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At the sahtning, the hail swooped down and blotted the landscape out in one white fury

Through all the cla the house and the sharp crack of breaking glass In three minutes every pane in the west and north as broken and the hail poured in through the apertures covering the floor with stones, the s For three quarters of an hour the storot it Marilla, for once in her life shaken out of her co chair in a corner of the kitchen, gasping and sobbing between the deafening thunder peals Anne, white as paper, had dragged the sofa away from theand sat on it with a twin on either side Davy at the first crash had howled, "Anne, Anne, is it the Judghty," and then had buried his face in Anne's lap and kept it there, his little body quivering Dora, somewhat pale but quite composed, sat with her hand clasped in Anne's, quiet and motionless It is doubtful if an earthquake would have disturbed Dora

Then, alan, the storm ceased The hail stopped, the thunder rolled and muttered away to the eastward, and the sun burst out ed that it see to think that a scant three quarters of an hour could have effected such a transfor, and dropped on her rocker Her face was haggard and she looked ten years older

"Have we all come out of that alive?" she asked solemnly

"You bet we have," piped Davy cheerfully, quite his own ain "I wasn't a bit scared eitheronly just at the first It come on a fellow so sudden I ht Teddy Sloane Monday as I'd promised; but now maybe I will Say, Dora, was you scared?"

"Yes, I was a little scared," said Dora priht to Anne's hand and said ain"

"Well, I'd have said ht of it," said Davy; "but," he added triuh just as safe as you for all I didn't say thelassful of her potent currant wineHOW potent it was Anne, in her earlier days, had had all too good reason to knowand then they went to the door to look out on the strange scene