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1The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent
2fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through
3them. Anne thought it was truly delightful to go skimming through all this mystery and loveliness with your bosom friend
4who had been so long estranged. Minnie May, aged three, was really very sick. She lay on the kitchen sofa feverish and
5restless, while her hoarse breathing could be heard all over the house. Young Mary Joe, a buxom, broad-faced French girl
6from the creek, whom Mrs. Barry had engaged to stay with the children during her absence, was helpless and bewildered,
7quite incapable of thinking what to do, or doing it if she thought of it. Anne went to work with skill and promptness.
8"Minnie May has croup all right; she's pretty bad, but I've seen them worse. First we must have lots of hot water. I
9declare, Diana, there isn't more than a cupful in the kettle! There, I've filled it up, and, Mary Joe, you may put some
10wood in the stove. I don't want to hurt your feelings but it seems to me you might have thought of this before if you'd
11any imagination. Now, I'll undress Minnie May and put her to bed and you try to find some soft flannel cloths, Diana.
12I'm going to give her a dose of ipecac first of all." Minnie May did not take kindly to the ipecac but Anne had not
13brought up three pairs of twins for nothing. Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long,
14anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly
15anxious to do all she could, kept up a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of
16croupy babies. It was three o'clock when Matthew came with a doctor, for he had been obliged to go all the way to
17Spencervale for one. But the pressing need for assistance was past. Minnie May was much better and was sleeping soundly.
18"I was awfully near giving up in despair," explained Anne. "She got worse and worse until she was sicker than ever the
19Hammond twins were, even the last pair. I actually thought she was going to choke to death. I gave her every drop of
20ipecac in that bottle and when the last dose went down I said to myself--not to Diana or Young Mary Joe, because I
21didn't want to worry them any more than they were worried, but I had to say it to myself just to relieve my
22feelings--'This is the last lingering hope and I fear, tis a vain one.' But in about three minutes she coughed up the
23phlegm and began to get better right away. You must just imagine my relief, doctor, because I can't express it in words.
24You know there are some things that cannot be expressed in words." "Yes, I know," nodded the doctor. He looked at Anne
25as if he were thinking some things about her that couldn't be expressed in words. Later on, however, he expressed them
26to Mr. and Mrs. Barry. "That little redheaded girl they have over at Cuthbert's is as smart as they make 'em. I tell you
27she saved that baby's life, for it would have been too late by the time I got there. She seems to have a skill and
28presence of mind perfectly wonderful in a child of her age. I never saw anything like the eyes of her when she was
29explaining the case to me." Anne had gone home in the wonderful, white-frosted winter morning, heavy eyed from loss of
30sleep, but still talking unweariedly to Matthew as they crossed the long white field and walked under the glittering
31fairy arch of the Lover's Lane maples. "Oh, Matthew, isn't it a wonderful morning? The world looks like something God
32had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn't it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath--pouf!
33I'm so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren't you? And I'm so glad Mrs. Hammond had three pairs of
34twins after all. If she hadn't I mightn't have known what to do for Minnie May. I'm real sorry I was ever cross with
35Mrs. Hammond for having twins. But, oh, Matthew, I'm so sleepy. I can't go to school. I just know I couldn't keep my
36eyes open and I'd be so stupid. But I hate to stay home, for Gil--some of the others will get head of the class, and
37it's so hard to get up again--although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up,
38haven't you?" "Well now, I guess you'll manage all right," said Matthew, looking at Anne's white little face and the
39dark shadows under her eyes. "You just go right to bed and have a good sleep. I'll do all the chores." Anne accordingly
40went to bed and slept so long and soundly that it was well on in the white and rosy winter afternoon when she awoke and
41descended to the kitchen where Marilla, who had arrived home in the meantime, was sitting knitting. "Oh, did you see the
42Premier?" exclaimed Anne at once. "What did he look like Marilla?" "Well, he never got to be Premier on account of his
43looks," said Marilla. "Such a nose as that man had! But he can speak. I was proud of being a Conservative. Rachel Lynde,
44of course, being a Liberal, had no use for him. Your dinner is in the oven, Anne, and you can get yourself some blue
45plum preserve out of the pantry. I guess you're hungry. Matthew has been telling me about last night. I must say it was
46fortunate you knew what to do. I wouldn't have had any idea myself, for I never saw a case of croup. There now, never
47mind talking till you've had your dinner. I can tell by the look of you that you're just full up with speeches, but
48they'll keep." Marilla had something to tell Anne, but she did not tell it just then for she knew if she did Anne's
49consequent excitement would lift her clear out of the region of such material matters as appetite or dinner. Not until
50Anne had finished her saucer of blue plums did Marilla say: "Mrs. Barry was here this afternoon, Anne. She wanted to see
51you, but I wouldn't wake you up. She says you saved Minnie May's life, and she is very sorry she acted as she did in
52that affair of the currant wine. She says she knows now you didn't mean to set Diana drunk, and she hopes you'll forgive
53her and be good friends with Diana again. You're to go over this evening if you like for Diana can't stir outside the
54door on account of a bad cold she caught last night. Now, Anne Shirley, for pity's sake don't fly up into the air." The
55warning seemed not unnecessary, so uplifted and aerial was Anne's expression and attitude as she sprang to her feet, her
56face irradiated with the flame of her spirit. "Oh, Marilla, can I go right now--without washing my dishes? I'll wash
57them when I come back, but I cannot tie myself down to anything so unromantic as dishwashing at this thrilling moment."
58"Yes, yes, run along," said Marilla indulgently. "Anne Shirley--are you crazy? Come back this instant and put something
59on you. I might as well call to the wind. She's gone without a cap or wrap. Look at her tearing through the orchard with
60her hair streaming. It'll be a mercy if she doesn't catch her death of cold." Anne came dancing home in the purple
61winter twilight across the snowy places. Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering, pearl-like sparkle of an
62evening star in a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce. The
63tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not
64sweeter than the song in Anne's heart and on her lips.
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