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길버트 블라이드 — # The Lantern in the Fir Grove Gilbert Blythe had learned long ago that the quickest way to close a door was to knock on it with too much force. So, on the first Friday of March, he found himself standing at the gate of Green Gables with his hands in his pockets, kicking a loose stone and waiting for the courage to do something he had been meaning to do for weeks. He had noticed, over the winter, that Anne Shirley had been quieter than usual at school. Not in her lessons—she still recited poetry with flushed cheeks and answered the geography questions before anyone else could get their hand halfway up—but in the moments between. She no longer lingered by the brook with her books, and she seemed to hurry along the Blythe road with her head down, as though she had somewhere to be that frightened her. Gilbert wasn't the sort to pry. He knew what it felt like to carry something heavy. But that morning, Marilla Cuthbert had stopped him in the post office and said, "Gilbert, you've always had a good head on your shoulders. A good heart, too, when you let it catch up with your pride. I wonder if you might walk home with Anne sometime. She's been looking a little pale, and she won't say a word about it to me." He had nodded, bought a stick of candy he didn't want, and gone back to school with his ears burning. --- The walk home that Friday was damp and grey, the kind of afternoon that makes the spruce trees look bruised. Gilbert caught up with Anne just past the bridge, where the alders grew thick and the road narrowed into a tunnel of wet branches. "Miss Shirley," he said, touching his cap. "You're in a hurry today." "Gilbert." She didn't stop, but she did slow down a fraction. "I'm not in a hurry. I'm just walking." "You're always 'just walking' when I see you lately. Funny thing, that." She shot him a look — the old spark flickering somewhere in her gray eyes. "Perhaps I prefer my own company for a change. Is that a crime?" "No crime at all. But I'm of the opinion that company shared is company halved. That's not a proper proverb, but it's true enough." He fell into step beside her, and she let him. That was something. They walked for a while in silence, which was remarkable for Anne Shirley, who had been known to talk from here to the end of the world and back without taking a breath. Gilbert didn't rush her. He was good at waiting. He'd waited for her to forgive him after the slate incident, and he'd waited through English lessons and spelling bees and arguments about poetry, and he would wait as long as it took now, too, because waiting for Anne was a kind of hope in itself. At last she said, very quietly: "It's Matthew." Gilbert looked at her. She was staring straight ahead at the muddy road, and her voice was so small it was almost lost to the wind. "He's not well," she continued. "He doesn't complain. He just gets quieter every day, and Marilla pretends not to notice, but I can see her hands trembling when she folds the laundry. And I don't know what to do. I don't know how to make it better. I've always been able to think of a story for everything—I can make a woodpile a palace and a potato a prince—but I can't make him young again. I can't spin him a fairy tale where he never grows old." Ah. There it was. The weight she had been carrying. Gilbert felt his own chest tighten with a pang of recognition, thinking of his father's last winter, the slow fade, the way the doctor had shaken his head without saying a word. He didn't tell her he understood. That would have been a lie, anyway—no one understood it except from the inside. Instead, he said: "My dad used to say that a man's work is the best medicine he can take. Not the work he does to earn wages, but the work he does for love. When he was sick, I used to bring him the washing-up from the barn, and he'd mend the harnesses even though his hands shook. He said it kept him in the world. Kept him himself." Anne blinked, and a tear slid down her cheek. She wiped it away with her sleeve, impatient with herself. "That's a very practical story," she said, in a voice that wobbled. "Not much romance in it." "There's romance in staying," Gilbert said. "And in being useful." They walked the rest of the way in silence, but it was a different kind of silence now. Comfortable. Shared. When they reached the lane to Green Gables, Anne paused and turned to face him. "Gilbert," she said, "I think you may be one of the few people in Avonlea who understands that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is just be there." He didn't know what to say to that, so he shrugged and looked at his boots. "Anne," he said at last, "I was meaning to ask you straight—but I don't quite know how to put it. Could we start over? The slate and all that. I was a dunderhead and I know it. But I'd like to be your friend. A real friend. The kind who stays." She studied him for a long moment, her eyes doing that peculiar thing they did, shifting from the color of a storm to the color of a clear sky. "I'd like that too," she said. "And Gilbert—" She hesitated, then smiled one of her rare, unguarded smiles, the ones that came from somewhere deeper than poetry. "If you're ever frightened about anything, I'll stay for you, too." --- That night, Gilbert lay in his bed at the boarding house in Avonlea and watched the moon cut through the lace curtains. He thought about Matthew Cuthbert, quiet and kind, patting Anne's shoulder and calling her his girl. He thought about his own father, and the mended harnesses, and the lantern he used to carry out to the barn on frosty mornings. He thought about Anne, and the way she said "I'll stay." He smiled in the dark. Outside, the wind was picking up, but for the first time in weeks, it didn't sound lonesome. --- ALMOST A YEAR LATER, on a hot August afternoon, Gilbert Blythe was riding his chestnut mare along the ribbon of road to Carmody when he saw a flash of red hair at the edge of the Blythe woods. He slowed, and there was Anne, sitting on a fallen log with a book in her lap, a crown of daisies woven into her hat. He reined in. "Fine afternoon for reading," he called. She looked up, and the beam of her smile was like a window opening. "Gilbert! I was just thinking about you." "All good thoughts, I hope?" "Every single one," she said, which was generous, considering how many ungood thoughts they had once traded. "Sit down. I'm rereading *The Lady of the Lake*, and I'm convinced the Lake is really the Lake of Shining Waters, and I needed you to tell me I'm not completely foolish." "You're not completely foolish," he said, swinging down from the mare and letting her crop the grass by the roadside. He sat on the log beside Anne, close enough to see the freckles across her nose, far enough that she didn't flinch. "You're going to be a doctor," she said suddenly. "One day, yes. I hope." "And you're going to leave Avonlea and make discoveries and save lives, and everyone will say 'I knew him when he was just Gilbert Blythe, a boy with a good heart and a wandering stare.'" "Wandering stare?" He laughed. "I don't have a wandering stare." "You do. It's the way you look past the road into the woods, like you're calculating something beautiful. It's the same way Matthew used to look at his crops." Her voice softened on the name. But the grief had gentled into something she could carry now. "You'll write to me, won't you?" Gilbert asked. "When I'm in the city. You'll write to me about the wind in the white birches and the things you've named and the stories you've made." "I shall write you volumes," Anne declared. "I shall write you the most magnificent letters you have ever read, full of romance and tragedy and the occasional potato crop. And you must write back, Gilbert Blythe—you must tell me about surgery and science and the wonders of the human body, which I don't fully understand, but I will pretend to for your sake." "It's a bargain," he said. He didn't say the rest, because the day was too golden and the future too full of possibility to weigh it down with more than that. But he thought it: *I will come back for you, Anne. I will come back to this road, and this log, and your red hair, because whether you've named it or not, this is the country my heart keeps dreaming of. If you'll wait. If you'll stay.* The mare flicked her tail. A dragonfly hovered over the ferns. Anne closed her book and looked at the sky. "Gilbert," she said, "what do you suppose the future is going to be like?" "Full of us," he said. And because she understood, she laughed, and the summer air was full of light. --- *The End*

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