Rainbow Valley

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

And in the garden the petals of the last red rose were scattered by a sudden little wind. Summer was over—it was autumn.

The lads who were to fight, and perhaps fall, on the fields of France and Flanders, Gallipoli and Palestine, were still roguish schoolboys with a fair life in prospect before them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams.

Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle than had ever been fought in the world; but that was as yet far in the future;

He's so tickled that he's going to marry Ellen West after wanting her all his life

On the morrow he would leave for Charlottetown to attend Queen's Academy.

And so," said Miss Cornelia, "the double wedding is to be sometime about the middle of this month."

"I'm as happy in the thought of it, as I was when I was getting married myself. I felt exactly like a bride again last evening when I was up on the hill seeing Rosemary's trousseau."

When that small damsel had run off, a palpitating bundle of happiness

Down at the manse Una Meredith, warm, rosy, triumphant, marched boldly into her father's study and laid a letter on the desk before him. His pale face flushed as he saw the clear, fine handwriting he knew so well. He opened the letter. It was very short—but he shed twenty years as he read it. Rosemary asked him if he could meet her that evening at sunset by the spring in Rainbow Valley