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To himself, he could give no reason for establishing the identity of the smoking-compartment informant. He had acted from some sort of subconscious compulsion, without reasoning, without knowing why he had catalogued the information or of what possible use it could be to him.
There was no compulsion to perform military duties beyond dread of being disgraced in the eyes of the neighbors, and there was no pecuniary reward for performing them; nevertheless the moral sentiment of a backwoods community was too robust to tolerate habitual remissness in military affairs, and the coward and laggard were treated with utter scorn, and were generally in the end either laughed out, or "hated out," of the neighborhood, or else got rid of in a still more summary manner.
If we had been formerly endued with this power, he would not have obtained what any one may say he has obtained, nor would he have risen to the prominence enabling him to do the deeds that were a natural sequence. Accordingly, let no one retort that the rights which we were seen to give him under command and compulsion and amid laments were legally and rightfully bestowed.
There were also the apartments which the pope had occupied, once voluntarily; subsequently, under compulsion. Alas! and there was also the little cabinet, in which the emperor, the once so mighty and illustrious ruler of Europe, had abdicated the crown which his victories, his good deeds, and the love of the French people, had placed on his head!
And who ever employed such compulsion as the threat of such an injury as to a senator? or what severer punishment has ever been he himself was unable to perform? As, in fact, he has failed to perform many promises made to many people.
The old, placid days of content were over; already I was in a new world, a world of bigger things, where the great game was being played, with the tense desperateness of those who gamble with life and death. I had not sought the change! Rather it had been forced upon me. I had no ambitions to gratify; the old life had pleased me very well. I had quitted it simply upon compulsion.
Only at parting, when she would have danced away, he suddenly stopped her with a word. "Nonette!" She stood still as if at a word of command; there had been something of compulsion in his tone. He did not look at her, and the smile he wore was wholly alien to the words he spoke. "Be careful how you go! And don't see Bunny again till I have seen him!" A hard breath went through Toby.
But the eyes of the man the terrible eyes that condemned men to their graves without a flicker of ruth were fixed on the range-rider with a steady compulsion filled with hidden significance. "Yes." Steve waited, alert and watchful. Presently he would understand what this grim, virile old scoundrel was driving at. "You fought him in the open. You played your cards above the table.
"You're under no compulsion to do so," said he. "But I thought you said you were a literary man." "Well?" "Well literary men never care what they wear so long as they attract attention, do they?" I laughed. "We are not all built that way, Adonis," said I. "Some of us are modest and have a little taste." "Well, it's news to me," said he. "I guess it must be among the minor lights."
There is no need, however, to extend the régime of compulsion over the whole field. The vast mass of human industrial effort must still lie outside of the immediate control of the government. Every man will still earn his own living and that of his family as best he can, relying first and foremost upon his own efforts.
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