The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey

Author:John Hersey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2019-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

13. No More Trouble

“After Auburey got fifteen days,” Mrs. Pollard told me, “he never got in no more trouble. He said, ‘Momma, I can walk over things now.’ Said, ‘Momma, I don’t want to get in no more trouble, I ain’t about to go out there no more.’ Whatever they did to him out there, he never did want to go back no more. He didn’t bother Mr. Sunday no more, he didn’t bother no teacher, ain’t bothered a soul since.”

14. Little Brother, Don’t Do That Way

Robert, the youngest Pollard boy, seemed to be getting in trouble a lot. Once a fur hat was stolen from a J. L. Hudson truck, and the police suspected Robert.

“I remember when the policemen came to the house,” Thelma told me, “and they came in and searched the house, without a search warrant, too. They just came on in, there was about three or four cars, looked like somebody had really stole something, or somebody’d been murdered, you know. But I don’t know, Robert, he didn’t take nothing off none of them, you know. They’d tell him to shut up, and he’d say, ‘I don’t have to shut up in my own house.’ ”

“Robert shouted at the policemen,” Mrs. Pollard said, “ ‘You don’t talk to me that way in this house. This is my house. Don’t you come in here swearing and yooping and yelling around. This is my house. You have no right in here without a warrant. Hit the door! Get out! I tell you, man, hit the door.’ ”

“So,” Thelma said, “they was getting ready to hit Robert, and Auburey ran down the steps like a light. He was going to beat them up if they hit Robert. Auburey’d been nice enough to let them in the house. But the policemen didn’t really search around much, because there was two white policemen, and they had known Auburey and Robert and me, and they came downstairs and said they had searched, but they hadn’t really. They were pretty good friends. But the hat wasn’t anywhere anyway.”

“After the police left,” Mrs. Pollard told me, “Auburey, he said, ‘Little brother, don’t do that way.’ He said, ‘You shouldn’t ought to do no policeman that way.’ ”

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