`` Peace wo n't come -- ca n't come -- for some weeks yet . And in those weeks dreadful things may happen . My excitement is over . We have won the victory -- but oh , what a price we have paid ! '' `` Not too high a price for freedom , '' said Gertrude softly . `` Do you think it was , Rilla ? '' `` No , '' said Rilla , under her breath . She was seeing a little white cross on a battlefield of France . `` No -- not if those of us who live will show ourselves worthy of it -- if we ` keep faith . ' '' `` We will keep faith , '' said Gertrude . She rose suddenly . A silence fell around the table , and in the silence Gertrude repeated Walter 's famous poem `` The Piper . '' When she finished Mr. Meredith stood up and held up his glass . `` Let us drink , '' he said , `` to the silent army -- to the boys who followed when the Piper summoned . ` For our tomorrow they gave their today ' -- theirs is the victory ! '' CHAPTER XXXIV MR. HYDE GOES TO HIS OWN PLACE AND SUSAN TAKES A HONEYMOON Early in November Jims left Ingleside . Rilla saw him go with many tears but a heart free from boding . Mrs. Jim Anderson , Number Two , was such a nice little woman that one was rather inclined to wonder at the luck which bestowed her on Jim . She was rosy-faced and blue-eyed and wholesome , with the roundness and trigness of a geranium leaf . Rilla saw at first glance that she was to be trusted with Jims .
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