"
"So am I, too," said Jasmine, the April cloud quickly leaving her
expressive face--"I'm so glad I have you with me, dear Poppy; I was
feeling so low just now that I should never have noticed the office of
_The Joy-bell_--it has a very nice, high-class sound, and I should say
was a more attractive magazine than even a shilling one. We'll go
there at once, Poppy, and be sure you support me, and say 'Yes' when I
look at you; and if I happen to frown in your direction, you'll know
that I want you to help me not to accept too low a price. Now come,
Poppy; I feel that destiny leads my steps to the office of _The
Joy-bell_."
The editor of _The Joy-bell_ happened also to be disengaged, and after
keeping the young aspirant for literary fame waiting for about a
quarter of an hour, consented to see her and her companion.
Jasmine's interview with this editor caused her to come away in very
high spirits, for he had not only promised most carefully to consider
her poem, "The Flight of the Beautiful," but he had also said he was
wanting a serial story to run through the pages of _The Joy-bell_, and
if hers happened to suit him he would be happy to use it.
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