West and he are busy hauling stove-wood home from a bluff; and he has had a little trouble with some shady characters as a result of his taking part in a temperance campaign.

I think that's all he has to say." Sylvia broke into half-incredulous merriment.
"It's hard to imagine George as a temperance reformer.

Think of him, making speeches!" "Speeches aren't much in George's line," Herbert admitted.

"Still, in one way, I wasn't greatly astonished at the news.

He's just the man to be drawn into difficulties he might avoid, provided that somebody could convince him the thing needed doing." "Then you think he has been convinced ?" "I can hardly imagine George's setting out on a work of the kind he mentioned without some persuasion," said Herbert with a smile.