"Those fellows out there are desperate enough to sack the house if that was their only method of getting food.
And I promised they should have the chance." "Oh, you did, indeed! That would have proven a friendly act." "Necessity does not take much account of friendship.

I was responsible for a hundred starving men.

Under such conditions force would be justified.

I doubt if I could control the fellows now if provisions should be refused." "There is no necessity for indulging in threats, Captain Grant," said the boy's voice coldly.

"Elmhurst has never yet turned a soldier away in hunger.