article_snippet.sent: Such a veil of secrecy existed over a delicate operation Such a veil of secrecy is not known if Such a veil of secrecy was ever recovered.
article_snippet.sent: No one was allowed on deck, No one was allowed along the alleyways forward of the engine room, and no one off the mess decks unless the alleyways were on watch.
article_snippet.sent: For the next hour it was cloak-and-dagger stuff again, no one allowed on the upper deck forward of the Wardroom or on the working alleyways.
article_snippet.sent: In the shaded lights were many officials, officers, men in good suits, bayonets, torches, clipboards, tarpaulins, surreptitious smokers, but nary an onlooker. '