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CHERRY AMES, CAMP NURSE TiTles by Helen Wells Cherry Ames, student nurse Cherry Ames, senior nurse Cherry Ames, Army nurse Cherry Ames, Chief nurse Cherry Ames, Flight nurse Cherry Ames, Veterans’ nurse Cherry Ames, Private Duty nurse Cherry Ames, Visiting nurse Cherry Ames, Cruise nurse Cherry Ames, boarding school nurse Cherry Ames, Department store nurse Cherry Ames, Camp nurse Cherry Ames, At Hilton Hospital Cherry Ames, island nurse Cherry Ames, Rural nurse Cherry Ames, staff nurse Cherry Ames, Companion nurse Cherry Ames, Jungle nurse Cherry Ames, The Mystery in the Doctor’s Office Cherry Ames, ski nurse Mystery CHeRRy AMes nuRse sToRies CHERRY AMES CAMP NURSE by HELEN WELLS New York Copyright © 1957 by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc. Copyright © renewed 2007 by Harriet Schulman Forman Springer Publishing Company, LLC All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Springer Publishing Com- pany, LLC. Springer Publishing Company, LLC 11 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036-8002 www.springerpub.com Acquisitions Editor: Sally J. Barhydt Series Editor: Harriet S. Forman Production Editor: Carol Cain Cover design: Takeout Graphics, Inc. Composition: Apex Publishing, LLC 07 08 09 10/ 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wells, Helen, 1910- Cherry Ames, camp nurse / by Helen Wells. p. cm. — (Cherry Ames nurse stories) Summary: When Cherry Ames spends the summer working as a nurse at a girls’ camp, she follows a trail that ultimately leads to the true perpetrator of a series of robberies for which an innocent man has been under suspicion. ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-0417-5 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8261-0417-7 (alk. paper) [1. Nurses—Fiction. 2. Camps—Fiction. 3. Robbers and outlaws— Fiction. 4. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title. PZ7.W4644Ccf 2007 [Fic]—dc22 2007017066 Printed in the United States of America by Bang Printing Contents Foreword vii i Summer Begins 1 ii A Puzzling Request 11 iii P E P Stands for Purdy 25 iv A Dance and a Scare 39 v The Second Move 49 vi Faceless Clue 65 vii Look Out for Trouble 79 viii A Lesson for Katy 93 ix Strange Story 111 x Cherry Lends a Hand 131 xi Night Watch 141 xii Pursuit 155 xiii Tall Man’s island 163 xiv Events Week 177 v This page intentionally left blank Foreword Helen Wells, the author of the Cherry Ames stories, said, “I’ve always thought of nursing, and perhaps you have, too, as just about the most exciting, important, and re- warding profession there is. Can you think of any other skill that is always needed by everybody, everywhere?” I was and still am a fan of Cherry Ames. Her cou- rageous dedication to her patients; her exciting es- capades; her thirst for knowledge; her intelligent application of her nursing skills; and the respect she achieved as a registered nurse (RN) all made it clear to me that I was going to follow in her footsteps and be- come a nurse—nothing else would do. Thousands of other young readers were motivated by Cherry Ames to become RNs as well. Through her thought-provoking stories, Cherry Ames led a steady stream of students into schools of nursing across the country well into the 1960s and 1970s when the series ended. Readers who remember enjoying these books in the past will take pleasure in reading them again now— whether or not they chose nursing as their life’s work. vii viii FoReWoRD Perhaps they will share them with others and even moti- vate a person or two to choose nursing as a career path. My nursing path has been rich and satisfying. I have delivered babies, cared for people in hospitals and in their homes, and saved lives. I have worked at the bed- side and served as an administrator. I have published journals, written articles, taught students, consulted, and given expert testimony. Never once did I regret my decision to enter nursing. During the time that I was publishing a nursing jour- nal, I became acquainted with Robert Wells, brother of Helen Wells. In the course of conversation I learned that Ms. Wells had passed on and left the Cherry Ames copy- right to Mr. Wells. Because there is a shortage of nurses here in the US today, I thought, “Why not bring Cherry back to motivate a whole new generation of young peo- ple? Why not ask Mr. Wells for the copyright to Cherry Ames?” Mr. Wells agreed, and the republished series is dedicated both to Helen Wells, the original author, and to her brother, Robert Wells, who transferred the rights to me. I am proud to ensure the continuation of Cherry Ames into the twenty-first century. The final dedication is to you, both new and old readers of Cherry Ames: It is my dream that you enjoy Cherry’s nursing skills as well as her escapades. I hope that young readers will feel motivated to choose nurs- ing as their life’s work. Remember, as Helen Wells her- self said: there’s no other skill that’s “always needed by everybody, everywhere.” Harriet schulman Forman, Rn, edD series editor CHERRY AMES, CAMP NURSE ix
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