Why not telegraph to the governor of Portland ?" "I thought you wanted to save Mrs.Goddard from needless scandal; did you not ?" returned the squire.

"The governor of Portland would send down a squad of police who would publish the whole affair.

He would have done so as soon as the man escaped had he known that Mrs.Goddard lived here." "I wonder how Goddard himself knew it," remarked Mr.Ambrose.
"I don't know.

Perhaps she told him she was coming here, at their last interview.

Or perhaps she wrote to him in prison and the governor overlooked the letter.