I should think nine medals out of ten given by the Humane Society are given because of the compulsion of that law.

If you can swim, sail a boat, or climb a mountain, and the moment comes when a life can only be saved if you use your knowledge--well, you have got to use it.

That's the law.

Very often, I have no doubt, it's quite reluctantly obeyed, in most cases I think it's obeyed by instinct, without consideration of the consequences.

But it _is_ obeyed, and the guides obeyed it when so many of them came with me on to the Glacier des Nantillons." He heard the girl at his side draw in a sharp breath.