title: To Want the School Teacher
author: Day, Lisa
description: In the year 1869 the town of Edenville needed a new school teacher...
  His name with four men went into the hat. Thomas knew the winner was actually the loser.Life he as knew it would be over. Finding a school teacher would be the easy part. Fulfilling the town's charter the hard part, but 'for the good of the town' he'd do his civil duty and marry the woman. He unfolded the slip of paper...
  His search was fruitless, and he returned empty handed. Time was running out the town needed a school teacher.
  He couldn't believe his eyes. There a candidate sat just few feet from him. Now all he had to do was convince her to stay and become the teacher and according to the town's charter his wife.
  Thomas told himself a hundred times is was 'for the good of the town' he couldn't let her get back on that stagecoach. He looked at the woman he just abducted wondering if he had any brains left.