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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
AUNT JANE'S NIECES IN THE RED CROSS
FOREWORD
This is the story of how three brave American girls sacrificed thecomforts and luxuries of home to go abroad and nurse the woundedsoldiers of a foreign war.
I wish I might have depicted more gently the scenes in hospital and onbattlefield, but it is well that my girl readers should realizesomething of the horrors of war, that they may unite with heart and soulin earnest appeal for universal, lasting Peace and the future abolitionof all deadly strife.
Except to locate the scenes of my heroines' labors, no attempt has beenmade to describe technically or historically any phase of the greatEuropean war.
The character of Doctor Gys is not greatly exaggerated but had itscounterpart in real life. As for the little Belgian who had no room forscruples in his active brain, his story was related to me by an Americanwar correspondent who vouched for its truth. The other persona in thestory are known to those who have followed their adventures in otherbooks of the "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series.
Edith van Dyne