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"And an interesting young man, a tutor,
bringing up more sod; the boys acted quite like any other agreeably
engaged children--but Minturn himself, looking like a man I never saw
before, down in the sand and water building a sod dam--a sod dam I'm
telling you----"
"I notice what you are telling me," cried Douglas. "It is duly impressing
me. 'Dam' is all I can think of."
"It's no wonder!" exclaimed Leslie.
"What did he say to you?" queried Douglas.
"It wasn't necessary for him to say anything," said Leslie. "I could see.
He is making over his boys and in order to do it sympathetically, and win
their confidence and love, he is being a boy himself again. He has the
little chaps under control now. There are love and admiration in their
tones when they speak to him, while they _obey_ him. Think of it!"
"It is something worth thinking of," said Douglas. "He was driven to
action, but his methods must have been heroic; for they seem to have
worked."
"Yes, for him and the boys," said Leslie, "but they are not all his
family.


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