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The omelette had been successful, the port had recently arrived, and that pleasing, though somewhat selfish, glow which comes even to the best of us when we realise that it is the other fellow who is out in the cold wet night permeated the room. "Sarah Jane," remarked Toby to his second-in-command, as he thoughtfully sipped his port, "I have been thinking." "Have you, dear old soul?
The fault was Farragut's; for his heart got the better of his head when it came to placing Captain Theodorus Bailey, his dauntless second-in-command, on board a vessel fit to lead the starboard column. He could not bear to obscure any captain's chances of distinction by putting another captain over him. So Bailey was sent to the best vessel commanded by a lieutenant.
The Second-in-Command leaned against a stanchion and wiped his face with his handkerchief. A minute passed, and a dull concussion shook the boat from stem to stern. Von Sperrgebiet showed his dog-tooth in that terrible mirthless smile of his. "A hit, my little Ludwig!" he said. The Second-in-Command clicked his heels together. "For the honour of the Fatherland," he said. "Gott strafe England!"
The White Hussars shouted, and threw everything movable about them into the air, and when the parade was over, they cheered the Colonel till they couldn't speak. No cheers were put up for Lieutenant Hogan-Yale, who smiled very sweetly in the background. Said the Second-in-Command to the Colonel, unofficially: "These little things ensure popularity, and do not the least affect discipline."
"Right," said Astro. "Meantime," said Tom, "Jeff and I will get you a set of earphones, if we have to tear them off the head of the radarman!" Meanwhile, in Vidac's quarters, the second-in-command was facing the irascible Professor Sykes. "Say that again, Professor," said Vidac. Sykes was standing before him holding a slip of paper in his hand.
The first officer to whom Trooper Matthewson gave his smart respectful salute as he stood on sentry-duty was the Major, the Second-in-Command of the Queen's Greys, newly rejoined from furlough, a belted Earl, famous for his sporting habit of riding always and everywhere without a saddle who, as a merry subaltern, had been Lieutenant Lord Ochterlonie and Adjutant of the Queen's Greys at Bimariabad in India.
"You shall choose my second-in-command yourself, sir," conceded Dawson handsomely. Captain Dawson chose his men with discrimination. All those above five years' service were paraded in the barrack square, and Dawson, assisted by the Commandant, to whom his men were as his own children, picked out the eighty lucky ones at leisure.
As I pulled up at the Club I saw Colonel Harbottle talking concernedly to the wife of our Second-in-Command, and was reminded that I had not heard for some days how Major Watkins was going on. So I, too, approached Mrs. Watkins in her victoria to ask. Robert Harbottle kindly forestalled her reply. 'Hard luck, isn't it? Watkins has been ordered home at once.
Fire when the foremast comes on, and do not show the periscope more than a few seconds at a time. I will give the orders after you have fired." The Second-in-Command took up his position in the spot vacated by the Oberleutnant. His tongue worked ceaselessly about his lips and his hand trembled on the elevating wheel. "There is smoke astern," he said presently. And a moment later.
The second-in-command, in charge of the armament, joins him in the torpedo-room and receives final instructions regarding the torpedo and the stowing of other explosives. Forward is another narrow steel chamber, and next to it is a place like a cupboard where the cook has just room to stand in front of his doll-house galley-stove. It is an electric cooker, of course.
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