He cast a forbidding look at Madelon.

"I will stand here," she said with a strange meekness, almost as if her heart were broken; but when the jailer prepared to follow Dorothy into Burr's cell she caught him by the arm and tried to force him back, and cried out sharply that he should let her see him alone.

"She is the girl he is going to marry, I tell you!" she said.

"Let them see each other alone.

You cannot come between two like that when they are in such trouble." Alvin Mead looked at her a second irresolutely.