Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapter Nineteen.

Janie and Tea cake arrived safley to Palm Beach. Tea Cake is talked into helping clear stuff and bury the dead. They get a big lecture about how the whites bodies are victums and the blacks are just corpses. And then they are told that the blacks just get buried, and the whites are to be put in white pine boxes. He ends up getting a chance to leave, and he does.

Janie is really happy that her husband went to the lengths that he did to save her life. She keeps telling him to see a doctor about the dog bite, but he doesnt listen. They decide t ogo back to the much, because Tea Cake is sick of Palm Beach. Tea Cake is happy to hear that onle one of his friends died in the storm.

The dog bite on Tea Cake's cheeck starts to show infection, and it turns out that he has rabies. He is given the serum, but its too late. His and Janie's relationship starts to sturggle and he threatens her with a gun, and she defends herself with a rifle. Their gums fire at the same time, and Tea Cake fell to the ground. This time Janie is sad about a death.