I overheard once--God knows I didn't try to--only he forgot I was on the other side of the skylight with my sextant--I overheard him--you know how he sits hanging over her chair and talking away without properly opening his mouth--yes I caught the word right enough.

He was alluding to the captain as "the jailer." The jail.

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!" Franklin broke off with a profane execration.