"Do you want another look at your harbor?"
I eyed him for a moment:
"All right—I'll look——"
"Fine business." He had risen now, and a gleam of the old likable Joe came for a moment into his eyes.
"Meet me to-morrow at seven a. m. And let's look at some of its failures," he said.
CHAPTER V
"Did you see him?" Eleanore asked that night.
"Yes—I saw him——"
I could feel her waiting, but I could not bring myself to talk. Eleanore wouldn't like J. K. She wouldn't like what I had told him I'd do. I was sorry now that I had, it was simply looking for trouble. I damned that challenge in Joe's voice. Why did he always get hold of me so?