What leads to the conflict between the Beauty and the other characters in Chapter 8?

In Chapter 8, the early bloom of friendship between the Beauty and her new farmhouse guests is put to the test when the Beauty reads newspaper headlines in which Allan's true history, along with Julius' and Benny's as well, is revealed as tainted with criminality. In actuality, the newspapers have exaggerated much of the background of the men, even if Julius has a notorious history for mostly petty theft.