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Two bad generals stood very much in Grant's way, one on either side of him in rank McClernand, his own second-in-command, and Banks, his only senior in the Mississippi area. McClernand presently found rope enough to hang himself.
"Switch on the lights," he said loudly. "Clear the table and hurry up with the coffee. Get a move on those fellows, Gomez. Have you never before been in a ship when the screw stopped?" The Gomez thus appealed to was the Englishman's second-in-command; he acted as interpreter when anything out of the common was required.
Finally he returned to his Captain's elbow, moistening his marred lip with the tip of his tongue; his face wore an unhealthy pallor and glistened in the glow of the electric lights. "Is it an English ship, Herr Kapitan?" he asked again in his high, unnatural voice. "Yes," snapped von Sperrgebiet. "Why?" "I have a request to make," replied the Second-in-Command. "A favour, Herr Kapitan.
Almost angrily the colonel flung the question as his second-in-command came back heavy-footed through the rain. He had been through a nasty period of suspense himself during Merryon's absence. Merryon nodded. His face was very pale and his lips seemed stiff. "She has gone, sir," he managed to say, after a moment. "Gone, has she?" The colonel raised his brows in astonished interrogation. "What!
He made a daring speech at the Guildhall before their worships the Town Council, which brought him popularity, and he was appointed second-in-command of the newly constituted Leipzig Municipal Guard. This body at length ousted my adored students from the guard-rooms of the town gates, and we no longer had the right of stopping travellers and inspecting their passes.
The idea which in his mind gave rise to nothing more than indefinite longings when transfused into the earnest fiery nature of Chaitanya, expanded into a faith which moved and led captive the souls of thousands. His brother Nityanand was now assumed to be an incarnation of Balaram, and took his place as second-in-command in consequence.
That hacienda was attacked by Petion and his band in the early hours of this morning, and as Carlos has doubtless already told you Petion was killed during the attack, while Senor Delamere subsequently fell into the hands of Mateo, Petion's second-in-command, who very thoughtfully sent him on to us.
This was followed by what the Mess Corporal described as a savoury omelette, but which the Second-in-Command condemned as "a regrettable incident." "It is false economy," he observed dryly to the Mess President, "to employ Mark One eggs as anything but hand-grenades." However, the tide of popular favour turned with the haggis, contributed by Lieutenant Angus M'Lachlan, from a parcel from home.
This obtained, he lowered himself through the narrow hatchway and climbed down the steel rungs into the interior of the compartment. "Close down!" he said curtly. The gramophone stopped with a click, and instantly all was bustle and activity within the narrow confines of the steel shell. The Second-in-Command, who was lying on his bunk reading a novel, sat up and lifted his legs over the edge.
It is not by any means the least of Grant's claims to real greatness that, as a leader, he was able to survive his most searching trials: the surprise at Shiloh, the misunderstandings and arrest that followed Shiloh, the slur of being made a fifth-wheel second-in-command, the demoralizing strain of that "most anxious period of the war" when his depleted forces were thrown back on the defensive, and the eight discouraging months of Sisyphean offensive which preceded his triumph at Vicksburg.
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