Besides, she would henceforth be guarded with a ceaseless efficiency second only to that which encompasses a President of the United States.

Always some man of the service would be watching those who watched her.

This was going to develop into a game of small nets, one or two victims at a time.
Because these enemies of civilization lacked coherence in action there would be slim chance of rounding them up in bulk.

But from now on men would vanish--one here, a pair there, perhaps on occasion four or five.
And those who had known them would know them no more.

The policy would be that employed by the British in the submarine campaign--mysterious silence after the evanishment.
"It's all so exciting!" said Kitty.