turnkey

Silently the turnkey passes the cell, like a flitting mystery casting its shadow athwart a troubled soul.

"Wery probable," says the turnkey, smoking his pipe wery fierce, and making believe he warn't up to wot the little man wanted.

He had not many visitors, and his only attendant was a prisoner, who was appointed for that purpose by the turnkey.

The turnkey withdrew to a discreet distance, where he remained within call, yet beyond the range of ordinary conversation.

Breathless, exhausted, the free baron marked the conflict now transferred to the turnkey and the jester.