"I intend to take several of them with, me and——"
"Can't do it," broke in the attorney, "Indiana's a free state."
"Well, I can take'em along and hire 'em, I reckon."
"Reckon you can't—not in Indiana."
"What!"
"I said you couldn't take'em along and hire em.
"I'd like to know the reason for that. I—"
"Law. Law's against it."
Griffith drew his hand across his face as if he had lost his power to think.
"You can't take any of'em to Indiana, I tell you," said the attorney insistently, and Griffith seemed dazed. Then he began again: "Can't take them!" he exclaimed, in utter dismay.