The glory trail
Publisher: Rae D. Henkle
Published: 1931
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Description: The principal characters are three - Mary Malvern, a beautiful girl who has been kept at home in a mountain village by ties and duties there, though her musical talent has often filled her with wistful longing to follow the road to the far off city; Daniel Gordon, a surgeon famous, and at the head of his own hospital at 36, but driven by a nervous breakdown to leave the city behind and bury himself among the peaceful, healing hills; and blind Peter Piper, a foundling left in babyhood on the doorstep of a mountain home where there are already so many children that the family has willingly allowed Mary Malvern, its neighbor, the fill the role of mother and teacher... -- Excerpt from "The Glory Trial: How the Mountains Make Love Grow Big and Strong," a book review from the Boston Herald.