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He did not go back to Leslie Campbell's after two or three days. He went back after a fortnight.
For one tensely expectant week, he waited for England to become aware of the fact that he was now definitely free to take up any war work it might have been holding in reserve for him. A phrase in poster use became part of his mental equipment -- he was ready to do his bit -- eager to do his bit -- surely to the nation might be left the minor responsibility of finding him the bit to do. Most people, he conjectured hazily, "dropped into something" by invitation; a friend "in the swim"; a chance encounter with another friend who "tipped them the wink. " And thus, by slang and by haphazard, the great ship Organization was manned, and launched, to be tested in strange and stormy seas.