They're the sort the Company needs." "Yes," Doctor Joe agreed heartily, "and they never shirk their duty.
Andy is a Boy Scout, and he did what he considered his duty.

Now I must go to the lumber camp and fix up that boss, if he isn't beyond fixing up." With the coming of dawn the wind subsided and the snow ceased to fall.
Eli harnessed his dogs when it was light, and with the lumberman who had been stabbed, but whose injuries were not after all serious, he and Doctor Joe set out for Grampus River.
At the lumber camp they found Lige Sparks, Obadiah Button and Micah Dunk installed as volunteer nurses.

The man had a broken arm, three broken ribs, and had suffered internal injuries that demanded prompt attention.
"If Andy hadn't come for me, and if I'd been delayed much longer in reaching the camp," said Doctor Joe later, "the man would have died.
Thanks to the boys, his life will be saved." That day and that night Doctor Joe remained with his patient.

On the following morning it became necessary for him to return to The Jug for additional dressings and medicines.

Eli drove him over.
The sky was clear, and the morning was bitterly cold, with rime hanging like a filmy veil in the air and glistening like flakes of silver in the sunshine.