'Smiles': A Rose of the Cumberlands
“SMILES” A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS
Copyright, 1919, by The Page Company
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
All rights reserved
TO MY BOYS THIS STORY OF A GIRL WHO LOVED CHILDREN IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
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.
“SMILES”
Eliot H. Robinson
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CHAPTER I
DONALD MACDONALD, M.D.
CHAPTER II
ENTER BIG JERRY
CHAPTER III
AN INNOCENT SERPENT IN EDEN
CHAPTER IV
"SMILES"
CHAPTER V
GIVING AND RECEIVING
CHAPTER VI
AN UNACCEPTED CHALLENGE
CHAPTER VII
"SMILES'" GIFT: AND THE "WRITING"
CHAPTER VIII
SOME OF SEVERAL EPISTLES
CHAPTER IX
THE HIGH HILLS, AND "GOD'S MAN"
CHAPTER X
"SMILES'" CONSECRATION
CHAPTER XI
ADOPTION BY BLOOD
CHAPTER XII
THE THREE OF HEARTS
CHAPTER XIII
GATHERING CLOUDS
CHAPTER XIV
SOWING THE WIND
CHAPTER XV
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND
CHAPTER XVI
THE AFTERMATH
CHAPTER XVII
THE PARTING PLEDGE AND PASSING DAYS
CHAPTER XVIII
THE ADDED BURDEN
CHAPTER XIX
"SMILES'" APPEAL
CHAPTER XX
THE ANSWER
CHAPTER XXI
A MODERN MIRACLE
CHAPTER XXII
VICARIOUS ATONEMENT
CHAPTER XXIII
TWO LETTERS
CHAPTER XXIV
NEW SCENES, NEW FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXV
THE FIRST MILESTONE
CHAPTER XXVI
THE CALL OF THE RED CROSS
CHAPTER XXVII
THE GOAL
CHAPTER XXVIII
"BUT A ROSE HAS THORNS"
CHAPTER XXIX
AN INTERLUDE
CHAPTER XXX
DONALD'S HOMECOMING
CHAPTER XXXI
THE VALLEY OF INDECISION
CHAPTER XXXII
THE STORM AND THE SACRIFICE
CHAPTER XXXIII
WHAT THE CRICKET HEARD
CHAPTER XXXIV
A LOST BROTHER
CHAPTER XXXV
THE HALLOWED MOON