Leslie borrowed the necessary money from Captain Jim , and , at her insistence , he took a mortgage on the little farm . `` So that is one thing off the poor girl 's mind , '' Miss Cornelia told Anne , `` and off mine too . Now , if Dick gets well enough to work again he 'll be able to earn enough to pay the interest on it ; and if he does n't I know Captain Jim 'll manage someway that Leslie wo n't have to . He said as much to me . ` I 'm getting old , Cornelia , ' he said , ` and I 've no chick or child of my own . Leslie wo n't take a gift from a living man , but mebbe she will from a dead one . ' So it will be all right as far as THAT goes . I wish everything else might be settled as satisfactorily . As for that wretch of a Dick , he 's been awful these last few days . The devil was in him , believe ME ! Leslie and I could n't get on with our work for the tricks he 'd play . He chased all her ducks one day around the yard till most of them died . And not one thing would he do for us . Sometimes , you know , he 'll make himself quite handy , bringing in pails of water and wood . But this week if we sent him to the well he 'd try to climb down into it . I thought once , ` If you 'd only shoot down there head-first everything would be nicely settled . ' '' `` Oh , Miss Cornelia ! '' `` Now , you need n't Miss Cornelia me , Anne , dearie . ANYBODY would have thought the same . If the Montreal doctors can make a rational creature out of Dick Moore they 're wonders . ''
Leslie took Dick XXXXX Montreal early in May .
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