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The hours passed but slowly. The man who had first answered my summons brought me some food but to all my arguments he remained obdurate.
"The cap'n says you're to stay 'ere," he responded, "and if I let you out he'd put me in irons. Old Banfield ain't a skipper to be trifled with, I can tell yer."