`` Rilla , dear , do not you worry . Little Jem is not dead . '' `` Oh , how can you believe that , Susan ? '' `` Because I know . Listen you to me . 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 XXXXX you may tie to .
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