他的助手惠特科姆（Whitcomb）唯一与牧师住在一起的人是他的助手。无神论者惠特科姆（Whitcomb）是一个心怀不满的下属，他认为他可以比牧师做的好得多，并认为自己是社会不平等的贫困受害者。
(The only one who lived with the chaplain in his clearing in the woods was Corporal Whitcomb, his assistant. Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain's job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity.)