That is simply because Louisa Spencer 's father is an elder and very particular about such things . '' `` Judson Parker is the only man in Avonlea who would dream of renting his fences , '' said Jane indignantly . `` Even Levi Boulter or Lorenzo White would never stoop to that , tightfisted as they are . They would have too much respect for public opinion . '' Public opinion was certainly down on Judson Parker when the facts became known , but that did not help matters much . Judson chuckled to himself and defied it , and the Improvers were trying to reconcile themselves to the prospect of seeing the prettiest part of the Newbridge road defaced by advertisements , when Anne rose quietly at the president 's call for reports of committees on the occasion of the next meeting of the Society , and announced that Mr. Judson Parker had instructed her to inform the Society that he was NOT going to rent his fences to the Patent Medicine Company . Jane and Diana stared as if they found it hard to believe their ears . Parliamentary etiquette , which was generally very strictly enforced in the A.V.I.S. , forbade them giving instant vent to their curiosity , but after the Society adjourned Anne was besieged for explanations . Anne had no explanation to give . Judson Parker had overtaken her on the road the preceding evening and told her that he had decided to humor the A.V.I.S. in its peculiar prejudice against patent medicine advertisements . That was all Anne would say , then or ever afterwards , and it was the simple truth ; but when Jane Andrews , on her way home , confided to Oliver Sloane her firm belief that there was more behind Judson Parker 's mysterious change of heart than Anne Shirley had revealed , she spoke the truth also . Anne had been down to old Mrs. Irving 's on the shore road the preceding evening and had come home by a short cut which led her first over the low-lying shore fields , and then through the beech wood below Robert Dickson 's , by a little footpath that ran out to the main road just above the Lake of Shining Waters ... known to unimaginative people as Barry 's pond . Two men were sitting in their buggies , reined off to the side of the road , just at the entrance of the path . One was Judson Parker ; the other was Jerry Corcoran , a Newbridge man against whom , as Mrs. Lynde would have told you in eloquent italics , nothing shady had ever been PROVED . He was an agent for agricultural implements and a prominent personage in matters political . He had a finger ... some people said ALL his fingers ... in every political pie that was cooked ; and as Canada was on the eve of a general election Jerry Corcoran had been a busy man for many weeks , canvassing the county in the interests of his party 's candidate . Just as Anne emerged from under the overhanging beech boughs she heard Corcoran say , `` If you 'll vote for Amesbury , Parker ... well , I 've a note for that pair of harrows you 've got in the spring . I suppose you would n't object to having it back , eh ? '' `` We ... ll , since you put it in that way , '' drawled Judson with a grin , `` I reckon I might as well do it . A man must look out for his own interests in these hard times . ''
Both saw XXXXX at this moment and conversation abruptly ceased .
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