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They sat down at the end of the table, and Mayne took a chair that made their group somewhat apart from the others in the room. "It surely is a long time since you and I have talked together, Tamara," Mayne said. And remembering what he had been, she found something heartbreaking in this hint of the old gallantry and ease. "Oh, a long time!" Tamara agreed, her face colorless. Mayne looked heavily at George. "I am surely in a mean jam, Mr. Davis," he said. "If you and I hadn't split, I'd be a free man tonight." OH, I don't think you can say that. We might have put up a better show, but you never can be sure with a jury," George said. "It's too bad. You'll appeal, of course." "He said so," Mayne answered indifferently. "But I think our best bet is the governor." "He's a pretty hard man," George said doubtfully. "Rose? Sure," Mayne conceded. "And that's why we want Tamara to get at him." The old stupid, easy arrogance, the detestable plural, the significance of the glances he occasionally sent toward her, as one who had a secret understanding with him, all chilled Tamara's heart with a deadly chill. She tried to manage a sickly smile in answer to him. "I don't know the governor," she said. "That doesn't make any difference," Mayne assured her. "You get in touch with him, see? You tell him why you want him to let me off, see?" "Yes, I think the next move could very well be an appeal to the governor," George said briefly. He looked at Tamara, whose expression of reluctance and sickness betrayed the misery she was in, and he put a hand over hers. "That will be quite simple, Tam," he said, "and not more than anyone would do for an old friend." "If you want to put it that way!" Mayne said significantly. "You know I will do all I can for you, Mayne," Tamara said for herself in a rather faint voice, but quickly. "George did do all he could — " "But he ran for the office of district attorney right in the middle of my trial!" Mayne said angrily. "I saw he was giving just about half his attention to my case, and I switched to Willoughby." "You told me to get out," George reminded him mildly. "Well, they told me Willoughby could swing it," Mayne muttered. "I thought he might myself," George said. Mayne regarded him gloomily in the silence that followed. Then he seemed to make up his mind to take the plunge. "Maybe you don't know just exactly what good friends Tam and I used to be," he said, with his old trick of narrowing his eyes on a faint superior smile. "This is an important thing to me, Davis, and I'm not going to mince words with you. Your wife wrote me a letter a few years ago; I've got it — we don't need any of that 'old friend' talk. What she's got to tell the governor is that she and I were sweethearts a long time go. She got her husband to defend me because she still remem bers— that's the line! No woman ever gets away from her first love; everyone knows that. What do I care what he thinks as long as he signs a pardon?" Tamara was very white. She spoke simply. "You don't think for one moment that George doesn't know all you know of me, and more?" she said. "I'm not quite such a fool as that." Mayne looked from one to the other, suspiciously. "Well, maybe he does," he said. "And maybe he'd like to look at that." From his pocket he took a folded sheet of pale blue paper. This was not a long letter; it was but a dozen lines. She knew them all. George glanced at it, leaned toward his wife: "Here, you'll want that back again," he said. "You aren't going to get away with it just the same," Mayne said sharply. "I'm in a tight corner, and you've got to get me out! I've never told anyone a word of this; I've never mentioned Tamara Todhunter to anyone. But you threw me down — and I could make it hot for you, Davis!" yOU talk it over with Willoughby," said George, still speaking quietly, "and if you both think it the wisest thing Tam will certainly write to the governor, or see him — " "Write him, nothing," Mayne said. "You've got to play this up big. Her old love returns — she will fight for his life—" "I think I would rather have you do anything you can do, Mayne, than that I should do that," Tamara said with sudden spirit. "How d'you mean, you'd rather have Poor Complexion — Noxzema is a grand aid in healing Pimples and other externally caused skin irritations. NURSES DISCOVERED A BEAUTY SECRET THAT'S HELPED THOUSANDS TO LOVELIER COMPLEXIONS Famous Medicated Cream Helps Restore Natural Skin Beauty — Over 15,000,000 Jars Used Yearly! IF your skin is rough or chapped — if it's marred by large pores or externally caused blemishes — if you want a softer, smoother complexion — try this extraordinary medicated cream — Noxzema! 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