"I--I'm afeared to stay here alone with those two men like to come in on me." "I'll stay," Jamie consented.
A blast of wind shook the cabin.
"I'm fearin' you can't do it, Andy! 'Twill soon be too much for flesh and blood out on the Bay!" said Peter.
"'Tis in my scout oath to do my best," said Andy, adjusting the hood of his sealskin netsek.

"I'm goin', now." Andy closed the door behind him.

It was pitchy dark.

The snow was driving in blinding clouds, and he stood for a moment to catch his breath.

Then he felt his way down across The Jug and out upon the Bay ice.