Nigger (Volume 20) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1922 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X ISHMAEL TOM slipped back into the lawless ruts he had made before; and Dan, after looking around dispiritedly for two weeks, went back to the furnace. The pay was a little better now; the war had done that much. But Louis did not go with him. "I'm th'ough with it," he announced determinedly. "There's other things in the world besides roastin' yo'self to a slow death in the furnaces. I'm goin' to do somethin' different.... Lak bein' a lawyer." " If you only could Is'pose... in Lawyer Carmichael's office... if he'd take you in...." "Naw, that ain't w'ut I mean. I got my dis-charge money; I don't have to be in no hurry to get work. I thought I'd go Nawth nex' fall.... Cincinnati.... Probably Chicago. An' I'd go to law school.... Maybe 169 wu'k in the day, an' go to school at night... or somehow." "Dat's a gran' plan. Pink, you know.... I was aimin'... yeah, he mout er been a lawyer...." "I'm goin' to." "It's a good idea," Tom snickered when he heard the plan. "I needed you--bad--las' week. Bought a ring... guaranteed genuwine solid diamon'--fo' bits down, an' a dollar a week. I paid that dollar ev'y week for two years, then got tired uv payin', an' stopped. 01' man Levy--yeah, it was his pawn shop I bought it at--he sue me. I pays Lawyer Carmichael fo' dollars an' a half to defen' my case. Levy gets the ring an' the costs; I gets a receipt f'um oP Skin'um Carmichael, an' the privilege uv payin' the cou't costs. I sho needed you to law for me, Sergeant." "Any fool'd know better dan to buy on de extortion plan. OP Jim Gaines spent all his fool cash dat way." "Never again, for me. I'm th'ough." "I think it was a shame, the way you were treated." Ophelia, who had dropped by, stopped manicuring her finger nails long 173 enongh to observe Tom carefully. S...