YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



I whimpered and pulled at his sleeve, 

 flying off a step or two toward the house to 

 show him, and tell him as well as I could, 

 that he was in the wrong place, and making 

 himself and somebody else lonely, when we 

 three might be so gay and happy together. 



Presently, to my delight, he started back 

 for the porch where Beulah was sitting. 

 He couldn't stand that waiting attitude any 

 longer, any more than I could. 



I bounded ahead as he ascended the long 

 flight of broad stone steps. Beulah clapped 

 her pretty white hands playfully at me in 

 welcome, and I, espying a red rose just fall- 

 ing from her corsage, leaped up, quicker 

 than light, caught it and turned back to 

 Gaylord, holding forth to him the crimson 

 offering. 



I was trying to start a gay frolic as rose- 

 bearer back and forth between them, but I 

 had to take it as a matter of course when 

 Gaylord bowed low to my lady, and said in 

 such an earnest voice: 



" With your permission, Miss Bond," and 

 adjusted the flower in his left lapel, both 

 taking advantage of my part in the presenta- 

 tion to laugh and make jest of it all, but I 



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