"You have to be loyal where
loyalty is due," he said. "That's what the rule says; it's Rule Two.
But, anyway, there's another rule and that's Rule Seven and it says
you have to be kind. You can't be kind licking people, that's one sure
thing. So it's a technicality that you don't have to be loyal to an
orphan home. You can ask any lawyer because that's what you call logic."
"Deadwood Gamely's father is a lawyer," Pepsy said, "and I hate
Deadwood Gamely and I wouldn't go to his house to ask his father.
He's a smarty and I hit him with a tomato. Have I got a right to
do that--if he's a smarty?"
Here was another legal technicality, but Pee-Wee was equal to the
occasion. "A--a scout has to be a--he has to have a good aim," he said.
CHAPTER VII
A BIG IDEA
They had been driving the cows home during this learned
exposition on scouting. Two things were now perfectly clear
to Pepsy's simple mind. One, that she would be loyal at any
cost, loyal to her new friend, and through him to all the
scouts. She knew them only through him. They were a race of
wonder-workers away off in the surging metropolis of Bridgeboro.
She could not aspire to be one of them, but she could be loyal,
she could "stick up" for them.
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