It was an open wagon and George Taylor was the driver.

He had been up to the Deans' and was on his way home.
I hailed the vehicle, intending to ask for a ride, but when Taylor discovered who his hailer was he insisted on my going back to the house.
He would get the doctor, he said, and bring him down at once.

I was afraid he would be caught in the storm, and hesitated in accepting the offer, but he insisted.

I did go back to the house, found Mother in much the same condition as when I left her, and had scarcely gotten into the kitchen again when Taylor once more appeared.
"I brought Nellie along to stay with your mother," he said.

"The Cap'n and the old lady"-- meaning Matilda--"were up at the meeting-house and we just left a note saying where we'd gone.