Can you recommend one of your recent classmates for an important mission, to be undertaken at once to an out-of-the-way part of the world?
He must be a young man of good morals, able to keep his business affairs to himself, not afraid of hard work, and willing as well as physically able to endure hardships.

His intelligence and mental fitness will, of course, be guaranteed by the Institute's diploma.

Our company is in immediate need of such a person, and will engage him at a good salary for a year, with certain prospects of advancement, if he gives satisfaction.

Think it over and let me know in the morning if you have hit upon one whom you believe would meet those requirements.

In the meantime please do not mention the subject to any one." Charged with this commission, and relieved that the dreaded interview was ended, Cabot hastened uptown to a small secret society club of which he was a non-resident member.