"I know. We could watch where they took 'em to—the ones that bought 'em—an' rescue 'em 'fore anyone knows anything about it."
"Sounds all right," said William guardedly.
Ginger turned to his charges.
"You'd like to be slaves, wun't you?" he asked brightly and persuasively.
"Yiss!" chorussed George and John.
"You see?" said Ginger triumphantly to William. "I'll go an' fix things up. 'S worth tryin' anyway."
"Sounds all right," said William again doubtfully; and added gloomily, out of the vast store of his experience, "but you never know where things ends."
A few minutes later Ginger brought two large luggage labels, each inscribed:
SLAVE
CHEEP