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A Sister of the Red Cross (pre-title page)
A SISTER OF THE RED CROSS
A TALE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.
BY MRS. L. T. MEADE
LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS
CONTENTS
I. Consecration
II. Music
III. Kitty's Dream
IV. The Concert
V. A Legacy
VI. A Trying Position
VII. Confidences
VIII. The Purse Mark K. H.
IX. Katherine Hunt
X. You Talk in Riddles
XI. The Fancy Ball
XII. Katherine Hunt's Strategy
XIII. Kitty's Proposal
XIV. Away to the Wars
XV. The Girl had Kitty's Face
XVI. Welcome Her, won't You?
XVII. Major Strause
XVIII. Peace after Storm
XIX. In the Hospital
XX. Private Lawson
XXI. Kitty's Request
XXII. Mollie's Persecutor
XXIII. Dark Days
XXIV. True to her Promise
XXV. Stunned
XXVI. The Caves
XXVII. The Great Excitement
XXVIII. "He that loseth his life shall find it"
A SISTER OF THE RED CROSS.
CHAPTER I.
CONSECRATION.
Sister Mollie Hepworth wastwenty-five years of age. Shehad just completed along and exhaustivetraining as a nurse. Shehad served her timein the LondonHospital, entering as aprobationer, and finallybeing promoted to theproud position of award sister. She hadthen undergone aperiod of six months'probation at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, asher dream of all dreams was to nurse our soldiersin their hours of danger and death.
Mollie was a bright-looking, handsome girl. Hereyes were brown and well opened; she had a healthycolour in her cheeks; and she held herself as uprightas any soldier in Her Majesty's army.