Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
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Baum Lyman Frank. Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
CHAPTER I. THE ARRIVAL OF THE BOY
CHAPTER II. THE ARRIVAL OF THE GIRL
CHAPTER III. THE DECISION OF DOCTOR GYS
CHAPTER IV. THE HOSPITAL SHIP
CHAPTER V. NEARING THE FRAY
CHAPTER VI. LITTLE MAURIE
CHAPTER VII. ON THE FIRING LINE
CHAPTER VIII. THE COWARD
CHAPTER IX. COURAGE, OR PHILOSOPHY?
CHAPTER X. THE WAR'S VICTIMS
CHAPTER XI. PATSY IS DEFIANT
CHAPTER XII. THE OTHER SIDE
CHAPTER XIII. TARDY JUSTICE
CHAPTER XIV. FOUND AT LAST
CHAPTER XV. DR. GYS SURPRISES HIMSELF
CHAPTER XVI. CLARETTE
CHAPTER XVII. PERPLEXING PROBLEMS
CHAPTER XVIII. A QUESTION OF LOYALTY
CHAPTER XIX. THE CAPTURE
CHAPTER XX. THE DUNES
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"What's the news, Uncle?" asked Miss Patricia Doyle, as she entered the cosy breakfast room of a suite of apartments in Willing Square. Even as she spoke she pecked a little kiss on the forehead of the chubby man addressed as "Uncle" – none other, if you please, than the famous and eccentric multi-millionaire known in Wall Street as John Merrick – and sat down to pour the coffee.
There was energy in her method of doing this simple duty, an indication of suppressed vitality that conveyed the idea that here was a girl accustomed to action. And she fitted well into the homely scene: short and somewhat "squatty" of form, red-haired, freckle-faced and pug-nosed. Wholesome rather than beautiful was Patsy Doyle, but if you caught a glimpse of her dancing blue eyes you straightway forgot her lesser charms.
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"Oh, Ajo!" protested Patsy. "Is this the way to retain the friendship of New Yorkers?"
"Isn't honesty appreciated here?" he wanted to know.
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