JUDGE

Steady there! It’s just one of the neighbors, I guess. (Bell rings again as Hannah crosses downstairs and to hall) Hannah knows enough not to let any one in.

BEN (slowly)

When I got back, time before this, from France, I tried to go straight, but it wasn’t any good, I just don’t belong——

[Hannah enters frightened.

HANNAH

It’s Jim Jay!

BEN (to Judge)

And you didn’t think my own blood would sell me?

[Jim Jay, a large, kindly man of middle age, enters.