He must be dead . Only -- they would never know -- they could never be quite sure ; and Dog Monday would wait for the train until he died of old age . Monday was only a poor , faithful , rheumatic little dog , who knew nothing more of his master 's fate than they did . Rilla had a `` white night '' and did not fall asleep until late . When she wakened Gertrude Oliver was sitting at her window leaning out to meet the silver mystery of the dawn . Her clever , striking profile , with the masses of black hair behind it , came out clearly against the pallid gold of the eastern sky . Rilla remembered Jem 's admiration of the curve of Miss Oliver 's brow and chin , and she shuddered . Everything that reminded her of Jem was beginning to give intolerable pain . Walter 's death had inflicted on her heart a terrible wound . But it had been a clean wound and had healed slowly , as such wounds do , though the scar must remain for ever . But the torture of Jem 's disappearance was another thing : there was a poison in it that kept it from healing . The alternations of hope and despair , the endless watching each day for the letter that never came -- that might never come -- the newspaper tales of ill-usage of prisoners -- the bitter wonder as to Jem 's wound -- all were increasingly hard to bear . Gertrude Oliver turned her head . There was an odd brilliancy in her eyes . `` Rilla , I 've had another dream . '' `` Oh , no -- no , '' cried Rilla , shrinking . Miss Oliver 's dreams had always foretold coming disaster . `` Rilla , it was a good dream . Listen -- I dreamed just as I did four years ago , that I stood on the veranda steps and looked down the Glen . And it was still covered by waves that lapped about my feet .
But as I looked the waves began to ebb -- and they ebbed XXXXX swiftly as , four years ago , they rolled in -- ebbed out and out , to the gulf ; and the Glen lay before me , beautiful and green , with a rainbow spanning Rainbow Valley -- a rainbow of such splendid colour that it dazzled me -- and I woke .
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