"Very well," said the advocate, seeing I meant business, "since my client permits me to speak, I'll tell you plainly. Whatever the child's actual parentage . . . perhaps you know best. . . ."
"Go on, sir."
"Whatever the child's parentage, it was born in wedlock. Even the recent divorce proceedings have not disturbed that. Therefore we hold that the child has a right to the inheritance which in due time should come to Mary O'Neill's offspring by the terms of the settlement upon her husband."
It was just as I expected, and every drop of my blood boiled at the thought of my darling's child in the hands of that frozen-hearted woman.
"So that is the law, is it?"
"That is the law in Ellan."
"In the event of Mary O'Neill's death, and her father's death, her child and all its interests will come into the hands of. . . ."
"Of her father's heir and representative."
"Meaning, again, this lady?"
"Probably."