Jeff Campbell was very quiet to Melanctha.  He said to her, now he thought he did not want to come any more especially to see her.  When they met, he always would be glad to see her, but now he never would go anywhere any more to meet her.  Sure he knew she always would have a deep love in him for her.  Sure she knew that.  “Yes Jeff, I always trust you Jeff, I certainly do know that all right.”  Jeff Campbell said, all right he never could say anything to reproach her.  She knew always that he really had learned all through him how to love her.  “Yes, Jeff, I certainly do know that.”  She knew now she could always trust him.  Jeff always would be loyal to her though now she never was any more to him like a religion, but he never could forget the real sweetness in her.  That Jeff must remember always, though now he never can trust her to be really loving to any man for always, she never did have any way she ever could remember.  If she ever needed anybody to be good to her, Jeff Campbell always would do anything he could to help her.  He never can forget the things she taught him so he could be really understanding, but he never any more wants to see her.  He be like a brother to her always, when she needs it, and he always will be a good friend to her.  Jeff Campbell certainly was sorry never any more to see her, but it was good that they now knew each other really.  “Good-bye Jeff you always been very good always to me.”  “Good-bye Melanctha you know you always can trust yourself to me.”  “Yes, I know, I know Jeff, really.”  “I certainly got to go now Melanctha, from you.  I go this time, Melanctha really,” and Jeff Campbell went away and this time he never looked back to her.  This time Jeff Campbell just broke away and left her.

Jeff Campbell loved to think now he was strong again to be quiet, and to live regular, and to do everything the way he wanted it to be right for himself and all the colored people.  Jeff went away for a little while to another town to work there, and he worked hard, and he was very sad inside him, and sometimes the tears would rise up in him, and then he would work hard, and then he would begin once more to see some beauty in the world around him.  Jeff had behaved right and he had learned to have a real love in him.  That was very good to have inside him.

Jeff Campbell never could forget the sweetness in Melanctha Herbert, and he was always very friendly to her, but they never any more came close to one another.  More and more Jeff Campbell and Melanctha fell away from all knowing of each other, but Jeff never could forget Melanctha.  Jeff never could forget the real sweetness she had in her, but Jeff never any more had the sense of a real religion for her.  Jeff always had strong in him the meaning of all the new kind of beauty Melanctha Herbert once had shown him, and always more and more it helped him with his working for himself and for all the colored people.

Melanctha Herbert, now that she was all through with Jeff Campbell, was free to be with Rose and the new men she met now.