: Winston Marks Illustrator: Vidmer Release Date: April 27, 2010 [EBook #32149] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNBEGOTTEN CHILD *** Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction November 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. unbegotten child By WINSTON MARKS Illustrated by VIDMER _If this was true, there ought to be another edition of What Every Young Girl Should Know!_ * * * * * "What," she demanded, sitting bolt upright in the hospital bed, "has happened to the medical world? In Italy, they tell me I have an abdominal tumor. In Paris, it's cancer. And now you fat-heads are trying to tell me I'm pregnant!" I stuffed my stethoscope into my jacket pocket and tried to pat her hand. "Take it easy, Mrs. Caffey--" "It's _Miss Caffey_, damn you," she said snatching her hand away, "and better I should have gone to an astrologer!" [Illustration] "See here, now," I said, letting a stern note enter my voice. "You came here requesting a verification of the malignancy of this growth. Our discovery of a six month foetus is a fact, not an accusation." "Look, Buster, I'm a thirty-six-year-old spinster. Like the joke goes, I haven't been married _or anything_. Also, I knew about the birds and the bees before you were emptying bedpans. Now will you get off this subject of babies and find out whether it's safe for me to start any continued stories?" * * * * * Such protestations from unmarried mothers were not uncommon, but Sara Caffey's cold convictions were unshakable. She sank back into her seven satin pillows and sighed mightily. Her wide-spaced, intelligent
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