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] |
“SMILES”
CHAPTER I
DONALD MACDONALD, M.D.
The man came to a stop, a look of humiliation and deep self-disgust on his bronzed face. With methodical care he leaned his rifle against the seamed trunk of a forest patriarch and drew the sleeve of his hunting shirt across his forehead, now glistening with beads of sweat; then, and not until then, did he relieve his injured feelings by giving voice to a short but soul-satisfying expletive.
At the sound of his deep voice the dog, which had, panting, dropped at his feet after a wild, purposeless dash through the underbrush, looked up with bright eyes whose expression conveyed both worship and a question, and, as the man bent and stroked his wiry coat, rustled the pine needles with his stubby tail.