Also the Hills Part III

Jenness has a fun time on her trip back to the farm, but her friend Joe Racina who comes as well, is a newspaper reporter. The Farmans learn that there is trouble brewing. It is in the early stages of America's entry into World War Two and there are still a lot of isolationists and pro Germans about. There is an investigation going on to find foreign spies and Germans living in the countryside are suspected. Jenness works for a politican - Horace Vaughn - and he has asked her to send out papers putting forward the isolationist line under a government frank. She is in love with him, and although she recognises that it is a bit dubious, she does what he asks. He gives her expensive fur coats and jewels. But she is now being investigated for her activities. Judith keeps up correspondence with her family and asks them to tell Dexter about her war activities, as she still considers him her fiance. Dexter's sister, Rhoda, is a bit of a dull spinster but she returns to teaching as war work, and becomes a bit more outgoing. She meets a Jewish man in the neighbourhood, who is a widower with a child.. and he has taken in a refugee Jewish child, Benny. Rhoda begins to plan for a marriage that she never expected. Meanwhile down South, Jerome tells his new bride that he's under orders to ship out, and he suggests that while he is on active service, she might like to go to the North and visit his family. Jenness finds that her boss, who had been flirting with her but is engaged to a well born socialite is now cooling on her as she ends up being investigated...He wants to put all the blame on her and has no intention of marrying her. Daniel is so desperate to help his daughter that he sells the farm to Dexter, with a proviso that he can live there.. so that he has money to engage a top lawyer for her. Jenness is examined by the Grand Jury and found guilty of perjury. She realises that she's going to go to prison and becomes terrified. Joe Racina who has come to see her before her sentencing, tells her that it is terrible but that she must face it and come out the other side stronger. She gets hysterical and says noone would want to marry her if she's been in prison. She begs her father to save her - but there's nothing he can do. She makes a sudden dash for the balcony of her apartment, and throws herself over, and dies.