He said too, that if she had to go to the hospital,
sudden, first question a surgeon would ask was who were her parents, and
if she had none, who in their place could give him a right to operate. He
said while she was _mine_, and it was my _right_, and _my job_, the law
and the surgeon would say _no_, 'cause we were not related, and I was not
of age. He said there were times when the law got its paddle in, and went
to fooling with red tape, it let a sick person lay and die while it
decided what to do. He said he'd known a few just exactly such cases; so
to keep the law from making a fool of itself, as it often did, we'd better
step in and fix things to suit us before it ever got a showdown."
"What did he do?" asked Douglas Bruce eagerly.
"Well, after we'd talked it over we moved up to the back porch and Peter
explained to Ma, who is the boss of that family, only she doesn't _know_
it, and she said for him to do exactly what his conscience and his God
dictated. That's where his namesake put it over that first Peter.
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