The man answered:
“He must talk or he is a dead boy, that’s all.”
The man who had been ordered to take Ike upstairs and bind him seized hold of the lad, and the latter began to plead. The man who appeared to be the leader said:
“No use, sonny, there is only one way out of this—talk.”
“I am talking.”
“Oh, you are smart. You know what I mean—who sent you here?”
“No one.”
“All right, take him upstairs and we will decide what to do with him.”
Ike was dragged from the room while protesting in the most earnest manner, and so he struggled all the way up the stairs.
After he had been led from the room, one of the men said: