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1ANNE had to live through more than two weeks, as it happened. Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake
2episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly
3emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs' bucket, and walking
4clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth
5counting. A week after the tea at the manse Diana Barry gave a party. "Small and select," Anne assured Marilla. "Just
6the girls in our class." They had a very good time and nothing untoward happened until after tea, when they found
7themselves in the Barry garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe for any enticing form of mischief which might
8present itself. This presently took the form of "daring." Daring was the fashionable amusement among the Avonlea small
9fry just then. It had begun among the boys, but soon spread to the girls, and all the silly things that were done in
10Avonlea that summer because the doers thereof were "dared" to do them would fill a book by themselves. First of all
11Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which
12Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of
13her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid
14Carrie Sloane. Then Josie Pye dared Jane Andrews to hop on her left leg around the garden without stopping once or
15putting her right foot to the ground; which Jane Andrews gamely tried to do, but gave out at the third corner and had to
16confess herself defeated. Josie's triumph being rather more pronounced than good taste permitted, Anne Shirley dared her
17to walk along the top of the board fence which bounded the garden to the east. Now, to "walk" board fences requires more
18skill and steadiness of head and heel than one might suppose who has never tried it. But Josie Pye, if deficient in some
19qualities that make for popularity, had at least a natural and inborn gift, duly cultivated, for walking board fences.
20Josie walked the Barry fence with an airy unconcern which seemed to imply that a little thing like that wasn't worth a
21"dare." Reluctant admiration greeted her exploit, for most of the other girls could appreciate it, having suffered many
22things themselves in their efforts to walk fences. Josie descended from her perch, flushed with victory, and darted a
23defiant glance at Anne. Anne tossed her red braids. "I don't think it's such a very wonderful thing to walk a little,
24low, board fence," she said. "I knew a girl in Marysville who could walk the ridgepole of a roof." "I don't believe it,"
25said Josie flatly. "I don't believe anybody could walk a ridgepole. You couldn't, anyhow." "Couldn't I?" cried Anne
26rashly. "Then I dare you to do it," said Josie defiantly. "I dare you to climb up there and walk the ridgepole of Mr.
27Barry's kitchen roof." Anne turned pale, but there was clearly only one thing to be done. She walked toward the house,
28where a ladder was leaning against the kitchen roof. All the fifth-class girls said, "Oh!" partly in excitement, partly
29in dismay. "Don't you do it, Anne," entreated Diana. "You'll fall off and be killed. Never mind Josie Pye. It isn't fair
30to dare anybody to do anything so dangerous." "I must do it. My honor is at stake," said Anne solemnly. "I shall walk
31that ridgepole, Diana, or perish in the attempt. If I am killed you are to have my pearl bead ring." Anne climbed the
32ladder amid breathless silence, gained the ridgepole, balanced herself uprightly on that precarious footing, and started
33to walk along it, dizzily conscious that she was uncomfortably high up in the world and that walking ridgepoles was not
34a thing in which your imagination helped you out much. Nevertheless, she managed to take several steps before the
35catastrophe came. Then she swayed, lost her balance, stumbled, staggered, and fell, sliding down over the sun-baked roof
36and crashing off it through the tangle of Virginia creeper beneath--all before the dismayed circle below could give a
37simultaneous, terrified shriek. If Anne had tumbled off the roof on the side up which she had ascended Diana would
38probably have fallen heir to the pearl bead ring then and there. Fortunately she fell on the other side, where the roof
39extended down over the porch so nearly to the ground that a fall therefrom was a much less serious thing. Nevertheless,
40when Diana and the other girls had rushed frantically around the house--except Ruby Gillis, who remained as if rooted to
41the ground and went into hysterics--they found Anne lying all white and limp among the wreck and ruin of the Virginia
42creeper. "Anne, are you killed?" shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. "Oh, Anne, dear Anne,
43speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed." To the immense relief of all the girls, and especially of Josie
44Pye, who, in spite of lack of imagination, had been seized with horrible visions of a future branded as the girl who was
45the cause of Anne Shirley's early and tragic death, Anne sat dizzily up and answered uncertainly: "No, Diana, I am not
46killed, but I think I am rendered unconscious." "Where?" sobbed Carrie Sloane. "Oh, where, Anne?" Before Anne could
47answer Mrs. Barry appeared on the scene. At sight of her Anne tried to scramble to her feet, but sank back again with a
48sharp little cry of pain. "What's the matter? Where have you hurt yourself?" demanded Mrs. Barry. "My ankle," gasped
49Anne. "Oh, Diana, please find your father and ask him to take me home. I know I can never walk there. And I'm sure I
50couldn't hop so far on one foot when Jane couldn't even hop around the garden." Marilla was out in the orchard picking a
51panful of summer apples when she saw Mr. Barry coming over the log bridge and up the slope, with Mrs. Barry beside him
52and a whole procession of little girls trailing after him. In his arms he carried Anne, whose head lay limply against
53his shoulder. At that moment Marilla had a revelation. In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she
54realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of
55Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth.
56"Mr. Barry, what has happened to her?" she gasped, more white and shaken than the self-contained, sensible Marilla had
57been for many years. Anne herself answered, lifting her head. "Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the
58ridgepole and I fell off. I expect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on
59the bright side of things." "I might have known you'd go and do something of the sort when I let you go to that party,"
60said Marilla, sharp and shrewish in her very relief. "Bring her in here, Mr. Barry, and lay her on the sofa. Mercy me,
61the child has gone and fainted!" It was quite true. Overcome by the pain of her injury, Anne had one more of her wishes
62granted to her. She had fainted dead away. Matthew, hastily summoned from the harvest field, was straightway dispatched
63for the doctor, who in due time came, to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed. Anne's ankle
64was broken. That night, when Marilla went up to the east gable, where a white-faced girl was lying, a plaintive voice
65greeted her from the bed. "Aren't you very sorry for me, Marilla?" "It was your own fault," said Marilla, twitching down
66the blind and lighting a lamp. "And that is just why you should be sorry for me," said Anne, "because the thought that
67it is all my own fault is what makes it so hard. If I could blame it on anybody I would feel so much better. But what
68would you have done, Marilla, if you had been dared to walk a ridgepole?" "I'd have stayed on good firm ground and let
69them dare away. Such absurdity!" said Marilla. Anne sighed.
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