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A short book, with a pretty cloth cover and printed engraving pictures throughout the book.
Spoilers, since the book is short, there is little to write about that doesn't outline the plot!
A tale about a young girl in Southern China (Guangxi, judging from the few landmarks in the book), who is sold by her family to raise money after a devastating flood. She is on-sold a few times, then raised by a woman in order to marry her off and make money from her bridge price. However she develops a fever, which turns to heart disease. Local medicines do not help and in desperation she is taken to the foreign hospital. Here (of course) she is introduced to religion, converted and baptised. The sons of the lady who 'owns' her turn up unannounced, and forcibly take her to 'worship the idol' for her speedy recovery. She collapses however and is returned to the hospital where she dies quietly - "...at dawn there was a hush in the Women's Ward, as the whisper went around that whilst they slept the Angel of Death had come and carried the gentle spirit of the slave girl away into the light and liberty of the better land."There is a pasted label in the front of my copy saying it had been given as an attendance prize to a child at a Methodist Sunday School.