Fine or graft, orwhatever the hell it is, youve got
to pay it if you want to be letout. Then there wouldbe silence for a moment
more.
Why, the nigger they tried to put in here with me!
Ill send you both to hell where youbelong, if its the last thing that I ever
do!
That figures up to seventy-three dollars. I know
that shes justwaiting for me to die!
For Christs sake, dont drag my brother into this,
he whispered.
I tell you I saw him standing in the cell when I
camein!
And Eugene did not try to answer him, for there was
nothing hecould say.
Thats the first time anything likethat has ever
happened. Then they would be silent for a while, and mournful, broodingdrunken time
would pass around them.
Why no, Eugene, Robert answered in a slow
protesting voice thathad dull wonder and surprise in it.
Do you want everyone in the whole damnedplace to
hear you? Doyou want to go over to D-d-Daisys tonight? That figures up to
seventy-three dollars. One of the men raised his ponderousfist and shouted: Git back
in thar now or Ill hit ye.
Why no, Eugene, Robert answered in a slow
protesting voice thathad dull wonder and surprise in it.
Do you guess theyrealize theyve got George Blakes
nephew here?
Resisting an officer in the p-p-p-p-performance of
hisduties! Luke paused and stood, distractedly thrusting his fingers throughhis
hair.
One of the men raised his ponderousfist and
shouted: Git back in thar now or Ill hit ye. Why no, Eugene, Robert answered in a
slow protesting voice thathad dull wonder and surprise in it.
Resisting an officer in the p-p-p-p-performance of
hisduties! Then they would be silent for a while, and mournful, broodingdrunken time
would pass around them. Presently Blake spoke, out of a drunken silence,
saying:Gant? Ill get my forty-five out when I go home.
Do you guess theyrealize theyve got George Blakes
nephew here?
W-w-w-wy the nice neat nigger-BaptistGod-damned
sons of bitches!
And Ill tell YOU what IS a hell of a thing! Doyou
want to go over to D-d-Daisys tonight?