Heart's Kindred — Zona Gale

Heart's Kindred was published during WW I, but it is a peace book, climaxed with a scene in which women present their view of war at a peace gathering. The hero, who has left his California mine to enlist in some army, any army, hears the women and realizes that killing is not the chief end of man.Those who like Miss Gale's prior stories will be surprised by her use of a gun fight in a western town that requires the hero to leave. He takes with him Jem Moor, the young woman who has refused to barter herself for an old debt her father's (based on The Continent, November 18, 1915).