YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



" Some dogs know more than some men, " 

 and I heard all talking together so pleas- 

 antly, I felt less worried. Still, I watched 

 him sharply and scarcely winked till he went 

 away. 



But near neighbor to our island home was 

 a good doctor whom I learned to love dearly, 

 he was so kind to all little helpless things. 

 He had been a great surgeon once, in a big 

 city far away, and had lost his health work- 

 ing so hard among the poor people in the 

 hospitals and going without his sleep. He 

 became so ill they did not know as he would 

 live to get here, and they had to bring him 

 slowly, laid on a litter, down here to the 

 beautiful bright sea. They carried him 

 aboard his own boat, the Nhita, and laid 

 him in the fresh air and sunshine, with the 

 great white sail flapping over him. He be- 

 gan to drink in life and health, slowly at 

 first, but surely, and aunt Mary, who 

 lived right aboard the yacht with him, and 

 nursed him, and called no lot hard could 

 he be spared to her, began to hope, as the 

 summer days drifted slowly by and he began 

 to have strength to sail the boat up and down 

 the lovely bay, or to go ashore among the 

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