You know he would have had to gone in of his own accord.

I'll let you know my father wa'n't the man to do anything like that, Jake Noyes!" The boy actually shook his puny fist in the man's face.

"Say it again, if ye dare!" he cried.
"Lord!" said Jake Noyes, with half-comical consternation.

He screwed up one blue eye after a fashion he had--people said he had acquired it from dropping drugs for the doctor--and looked with the other at the boy.
"Say it again an' I'll kill ye, I will!" cried Jerome, his voice breaking into a hoarse sob, and was off.
"Be ye crazy ?" Jake Noyes called after him.

He stood staring at him a minute, then went into the house on a run.
Jerome ran to the place where he had left his father's team, untied the horse, climbed up on the seat, and drove home.