Boyson turned away.
"None that I know of—and I have made every possible inquiry."
"And yet," said Barnes, with emphasis, addressing the English barrister, "by the law of England I am still Daphne's husband and that child's legal guardian?"
"Certainly."
"And if I could once get her upon ground under the English flag, she would be mine again, and no power could take her from me?"
"Except the same private violence that you yourself propose to exercise."
"I'd take care of that!" said Roger briefly.
"How do you mean to do it?" asked French, with knit brows. To be sitting there in an English vicarage plotting violence against a woman disturbed him.
"He and I'll manage it," said the quiet voice of the American officer.
The others stared.