

The Campbells set out for a brief holiday when Emma become witness to a robbery and remembers the killer.

A trio terrorizes the community. The drifters trespass on Campbells land and take lumber and refuse to leave. Sims hesitates to take action. James stands up to them as tensions escalate.

Neil returns from Baltimore in time for James' birthday. A fugitive follows him home.

A father and son disappear and turn up murdered. Neil investigates and between he and John, they bring the culprit to justice. James decides to stay in bed to get some time to himself.

John falls in love. Sims gives him advice on how to win the girl over. He ends up showing his worthiness to the whole community.

In preparation for their anniversary Sims gives Harriet a piano. However, he becomes distracted when James offers to help Rebecca by digging the school well and everyone comes to believe that the two are having a secret courtship.

Emma dresses like a man so she can freely roam the countryside but she gets into trouble anyway.

James gives Neil very bad guidance when Neil sets out to buy horses.

A resentful woman from Sims' past claims to be his jilted fiance. Harriet throws Sims out of the house at precisely the time Rebecca is due for evaluation as a teacher. With Sims out of the house, James agrees to pretend to be Sims for the night and has to endure anti-Scot bigotry. When Harriet is later injured and the stranger shows medical proficiency, James discovers that the woman is lying about her relationship with Sims.

An eccentric intellectual visits with an increasingly depressed James.

The women of the community get irrational as Thanksgiving Day approaches...or maybe it has to do with the visit from Sims' sister Margaret.