If he's trying to keep you locked up here a while it's most likely a sign he don't want you on the mainland for some reason.

Maybe that sounds foolish.

But it's all the head or tail I can make out of it, sir." "It doesn't 'sound foolish,'" contradicted Brice.

"As it happens it's just what he wants to do.

I don't know just why.
But I mean to find out.