`` But I 'll tell what I WILL do , '' he said , with a twinkle in his light , full eyes . `` I 'll tell the agent he must use only handsome , tasty colors ... red and yellow and so on . I 'll tell him he must n't paint the ads BLUE on any account . '' The vanquished committee retired , thinking things not lawful to be uttered . `` We have done all we can do and must simply trust the rest to Providence , '' said Jane , with an unconscious imitation of Mrs. Lynde 's tone and manner . `` I wonder if Mr. Allan could do anything , '' reflected Diana . Anne shook her head . `` No , it 's no use to worry Mr. Allan , especially now when the baby 's so sick . Judson would slip away from him as smoothly as from us , although he HAS taken to going to church quite regularly just now . 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 XXXXX the main road just above the Lake of Shining Waters ... known to unimaginative people as Barry 's pond .
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