please them, but he really loved best
science and experimenting and to learn things, and he early wanted
to be a doctor, and he was always very interested in the life of the
colored people.

The Campbell family had been very good to him and had helped him
on with his ambition. Jefferson studied hard, he went to a colored
college, and then he learnt to be a doctor.

It was now two or three years, that he had started in to practice.
Everybody liked Jeff Campbell, he was so strong and kindly and
cheerful and understanding, and he laughed so with pure joy, and he
always liked to help all his own colored people.

Dr. Jeff knew all about Jane Harden. He had taken care of her in some
of her bad trouble. He knew about Melanctha too, though until her
mother was taken sick he had never met her. Then he was called in to
help Melanctha to take care of her sick mother. Dr. Campbell did not
like Melanctha's ways and he did not think that she would ever come to
any good.

Dr. Campbell had taken care of Jane Harden in some of her bad trouble.
Jane sometimes had abused Melanctha to him. What right had that
Melanctha Herbert who owed everything to her, Jane Harden, what
right had a girl like that to go away to other men and leave her,
but Melanctha Herbert never had any sense of how to act to anybody.
Melanctha had a good mind, Jane never denied her that, but she never
used it to do anything decent with it. But what could you expect when
Melanctha had such a brute of a black nigger father, and Melanctha was
always abusing her father and yet she was just like him, and really
she admired him so much and he never had any sense of what he owed to
anybody, and Melanctha was just like him and she was proud of it too,
and it made Jane so tired to hear Melanctha talk all the time as if
she wasn't. Jane Harden hated people who had good minds and didn't use
them, and Melanctha always had that weakness, and wanting to keep in
with people, and never really saying that she wanted to be like her
father, and it was so silly of Melanctha to abuse her father, when she
was so much like him and she really liked it. No, Jane Harden had no
use for Melanctha. Oh yes, Melanctha always came around to be good to
her. Melanctha was always sure to do that. She never really went away
and left one. She didn't use her mind enough to do things straight out
like that. Melanctha Herbert had a good mind, Jane never denied that
to her, but she never wanted to see or