““Him an’ me’s friends,” she said. “Well?” She did not speak for a time. “Garrick an’ me’s done everything together. I couldn’t leave ’im to starve.” “Well?” “I couldn’t, mister. I couldn’t—” In distress she began to slip off the mare. He suddenly found that the thing he had set out to prove had proved something quite different. Human nature had outmaneuvered him. For if she would not desert a friend, neither could he.””
