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"Why is it called the Tory Road?" asked Anne

"Mr Allan says it is on the principle of calling a place a grove because there are no trees in it," said Diana, "for nobody lives along the road except the Copp girls and old Martin Bovyer at the further end, who is a Liberal The Tory governh when they were in power just to show they were doing so"

Diana's father was a Liberal, for which reason she and Anne never discussed politics Green Gables folk had always been Conservatives

Finally the girls ca external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered by contrast The house was a very old-fashioned one, situated on a slope, which fact had necessitated the building of a stone bases were all ashed to a condition of blinding perfection and not a as visible in the pri

"The shades are all down," said Diana ruefully "I believe that nobody is hoirls looked at each other in perplexity

"I don't knohat to do," said Anne "If I were sure the platter was the right kind I would notuntil they cao to Wesley Keyson's afterward"

Diana looked at a certain little squareover the basement

"That is the pantry , I feel sure," she said, "because this house is just like Uncle Charles' at Newbridge, and that is their pantryThe shade isn't down, so if we climbed up on the roof of that little house we could look into the pantry and ht be able to see the platter Do you think it would be any harm?"

"No, I don't think so," decided Anne, after due reflection, "since our motive is not idle curiosity"

This i settled, Anne prepared to mount the aforesaid "little house," a construction of lathes, with a peaked roof, which had in tiirls had given up keeping ducks"because they were such untidy birds"

and the house had not been in use for so hens Although scrupulously ashed it had become somewhat shaky, and Anne felt rather dubious as she scra placed on a box

"I'erly stepped on the roof