"Let me out, I say."
"I dare not, and I won't 'thout the cap'n's orders. So you might's well be easy."
From the interior of the densely dark place I now heard an angry oath.
"I say, where are you?" cap was impatiently asking.
There was no time to lose.
"Growler!"
"Aye, aye!" returned the guard.
"Didn't you say somebody was here to see me?"
Growler turned on me a glance filled with mistrust, and making a dive, tried to shoot several bolts.
Now was my last and only chance.