Chapter 37 Summary

Tony Fontaine shows up at Frank and Scarlett's doorstep. Tony is soaked to the bone after fleeing from Jonesboro. Ashley sent him to Scarlett and Frank for help after Tony killed Jonas Wilkerson and the black man who used to be the Fontaine's foreman. Apparently, Jonas had been keeping the freed slaves riled up and told them that they now had the right to take white women. The black man was drunk and went after Tony's sister-in-law, but Tony shot him.

After giving Tony a horse and some money so he could flee to Texas, Scarlett, Frank, and Aunt Pitty begin to feel the wrath of the Yankees seeking to hang Tony. Scarlett fears that she will lose everything again after working so hard to make the money that made her feel safe. Scarlett is torn between being angry with the Yankees or...