"David will take me over with his dogs. They're fresh, and will travel faster," said Doctor Joe.
In ten minutes David was ready with the dogs harnessed, and the two teams drove away into the darkness and storm.
Andy and Jamie were greatly excited. Tragedies enough happened up and down the coast when men were drowned or lost in the ice or met with fatal injuries. But never before in the Bay had one man been cut down by the hand of another. It was a ghastly thought, and the awfulness of it was perhaps accentuated by the snow dashing against the window panes and the wind shrieking around the gables of the cabin.
It was near ten o'clock, long past their usual bedtime, and they were still talking, for there was matter enough in their brains to banish sleep, when the door suddenly opened and accompanied by the howl of the wind a snow-covered figure lurched in upon them.
CHAPTER XXII
THE IMMUTABLE LAW OF GOD
"Peter! 'Tis Peter Sparks!" exclaimed Andy with vast relief to find it was not a murderous lumberman.
"I'm comin' after Doctor Joe!" gasped Peter, as half frozen he drew off his snow-caked netsek.