Sue Barton Rural Nurse — Helen Dore Boylston

At twenty-three, Sue Barton was a high-spirited and courageous young nurse with a temper that matched her red hair. She had graduated from a great metropolitan hospital, served with distinction in the Henry Street Settlement in New York, and incidentally she had fallen in love with Dr. Bill Barry, whom she had first known as an interne [sic].

Sue loved her work in the wards, the discipline and efficiency of the operating room and the friendships she had won among her patients. When Dr. Bill first proposed, Sue felt that she could not give up her professional life. But Bill was persistent and at last she decided to marry him and to help him with his country practice.

But the marriage has to be postponed, Bill becomes an object of hostility, a typhoid epidemic which he cannot control threatens his reputation, and Sue suddenly finds herself fighting tooth and nail with all the courage and training at her command to save the man she loves. Here is a story of the nursing career, with the excitement, the laughter, and the authenticity which have distinguished the earlier Sue Barton books.

NURSE BARTON AND DOCTOR BARRY TOGETHER FACE A TERRIBLE TYPHOID EPIDEMIC…

It would have been easy for 23-year-old Sue Barton to accept Dr. Bill Barry's proposal of marriage. Sue knew without question that she would always love and respect Bill. Yet her own career seemed to important, the responsibilities of marriage too demanding.

Then the rural community where Bill is the only practicing physician is suddenly caught up in a terrible typhoid epidemic. Dr. Barry is finding it difficult to keep the dreaded disease under control -- until Sue arrives, bringing with her all the courage and professional skill she has to offer.