He forgets I've been to sea a good part of my life and that a feller has to talk strong aboard ship.
Common language may do for keepin' store, but it don't get a vessel nowheres; the salt sort of takes the tang out of it, seems so.

I'm through for the present, Zoeth.

I'll keep the rest till I meet the swab that loaded up that chair for me." The Judge laughed again.

Then he opened his desk and took from a drawer two folded papers.
"Gentlemen," he said, gravely, "I asked you to come here with me because there is an important matter, a very important matter, which I, as Captain Hall's legal adviser, must discuss with you." Captain Shadrach and Zoeth looked at each other.

The former tugged at his beard.
"Hum!" he mused.