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 at finding the child safe and sound was drowned out in the pain caused by Davy 's behavior . The freak of shutting Dora up might easily have been pardoned . But Davy had told falsehoods ... downright coldblooded falsehoods about it . That was the ugly fact and Anne could not shut her eyes to it . She could have sat down and cried with sheer disappointment . She had grown to love Davy dearly ... how dearly she had not known until this minute ... and it hurt her unbearably to discover that he was guilty of deliberate falsehood . Marilla listened to Anne 's tale in a silence that boded no good Davy-ward ; Mr. Barry laughed and advised that Davy be summarily dealt with . When he had gone home Anne soothed and warmed the sobbing , shivering Dora , got her her supper and put her to bed . Then she returned to the kitchen , just as Marilla came grimly in , leading , or rather pulling , the reluctant , cobwebby Davy , whom she had just found hidden away in the darkest corner of the stable .
She jerked him XXXXX the mat on the middle of the floor and then went and sat down by the east window .
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