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Margaret, an intrepid twenty-five-year-old missionary, travels to the Andes Mountains of Ecuador and settles among the Quichua Indians to bring them the message of her faith. She knew, in theory, the difficulties she was likely to face, but she was young, confident, sincere. How could she fail?

Making inroads among the primitive mountain people proved painfully slow, but Margaret was stubborn and persistent, and at last, through Pedro Chimbu and his children (while his wife watched suspiciously from the corner of their hut), she learned their language, told them of her beliefs, and began to translate the Gospels.

Then came a medical triumph (the white senorita delivered a feet-first baby and it lived!) and the word spread. The Indians who came to her classes and her clinics were open to other persuasions as well.