Here it is.

Read it." The sheriff scanned the brief note over, and put it in his pocket.
"Just take a chair for a moment, will you, and I will see if Mrs.
Brenton is ready to receive you." [Illustration: Jane.] Stratton seated himself, and, pulling a paper from his pocket, was busily reading when the sheriff again entered.
"I am sorry to say," he began, "after you have had all this trouble, that Mrs.Brenton positively refuses to see you.

You know I cannot _compel_ a prisoner to meet any one.

You understand that, of course." "Perfectly," said Stratton, thinking for a moment.

"See here, sheriff, I have simply _got_ to have a talk with that woman.