"A crooked mother can't raise a straight daughter. It's up to the daughter—and I've failed!"


[BOOK THREE
A MATTER OF TWENTY-FIVE THOUSANDDOLLARS]

CONTENTS
I["That Gal's Crooked"] 336
II["IT WAS IN THAT CHURCH LAST SUNDAY!"]344
III["Uh! 'es Got 'im a Nigga!"]349
IV["Please Go!" She Cried Hoarsely]355
V[The Time Limit]362
VI[Reminiscences—Charge of the Black Cavalry]369
VII["Please Stop—and Save Me!"]375
VIII[What Her Eyes Saw]381
IX"[Wha's Y' Man?]"386
X["Kick Higher Dare Gal!"]392
XI["My Wife—Sick—HELL!"] 397
XII[Mid-Night December Thirty-First]407
XIII[Into the Infinite Long Ago]412
XIV["Go, Brother! In God's Name, Go!"]418
[BOOK FOUR
THE QUEST ETERNAL]

CONTENTS
I["'Scriminatin' 'Ginst Nigga's"]422
II[At Last She Didn't Care]432
III["They Knew He Had Written the Truth!"]439
IV[The Woman With the Three Moles]446
V["Hello Brown Skin"]450
VI["WHO'RE YOU!" She Repeated]456
VII["At Last, Oh Lord, At Last!"]462
VIII["Well I'm Going." And She Went]468
IX["I Hope You—Won't—Be—Angry"]473
X [Vellun Parish—Jefferson Bernard]478
XI["Mildred, I've Come Back"]495
XII[The Slave Market]504
XIII["Restitution"]515

She had never felt that he would rebuke her, but now she turned her head away to shut out the scorn in the look he had given her.