Now listen to me.

I am going to shut this door, and lock you in.

I 'll be on board here for an hour yet, and if you utter so much as a whimper I 'll come down here, and fill you full of lead.

Are you going to keep still ?" "Ah--Ah sure am, sah; my Lordy! Ah don't want fer to be no dead niggah." "Well, you will be if I hear a peep out of you." I closed the door, testing it before turning away, smiling grimly to myself at recollection of those white eyeballs glaring at me through the gloom.

Louis was evidently not the stuff of which martyrs are made.
There was a small tell-tale compass fastened to a beam over the table.
I unscrewed this without difficulty, and dropped it into my pocket.