`` Maybe a tramp come and stole her . '' `` Nonsense , '' said Marilla sharply , relieved from her horrible fear of the well . `` Anne , do you suppose she could have strayed over to Mr. Harrison 's ? She has always been talking about his parrot ever since that time you took her over . '' `` I ca n't believe Dora would venture so far alone but I 'll go over and see , '' said Anne . Nobody was looking at Davy just then or it would have been seen that a very decided change came over his face . He quietly slipped off the gate and ran , as fast as his fat legs could carry him , to the barn . Anne hastened across the fields to the Harrison establishment in no very hopeful frame of mind . The house was locked , the window shades were down , and there was no sign of anything living about the place . She stood on the veranda and called Dora loudly . Ginger , in the kitchen behind her , shrieked and swore with sudden fierceness ; but between his outbursts Anne heard a plaintive cry from the little building in the yard which served Mr. Harrison as a toolhouse . Anne flew to the door , unhasped it , and caught up a small mortal with a tearstained face who was sitting forlornly on an upturned nail keg . `` Oh , Dora , Dora , what a fright you have given us ! How came you to be here ? '' `` Davy and I came over to see Ginger , '' sobbed Dora , `` but we could n't see him after all , only Davy made him swear by kicking the door . And then Davy brought me here and run out and shut the door ; and I could n't get out . I cried and cried , I was frightened , and oh , I 'm so hungry and cold ; and I thought you 'd never come , Anne . '' `` Davy ? '' But Anne could say no more . She carried Dora home with a heavy heart .
Her joy XXXXX finding the child safe and sound was drowned out in the pain caused by Davy 's behavior .
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