"WE know.

But when we try to prepare for what is coming, we must do it secretly--in underhand ways, for fear the newspapers will get hold of it and ridicule us, and accuse us of trying to drag the country into war.

That's why we have to prepare under cover.

That's why I've had to skulk around these hills like a chicken thief.

And," he added sharply, "that's why that boy must not know who I am.