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Something like joy came into Madelon's face. "Then we will save him, you and I! " she cried out. "We will save him together! He shall not be hung! He shall be set free! They shall let him out of jail to-day, and put me there instead. We will save him! He would not own that I was guilty and he innocent; Lot would not own it, nor my brother Richard, but now -- we will save him -- now!"
"How? " asked Dorothy, feebly.