Harlem Summer: Mark is scared of everything now. He don't want to go outside or anywhere.Now Mark is ready to clean up his life. He's decided that he wanted to become a New Negro and play symphonies. Henry told Mark that was not him, he had swinging in his blood. Mark thought about all the types people he had met over the summer and wondered how did a person choose which person to be?

Mark prayed to God that he get him out of trouble. He told Henry to pray the same thing. Mark's family received a telegram from Stephanie St. Clair( Queenie). Mark's family now knew about Dutch and Queenie. Or they thought they knew.Mama made me go to church. But Mark was glad. He said that God ad helped him out and he wanted to thank him. Crab Cakes showed up at church with his dog and came in. He was Yell over the church, " Mark your whiskey is outside." He wanted to unload the bootleg whiskey at the church but Daddy forund somewhere to put it.