He smiled. "We shall arrive presently, and your first assignment is that you must accompany me tonight on the way to meet my second lieutenant. He does not know yet that he is my lieutenant, but that is what our meeting is about. Make no mistake, he<i>will</i>become my lieutenant, for I can offer him, much as I did you, the thing he desires more than all else in the world. He desires power, and that I can give him."