`` I just exploded . ` How dare you come here and repeat such a thing about my brother , Irene Howard ? ' I exclaimed . ' I shall never forgive you -- never . Your brother has n't enlisted -- has n't any idea of enlisting . ' '' ` Why Rilla , dear , I did n't say it , ' said Irene . ' 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 XXXXX do something to make him comfortable .
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