There is no need for me to break a trust without some definite object.

It seems to me that if your Secret Service Department were worth anything at all, your country would be in a state almost of panic.

What is it they are playing down there?
Polo, isn't it?
There are six or eight military teams, crowds of your young officers making holiday.

And all the time Krupps are working overtime, working night and day, and surrounded by sentries who shoot at sight any stranger.

There are parts of the country, even now, under martial law.