<TITLE>24. Par 93-96</TITLE>L-93 And I started at foot to walk. Could... I was going to get there some way. I begin to come almost beside myself. I started off. I met a man. He said, "I know who you're looking for, Billy." It was a friend of mine. Said, "You're looking for Hope, aren't you."
And I said, "Jim, you know about her?"
Said... I mean at... not at Kokomo, it's Seymour, Indiana.
He said, "She's laying up there in the Baptist church at Seymour, Indiana, dying with tuberculosis, laying by the side of my wife." And I... or "my girlfriend."
And I said, "Dying with TB?"
Said, "Yes, Bill." Said, "I hate to tell you, but you wouldn't know her."
I said, "Is the babies alive?"
Said, "I don't know nothing about the babies."
Oh, my. I said, "Oh, can we get there?"
Said, "I got a secret road." Said, "I can take you."
And we got in there late that night, in the--the basketball arena where the Baptist church was fixed up for the--the refugees to come in. And they said she was down there. And I run through there screaming top of my voice, "Hope! Hope, honey! Where are you? Where are you?" And I looked.

L-94 Oh, I will never forget that. Back over there on this old government cot, I seen a little bony hand raise up. That was my darling. I run to her real quick. I fell down at her. Those dark eyes was sunk way back in her head. She'd falling lots of weight.
I said, "Sweetheart?"
She said, "I look awful, don't I?"
I said, "No, honey. Is the babies all right?"
"Yes," she said. "Mother has the babies." Said, "Billy's been awfully sick; Sharon's a little better." And she said, "I'm awfully sick."
I started crying, I said, "God, don't--don't take her from me. Please don't, Lord."

L-95 I felt somebody touch me on the back. It was a doctor. "You're Reverend Branham?"
And I said, "Yes, sir."
"Come here just a minute." Said, "Aren't you a friend of Sam Adair?"
And I said, "Yes, sir, I am."
He said, "I hate to tell you this, Reverend Branham, but your wife's a dying." Said, "Your wife's got tubercular. Sam told me to tell you just to make her comfortable, and not to be excited around her."
I said, "She dying, doctor?" I said, "She can't, doctor. That's all. She can't do it." I said, "I love her with all my heart, and I'm a Christian." And I said, "I just--I just know she ain't going to die. I just can't think of the thoughts to think that she'd be taken away from me here, and with these two little babies, how could I stand it?"
He said, "Well, I hate to tell you, but," said, "there's nothing can be done as far as I know."

L-96 I went back to her, trying to brace myself up and talk to her. A few days we took her home. She just kept getting worse and worse and worse. Went to Louisville, and they had specialists and everything. Took her out to the hospital. Doctor Miller from the sanatorium come down and looked. He called me out to one side, said, "Reverend Branham, she's going to die." Said, "There ain't nothing can be done for her." Said, "She's--she's going to die."
I said, "Doctor Miller, honest, isn't there something I can do? Could I take her to Arizona? Could I do something for her?"
Said, "t's too late now, Billy." Said, "That--that's a... That's galloping tubercular." Said, "It--it kills them right away." Said, "Her family's had it back behind there," which I knew later that they--they did. And said, "She's just broke with it, and it's got such a hold on her." Said he'd give her pneumothorax treatments and everything. And said...


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