If he was to marry a girl that wasn't educated like him, an' he'd begin to get fool notions about hisself--why, it'd make it pretty hard for the girl to get along with him." He grinned.

"But accordin' to what I hear, Kane ain't goin' to marry no ignoramus exactly, for he's took a shine to Ruth Hamlin, Willets' school teacher.

She's got a heap of brains, that girl, an' I reckon she'd lope alongside of Kane, wherever he went." The woman frowned.

"Is Mr.Lawler going to marry Ruth Hamlin ?" Corwin looked sharply at her.

"What do you suppose he's fannin' up to her for ?" he demanded.