, about four months, it had grown so hot that
we could stay in Jacksonville no longer. From my restaurant and my
lodgers I cleared one hundred and seventy-five dollars, which I put
into the Jacksonville bank. Then I took the furniture back to the
dealer, who fulfilled his agreement.

My sister decided to go back to Atlanta when she got through with her
place as nurse, which would not be for some weeks.

I took seventy-five dollars out of my bank account, and with Lawrence
went to Fernandina. There we took train to Port Royal, S. C., then
steamer to New York. From New York we went to Brooklyn for a few days.
Then we went to Newport and stayed with a woman who kept a
lodging-house. I decided to see what I could do in Newport by keeping
a boarding and lodging-house. I hired a little house and agreed to pay
nine dollars a month for it. I left Lawrence with some neighbors while
I came to Boston and took some things out of storage. These things I
moved into the little house. But I found, after paying one month's
rent, that the house was not properly located for the business I
wanted. I left, and with Lawrence went to Narragansett Pier. I got a
place there as "runner" for a laundry; that is, I was to go to the
hotels and leave cards and solicit trade. Then Lawrence thought he
would like to help by doing a little work. One night when I came back
from the laundry, I missed him. Nobody had seen him. All night I
searched for him, but did not find him. In the early morning I met him
coming home. He said a man who kept a bowling alley had hired him at
fifty cents a week to set up the pins, and it was in the bowling alley
he had been all night. He said the man let him take a nap on his coat
when he got sleepy. I went at once to see this man, and told him not
to hire my nephew again. A lady who kept a hotel offered me two
dollars a week for Lawrence's services in helping the cook and serving
in the help's dining-room. When the season closed, the lady who hired
Lawrence was very reluctant to let him go.

We went back to Newport to see the landlady from whom I had hired the
house, and I paid such part of the rent as I could. Then I packed my
things and started for Boston. On reaching there, I kept such of my
things as I needed, and stored the rest, and took a furnished room. In
about a week's time I went to see the husband of the lady for whom I
had worked at Wellesley Hills just previous to my departure for the
South. He had told me