When that word came this morning the first thing I thought of was Dog Monday . And tonight , as soon as I got the supper dishes washed and the bread set , I went down to the station . There was Dog Monday , waiting for the train , just as patient as usual . Now , Rilla , dear , that trench raid was four days ago -- last Monday -- and I said to the station-agent , ` Can you tell me if that dog howled or made any kind of a fuss last Monday night ? ' He thought it over a bit , and then he said , ` No , he did not . ' ` Are you sure ? ' I said . ` There 's more depends on it than you think ! ' ` Dead sure , ' he said . ' I was up all night last Monday night because my mare was sick , and there was never a sound out of him . I would have heard if there had been , for the stable door was open all the time and his kennel is right across from it ! ' Now Rilla dear , those were the man 's very words . And you know how that poor little dog howled all night after the battle of Courcelette . Yet he did not love Walter as much as he loved Jem . If he mourned for Walter like that , do you suppose he would sleep sound in his kennel the night after Jem had been killed ? No , Rilla dear , little Jem is not dead , and that you may tie to . If he were , Dog Monday would have known , just as he knew before , and he would not be still waiting for the trains . '' It was absurd -- and irrational -- and impossible . But Rilla believed it , for all that ; and Mrs. Blythe believed it ; and the doctor , though he smiled faintly in pretended derision , felt an odd confidence replace his first despair ; and foolish and absurd or not , they all plucked up heart and courage to carry on , just because a faithful little dog at the Glen station was still watching with unbroken faith for his master to come home . Common sense might scorn -- incredulity might mutter `` Mere superstition '' -- but in their hearts the folk of Ingleside stood by their belief that Dog Monday knew .
CHAPTER XXX THE TURNING OF THE TIDE Susan was very sorrowful when she saw the beautiful old lawn XXXXX Ingleside ploughed up that spring and planted with potatoes .
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