“Why, I thought he did everything!” Emily repeated. “Who did then?”

“I reckon I had as much as anybody to do with it.”

“You?”

“Yes. Why not?”

“But how?”

“Oh—I took him for a walk one night—the night it stormed. Did it storm here?”

“Oh, fearfully; in the early morning—awfully! But tell me—how did you do it?”

Garwood laughed.

“Oh, I just talked to him.”

“Did you persuade him—convince him?”