YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



Hall, and, do yer mind, yer put this tother 

 half inter a new sth-r-ap fur 'is neck, wid 'is 

 noomber on, too!" and before mother and 

 son could comprehend what he had done, 

 big, bluff officer Mack was stumping off 

 down the street. 



Nor was that all, for when little Gyp ap- 

 peared next day with his spick-span collar * 

 the story seemed to travel with him, and the 

 people began to wake up to the fact that a 

 sad, long-drawn tragedy had been passing at 

 their very doors, while they had been seeking 

 for something new under the sun to stir 

 their emotions, and they grew ashamed that 

 the bluff executioner, sent by the law, should 

 have been more merciful than they. 



The widow, from that day, was cheered by 

 many gifts, and sympathy which went fur- 

 ther still. More skilled attention helped 

 heal Robbie's poor maimed arm; all came 

 just in time to save his spirit from breaking 

 under a hopeless, pitiless fate. Encouraged 

 to learn to use his pen in his left hand, and 

 supplied with decent clothing to attend 

 night school, a few months found him fill- 

 ing a humble position, but so grateful that 

 once more he could aid his widowed mother, 



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