`` She is almost in rags and when she goes to church she wears Faith Meredith 's old clothes . There 's some mystery here , and I 'm going to investigate it , since it seems nobody else will . I believe she was at the bottom of their goings-on in Warren Mead 's spruce bush the other day . Did you hear of their frightening his mother into a fit ? '' `` No . I knew Gilbert had been called to see her , but I did not hear what the trouble was . '' `` Well , you know she has a weak heart . And one day last week , when she was all alone on the veranda , she heard the most awful shrieks of ` murder ' and ` help ' coming from the bush -- positively frightful sounds , Anne dearie . Her heart gave out at once . Warren heard them himself at the barn , and went straight to the bush to investigate , and there he found all the manse children sitting on a fallen tree and screaming ` murder ' at the top of their lungs . They told him they were only in fun and did n't think anyone would hear them . They were just playing Indian ambush . Warren went back to the house and found his poor mother unconscious on the veranda . '' Susan , who had returned , sniffed contemptuously . `` I think she was very far from being unconscious , Mrs. Marshall Elliott , and that you may tie to . I have been hearing of Amelia Warren 's weak heart for forty years . She had it when she was twenty . She enjoys making a fuss and having the doctor , and any excuse will do . '' `` I do n't think Gilbert thought her attack very serious , '' said Anne . `` Oh , that may very well be , '' said Miss Cornelia .
`` But the matter has made an awful lot XXXXX talk and the Meads being Methodists makes it that much worse .
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