Cass Timberlane Author:Sinclair Lewis He was a man's man with a reputation as big and solid as his name. Cass Timberlane. Judge. Age 41. When he wasn't sitting on the bench, he was with his cronies playing cards or hunting and fishing in the wild rivers and woods that kept him chained to his small home town. It took a young half-tamed hawk of a girl to change that.