But come in, sir knight; my hovel is not what your lordship is accustomed to, but we may as well talk there as here beneath the sky." The two men disappeared from Walter's sight.

The latter in much surprise crept forward, but until he reached the spot where he had last seen the speakers he was unable to account for their disappearance.

Then he saw that the spot, although apparently a mere clump of bushes no higher than the surrounding country, was really an elevated hummock of ground.
Anyone might have passed close to the bushes without suspecting that aught lay among them.

In the centre, however, the ground had been cut away, and a low doorway, almost hidden by the bushes, gave access into a half subterranean hut; the roof was formed of an old boat turned bottom upwards, and this had been covered with brown turf.

It was an excellent place of concealment, as searchers might have passed within a foot of the bushes without suspecting that aught lay concealed within them.
"A clever hiding place," Walter thought to himself.