Did you imagine that you could keep on defying all the laws?
You've just threatened me with a taste of the law.

You may try a taste yourself, Professor Hawkins!" "Let us out of this place!" insisted Hawkins angrily.

"Come on, friends!" He rallied his own force of seven men and started toward the door.
"Of course you can try to get away," Reade warned the fellow.

"But the effort will cost you all broken heads, to say the least.

I have placed you all under arrest for breaking the laws of Alabama, and, before we'll let you go, we'll break a few bones for each of you." Outside the workmen of the camp were thronging by this time.