Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
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Author of Aunt Jane's Nieces Series, Flying Girl Series, etc.
The Reilly & Britton Co. Chicago
1915
AUNT JANE'S NIECES IN THE RED CROSS
This is the story of how three brave American girls sacrificed the comforts and luxuries of home to go abroad and nurse the wounded soldiers of a foreign war.
I wish I might have depicted more gently the scenes in hospital and on battlefield, but it is well that my girl readers should realize something of the horrors of war, that they may unite with heart and soul in earnest appeal for universal, lasting Peace and the future abolition of all deadly strife.
Except to locate the scenes of my heroines' labors, no attempt has been made to describe technically or historically any phase of the great European war.
The character of Doctor Gys is not greatly exaggerated but had its counterpart in real life. As for the little Belgian who had no room for scruples in his active brain, his story was related to me by an American war correspondent who vouched for its truth. The other persona in the story are known to those who have followed their adventures in other books of the Aunt Jane's Nieces series.
L. Frank Baum
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Edith Van Dyne
FOREWORD
CONTENTS
Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
CHAPTER I
THE ARRIVAL OF THE BOY
THE ARRIVAL OF THE GIRL
THE DECISION OF DOCTOR GYS
THE HOSPITAL SHIP
NEARING THE FRAY
LITTLE MAURIE
ON THE FIRING LINE
THE COWARD
COURAGE, OR PHILOSOPHY?
THE WAR'S VICTIMS
PATSY IS DEFIANT
THE OTHER SIDE
TARDY JUSTICE
FOUND AT LAST
DR. GYS SURPRISES HIMSELF
CLARETTE
PERPLEXING PROBLEMS
A QUESTION OF LOYALTY
THE CAPTURE
THE DUNES