"Skipper John, what relation are those people to you?"
"Well, no relation 'zactly."
"Do they pay nothing at all?"
"Them has nothing," he replied.
"What made you take them in?"
"They was homeless, and the old lady was already blind."
"How long have they been with you?"
"Just twelve months come Saturday."
I found myself standing in speechless admiration in the presence of this man. I thought then, and I still think, that I had received one of my largest fees.
Ours is primarily a medical mission, and nothing that may have been stated in this book with reference to other branches of the work is meant in any way to detract from what to us as doctors is the basic reason for our being here, though we mean ours to be prophylactic as well as remedial medicine.