He took out dinners to the cigarmakers in a factory nearby.

At the end of the season, 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