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How long the struggle was I cannot tell, or how often I was balked, or how many darted through before me when the door was opened. But I did not let him go; and at last, for now I was as strong as before, stronger than most about me, I got out into the air and brought him with me.
The big man shrugged his shoulders. "It didn't start. Some of the outfit thought they were looking for a row, but they balked on the job when Trelawney got his." Turning to Mrs. Mallory, he changed the subject abruptly. "Did you have a good time down the river?" Gordon, as he watched from a little distance, corrected earlier impressions. This man had passed the thirties.
The object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an irresponsible government which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry the plan out without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long-established practices and long-cherished principles of international action and honor; which chose its own time for the war; delivered its blow fiercely and suddenly; stopped at no barrier either of law or of mercy; swept a whole continent within the tide of blood not the blood of soldiers only, but the blood of innocent women and children also and of the helpless poor; and now stands balked but not defeated, the enemy of four-fifths of the world.
"Their little faces beamed with joy Two miles upon their way, As they supposed, each girl and boy, About to see the play. Their little cheeks with tears were wet, As back again they went, Balked by a sanctimonious set, Led by a Reverend Gent. "And if such Reverend Gents as he Could get the upperhand, Ah, what a hateful tyranny Would override the land!
It was Macartney our capable, hard-working superintendent for whom Paulette had mistaken me in the dark, that first night I came home to La Chance and the dream girl, who was no nearer me now than she was then; Macartney from whom she had sealed the boxes of gold, to prevent him substituting others and sending me off to Caraquet with worthless dummies; Macartney I had heard her tell herself she could not trust; Macartney who had put that wolf dope that there was no longer any doubt he had brought from Skunk's Misery in my wagon; Macartney who had had that boulder stuck in the road to smash my pole, by the same men who were posted by the corduroy road through the swamp to cut me off there if the wolves and the broken wagon failed; and Macartney who had been balked by a girl I had left at La Chance to fight him alone now!
One may well say, "Who are we of the upper classes to throw the first stone?" Under like conditions most of us would have become as discouraged or demoralized, yielded to the consolation of some vice, or balked at the monotonous grind of factory labor. But however that may be, in so far as social evils are due to these faults, the faults must be attacked, not accepted as inevitable and incurable.
He would forget that his partner had brought him from Faraway a dog-team with which to escape, that he was supplying him with funds to carry him through the winter. He would remember only that he had balked and humiliated him. "Better get into the house the stuff from the sled," the gambler said. "And we'll rustle wood. No telling how long this storm'll last." "Tha's right," agreed West.
"Thank God I ain't got the land-grabber's point of view! Nor the canting hypocrite's point of view! Nor a thick-headed forest-runner's point of view!" he loudly stormed, rising to end the discussion. But I was not to be balked, and I reminded him: "I called to pay my respects to Mistress Dale. I hope I may have the pleasure." "She's in the field back of the house. I'll call her," he grumbled.
Apparently he was convinced, for the next I heard you had been recalled to Dover. Thus, through talking too much, I balked my own plans." "Perhaps," said Frank, "it won't be too late for the other when the harbors of Ostend and Zeebrugge have been sealed." "But perhaps you won't come back," said Lord Hastings. "Oh, we'll be back, never fear," grinned Jack. "But what are we to do now?"
But it will be noticed by those who have attentively read this account that the colonists were refusing to pay less, in order that they might have the satisfaction of paying more. They balked, not at the amount of the tax, but at its principle. In the case of the tea-ships the duty of action fell upon Boston.
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