Everybody liked her . She was her father 's favorite and she was awful fond of him . They were ` chums , ' as she used to say . She could n't see any of his faults -- and he WAS a taking sort of man in some ways . `` Well , when Leslie was twelve years old , the first dreadful thing happened . She worshipped little Kenneth -- he was four years younger than her , and he WAS a dear little chap . And he was killed one day -- fell off a big load of hay just as it was going into the barn , and the wheel went right over his little body and crushed the life out of it . And mind you , Anne , Leslie saw it . She was looking down from the loft . She gave one screech -- the hired man said he never heard such a sound in all his life -- he said it would ring in his ears till Gabriel 's trump drove it out . But she never screeched or cried again about it . She jumped from the loft onto the load and from the load to the floor , and caught up the little bleeding , warm , dead body , Anne -- they had to tear it from her before she would let it go . They sent for me -- I ca n't talk of it . '' Miss Cornelia wiped the tears from her kindly brown eyes and sewed in bitter silence for a few minutes . `` Well , '' she resumed , `` it was all over -- they buried little Kenneth in that graveyard over the harbor , and after a while Leslie went back to her school and her studies . She never mentioned Kenneth 's name -- I 've never heard it cross her lips from that day to this . I reckon that old hurt still aches and burns at times ; but she was only a child and time is real kind to children , Anne , dearie . After a while she began to laugh again -- she had the prettiest laugh . You do n't often hear it now . '' `` I heard it once the other night , '' said Anne .
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