I like to hear what followed." "Well, there was just a word or two more, and then he put out his hand and shook mine, and said good by.

It was the first time I ever shook hands with a white _gentleman_.

Some white hands have shaken mine, but they always made me feel that they _were_ white and that mine was black, and that it was a condescension.

I felt that, when they didn't mean I should.

But there was nothing between us.