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Their Eyes Were Watching God 41la► 189She took a room at the boarding house for the night andheard the men talking around the front."Aw you know dem white mens wuzn't gointuh do nothin'tuh no woman dat look lak her.""She didn't kill no white man, did she? Well, long as she don'tshoot no white man she kin kill jus' as many niggers as she please.""Yeah, de nigger women kin kill up all de mens dey wantstuh, but you bet' not kill one uh dem. De white folks will shohang yuh if yuh do.""Well, you know whut dey say `uh white man and uh niggerwoman is de freest thing on earth.' Dey do as dey please."Janie buried Tea Cake in Palm Beach. She knew he loved the'Glades but it was too low for him to lie with water maybe washingover him with every heavy rain. Anyway, the 'Glades and its watershad killed him. She wanted him out of the way of storms, so she hada strong vault built in the cemetery at West Palm Beach. Janie hadwired to Orlando for money to put him away. Tea Cake was the sonof Evening Sun, and nothing was too good. The Undertaker did ahandsome job and Tea Cake slept royally on his white silken couchamong the roses she had bought. He looked almost ready to grin.Janie bought him a brand new guitar and put it in his hands. Hewould be thinking up new songs to play to her when she got there.Sop and his friends had tried to hurt her but she knew it wasbecause they loved Tea Cake and didn't understand. So she sentSop word and to all the others through him. So the day of thefuneral they came with shame and apology in their faces. Theywanted her quick forgetfulness. So they filled up and overflowed theten sedans that Janie had hired and added others to the line. Thenthe band played, and Tea Cake rode like a Pharaoh to his tomb. Noexpensive veils and robes for Janie this time. She went on in heroveralls. She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.