"I don't want to go if Mr. Stover needs me." Golter stepped into the president's office and soon returned with the information that Uncle Jim said that she could go as soon as she finished the letter she was writing. "How long will you be gone?" she asked. "Oh, we should be back by six or six-thirty. You know it is only twenty-four miles from here to Zala, and it will only take a few minutes to attend to the business." Ruth called her aunt and told her that she was going with Mr. Golter to Zala. On the way going he asked, "What do you think of the Ku Klux Klan by this time?" She replied, "It seems to be doing some good." "Perhaps a little good but much more harm." "How do you know that it's doing harm?" "I know by what I read. Besides you can't expect anything but trouble from the class of people that belong." "What do you know about the class of people who belong?" she asked. "They are mostly crooks and ne'er-do-wells like that fellow King, who goes around with his coat frayed at the cuff." "Mr. King has more to him than a whole lot of fellows who are better dressed; but how do you know who belongs?" "You see that that class of people have little principle and many of them give away their membership." "I don't believe it," she said with spirit. "I think that there are unprincipled people who work some of their bunch into the Klan for the purpose of giving it away." "It certainly ruins one's standing in society when it is found out that he belongs to the hooded bunch. I wouldn't want to associate with anyone who was connected with these midnight marauders." "I believe in the principles of the Klan; I believe that a good class of men belong; that they are doing many charitable acts, and in many places have created more respect for law and order. If I were a man I would join this order of real red-blooded Americans." Golter decided that he was not getting anywhere in the direction which he desired to go; he tried a new tack. "I was reading a new book the other day, the title of which is, 'The Quest for Happiness'." "Is it good?" "Yes. It is so much more practical than many books along that line. I suppose you would call the author a materialist, but then you know that everything in this world that has any value has a material basis." "I am not so sure of that."