He had dropped in at the windmill shop the very evening when he decided to accept and told Jed Winslow all about it.

There never were two people more unlike than Sam Hunniwell and Jed Winslow, but they had been fast friends since boyhood.

Jed knew that Phineas Babbitt had been on a trip to Boston and, therefore, had not heard of the captain's appointment.

Now, according to Gabriel Bearse, he had returned and had heard of it, and according to Bearse's excited statement he had "gone on" about it.
"Leander's been drafted," repeated Gabe.

"And that was bad enough for Phineas, he bein' down on the war, anyhow.