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1ON the morning when the final results of all the examinations were to be posted on the bulletin board at Queen's, Anne
2and Jane walked down the street together. Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over and she was comfortably
3sure she had made a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no soaring ambitions and
4consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon. For we pay a price for everything we get or take in
5this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work
6and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement. Anne was pale and quiet; in ten more minutes she would know who had won the
7medal and who the Avery. Beyond those ten minutes there did not seem, just then, to be anything worth being called Time.
8"Of course you'll win one of them anyhow," said Jane, who couldn't understand how the faculty could be so unfair as to
9order it otherwise. "I have not hope of the Avery," said Anne. "Everybody says Emily Clay will win it. And I'm not going
10to march up to that bulletin board and look at it before everybody. I haven't the moral courage. I'm going straight to
11the girls' dressing room. You must read the announcements and then come and tell me, Jane. And I implore you in the name
12of our old friendship to do it as quickly as possible. If I have failed just say so, without trying to break it gently;
13and whatever you do don't sympathize with me. Promise me this, Jane." Jane promised solemnly; but, as it happened, there
14was no necessity for such a promise. When they went up the entrance steps of Queen's they found the hall full of boys
15who were carrying Gilbert Blythe around on their shoulders and yelling at the tops of their voices, "Hurrah for Blythe,
16Medalist!" For a moment Anne felt one sickening pang of defeat and disappointment. So she had failed and Gilbert had
17won! Well, Matthew would be sorry--he had been so sure she would win. And then! Somebody called out: "Three cheers for
18Miss Shirley, winner of the Avery!" "Oh, Anne," gasped Jane, as they fled to the girls' dressing room amid hearty
19cheers. "Oh, Anne I'm so proud! Isn't it splendid?" And then the girls were around them and Anne was the center of a
20laughing, congratulating group. Her shoulders were thumped and her hands shaken vigorously. She was pushed and pulled
21and hugged and among it all she managed to whisper to Jane: "Oh, won't Matthew and Marilla be pleased! I must write the
22news home right away." Commencement was the next important happening. The exercises were held in the big assembly hall
23of the Academy. Addresses were given, essays read, songs sung, the public award of diplomas, prizes and medals made.
24Matthew and Marilla were there, with eyes and ears for only one student on the platform--a tall girl in pale green, with
25faintly flushed cheeks and starry eyes, who read the best essay and was pointed out and whispered about as the Avery
26winner. "Reckon you're glad we kept her, Marilla?" whispered Matthew, speaking for the first time since he had entered
27the hall, when Anne had finished her essay. "It's not the first time I've been glad," retorted Marilla. "You do like to
28rub things in, Matthew Cuthbert." Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back
29with her parasol. "Aren't you proud of that Anne-girl? I am," she said. Anne went home to Avonlea with Matthew and
30Marilla that evening. She had not been home since April and she felt that she could not wait another day. The apple
31blossoms were out and the world was fresh and young. Diana was at Green Gables to meet her. In her own white room, where
32Marilla had set a flowering house rose on the window sill, Anne looked about her and drew a long breath of happiness.
33"Oh, Diana, it's so good to be back again. It's so good to see those pointed firs coming out against the pink sky--and
34that white orchard and the old Snow Queen. Isn't the breath of the mint delicious? And that tea rose--why, it's a song
35and a hope and a prayer all in one. And it's good to see you again, Diana!" "I thought you liked that Stella Maynard
36better than me," said Diana reproachfully. "Josie Pye told me you did. Josie said you were infatuated with her." Anne
37laughed and pelted Diana with the faded "June lilies" of her bouquet. "Stella Maynard is the dearest girl in the world
38except one and you are that one, Diana," she said. "I love you more than ever--and I've so many things to tell you. But
39just now I feel as if it were joy enough to sit here and look at you. I'm tired, I think--tired of being studious and
40ambitious. I mean to spend at least two hours tomorrow lying out in the orchard grass, thinking of absolutely nothing."
41"You've done splendidly, Anne. I suppose you won't be teaching now that you've won the Avery?" "No. I'm going to Redmond
42in September. Doesn't it seem wonderful? I'll have a brand new stock of ambition laid in by that time after three
43glorious, golden months of vacation. Jane and Ruby are going to teach. Isn't it splendid to think we all got through
44even to Moody Spurgeon and Josie Pye?" "The Newbridge trustees have offered Jane their school already," said Diana.
45"Gilbert Blythe is going to teach, too. He has to. His father can't afford to send him to college next year, after all,
46so he means to earn his own way through. I expect he'll get the school here if Miss Ames decides to leave." Anne felt a
47queer little sensation of dismayed surprise. She had not known this; she had expected that Gilbert would be going to
48Redmond also. What would she do without their inspiring rivalry? Would not work, even at a coeducational college with a
49real degree in prospect, be rather flat without her friend the enemy? The next morning at breakfast it suddenly struck
50Anne that Matthew was not looking well. Surely he was much grayer than he had been a year before. "Marilla," she said
51hesitatingly when he had gone out, "is Matthew quite well?" "No, he isn't," said Marilla in a troubled tone. "He's had
52some real bad spells with his heart this spring and he won't spare himself a mite. I've been real worried about him, but
53he's some better this while back and we've got a good hired man, so I'm hoping he'll kind of rest and pick up. Maybe he
54will now you're home. You always cheer him up." Anne leaned across the table and took Marilla's face in her hands. "You
55are not looking as well yourself as I'd like to see you, Marilla. You look tired. I'm afraid you've been working too
56hard. You must take a rest, now that I'm home. I'm just going to take this one day off to visit all the dear old spots
57and hunt up my old dreams, and then it will be your turn to be lazy while I do the work." Marilla smiled affectionately
58at her girl. "It's not the work--it's my head. I've got a pain so often now--behind my eyes. Doctor Spencer's been
59fussing with glasses, but they don't do me any good. There is a distinguished oculist coming to the Island the last of
60June and the doctor says I must see him. I guess I'll have to. I can't read or sew with any comfort now. Well, Anne,
61you've done real well at Queen's I must say. To take First Class License in one year and win the Avery
62scholarship--well, well, Mrs. Lynde says pride goes before a fall and she doesn't believe in the higher education of
63women at all; she says it unfits them for woman's true sphere. I don't believe a word of it. Speaking of Rachel reminds
64me--did you hear anything about the Abbey Bank lately, Anne?" "I heard it was shaky," answered Anne. "Why?" "That is
65what Rachel said. She was up here one day last week and said there was some talk about it. Matthew felt real worried.
66All we have saved is in that bank--every penny. I wanted Matthew to put it in the Savings Bank in the first place, but
67old Mr. Abbey was a great friend of father's and he'd always banked with him. Matthew said any bank with him at the head
68of it was good enough for anybody." "I think he has only been its nominal head for many years," said Anne. "He is a very
69old man; his nephews are really at the head of the institution."
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