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Frank
thought
this
could
he
accomplished
by
voting
.
Voting
?
What
did
votes
matter
?
Nice
people
in
the
South
would
never
have
the
vote
again
.
There
was
only
one
thing
in
the
world
that
was
a
certain
bulwark
against
any
calamity
which
fate
could
bring
,
and
that
was
money
.
She
thought
feverishly
that
they
must
have
money
,
lots
of
it
to
keep
them
safe
against
disaster
.
Abruptly
,
she
told
him
she
was
going
to
have
a
baby
.
For
weeks
after
Tony
's
escape
,
Aunt
Pitty
's
house
was
subjected
to
repeated
searches
by
parties
of
Yankee
soldiers
.
They
invaded
the
house
at
all
hours
and
without
warning
.
They
swarmed
through
the
rooms
,
asking
questions
,
opening
closets
,
prodding
clothes
hampers
,
peering
under
beds
.
The
military
authorities
had
heard
that
Tony
had
been
advised
to
go
to
Miss
Pitty
's
house
,
and
they
were
certain
he
was
still
hiding
there
or
somewhere
m
the
neighborhood
.
As
a
result
,
Aunt
Pitty
was
chronically
in
what
Uncle
Peter
called
a
"
state
,
"
never
knowing
when
her
bedroom
would
be
entered
by
an
officer
and
a
squad
of
men
.
Neither
Frank
nor
Scarlett
had
mentioned
Tony
's
brief
visit
,
so
the
old
lady
could
have
revealed
nothing
,
even
had
she
been
so
inclined
.
She
was
entirely
honest
in
her
fluttery
protestations
that
she
had
seen
Tony
Fontaine
only
once
in
her
life
and
that
was
at
Christmas
time
in
1862
.
"
And
,
"
she
would
add
breathlessly
to
the
Yankee
soldiers
,
in
an
effort
to
be
helpful
,
"
he
was
quite
intoxicated
at
the
time
.
"
Scarlett
,
sick
and
miserable
in
the
early
stage
of
pregnancy
,
alternated
between
a
passionate
hatred
of
the
bluecoats
who
invaded
her
privacy
,
frequently
carrying
away
any
little
knick-knack
that
appealed
to
them
,
and
an
equally
passionate
fear
that
Tony
might
prove
the
undoing
of
them
all
.
The
prisons
were
full
of
people
who
had
been
arrested
for
much
less
reason
.
She
knew
that
if
one
iota
of
the
truth
were
proved
against
them
,
not
only
she
and
Frank
but
the
innocent
Pitty
as
well
would
go
to
jail
.
For
some
time
there
had
been
an
agitation
in
Washington
to
confiscate
all
"
Rebel
property
"
to
pay
the
United
States
'
war
debt
and
this
agitation
had
kept
Scarlett
in
a
state
of
anguished
apprehension
.
Now
,
in
addition
to
this
,
Atlanta
was
full
of
wild
rumors
about
the
confiscation
of
property
of
offenders
against
military
law
,
and
Scarlett
quaked
lest
she
and
Frank
lose
not
only
their
freedom
but
the
house
,
the
store
and
the
mill
.
And
even
if
their
property
were
not
appropriated
by
the
military
,
it
would
be
as
good
as
lost
if
she
and
Frank
went
to
jail
,
for
who
would
look
after
their
business
in
their
absence
?
She
hated
Tony
for
bringing
such
trouble
upon
them
.
How
could
he
have
done
such
a
thing
to
friends
?
And
how
could
Ashley
have
sent
Tony
to
them
?
Never
again
would
she
give
aid
to
anyone
if
it
meant
having
the
Yankees
come
down
on
her
like
a
swarm
of
hornets
.
No
,
she
would
bar
the
door
against
anyone
needing
help
.
Except
,
of
course
,
Ashley
.
For
weeks
after
Tony
's
brief
visit
she
woke
from
uneasy
dreams
at
any
sound
in
the
road
outside
,
fearing
it
might
be
Ashley
trying
to
make
his
escape
,
fleeing
to
Texas
because
of
the
aid
he
had
given
Tony
.
She
did
not
know
how
matters
stood
with
him
,
for
they
did
not
dare
write
to
Tara
about
Tony
's
midnight
visit
.
Their
letters
might
be
intercepted
by
the
Yankees
and
bring
trouble
upon
the
plantation
as
well
.
But
,
when
weeks
went
by
and
they
heard
no
bad
news
,
they
knew
that
Ashley
had
somehow
come
clear
.
And
finally
,
the
Yankees
ceased
annoying
them
.
But
even
this
relief
did
not
free
Scarlett
from
the
state
of
dread
which
began
when
Tony
came
knocking
at
their
door
,
a
dread
which
was
worse
than
the
quaking
fear
of
the
siege
shells
,
worse
even
than
the
terror
of
Sherman
's
men
during
the
last
days
of
the
war
.
It
was
as
if
Tony
's
appearance
that
wild
rainy
night
had
stripped
merciful
blinders
from
her
eyes
and
forced
her
to
see
the
true
uncertainty
of
her
life
.
Looking
about
her
in
that
cold
spring
of
1866
,
Scarlett
realized
what
was
facing
her
and
the
whole
South
.
She
might
plan
and
scheme
,
she
might
work
harder
than
her
slaves
had
ever
worked
,
she
might
succeed
in
overcoming
all
of
her
hardships
,
she
might
through
dint
of
determination
solve
problems
for
which
her
earlier
life
had
provided
no
training
at
all
.
But
for
all
her
labor
and
sacrifice
and
resourcefulness
,
her
small
beginnings
purchased
at
so
great
a
cost
might
be
snatched
away
from
her
at
any
minute
.
And
should
this
happen
,
she
had
no
legal
rights
,
no
legal
redress
,
except
those
same
drumhead
courts
of
which
Tony
had
spoken
so
bitterly
,
those
military
courts
with
their
arbitrary
powers
.
Only
the
negroes
had
rights
or
redress
these
days
.
The
Yankees
had
the
South
prostrate
and
they
intended
to
keep
it
so
.
The
South
had
been
tilted
as
by
a
giant
malicious
hand
,
and
those
who
had
once
ruled
were
now
more
helpless
than
their
former
slaves
had
ever
been
.
