But at least no one cried . Dog Monday came out of his lair in the shipping-shed and sat down close to Walter , thumping his tail vigorously on the boards of the platform whenever Walter spoke to him , and looking up with confident eyes , as if to say , `` I know you 'll find Jem and bring him back to me . '' `` So long , old fellow , '' said Carl Meredith cheerfully , when the good-byes had to be said . `` Tell them over there to keep their spirits up -- I am coming along presently . '' `` Me too , '' said Shirley laconically , proffering a brown paw . Susan heard him and her face turned very grey . Una shook hands quietly , looking at him with wistful , sorrowful , dark-blue eyes . But then Una 's eyes had always been wistful . Walter bent his handsome black head in its khaki cap and kissed her with the warm , comradely kiss of a brother . He had never kissed her before , and for a fleeting moment Una 's face betrayed her , if anyone had noticed . But nobody did ; the conductor was shouting `` all aboard '' ; everybody was trying to look very cheerful . Walter turned to Rilla ; she held his hands and looked up at him . She would not see him again until the day broke and the shadows vanished -- and she knew not if that daybreak would be on this side of the grave or beyond it . `` Good-bye , '' she said . On her lips it lost all the bitterness it had won through the ages of parting and bore instead all the sweetness of the old loves of all the women who had ever loved and prayed for the beloved . `` Write me often and bring Jims up faithfully , according to the gospel of Morgan , '' Walter said lightly , having said all his serious things the night before in Rainbow Valley . But at the last moment he took her face between his hands and looked deep into her gallant eyes . `` God bless you , Rilla-my-Rilla , '' he said softly and tenderly . After all it was not a hard thing to fight for a land that bore daughters like this . He stood on the rear platform and waved to them as the train pulled out .
Rilla was standing by herself , but Una Meredith came to her and the two girls who loved him most XXXXX together and held each other 's cold hands as the train rounded the curve of the wooded hill .
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