I told you it was Mrs. George Burr . And I told her -- ' '' ' I do n't want to hear what you told her . Do n't you ever speak to me again , Irene Howard . ' `` Oh course , I should n't have said that . But it just seemed to say itself . Then the other girls all came in a bunch and I had to calm down and act the hostess ' part as well as I could . Irene paired off with Olive Kirk all the rest of the afternoon and went away without so much as a look . So I suppose she means to take me at my word and I do n't care , for I do not want to be friends with a girl who could repeat such a falsehood about Walter . But I feel unhappy over it for all that . We 've always been such good chums and until lately Irene was lovely to me ; and now another illusion has been stripped from my eyes and I feel as if there was n't such a thing as real true friendship in the world . `` Father got old Joe Mead to build a kennel for Dog Monday in the corner of the shipping-shed today . We thought perhaps Monday would come home when the cold weather came but he would n't . No earthly influence can coax Monday away from that shed even for a few minutes . There he stays and meets every train . So we had to do something to make him comfortable . Joe built the kennel so that Monday could lie in it and still see the platform , so we hope he will occupy it . `` Monday has become quite famous . A reporter of the Enterprise came out from town and photographed him and wrote up the whole story of his faithful vigil . It was published in the Enterprise and copied all over Canada . But that does n't matter to poor little Monday , Jem has gone away -- Monday does n't know where or why -- but he will wait until he comes back .
Somehow it comforts me : it 's foolish , I suppose , but it gives me a feeling that XXXXX will come back or else Monday would n't keep on waiting for him .
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