I did!" Dorothy gave a faint scream and shrank away from her.
"I did!" repeated Madelon.

"Now do you believe he's innocent, when somebody else has told you ?" Dorothy's face was white as her pillows, her eyes big with terror.
There was a soft thud against her door.

The black woman was keeping arduous watch.
"You couldn't!" Dorothy gasped out.
"I could! Look at my hands; they are as strong as a man's." "You--couldn't!" "I could, and I did." Dorothy shook her head in hysterical doubt.
"Listen," said Madelon--"listen.

I'll tell you why I did it, Dorothy Fair.

Burr Gordon had been with me a little before he went with you.
Perhaps you knew it.