By Philip McCutchan
It is the Eighteen Nineties and Royal army Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde reveals himself out of fashion with the military and on half-pay ashore whilst he's summoned to the Admiralty. His challenge: to sail to the Bight of Benin in West Africa and secret agent at the not-so-secret Russian presence there. As a Russian speaker who's accustomed to Benin, Halfhyde is convinced he is the guy for the job--until he runs into Admiral Prince Gorsinski, cousin of the Czar and Halfhyde's former jailer.
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Fitzsimmons called again. Behind him, bare feet pattered up the ladder from the midship superstructure. A small, elderly man, a quid of Halfhyde at the Bight of Benin | 55 tobacco fairly obvious in his cheek, a length of spun yarn looped round one big toe, came round to the Captain’s front and saluted. ” Leading-seaman Brinthwaite, coxswain of the Captain’s galley, transferred his tobacco across his tongue before speaking again. ” “Aloft, Brinthwaite? ” Fitzsimmons bristled, square beard out-thrust, but Brinthwaite stood his ground firmly.
Halfhyde came up and saluted. ” A pause. ” Halfhyde stared, eyes wide. ” “You will take the ship off the jetty and out to sea. ” Richards indicated his chart, laid out on a projecting shelf in the after part of the navigating bridge. Halfhyde went over and studied the soundings, buoys and leading-marks. Within the specified two minutes, he looked up. “I shall have no further use for the chart, sir,” he said coolly. ” Halfhyde turned to the navigator. ” Halfhyde nodded. “I see. In that case, neither shall I.
The First Lieutenant turned to the Master-at-Arms, chief of the ship’s police. ” The bosun’s calls sounded for the breaking out of the rum casks for the day’s standard issue. Halfhyde, going below to his cabin where he had certain work to do, smiled again with a touch of bitterness. “Up Spirits,” he thought, “but stand fast the Holy Ghost . ” On his lonely, isolated platform, in his public disgrace, Mr Runcorn shivered uncontrollably. In his cabin, Halfhyde, with only a part of his mind on the Russian text-book he was ploughing through, considered once again the orders he had been given at the Admiralty.