His lordship was just sculling down, and then I knew it was some one else had gone by the lodge, and not him.
Perhaps it was your lordship ?" "You knew it was Lord Hartledon in the boat?
I mean, you recognized him?
You did not mistake him for me ?" "I knew him, my lord.

If I'd been a bit nearer the lodge, I shouldn't have been likely to mistake even your lordship for him." Lord Hartledon was gazing into the man's face still; never once had his eyes been removed from it.
"You did not see Lord Hartledon later ?" "I never saw him all day but that once when he passed in the skiff." "You did not follow him, then ?" "Of what use ?" debated the man.

"I couldn't call out my business from the banks, and didn't know his lordship was going to land lower down.

I went straight back to Calne, my lord, walking with that man Pike--who is a rum fellow, and has a history behind him, unless I'm mistaken; but it's no business of mine.

I made my mind up to another night of it in Calne, thinking I'd get to Hartledon early next morning before his lordship had time to go out; and I was sitting comfortably with a pipe and a glass of beer, when news came of the accident." Lord Hartledon believed the man to be telling the truth; and a weight--the source of which he did not stay to analyse--was lifted from his mind.