A second and a third time he shouted, and still there was no response.
"Queer," he thought.

"What the devil can it mean ?" The doctor had disappeared, and he followed in the direction he had gone.

A hundred yards more and he saw the dark blur again, close to the ground.

The doctor was bending over a human form stretched out in the snow.
"Just in time," he said to Philip as he came up.

Excitement had gone from his voice now.