One hundred dollars! After all your blowin’. HENRY It’s you, and that child of your’n; you turned her against me. NETTIE Well, I just won’t spend my hundred dollars for mournin’. I’ll wear my old black dress! ELLA And me makin’ hats all the rest of my life--just makin’ hats! [_The front door is heard to shut behind them. Jane, Ben and Judge are alone. Judge stands by stove. Jane is up by window, looking out at the deepening twilight. Ben sits at right._ BEN Ha! Ha! Ha! “Crow buzzards” mother called us--the last of the Jordans--crow buzzards--and that’s what we are. JUDGE You can’t stay here, Ben; you know that as well as I do. I signed the warrant for your arrest myself. It’s been over a year since the Grand Jury indicted you for arson. BEN You mean you’ll give me up? JANE You won’t do that, Judge; you’re here as her friend. JUDGE No, but if it’s known he’s here, I couldn’t save him, and it’s bound to be known. JANE (_to Ben_) Were you careful coming? BEN Yes. JUDGE It’s bound to be known. BEN He means they’ll tell on me. (_He nods his head toward door_) My brother, or my sisters. JUDGE No, I don’t think they’d do that. BEN Let ’em! What do I care. I’m sick of hiding out, half starved! Let ’em do what they please. All I know is one thing,--when they put her into her grave her sons and daughters are goin’ to be standin’ there, like the Jordans always do. JANE (_quietly_) Hannah will have your room ready by now. There are some clean shirts and things that was your father’s; I’ll bring them to you. BEN (_uneasily_) Can I go up there, just a minute? JANE To your mother? BEN Yes. JANE If you want to. BEN I do. JANE Yes, you can go. [_Ben turns and exits up the stairs. Jane crosses and sits by stove, sinking wearily into the chair._ JUDGE And she left him nothing, just that hundred dollars, and only that because I told her it was the safest way to do it. I thought he was her one weakness, but it seems she didn’t have any. JANE No. JUDGE She was a grim old woman, Jane. JANE I think I could have loved her, but she didn’t want it. JUDGE And yet she left you everything. JANE I don’t understand. JUDGE She left a sealed letter for you. It’s in my strong box; you may learn from it that she cared more about you than you think. JANE No. JUDGE There was more kindness in her heart than most people gave her credit for. JANE For her own, for Uncle Ned, who never did for her, for Ned, for the Jordan name. I don’t understand, and I don’t think I care so very much; it’s been a hard week, Judge. [_She rests her head against the back of the chair._ JUDGE I know, and you’re all worn out. JANE Yes. JUDGE It’s a lot of money, Jane. JANE I suppose so. JUDGE And so you’re a rich woman. I am curious to know how you feel? JANE Just tired.