And my accounts, Ben; you’ll find the exact amount your mother left. I spent some money about six weeks ago, on myself, but I’ve been careful ever since and I’ve made up for it. BEN You said, Judge, she didn’t have to go by that letter of my mother’s, if she didn’t want to? She didn’t have to give anything back at all? JUDGE No, she didn’t. BEN Then if I was you--(_to Jane_) I wouldn’t talk so much about the little you spent on yourself. I guess to look at you it wasn’t much. JANE Yes, it was. BEN Well, we’ll fix things so you can keep on spendin’. Only let’s see somethin’ come of it. I never was so damned sick of anything in my life as I am of that old black dress of yours! [_Crosses stage up and over right._ JANE I’ve got plenty of clothes upstairs. I’m sorry now I ever bought them, but I’ll take them with me when I go. BEN Go? Go where? JANE To Old Town. I’ve got a place there, clerking in the Pulp Mill. BEN You! JANE Yes. BEN But what about me? JUDGE Don’t you think Jane has done about enough for you? BEN She’s done a lot, she’s given up the money. I don’t know as I like that; ’course I like gettin’ it, but not if she’s going away. JANE I couldn’t stay now, and I wouldn’t want to. BEN I don’t suppose you remember about plannin’ what you and me was to do with this old farm? JANE I remember. BEN Well--then what are you going away for? JANE Because I couldn’t be happy here, Ben--It’s been harder than anything I ever thought could come to anybody, the last few weeks here--and so I’m going. (_She turns to Judge_) I’ll go upstairs and get my things. I’ll stop at your office, Judge, on the way to the station. JUDGE Thank you, Jane. BEN You’re goin’ to-day? Before I order my new farm machinery or anything? You’re goin’ to leave me with all this work on my hands? JANE Yes, Ben. [_She exits._ BEN Well--that’s a lesson to me! Oh, she’s a good woman! I ain’t denyin’ that--but she’s fickle! JUDGE You’re a fool, Ben! BEN I been doin’ kitchen police around this town for quite a spell now, Judge, but from this day on I ain’t goin’ to take that sort of talk from anybody. JUDGE I assure you that you won’t have to take any sort of talk at all from me. [_He starts for the door._ BEN I didn’t mean that. I don’t want you to think I ain’t grateful for all you’ve done for me. JUDGE (_coldly_) I have done nothing for you. BEN If it wasn’t for you, I’d want to die; that’s what I did want. I was afraid of that prison, just a coward about it. Now I’m a free man, with a big life openin’ out ahead of me--I got everything in the world right here in my two hands, everything--and I owe it to you! JUDGE