"All the same you need looking after. Enoch, if you defy the law you'll find it the worse for you. This ain't Norway."
"No; we've got no such fools as you in Norway," retorted the giant. "Tell me what you want."
Tarbox whispered to Spriggins.
The latter in a tremulous voice said, "Enoch, I arrest you in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and I require you to come with me at once."
"Come and take me," said Anak, his broad face relaxing with a smile.
"What do you mean?" asked Tarbox, quickly.
"I mean that I shan't stir from this chair. My contract with this show requires me to sit here. If the constable wants me, he must take me by force. He needn't be afraid. If he can take me he may."
Even Tarbox looked rather nonplussed. Both he and Spriggins together would have found it impossible to carry off a giant weighing over four hundred pounds.
"You see, we'll have to give it up," said Spriggins, with evident pleasure.