Election laws of the state of Montana with annotations. 1908

Hemmings traced DesirЋe's pregnancy back to the day or two before Nancy's impregnation when his angel had come to his office and he had seduced her under hypnosis. He was so proud now to be the father of DesirЋe's child that he deeply regretted not being able to boast about it all over Pickford's Meadows. Mark Denning was out of town, as usual, since he had been elected to the State Senate, and though people were trying to contact him to tell him the birth was in progress, no one had succeeded in getting through to him yet. She was only a couple of days overdue by Hemmings' calculations, but the doctor was not bothered by her husband's absence. This was his own special time with his secret love DesirЋe and his own child. Hemmings had her mildly sedated and kept her on a drip. If things became too painful for her, he could induce unconsciousness. Her legs were in the stirrups and she was gasping with the contractions, which, he knew, were coming regularly. "How're we doing, DesirЋe?" DesirЋe took a deep breath. "It's getting very uncomfortable, Doctor ...»