"I beg you to let me come in, only for a few moments," said she.

"I will not make you any trouble.

I will come out directly when you bid me to." Alvin Mead looked at her a second, then at Madelon with rough inquiry.

"Who did ye say she was ?" he growled.
"Parson Fair's daughter, the lady that's going to marry Burr Gordon." "I can't let but one of ye see him, and she can't stay more'n ten minutes," said Alvin Mead, and moved aside, and Madelon and Dorothy entered.
They followed Alvin Mead down the icy, dark corridor to Burr's cell door.

He unlocked it, and bade Dorothy enter.