r, 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