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

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LIST OF 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" . . . . . 347

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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 wi