"Yes, Maw," she answered gently. 

 "Celie!" came again in almost a scream. Celie vanished. She reappeared in a few moments. She was whiter than before. 

 "She throwed up fierce," she said to her father; "something fierce, an' all black. Don't you want no coffee?"  The man shook his head. He reached for his shoes. 

 "Where yuh goin'?" asked Cecilia. 

 "Doctor's," she was answered. He went into the bedroom.  "Well, old woman," he said loudly, "how yuh feelin', better?"  The thin creature on the bed nodded, and tried to smile. The smile was rather dreadful, for it pulled long lines instead of bringing dimples. Her blue lips stretched and the lower cracked. A drop of blood stood out on it. 

 "Gawd, it was hot to-day," said the man. He settled by her bed in a broken-backed chair. She stretched out a thin hand toward him. 

 "Mary—!" he said, then choked. 

 "Aw, Jerry!" said the woman. In her voice was little Cecilia's tone of patience, with the lilt removed by a too hard life. 

 "Do yuh feel some better?" he entreated. 

 "Sure—I do. Gimme that glass of water—"  She drank a mouthful and again vomited rackingly. 

 "Oh, Gawd!" said Jeremiah Madden. He laid a rough hand on her forehead and she pulled it down against her cheek. 

 "Jerry," she said between long gasps, "I been happy. I want you should always remember that I been happy. Awful happy, Jerry." 

 "Oh, Gawd, Mary!" said the man.  "If I'd a knew how hard you'd a had to work, I wouldn't have brung yuh!" 

 "Don't!" she begged.  "Don't say that!"  She looked at him, time faded, and with it a hot and smelling flat. She stood on a wind-swept moor. Jerry, only eighteen, stood by her. His arm was around her with that reverent touch that comes in Irish love.  "I'll send fer yuh," he'd said, "after I make me fortune in America." 

 She had cried and clung to him. With her touch, reason and a rolling moor had faded for him.  "I can't leave you," he had said, "I can't! Mary, you come with me."  And Mary had come. Those days had been beautiful.... But fortunes in America did not come as advertised. Sometimes Mary thought of green turf, and the gentle 

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