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Title: Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross

Author: Edith Van Dyne

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Language: English

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AUNT JANE'S NIECES IN THE RED CROSS

by

EDITH VAN DYNE

Author of "Aunt Jane's Nieces Series,"
"Flying Girl Series," etc.

The Reilly & Britton Co.
Chicago

1915

[Illustration]

FOREWORD

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.

EDITH VAN DYNE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE ARRIVAL OF THE BOY 9

II THE ARRIVAL OF THE GIRL 25

III THE DECISION OF DOCTOR GYS 37

IV THE HOSPITAL SHIP 48

V NEARING THE FRAY 58

VI LITTLE MAURIE 75

VII ON THE FIRING LINE 86

VIII THE COWARD