Yes, head man he was and what word he let go was law.

6 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:03:58 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- And it wouldn't be bad. The other two fellows snoring in their sacks two levels down.

- You'd smoke your pipe to kill the stink of the wind and it wouldn't be bad.

- About those other two. Louis and Auguste. What a pair.

- Louis, he was head man, was a big fellow from the Basque country.

- Black beard, little hard black eyes and a pair of arms that - I tell you, those arms were as big around as my legs.

- Yes, head man he was and what word he let go was law.

- A silent fellow. And although I spent my first two weeks trying to strike up a real conversation, the most I could ever get out of him was...

- I took up this profession because I don't like people. They want to talk too much. It's quiet work, light-tending. Let's keep it that way.

- You... you're getting to be as bad as Auguste. I thought maybe for once they'd send me somebody who could keep his mouth shut...

- When he accused me of becoming like Auguste, I quieted down because Auguste was the talkingest man I'd ever met.

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