He turned him over on his side, and then went to the lair of Bokes, who was in the same condition; and he concluded that neither of them would come to his senses for a couple of hours at least.
Captain Sullendine had been assisted to a comfortable position when he turned in, and he was sleeping with nothing to disturb him.

There was no lock on the door, and Graines could not turn the key.

The interior of the cabin was finished in the most primitive manner, for the vessel had not been built to accommodate passengers.

The door of the captain's stateroom was made of inch and a half boards, with three battens, and the handle was an old-fashioned bow-latch.

There was a heavy bolt on the inside, as though the apartment had been built to enable the master to fortify himself in case of a mutiny.
The engineer could not fasten the door with any of the fixtures on it; but it opened inward, as is generally the case on shipboard, and this fact suggested to the ingenious officer the means of securing it even more effectually than it could have been done with a lock and key.