The Governor looked at her questioningly.
"I was informed that you had received the Ilingsworth papers," she began, going right to the point, "and that Mr. Higgins had been here to see you. I have come about it, too."
The Governor drew a chair forward for her; and the young woman leaning across a table, her figure half-resting lightly upon it, her slender arm stretching toward him, continued:
"Yes, I have come to plead for Giles Ilingsworth, to save him from——" She stopped suddenly, and for an instant her eyes held the other's glance.
"Who sent you here?" presently asked the Governor.
"I came of my own accord, sir."
"You are not allied with the Ougheltree crowd?" he asked, and his eyes narrowed.
Madeline Braine opened hers wide.
"What Ougheltree crowd?" she queried in return.