If Kate balks, I'll take a hand and settle her.

I'll go to law for Elnora's share of that land and sell enough to educate her." "Why, Wesley Sinton, you're perfectly wild." "I'm not! Did you ever stop to think that such cases are so frequent there have been laws made to provide for them?
I can bring it up in court and force Kate to educate Elnora, and board and clothe her till she's of age, and then she can take her share." "Wesley, Kate would go crazy!" "She's crazy now.

The idea of any mother living with as sweet a girl as Elnora and letting her suffer till I find her crying like a funeral.
It makes me fighting mad.

All uncalled for.

Not a grain of sense in it.
I've offered and offered to oversee clearing her land and working her fields.