"Please repeat it."
The Governor repeated it.
"Are you absolutely sure?" she cried.
"Of course," he answered. "Why?"
"And you say you took the Empire State Express?" demanded Madeline Braine, almost beside herself with excitement. "What time does it leave in the morning?"
"It leaves always at the same time—eight-thirty in the morning."
"It was an all-day ride?"
"Yes."
"And Giles Ilingsworth was near you all the way? You're sure that you were with him on the Empire State Express at eleven o'clock—eleven in the morning that day?"
"Surely I was."