YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



But everybody laughed and said : ' He 

 was carried down there a month-old kitten, 

 shut in a box and on a train, and he was 

 brought back in a wooden cage, under a 

 carriage-seat, six months later. It couldn't 

 be possible that he could find his way back, 

 forty miles, over the road, to his old home.' 



We never knew; but two years later, one 

 dark October evening, we were walking the 

 horses down the steep hill on the island. 

 We had started out to spend the evening 

 with aunt Mary and the doctor. The car- 

 riage lamps were lighted and shone brightly 

 on the high grassy bank to the right of the 

 drive; suddenly papa and mamma cried out 

 in one breath: 



"Why, there's Tit- Willow!" 



I looked with all my eyes, craning my 

 neck out of the carriage at sound of his 

 name, and there, crouching on the grassy 

 bank, as though dazzled and bewildered 

 with the sudden and brilliant lights of the 

 carriage, with their reflectors, which shone 

 in his great yellow eyes, was a monster fawn- 

 and-white cat with all the marks of the kit- 

 ten which ran away. 



We saw him, near to, twice after that, and 



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