SADIE
You keep away from him. He’s no blood kin of yours, and he’s a bad man, if he is a Jordan. Always makes up to everything he sees in petticoats, and always did.
NETTIE
Thanks for the compliment, but I’m not looking for any jailbirds.
ELLA
It will be awful, Ben in State’s Prison,—and I guess he’ll have to go, soon as he stands his trial.
SADIE
He got drunk and had a fight with the two Kimbal boys, and they licked him, and that night he burned down their barn; everybody knows it.
He’s bad, all through, Ben is.