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Updated: June 17, 2025
We had no way of hearing the news, for Carter Flagg's store is not on our line, and when we tried to get it Central always answered that the line 'was busy' as no doubt it was, for everybody for miles around was trying to get Carter's store for the same reason we were. "About ten o'clock Gertrude went to the 'phone and happened to catch someone from over-harbour talking to Carter Flagg.
A scandal it assuredly did make, growing more scandalous as it spread, until the over-harbour people heard that the manse children had not only cleaned house and put out a washing on Sunday, but had wound up with an afternoon picnic in the graveyard while the Methodist Sunday School was going on.
"I couldn't help it," she declared after church. "What'd she want to stare at me like that for? Such manners! I'm GLAD stuck my tongue out at her. I wish I'd stuck it farther out. Say, I saw Rob MacAllister from over-harbour there. Wonder if he'll tell Mrs. Wiley on me." No Mrs. Wiley appeared, however, and in a few day the children forgot to look for her.
Myra Murray of the over-harbour section had been buried Miss Cornelia and Mary Vance came up to Ingleside. There were several things concerning which Miss Cornelia wished to unburden her soul. The funeral had to be all talked over, of course. Susan and Miss Cornelia thrashed this out between them; Anne took no part or delight in such goulish conversations.
A bell was ringing in the little church over-harbour and the lingering dream-notes died around the dim, amethystine points. The gulf beyond was still silvery blue in the afterlight. Oh, it was all glorious the clear air with its salt tang, the balsam of the firs, the laughter of her friends.
She was thinking of little Joyce's grave in the old burying-ground over-harbour little Joyce who would have been a woman now, had she lived of the white cross in France and the splendid grey eyes of the little boy who had been taught his first lessons of duty and loyalty at her knee of Jem in the terrible trenches of Nan and Di and Rilla, waiting waiting waiting, while the golden years of youth passed by and she wondered if she could bear any more.
"Something must be done. WHO is this creature who is staying at the manse and where does she come from?" "I understood she was a little girl from over-harbour who was visiting at the manse," answered Anne, who saw the comical side of the codfish chase and secretly thought Rilla was rather vain and needed a lesson or two.
Kenneth did but he stayed with his mother's people over-harbour. We haven't seen a great deal of him this summer. He's a little lame, so didn't go about very much." "Lame? What happened to him?" "He broke his ankle in a football game last fall and was laid up most of the winter. He has limped a little ever since but it is getting better all the time and he expects it will be all right before long.
That was what made it so bad that, and having a tea-party on the tombstones." "We hadn't." "Well, a soap-bubble party then. You had SOMETHING. The over-harbour people swear you had a tea-party, but I'm willing to take your word. And you used this tombstone as a table." "Well, Martha wouldn't let us blow bubbles in the house. She was awful cross that day," explained Jerry.
"I don't expect Him to answer 'em anyhow," said Mary of little faith. "I've been asking Him for a week to clear up this Wiley affair and He hasn't done a thing. I'm going to give up." At this juncture Nan arrived breathless. "Oh, Mary, I've news for you. Mrs. Elliott has been over-harbour and what do you think she found out? Mrs.
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