"Oh, Mrs.Thayer, he hasn't done anything wrong; Barney hasn't done anything wrong!" But Deborah quite ignored her.

She kept her eyes fixed upon Cephas.
"What has my son done ?" she demanded again.

"If he's done anything wrong I want to know it.

I ain't afraid to deal with him.

You ordered him out of your house, and he didn't come home at all last night.