Beyond mentioning his escape, the Squire had never talked to him on the subject.
"It was he who bade us stand and deliver, and the moment he spoke the voice seemed familiar to me, and, thinking it over, I have an impression that it was his.

I may be mistaken, for I have had him in my mind ever since I heard that he had escaped, and may therefore have connected the voice with him erroneously, and yet I cannot but think that I was right.
You see, there are two or three suspicious circumstances.

In the first place, there was this man down here making inquiries.

Knapp went down early this morning with the innkeeper, and told me before breakfast that Peters at once recognized the fellow you shot as the man who had made the inquiries.

Now, the natural result of making inquiries would have been that the two men would the next evening have broken into the house, thinking that during our absence they would meet with no resistance.
Instead of doing this they waylaid us on the road, which looks as if it was me they intended to attack, and not the house." "But how could they have known that it was us, father?
It is certainly singular that one of the two men should have been the fellow who was up at the inn, but it may be only a matter of coincidence." "I don't know, Mark; I don't say that singular coincidences don't occur, but I have not much faith in them.