C. Medal he wore reconciled Miss
Cornelia to the shortcomings of his pedigree to such a degree that she
tacitly recognized his engagement to Mary.
The latter put on a few airs--especially when Carter Flagg took Miller
into his store as head clerk--but nobody grudged them to her.
"Of course farming's out of the question for us now," she told Rilla,
"but Miller thinks he'll like storekeeping fine once he gets used to a
quiet life again, and Carter Flagg will be a more agreeable boss than
old Kitty. We're going to be married in the fall and live in the old
Mead house with the bay windows and the mansard roof. I've always
thought that the handsomest house in the Glen, but never did I dream I'd
ever live there. We're only renting it, of course, but if things go as
we expect and Carter Flagg takes Miller into partnership we'll own it
some day. Say, I've got on some in society, haven't I, considering what
I come from? I never aspired to being a storekeeper's wife. But Miller's
real ambitious and he'll have a wife that'll back him up. He says he
never saw a French girl worth looking at twice and that his heart beat
true to me every moment he was away."
Jerry Meredith and Joe Milgrave came back in January, and all winter the
boys from the Glen and its environs came home by twos and threes. None
of them came back just as they went away, not even those who had been so
fortunate as to escape injury.
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