Laravel 5 How to make files as downloadable in asset folder

I am following this tutorial to upload files Uploading is fine, but I want to create a link to download files. I am doing

$contents = Storage::get($path);
echo '<a href="'.$contents.'">Thing</a>';

but it is echoing file content. What I want is link to file download. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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