` Course , '' added Bruce reminiscently , `` maybe I said it too loud -- 'cause I was awful glad and excited when I found Stripey was all right . I ` most shouted it , Mrs. Blythe . Maybe if I 'd said it sort of whispery like you and father it would have been all right . Do you know , Mrs. Blythe '' -- Bruce dropped to a `` whispery '' tone , edging a little nearer to Anne -- `` what I would like to do to the Kaiser if I could ? '' `` What would you like to do , laddie ? '' `` Norman Reese said in school to-day that he would like to tie the Kaiser to a tree and set cross dogs to worrying him , '' said Bruce gravely . `` And Emily Flagg said she would like to put him in a cage and poke sharp things into him . And they all said things like that . But Mrs. Blythe '' -- Bruce took a little square paw out of his pocket and put it earnestly on Anne 's knee -- `` I would like to turn the Kaiser into a good man -- a very good man -- all at once if I could . That is what I would do . Do n't you think , Mrs. Blythe , that would be the very worstest punishment of all ? '' `` Bless the child , '' said Susan , `` how do you make out that would be any kind of a punishment for that wicked fiend ? '' `` Do n't you see , '' said Bruce , looking levelly at Susan , out of his blackly blue eyes , `` if he was turned into a good man he would understand how dreadful the things he has done are , and he would feel so terrible about it that he would be more unhappy and miserable than he could ever be in any other way . He would feel just awful -- and he would go on feeling like that forever . Yes '' -- Bruce clenched his hands and nodded his head emphatically , `` yes , I would make the Kaiser a good man -- that is what I would do -- it would serve him ` zackly right . '' CHAPTER XXVI SUSAN HAS A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE An aeroplane was flying over Glen St. Mary , like a great bird poised against the western sky -- a sky so clear and of such a pale , silvery yellow , that it gave an impression of a vast , wind-freshened space of freedom . The little group on the Ingleside lawn looked up at it with fascinated eyes , although it was by no means an unusual thing to see an occasional hovering plane that summer . Susan was always intensely excited . Who knew but that it might be Shirley away up there in the clouds , flying over to the Island from Kingsport ? But Shirley had gone overseas now , so Susan was not so keenly interested in this particular aeroplane and its pilot .
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