What did you come here for ?" Phineas Babbitt's hard gray eyes looked up into the big brown ones gazing mildly down upon him.

His gaze shifted and his tone when he next spoke was a trifle less savage.
"He knows well enough what I came here for," he growled, indicating Hunniwell with a jerk of his thumb.

"He knows that just as well as he knows why he had himself put on that Exemption Board." "I didn't have myself put there," declared the captain.

"The job was wished on me.

Lord knows I didn't want it.