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"SMILES"

A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS

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By ELIOT H. ROBINSON

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"SMILES"

A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS

BY ELIOT H. ROBINSON Author of "Man Proposes"

ILLUSTRATED BY H. WESTON TAYLOR

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Copyright, 1919, by The Page Company

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First Impression, May, 1919 Second Impression, June, 1919 Third Impression, July, 1919 Fourth Impression, August, 1919 Fifth Impression, September, 1919 Sixth Impression, October, 1919 Seventh Impression, December, 1919 Eighth Impression, February, 1920 Ninth Impression, September, 1920 Tenth Impression, August, 1921

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TO MY BOYS This Story of a Girl Who Loved Children IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

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The Keynote of Life is Love-- Lacking it, naught is worth while-- The Symbol of Service, the Cross And the Sign of Courage, A Smile.

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AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I wish to acknowledge, most gratefully, the valuable assistance rendered to me, in the preparation of the chapters dealing with the medical and hospital incidents, by Robert W. Guiler, M.D.; by Alonzo J. Shadman, M.D., to whom I am indebted for my description of the unusual operation in Chapter XXI; and by Miss Elizabeth E. Sullivan, Superintendent of Nurses at the Boston Children's Hospital. And, above all, I desire to make acknowledgment of the debt of gratitude that I owe to Mr. Henry Wightman Packer for his helpful criticism throughout the writing of this story.

ELIOT HARLOW ROBINSON.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. DONALD MACDONALD, M.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

II. ENTER BIG JERRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

III. AN INNOCENT SERPENT IN EDEN . . . . . . . . . . . 25

IV. "SMILES" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

V. GIVING AND RECEIVING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

VI. AN UNACCEPTED CHALLENGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

VII. "SMILES'" GIFT AND THE "WRITING" . . . . . . . . . 66

VIII. SOME OF SEVERAL EPISTLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

IX. THE HIGH HILLS, AND "GOD'S MAN" . . . . . . . . . 91

X. "SMILES'" CONSECRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

XI. ADOPTION BY BLOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

XII. THE THREE OF HEARTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

XIII. GATHERING CLOUDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

XIV. SOWING THE WIND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

XV. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

XVI. THE AFTERMATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

XVII. THE PARTING PLEDGE AND PASSING DAYS . . . . . . . 171

XVIII. THE ADDED BURDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

XIX. "SMILES'" APPEAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

XX. THE ANSWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

XXI. A MODERN MIRACLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

XXII. VICARIOUS ATONEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

XXIII. TWO LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

XXIV. NEW SCENES, NEW FRIENDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

XXV. THE FIRST MILESTONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

XXVI. THE CALL OF THE RED CROSS . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

XXVII. THE GOAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

XXVIII. "BUT A ROSE HAS THORNS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

XXIX. AN INTERLUDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

XXX. DONALD'S HOMECOMING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

XXXI. THE VALLEY OF INDECISION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

XXXII. THE STORM AND THE SACRIFICE . . . . . . . . . . . 341

XXXIII. WHAT THE CRICKET HEARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

XXXIV. A LOST BROTHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

XXXV. THE HALLOWED MOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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"A man and a woman--as it was in the beginning" (See Page 374) . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

"One dusty, but dainty, foot was held between her hands" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

"She was kneeling beside a low, rounded mound" . . . . . . 48

"Read the brief article twice, mechanically, and almost without understanding" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

"Holding the girl in clinging white close to him" . . . . . 347

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