“SMILES”
A ROSE OF THE CUMBERLANDS

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 THE PAGE COMPANY BOSTON PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1919, by
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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

TO MY BOYS
THIS STORY OF A GIRL
WHO LOVED CHILDREN
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

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.

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.

Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
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[121]
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]

Illustrations

PAGE
"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"[346]

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