And I put it crudely enough.
"How did you know ?" I asked.
He laughed at that--sneeringly, of course.
"Aye, that's plain enough," said he.

"No fencing about that! How did I know?
Because when you saw Sir Gilbert I wasn't five feet away from you, and what you saw, I saw.

I saw you both!" "You were there ?" I exclaimed.
"Snug behind the hedge in front of which you planted yourself," he answered.

"And if you want to know what I was doing there, I'll tell you.
I was doing--or had been doing--a bit of poaching.

And, as I say, what you saw, I saw!" "Then I'll ask you a question, Mr.Crone," I said.