It's a damn queer layout all around; and this here doctor gitting here ahead of you folks, that there is the queerest.

What's he say about Brit?
Think he'll pull through ?" The doctor himself, coming up just then, answered the question.

Of course the patient would pull through! What were doctors for?
As to his reason for coming, he referred them to Mr.Vjolmar, whom he thought could better explain the matter.
The three of them waited,--five of them, since Jim and Sorry had come up, anxious to hear the doctor's opinion and anything else pertaining to the affair.

Swan was coming slowly from the bunk-house, buttoning his coat.

He seemed to feel that they were waiting for him and to know why.
His manner was diffident, deprecating even.
"We may as well go in out of the mosquitoes," the doctor suggested.