And what hurt most was that Rilla 's laughter had grown so rare -- Rilla whom she used to think laughed over-much . Was all the child 's girlhood to be so clouded ? Yet how strong and clever and womanly she was growing ! How patiently she knitted and sewed and manipulated those uncertain Junior Reds ! And how wonderful she was with Jims . `` She really could not do better for that child than if she had raised a baker 's dozen , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' Susan had avowed solemnly . `` Little did I ever expect it of her on the day she landed here with that soup tureen . '' CHAPTER XIII A SLICE OF HUMBLE PIE `` I am very much afraid , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' said Susan , who had been on a pilgrimage to the station with some choice bones for Dog Monday , `` that something terrible has happened . Whiskers-on-the-moon came off the train from Charlottetown and he was looking pleased . I do not remember that I ever saw him with a smile on in public before . Of course he may have just been getting the better of somebody in a cattle deal but I have an awful presentiment that the Huns have broken through somewhere . '' Perhaps Susan was unjust in connecting Mr. Pryor 's smile with the sinking of the Lusitania , news of which circulated an hour later when the mail was distributed . But the Glen boys turned out that night in a body and broke all his windows in a fine frenzy of indignation over the Kaiser 's doings . `` I do not say they did right and I do not say they did wrong , '' said Susan , when she heard of it . `` But I will say that I would n't have minded throwing a few stones myself . One thing is certain -- Whiskers-on-the-moon said in the post office the day the news came , in the presence of witnesses , that folks who could not stay home after they had been warned deserved no better fate . Norman Douglas is fairly foaming at the mouth over it all . ` If the devil does n't get those men who sunk the Lusitania then there is no use in there being a devil , ' he was shouting in Carter 's store last night . Norman Douglas always has believed that anybody who opposed him was on the side of the devil , but a man like that is bound to be right once in a while . Bruce Meredith is worrying over the babies who were drowned .
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