human
How on earth did you find it out?
gpt
I have promised not to name my witnesses unless it is necessary to call them forward, replied Crawley.
human
I am very much obliged to you for coming here, and I feel that it is awfully bad not to take you into full confidence and give up names. But you see I have passed my word and cannot help myself. There's one thing I can tell you, Buller. Saurin was the poacher for whose moonlight excursion you were taken up.
gpt
By Jove! exclaimed Buller.
human
Well, I should have imagined that he might have done that, but not such a dirty business as this.
gpt
I suppose he felt himself up a regular tree, poor beggar!
human
Well, Gould, said Crawley,
gpt
I hope that your doubts as to my story of having been robbed are set at rest.
human
I don't know that I ever had any, replied Gould rather sullenly;
gpt
Well, it was not pleasant for me, as you may easily understand, said Crawley.
human
However, that is all over, and we will say nothing more about it. And now, of course we will all keep our council about this business for some time. It would be breaking faith with Saurin if we let a word escape before he has left the school; because, if the doctor heard of it, he would insist on expelling him at any rate.
gpt
Yes; and we had better hold our tongues for our own sakes, observed Robarts.
human
My father's a lawyer, and I have heard him talk about something of the same kind. And I have a strong idea that we have just committed a crime, as that chap in the French play talked prose without knowing it.
gpt
What do you mean?
human
Just this, that to make terms with a thief, by which you agree not to prosecute him, is a legal offence called `compounding a felony.'