Bart is a good man.

O David, I tell you there is no one in the world I mind about so much as Bart.

Could you take him in your boat now to the hospital at The Mills?
He would have done as much for you, and more, if you had got hurt in that way." So David took the man Ann loved to the hospital at The Mills.

He did it willingly if he did it ruefully.

Ann went home, as she had come, in the canoe, except that she had gone out in the dead of night and she went home in broad daylight.
No one blamed Ann when they knew she had gone out to help her father; no one smiled or sneered when they found that she had succeeded in saving Toyner's life.
A few days passed, and poor Markham was found drowned in a forest pool.
They brought him home and buried him decently at Fentown for his daughter's sake.
Toyner lay ill for weeks in the little wooden hospital at The Mills..