All day she watched and waited in a dread of which she did not speak to anyone . She went down to see Dog Monday and the station-master said , `` That dog of yours howled from midnight to sunrise something weird . I dunno what got into him . I got up once and went out and hollered at him but he paid no ` tention to me . He was sitting all alone in the moonlight out there at the end of the platform , and every few minutes the poor lonely little beggar 'd lift his nose and howl as if his heart was breaking . He never did it afore -- always slept in his kennel real quiet and canny from train to train . But he sure had something on his mind last night . '' Dog Monday was lying in his kennel . He wagged his tail and licked Rilla 's hand . But he would not touch the food she brought for him . `` I 'm afraid he 's sick , '' she said anxiously . She hated to go away and leave him . But no bad news came that day -- nor the next -- nor the next . Rilla 's fear lifted . Dog Monday howled no more and resumed his routine of train meeting and watching . When five days had passed the Ingleside people began to feel that they might be cheerful again . Rilla dashed about the kitchen helping Susan with the breakfast and singing so sweetly and clearly that Cousin Sophia across the road heard her and croaked out to Mrs. Albert , '' ` Sing before eating , cry before sleeping , ' I 've always heard . '' But Rilla Blythe shed no tears before the nightfall . When her father , his face grey and drawn and old , came to her that afternoon and told her that Walter had been killed in action at Courcelette she crumpled up in a pitiful little heap of merciful unconsciousness in his arms . Nor did she waken to her pain for many hours .
CHAPTER XXIII `` AND SO , GOODNIGHT '' The fierce flame XXXXX agony had burned itself out and the grey dust of its ashes was over all the world .
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