Besides, I'd do a good many things to a mean superior that you wouldn't.
If I had to stand watch with Cantor, and he tried any queer treatment of me, I'd find a way to make his life miserable.

I believe I've shown some skill in that line in the past." "You surely have," Darrin nodded.

"But I don't like to spring traps for my superior officers to fall into." "Not even in self-defence ?" challenged Dalzell.
"Not even to save myself," Darrin declared.

At eight bells, in Lieutenant Cantor's absence, Darrin took the watch trick alone as officer of the deck until six bells, or eleven o'clock that night.
There was not much to do.

Now and then a shore leave man, sailor or marine, reported coming on board.