CHAPTER 19ANNOUNCEMENT OF HANSEN’S promotion was the only lively feature of the President’s last supper. Acworth Cobb was not even present, having stayed in the quarters of the late Dr. Drexel to keep the caterwauling Dallas Georgias silent. Thule had no word from the Gluckstag, and the silent telephone which the High Command had counted on to reduce Dr. Carey to a nervous wreck had boomeranged against them. President Habersham almost spilled his soup from his spoon because his eyes kept flicking toward the telephone.
After supper, after Hansen had received congratulations from Talliaferro and Cobb who now made an appearance, the President retired to his quarters to write his last will and testament, to be affixed to his memoirs. The men who remained in the wardroom were silent, intent on
