The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-11

below regarded ii as a hlOOl-fetld. ana
didn't bother itself about it. BESIDES
ut first we were too proud to call for
help. And after our numbers We're
few. the trails were watched-and
those who tried TO 90 down into the
valieyS-never got there.
"One after another the losses were
killed. and | needn't make il any
worse for you than ! can help-by
telling Of each killing. Enough to say
that at last no one was left except
a few old men whose eyes were too
dim 10 shoot straight, and my W
father. And | was a baby then-juSt
born.
"1hcn one night my farlpr-seeing
the fate that was comin@ down upon
thpm-tooE the last course to defeat
them. Matthew l'"lger-a correction
by marriage-was still alive. %'mon'S
clan hadn't attacked him yet. He had
no share I'm the land, but instead lived
in this house | live in now. re bad
a few cattle and some pasture land
! farther down The Divide. There had
been no purpose in killing him. He
hadn't been worth thr extra bullet.
"Ono Night my rathcr left rae as}coo
and StcIc through the forests to talk
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gone suddenly stark white, and that
"A curious glitter had come to his eyes.
He spoke breathlessly. For the name
Matthew Folger-called up vague
memories that seemed 20 reveal great
truths to him. The girl smiled grimly.
Let me go on. My father decided
Folger the land. The deed was to
go on record so that all the world
would know that Folger owned it. and
If the clan killed him it was plainly
for the purposes of greed alone. But
there was also a. secret agreement
he kent hidden for twentv.one wears
In this agreement Folger nromised to
return to me-the only living heir or
the Rosses-the lands acquired nv tho
deed. In reality. he was only holding
them in ,rust for me and was 70 re.
turn them when 7 was twenty-one
In case of my fathers death. Folger
was to be nv guardian until that time.
"Folger knew he risk he ran. but
he was q brave man and he did NOT
care. Besides. he was nv fathers
1riend-and goes FAR In the
mountains ana my rather was shot
Inc 'l"h hao acteu QUICK you see.
s"heh folSer hearu oil IT, Delore the
oa"h' ne caihe TO II! 1atiers mouse
anu caiiieu i'e away icioie "Iloil"r
night was lone III was kliied 700.
Inc perSplratlon 'eapen out on
bruce loreilead. me :Hd CLIO" OF
the Hre was IN ms eyes.
"He tell almost where this fire IS
built, with a thirty~1hi-tT bullet in his
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