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Chapter 31 The Truth Makes Free leslie, having once made up her mind what to do, proceeded to do it with characteristic resolution and speed.

House cleaning must be finished with first.

Whatever issues of life and death might await beyond the greyhouse of the brook was put into flawless order and cleanliness with Miss Cornelia's ready assistance.

Miss Cornelia, having said her say to Anne, and later on to Gilbert and Captain Jim Sparing, neither of them, let it be assured, never spoke of the matter to Leslie.

She accepted the fact of D***'s operation, referred to it when necessary in a businesslike way, and ignored it when it was not.

Leslie never attempted to discuss it.

She was very cold and quiet during.

These beautiful spring days.

She seldom visited Anne, and though she was invariably courteous and friendly, that very courtesy was an icy barrier between her and the people of the little house.

The old jokes and laughter and chumminess of common things could not reach her over it and refused to feel hurt.

She knew that Leslie was in the grip of a hideous dread, a dread that wrapped her away from all little glimpses of happiness and hours of pleasure.

When one great passion ceases possession of the soul, all other feelings are crowded aside.

Never in all her life had Leslie Moore shuddered away from the future with more intolerable terror.

But she went forward as unswervingly in the path she had elected.

As the martyrs of old walked their chosen way, knowing the end of it to be the fiery agony of the stake, the financial question was settled with greater ease than Anne had feared.

Leslie borrowed the necessary money from Captain Jim and at her insistence, he took a mortgage on the little farm.

So that is one thing off the.

Poor girl's mind, Miss Cornelia told Anne.

And off mine too.

Now, if D*** gets well enough to work again, he'll be able to earn enough to pay the interest on it.

And if he doesn't, I know Captain Jim will manage some way that Leslie won't have to.

He said as much to me.

I'm getting old, Cornelia, he said, and I've no chick or child of my own.

Leslie won't take a gift from a living man, but maybe she will from a dead one.

So it will be all right.

As far as that goes, I wish everything else might be settled as satisfactorily.

As for that wretch of a D***, he's been awful these last few days.

The devil was in him, believe me.

Leslie and I couldn't get on with our work for the tricks he'd play.

He chased all her ducks one day around the yard till most of them died, and not one thing would he do for us.

Sometimes, you know, he'll make himself quite handy bringing in pails of water and wood.

But this week, if we sent him to the well, he'd try to climb down into it.

I thought once if you'd only shoot down their head first, everything would be nicely settled.

Oh, Miss Cornelia.

Now.

You need Ms.

Cornelia.

Me?

Anne, deary, anybody would have thought the same.

If the Montreal doctors can't make a rational creature out of D***, more their wonders.

Leslie took D*** to Montreal early in May.

Gilbert went with her to help her and make the necessary arrangements for her.

He came home with the report that the Montreal surgeon, whom they had consulted, agreed with him that there was a good chance of D***'s restoration.

Very comforting, was Miss Cornelia's sarcastic comment, and only sighed.

Leslie had been very distant at their parting, but she had promised to write.

Ten days after Gilbert's return, the letter came.

Leslie wrote that the operation had been successfully performed and that D*** was making a good recovery.

What does she mean by successfully?

Asked Anne.

Does she mean that D***'s memory is really restored?

Not likely, since she says nothing of it, said Gilbert.

She uses the word successfully.

From the surgeon's point of view, the operation has been performed and followed by normal results.

But it is too soon to know whether D***'s faculties will be eventually restored wholly or in part.

His memory would not be likely to return to him all at once.

The process will be gradual, if it occurs at all.

Is that all she says?

Yes.

There's her letter.

It's very short.

Poor girl.

She must be under a terrible strain.

Gilbert Blies, there are heaps of things I long to say to you, only it would be mean.

Ms Cornelia says them for you, said.

Gilbert with a rueful smile.

She combs me down every time I encounter her.

She makes it plain to me that she regards me as little better than a murderer and that she thinks it a great pity that Dr.

Dave ever let me step into his shoes.

She even told me that the Methodist doctor over the harbor was to be preferred over me.

With Miss Cornelia, the force of condemnation can no further go.

If Cornelia Bryant was sick, it would not be Dr.

Dave or the Methodist doctor she would send for, sniffed Susan.

She would have you out of your hard earned bed in the middle of the night, Dr.

Dear, if she took a spell of misery.

That she would.

And then she would likely say your bill was passed all reason.

But do not mind her, Doctor dear.

It takes all kinds of people to make a world.

No further word came from Leslie for some time.

The May days crept away in a sweet succession, and the shores of four winds harbor greened and bloomed and purpled.

One day in late May, Gilbert came home to be met by Susan in the staple yard.

I'm afraid something is upset Missus Doctor.

Doctor Deer.

She said mysteriously.

She got a letter this afternoon, and since then she's just been walking around the garden and talking to herself.

You know, it is not good for her to be on her feet so much, Dr.

Deer.

She did not see fit to tell me what her news was.

And I'm no pride dr.

Deer, and never was, but it is plain something has upset her and it is not good for her to be upset.

Gilbert hurried rather anxiously to the garden.

Had anything happened at Green Gables?

But Anne, sitting on the rustic seat by the brook, did not look troubled, though she was certainly much excited.

Her eyes were their grayest and scarlet spots burned on her cheeks.

What has happened, Anne Ann?

Anne gave a queer little laugh.

I think you'll hardly believe it when I tell you, Gilbert.

I can't believe it yet, Susan said the other day.

I feel like a fly coming to live in the sun, dazed like.

It's also incredible.

I've read the letter a score of times, and every time it's just the same.

I can't believe my own eyes.

Oh, Gilbert, you were right, so right.

I can see that clearly enough now.

And I'm so ashamed of myself and will you ever really forgive me?

And I'll shake you if you don't grow coherent.

Redmond would be ashamed of you.

What has happened?

You won't believe it.

You won't believe it.

I'm going to phone for Uncle Dave.

Said Gilbert, pretending the start for the house.

Sit down, Gilbert.

I'll try to tell you.

I've had a letter and oh, Gilbert, it's also amazing, so incredibly amazing.

We never thought, not one of us ever dreamed.

I suppose, said Gilbert, sitting down with.

A resigned air, the only thing to do in a case of this kind is to have patience and go at the matter.

Categorically, whom is your letter from?

Leslie and oh, Gilbert leslie who?

What is she to say?

What's the news about D***?

Anne lifted the letter and held it out calmly.

Dramatic in a moment there is no D***.

The man we have thought d*** Moore, whom everybody in four wins has believed for twelve years to be.

D*** Moore is his cousin, George Moore of Nova Scotia, who it seems always resembled him.

Very strikingly.

D*** Moore died of yellow fever 13 years ago in Cuba.

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