I get married Jem to you
soon ever as you can want me, if you once say it Jem to me. It ain't
nothing to me ever, anything like having any money Jem, why you look
so worried to me."
Melanctha Herbert's love had surely made her mad and foolish. She
thrust it always deep into Jem Richards and now that he had trouble
with his betting, Jem had no way that he ever wanted to be made to
feel it. Jem Richards never could want to marry any girl while he had
trouble. That was no way a man like him should do it. Melanctha's love
had made her mad and foolish, she should be silent now and let him do
it. Jem Richards was not a kind of man to want a woman to be strong to
him, when he was in trouble with his betting. That was not the kind of
a time when a man like him needed to have it.
Melanctha needed so badly to have it, this love which she had always
wanted, she did not know what she should do to save it. Melanctha saw
now, Jem Richards always had something wrong inside him. Melanctha
soon dared not ask him. Jem was busy now, he had to sell things and
see men to raise money. Jem could not meet Melanctha now so often.
It was lucky for Melanctha Herbert that Rose Johnson was coming now to
have her baby. It had always been understood between them, Rose should
come and stay then in the house where Melanctha lived with an old
colored woman, so that Rose could have the Doctor from the hospital
near by to help her, and Melanctha there to take care of her the way
Melanctha always used to do it.
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