’She says her grandfather knows where she is, and that he doesn’t want her back again.’

‘Does she see Felix Carbury?’

‘I think she does,’ said Paul.

’Then it doesn’t matter whether the woman’s her aunt or not.  I’ll go and see her and try to get her back to Bungay.’

‘Why not send for John Crumb?’

Roger hesitated for a moment, and then answered, ’He’d give Felix such a thrashing as no man ever had before.  My cousin deserves it as well as any man ever deserved a thrashing; but there are reasons why I should not like it.  And he could not force her back with him.  I don’t suppose the girl is all bad,—­if she...