"I'm much obliged to you." "You think that man really meant you to drown ?" he asked.
"What would you think yourself, Mr.Smeaton ?" I replied.

"Besides--didn't I see his face as he got himself and his yacht away from me?
Yon man is a murderer!" "It's a queer, strange business," he remarked, nodding his head.

"You'll be thinking now, of course, that it was he murdered both Phillips and Crone--eh ?" "Aye, I do think that!" said I."What else?
And he wanted to silence me because I'm the only living person that could let out about seeing him at the cross-roads that night and could prove that Crone saw him too.

My own impression is that Crone went straight to him after his talk with me--and paid the penalty." "That's likely," he assented.

"But what do you think made him turn on you so suddenly, yesterday, when things looked like going smoothly about everything, and he'd given you that stewardship--which was, of course, to stop your mouth ?" "I'll tell you," I said.