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He ’ll go with you, Mr. Jay. He won’t resist.

(quietly)

He must n’t. You got a bad name, Ben, and I ain’t a-goin’ to take any chances.

I thought I ’d get to go to her funeral, anyway, before they got me.

Well, you could, maybe, if you was to fix a bail bond. You ’d take bail for him, would n’t you, Judge?

It ’s a felony; I ’d have to have good security.

I ’m a rich woman, you said just now. Could I give bail for him?

Yes.

(to her)

So the money ain’t enough. You want all us Jordans fawnin’ on you for favors. Well, all of ’em but me will; by mornin’ the buzzards will be flocking round you thick! You ’re going to hear a lot about how rouch folks love you, but you ain’t goin’ to hear it from me.

(turns to him quietly)

Why did you come here, Ben, when I wrote you she was dying?

Why did I come?

Was it because you loved her, because you wanted to