"I take your word as between gentlemen! Well, now, it's this here--you see me as I am, here in a cave, like one o' them old eremites that used to be in the ancient days.
Why am I here! 'Cause just now it ain't quite convenient for me to show my face in Scarhaven.

I'm wanted for poaching, guv'nor--that's the fact! This here is a safe retreat.

If I was tracked here, I could make my way out at the back of this hole--there's a passage here--before anybody could climb that rock.

However, nobody suspects I'm here.

They think--that is, that old devil Chatfield and the police--they think I'm off to sea.