Hallie offers her home to Ransom, and he helps out in the restaurant waiting tables and washing dishes. He finds out that Hallie can't read or write and offers to teach her. Liberty and his friends burst into the restuarant and bully a few men out of their table. He has a few words with Tom and leaves. He throws a bottle of alcohol through the window on his way out.
Ransom begins teaching a class to many of the townspeople.
He says that Liberty is coming to town on election day. Hallie is concerned once she finds out that Ransom has been learning to shoot. Tom takes Ransom back to his house to show him the room he is building on to his house. The room is supposed to be for Hallie, because he thinks he is going to marry her. Tom begins to teach Ransom how to shoot.