Jem and Jerry went to Charlottetown that night and two days later they came back in khaki . The Glen hummed with excitement over it . Life at Ingleside had suddenly become a tense , strained , thrilling thing . Mrs. Blythe and Nan were brave and smiling and wonderful . Already Mrs. Blythe and Miss Cornelia were organizing a Red Cross . The doctor and Mr. Meredith were rounding up the men for a Patriotic Society . Rilla , after the first shock , reacted to the romance of it all , in spite of her heartache . Jem certainly looked magnificent in his uniform . It was splendid to think of the lads of Canada answering so speedily and fearlessly and uncalculatingly to the call of their country . Rilla carried her head high among the girls whose brothers had not so responded . In her diary she wrote : `` He goes to do what I had done Had Douglas 's daughter been his son , '' and was sure she meant it . If she were a boy of course she would go , too ! She had n't the least doubt of that . She wondered if it was very dreadful of her to feel glad that Walter had n't got strong as soon as they had wished after the fever . `` I could n't bear to have Walter go , '' she wrote . `` I love Jem ever so much but Walter means more to me than anyone in the world and I would die if he had to go . He seems so changed these days . He hardly ever talks to me . I suppose he wants to go , too , and feels badly because he ca n't . He does n't go about with Jem and Jerry at all .
I shall never forget Susan 's face when Jem came home XXXXX his khaki .
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