. Crisis. EMMY By JESSIE FAUSET (Concluded from the December Crisis.). SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS (Emmy, a pretty brown girl of Central Pennsylvania, is engaged to Archie Ferrers,a young engineer, whose Negro blood is just perceptible. Archie has secured employ-ment with the large engineering firm of Mr. Nicholas Fields of Philadelphia. Fieldsassumes that Archie is of foreign extraction and Archie has not undeceived him. Emmyand her mother are spending a week with Archie in the city.) even for lovers can a week last-?^ forever. Arcbie had kept till the lastday what he considered his
. Crisis. EMMY By JESSIE FAUSET (Concluded from the December Crisis.). SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS (Emmy, a pretty brown girl of Central Pennsylvania, is engaged to Archie Ferrers,a young engineer, whose Negro blood is just perceptible. Archie has secured employ-ment with the large engineering firm of Mr. Nicholas Fields of Philadelphia. Fieldsassumes that Archie is of foreign extraction and Archie has not undeceived him. Emmyand her mother are spending a week with Archie in the city.) even for lovers can a week last-?^ forever. Arcbie had kept till the lastday what he considered his choicest bit ofexploring. This was to take Emmy downinto old Philadelphia and show her how thecity had gTown up from the waterfront—and by means of what tortuous self-govern-ing streets. It was a sight at once dear andyet painful to his methodical, mathematicalmind. They had explored Dock and BeachStreets, and had got over into Shackamaxon,where he showed her Penn Treaty Park, andthey had sat in the little pavilion overlookingthe Delaware. Not many colored peop
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