And a little reflection will convince any gentleman here that there is always a danger of the exceptional in your system.

The fact is, those fellows have the game in their own hands already.

A strike of the whole body of the Brotherhood of Engineers alone would starve out the entire Atlantic seaboard in a week; labor insurrection could make head at a dozen given points, and your government couldn't move a man over the roads without the help of the engineers." "That is so," said Kendrick, struck by the dramatic character of the conjecture.

He imagined a fiction dealing with the situation as something already accomplished.
"Why don't some fellow do the Battle of Dorking act with that thing ?" said Fulkerson.

"It would be a card." "Exactly what I was thinking, Mr.Fulkerson," said Kendricks.
Fulkerson laughed.