Blood Ties
““There was no mention of my mother.”
He rubbed his chin. “This is not my sort of thing, sweetie. I have no experience of adoptions at all. But I should think there must be some release on the part of the mother.”
“It wasn’t there.”
“I imagine that was a separate matter, and your parents might not have been given that. No reason why they should have been, I suppose. You say South Bend?”
“Isn’t that odd?”
“Wait a minute. I went to school there.”
“You know what I mean.”
“Who was the lawyer?”
“Amos... Cadbury. He’s a friend of my grandfather’s.”
“Cadbury! He went to law school at Notre Dame.”
“So you can talk to him?”
“I could, sure, but I’d rather not. Look, Martha, the paper you saw was registered in Indiana, but any release on the part of the mother must have been made where the birth occurred.”
“It must have been Fox River.”
“Not necessarily.”
“Oh, please don’t make it seem an insoluble problem.”
“I’ll tell you what I can do.MoreLess
He rubbed his chin. “This is not my sort of thing, sweetie. I have no experience of adoptions at all. But I should think there must be some release on the part of the mother.”
“It wasn’t there.”
“I imagine that was a separate matter, and your parents might not have been given that. No reason why they should have been, I suppose. You say South Bend?”
“Isn’t that odd?”
“Wait a minute. I went to school there.”
“You know what I mean.”
“Who was the lawyer?”
“Amos... Cadbury. He’s a friend of my grandfather’s.”
“Cadbury! He went to law school at Notre Dame.”
“So you can talk to him?”
“I could, sure, but I’d rather not. Look, Martha, the paper you saw was registered in Indiana, but any release on the part of the mother must have been made where the birth occurred.”
“It must have been Fox River.”
“Not necessarily.”
“Oh, please don’t make it seem an insoluble problem.”
“I’ll tell you what I can do.MoreLess
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