One is this, what explanation is to be given of my occupying that room, if there is a row ?" "There will not be a row," Louis answered coolly.

"If monsieur is hurt, I shall see to it that he is conveyed to his own apartment.

If any one who attacks him, or tries to search the apartment, should be hurt by monsieur, I shall see, too, that they are removed quietly.
These things are easy enough.

The service through the night is almost abandoned.

Monsieur may not know it, but on the floor on which he sleeps there is not a single servant." "Supposing I ring my bell ?" I asked.
"If it were answered at all," Louis said, "it would be by the lift man." "On the whole," I remarked, "it seems to me that the residential side of the hotel is admirably suited to the nocturnal adjustment of small differences!" Louis smiled.
"There has never been any trouble, sir," he said.