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They
lent
Gerald
the
money
and
,
in
the
years
that
followed
,
the
money
came
back
to
them
with
interest
.
Gradually
the
plantation
widened
out
,
as
Gerald
bought
more
acres
lying
near
him
,
and
in
time
the
white
house
became
a
reality
instead
of
a
dream
.
It
was
built
by
slave
labor
,
a
clumsy
sprawling
building
that
crowned
the
rise
of
ground
overlooking
the
green
incline
of
pasture
land
running
down
to
the
river
;
and
it
pleased
Gerald
greatly
,
for
,
even
when
new
,
it
wore
a
look
of
mellowed
years
.
The
old
oaks
,
which
had
seen
Indians
pass
under
their
limbs
,
hugged
the
house
closely
with
their
great
trunks
and
towered
their
branches
over
the
roof
in
dense
shade
.
The
lawn
,
reclaimed
from
weeds
,
grew
thick
with
clover
and
Bermuda
grass
,
and
Gerald
saw
to
it
that
it
was
well
kept
.
From
the
avenue
of
cedars
to
the
row
of
white
cabins
in
the
slave
quarters
,
there
was
an
air
of
solidness
,
of
stability
and
permanence
about
Tara
,
and
whenever
Gerald
galloped
around
the
bend
in
the
road
and
saw
his
own
roof
rising
through
green
branches
,
his
heart
swelled
with
pride
as
though
each
sight
of
it
were
the
first
sight
.
He
had
done
it
all
,
little
,
hard-headed
,
blustering
Gerald
.
Gerald
was
on
excellent
terms
with
all
his
neighbors
in
the
County
,
except
the
MacIntoshes
whose
land
adjoined
his
on
the
left
and
the
Slatterys
whose
meager
three
acres
stretched
on
his
right
along
the
swamp
bottoms
between
the
river
and
John
Wilkes
'
plantation
.
The
MacIntoshes
were
Scotch
--
Irish
and
Orangemen
and
,
had
they
possessed
all
the
saintly
qualities
of
the
Catholic
calendar
,
this
ancestry
would
have
damned
them
forever
in
Gerald
's
eyes
.
True
,
they
had
lived
in
Georgia
for
seventy
years
and
,
before
that
,
had
spent
a
generation
in
the
Carolinas
;
but
the
first
of
the
family
who
set
foot
on
American
shores
had
come
from
Ulster
,
and
that
was
enough
for
Gerald
.
They
were
a
close-mouthed
and
stiff-necked
family
,
who
kept
strictly
to
themselves
and
intermarried
with
their
Carolina
relatives
,
and
Gerald
was
not
alone
in
disliking
them
,
for
the
County
people
were
neighborly
and
sociable
and
none
too
tolerant
of
anyone
lacking
in
those
same
qualities
.
Rumors
of
Abolitionist
sympathies
did
not
enhance
the
popularity
of
the
MacIntoshes
.
Old
Angus
had
never
manumitted
a
single
slave
and
had
committed
the
unpardonable
social
breach
of
selling
some
of
his
negroes
to
passing
slave
traders
en
route
to
the
cane
fields
of
Louisiana
,
but
the
rumors
persisted
.
"
He
's
an
Abolitionist
,
no
doubt
,
"
observed
Gerald
to
John
Wilkes
.
"
But
,
in
an
Orangeman
,
when
a
principle
comes
up
against
Scotch
tightness
,
the
principle
fares
ill
.
"
The
Slatterys
were
another
affair
.
Being
poor
white
,
they
were
not
even
accorded
the
grudging
respect
that
Angus
MacIntosh
's
dour
independence
wrung
from
neighboring
families
.
Old
Slattery
,
who
clung
persistently
to
his
few
acres
,
in
spite
of
repeated
offers
from
Gerald
and
John
Wilkes
,
was
shiftless
and
whining
.
His
wife
was
a
snarly-haired
woman
,
sickly
and
washed-out
of
appearance
,
the
mother
of
a
brood
of
sullen
and
rabbity-looking
children
--
a
brood
which
was
increased
regularly
every
year
.
Tom
Slattery
owned
no
slaves
,
and
he
and
his
two
oldest
boys
spasmodically
worked
their
few
acres
of
cotton
,
while
the
wife
and
younger
children
tended
what
was
supposed
to
be
a
vegetable
garden
.
But
,
somehow
,
the
cotton
always
failed
,
and
the
garden
,
due
to
Mrs.
Slattery
's
constant
childbearing
,
seldom
furnished
enough
to
feed
her
flock
.
The
sight
of
Tom
Slattery
dawdling
on
his
neighbors
'
porches
,
begging
cotton
seed
for
planting
or
a
side
of
bacon
to
"
tide
him
over
,
"
was
a
familiar
one
.
Slattery
hated
his
neighbors
with
what
little
energy
he
possessed
,
sensing
their
contempt
beneath
their
courtesy
,
and
especially
did
he
hate
"
rich
folks
'
uppity
niggers
.
"
The
house
negroes
of
the
County
considered
themselves
superior
to
white
trash
,
and
their
unconcealed
scorn
stung
him
,
while
their
more
secure
position
in
life
stirred
his
envy
.
By
contrast
with
his
own
miserable
existence
,
they
were
well-fed
,
well-clothed
and
looked
after
in
sickness
and
old
age
.
They
were
proud
of
the
good
names
of
their
owners
and
,
for
the
most
part
,
proud
to
belong
to
people
who
were
quality
,
while
he
was
despised
by
all
.
