Last nigo my    Buster ellme about illie. I run all t he said.’

        Yes.’

        ter and trouble e up. Portia ed. S ongue and tened    o do e guard picked on time. t on roader ry to run off in taken all taken all to t this here ice-cold room.’

        tle in .

        It    six ia said. You remember t cold spell t illie and this room like ice.’

        Portia spoke in a loen. It and. tin    t    a broke on .    o look beo find the words already said.

        . . . and ts sruggle on t. And nobody e. ts and nobody e.’

        I am deaf, said Doctor Copeland. I ot uand.’

        t our illie and this here ice-cold room.

        takes to ts in ts sruggle on t. It s froze. ts ss and three days. And nobody e.

        Doctor Copeland pressed    still teady trembling    stop. I ot    you say.’

        t last to get taken illie and to t.

        Buster Jo one foot and t    our illie— sawed off.’

        tia leaned over and struck able. S oan, but sruck op of table. ttled and o ttered in     try to assemble t to somewhere.

        Crippled? he asked. illiam?’

        Portia knocked able and t of a drum and    took up tly tted to tood.

        hey send him home?’

        Portia leaned er dont kno. Soon aftere all t places. t Buster to anoto be home soon now.’

        t for a long time, looking iled agaio a saucer and some of it dripped down on her lap.

        illiam------ Doctor Copeland said. As eet deeply into ongue and    for a long wia held his hand.

        t made tside it ill raining.

        If I means to get to on noia said.

        opped at t-rack to put on    and s in a gust of , cold air.    out o curb    neion. Along the

        sideia leaned against tor Copeland folloer ouco steady railed behem.

        ed for terrible anger as t out of t. But it did not e to ed    fences and t    into til at last tou of despair and took ease.

        In tain strong and ed lauged soul be    music but only ted d, true purpose t    rest tom of utmost ion and for a ？

        But    onward.

        ?Uncle, said Mick. You t coffee ter?’

        Doctor Copeland looked into    gave no sign t o last to tia ered first and teps outside. Mid tle brotcia told of illiam. Doctor Copeland did not listen to t art, a middle, and an end. to to hear.

        Doctor Copeland sat on a stool in t and seamed over tove.    on    t occesionally h a handkerchief.

        rembled, and all of iff    to make it be still.Mr. Singer came into tor Copeland raised up his

        face to y or e. Of all t express tions. For ood thing.

        Mick ia, "s your fathers name?’

        Mady Copeland.’

        Mick leaned over close to Doctor Copeland and sed in , dont you t coffee tle better?’

        Doctor Copeland started.

        Quit t ia said. he    hear well as you .’

        Oied t and put tove to boil again.

        te still lingered in tor Copeland still looked into his face. You heard?’

        ll to those prison guards? Mick asked.

        dont knoia said. I just dont know.’

        Id do somet it.’

        Not t’

        "t to be treated just like them.

        orse. I wishose men myself.’

        "t aint no    o talk, Portia said. Js    just rest bad knoo be g by Satan.’

        Anyill play his harp.’

        its sa about all he    do.’

        t. In tcure about. t table to t a baggy pair of trousers and a bathrobe.

        te greedily in tcs of the house.

        Mick or Copeland a cup of coffee mixed ery milk. to the saucer,

        so first    ed coffee at all.

        I wishem, Mick said.

        ted. t out to    for sto one of t rooms. Mrs. Kelly oairs.

        te still stood in tor Copeland gazed up into    sound—t—but ion all te was gone.

        Doctor Copeland and Portia ime on tool in t last o go.

        *You sit back doo stay togeto fry some fisatoes for tay on o serve you a good    meal.’

        You know I have calls.’

        Less us just to really bust loose. Besides, I dont    you messing around is by yourself.’

        ated a. It was very damp. Daugs.’

        Portia ove until t.

        Stoned    and turned up t his neck.

        and spat into one of t    tove. On t opped and spoke to eps. ed t ay ia if o get leave from work.

        teadily. to t refuse. As    he ground.

        rictly necessary visits. tteo office patients from noon until ter s cig it o try to cogitate on thing.

        o see a    at time    sit alone in ty room.    on    and    out again into t, cold street. In    ions to be left at the pharmacy.

        But     into tore and laid tions upo turned from t bot before he gained his poise.

        Doctor, ;You must be a I and all our colleagues and t in our minds ao you our deepest sympathy.’

        Doctor Copeland turned sly a    a    oo little. S, true purpose, to justice. iffly, o oreet. ated    success. e person of poo t of eace men ter in . At last .    ate but entered quickly, determio see t afternoon.

        t y except for a feher side.

        kno t last o a narrow passage.

        e men stood talking togeto to pass, but one of turo stop him.

        you ?’

        "ill you please tell me wed?’

        te man jerked oor Copeland reized y sheriff.

        times but ty did not remember e people looked

        similar to Negroes but Negroes took care to differentiate beto     usually boto fix te man said,    you , Reverend?’

        title led    a minister, or. My name is Be Mady Copeland and I ely ent business.’

        ty e men in t a clearly enunciated speec so?    y ser ilson and I tell you ther day.’

        It is imperative t I see tor Copeland said. I .’

        t trance of t doe men tio talk, but    tcermined not to leave.

        More te men    freely bad fort ty c rigid, urn later in ternoon here.

        All of    in     hdraw.

        e y said finally.

        rembled, and eady on . Yes?’

        you say you ed to see t?’

        I did not say, said Doctor Copeland. I merely said t my business .’

        ?You t stand up straig you? I smell it on your breath.’

        "t is a lie, said Doctor Copeland slowly.    ——’

        truck    the wall.

        to t resist.

        ts trouble ry, these

        damn biggity niggers like    ted for terrible anger a it arise in    umbled. t o took o tation and to t    trengto ruck rengt    time. .    s and even struck at tc so t    move. t by foot to a cell ened. Someone beo he floor.

        In te men ce prisoner    more teen years of age. tor Copeland lay on to them.

        you Doctor Copeland?’

        he said yes.

        *My name Dary e. You taken out my sisters tonsils last year.’

        ted ten odor. A pail brimming ely    , for in plates he floor. his dinner of cabbage and bread was beside him.

        on tly several times. hen

        tled in . After a o sneeze also. Doctor Copeland ran out of squares of paper and o use ss from a notebook in . te boyleaned over t ter run from o t of . ed, he edge of a bunk and groaned.

        Soon t to tory, and on turn to occupy four bunks. to a bunk together.

        t in t.    keep tered and    up y bla e boy,     t tate up, true purpose and drarengt. he misery in him.

        tide of urned. A    seemed o a place .

        t m t. trange Souter    its end. Doctor Copeland tle group ed outside there.

        Portia and    also.

        t see them clearly.

        t.

        Fat you kno aint no o    a    t and .’

        o a teaxicab, and to te pillow.

        M

        ICK could not sleep all nigta oo narro illie. Nearly a montia old about o    still s fet it. t s on    six oclock so tc. It    t queer    like it. t ed around    up and opeo tairs. Sgoo the ba.

        Move ee. Kter of t s iged like    someto figure out. tle    spot on the pillow. She pushed him.

        ait------ he said in his sleep.

        Move over on your side. ?ait------Lemme just finishishere------’

        So    e, because the back window. Gee was gone.

        From ter runnia and alking in tion came to e t it o surprise them.

        tta ill in bed.

        Sure of an actor. From    you t boy e h------’

        ta? Mick asked. Se box ill in t place

        A lot you care, Etta said.

        You    try to pick a fight’

        Ettas face errible pain in omac o do or said to cut out    a to . t any money.

        ? me to act, anye question and tart to nag at me. I feel like I ougo be sorry for you because youre sick, but you    let me be det. turally get mad. So t! I bet my    last nig seemed to me like I    t table by t sleep in t sofa cramps me so muc stay in it’

        talking so loud,hazel said.

        Mielt do t tring t ied around it. Say, his?’

        S! Etta said.     to mess h your junk for?’

        You just better not. Id kill anybody t tried to mess e things.’

        Listen to t, ;Mick Kelly, I t selfis care a t anybody but------’

        A! Sed bothem.

        t errible to t it rue.

        cia. es of tled against cable.

        time is it? er Singer go?’

        ?ia said. It near about ten oclock.’

        ten oclock! Golly! I    late before.*

        * you keep in t big box you tote around h you?’

        Mick reaco tove and broug s. Ask me no questions and til tell you no lies. A bad

        end es to a person who pries.*

        If ttle extra milk I til just    poured over some crumbled bread,    le my stomac open ts and put slices of fried    i doeps to eat . t. Spare-ribs and Sucker    and t ts. ting eacream of er sparkled brighe sun.

        t sprays of it like mist and in t te ss, Ralpgo and fres in different s like summer-time. Fuzy little yellos buzzed around the alley fence.

        "atc up over my cer runs down.’

        Soo full of energy to sit still. Gee    and    to a limb of tree for a punco    t it in time to t    and it bruised her knuckles.

        Aooed ter rigs busted my eardrum. I t even    me skeet some. Sprays of ter bleo ur , so s o t porg on eps reading the neer.

        S out tebook. But it tle ed to e down.

        ion and s think.

        Salked about so many tely. Nearly every day togetalked about God. Sometimes s and s t.

        t ist or Catholic or Jew.

        after you s and fire and dirt and clouds and er. It took t of all tI t ter t ter thing.

        o hen came over.

        Its    like summer, he said. And only March.’

        Yeah. I wish we could go swimming.’

        e here lace.’

        t any place. Except t try club pool.’

        I sure o do someto get out and go somewhere.’

        "Me too, s! I knos out in try about fifteen miles. Its a deep, s ime. Mrs. ells took me and Gee ae and Sucker sime last year.’

        If you    to I    get bicycles and omorrow. I h.’

        ell ride out and take a piiner, Mick said.

        O.K. Itl borrohe bikes.’

        It ime fo to . ree ook a running jump, caug rue they were real good friends.

        Also omorrocil ur rue t o be a very good-looking fellow.

        ry    from ting on the

        back steps reading t ler.

        t early in trapped ts to t and sunny. it of to and ereen and trees alked in a very excited o th was very dry and she was hungry.
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