noon
`` I guess you could call it that . '' Turner swung on his heel and went below , where Jones , relieved of guard duty by Burns , reported him locked in his room , refusing admission to his wife and Miss Lee , both of whom had knocked on the door . The trouble with Turner added to the general misery of the situation . Burns got our position at noon with more or less exactness , and the general working of the Ella went on well enough . But the situation was indescribable . Men started if a penknife dropped , and swore if a sail flapped . The call of the boatswain 's pipe rasped their ears , and the preparation for stowing the bodies in the jolly-boat left them unnerved and sick .