Gold Country Nurse — Ethel Bangert

After having worked in an old hospital in Sacramento, dark-haired Regina Norman was anxious to take on the task of nurse in a lumber mill in Cary's Gulch, a small gold-mining town. Regina had the idea that her life would now be easier and less frenzied in this kind of setting. At least that was how she felt until she met Vicenzo London, the hard-headed old mill owner whom the whole town disliked. Vicenzo even objected to his nurse's helping out the one doctor in town--even though that doctor was engaged to his daughter, Sherry.

It didn't take Regina long to discover that Sean MacManus was as good a doctor as he was handsome, and she secretly yearned for the occasions when Sean visited the mill--all the time telling herself that she was heading for heartbreak in being so attracted to an engaged man. No wedding date had been set, and for some reason both Sean and Sherry were not anxious to do so.

Regina did have one distraction from her ministrations to the mill hands and her interest in Sam. Jim Murray was a former flier whose blond good looks and nice ways made him a welcome friend; he was trying to revitalize Cary's Gulch by buying the old Victorian house in which Regina boarded and turning it into a plush hotel.

When Vicenzo London suffered a heart attack, the mill hands decided it was a good time to call a strike. As if these were not enough to contend with, Sherry made up her mind not to marry Sean--and Regina thought that at least the path to Sean's heart was clear.