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Then I came back to my house. "I will go back to the agency 

 to-morrow." Then after daylight came I said to my wife, "Thou 

 shalt prepare the food quickly; I am gomg to go back to the agency." 

 Then I began to eat. And when I finished eating I was ready to start 

 out. Then I said to my wife, "I shall come back late in the evenmg." 



Then I started out. And I was not going long when I arrived at 

 the agency at last. Then I perceived two people standmg (in the 

 road). And when Tom HoUis (who was one of those two men) saw 

 me (he shouted), "Dost thou know (that) Grant was killed last 

 night?" — "Where was he killed?" In the meanwhile people kept 

 on assemblmg in a body. Then we went to (the place) where that 

 previously mentioned (man) was killed. He had been dragged into 

 the water. His blood just showed where he was dragged into the 

 water. At last we arrived there. Then I saw where he was dragged 

 into the water. There was onl}^ blood all over the place where he 

 had been killed. In the meanwhile (it was) not long before many 

 people arrived (there). Then we went in boats downstream. And 

 now they spoke, "If (the body) should float, it (would) not (go) far 

 away." We went in boats just a little downstream when it was said, 

 "Now here (it is)." Thereupon (the body) was caught there and 

 placed inside the boat, and then we went back with it (to) where it 

 was dragged into the water. 



In the meantime the agent arrived and said to me: "Do thou not 

 go off far! Thou shaft just stay here. I am going to talk now to 

 Toledo through the telephone. I want that the coroner should come 

 right away, so that he may examine (the body) .!' And then the agent 

 told me (quietly), "Thou shalt just take good care of thyself." 



I knew already who killed (Grant) : Abe Logan and Albert Martin. 

 They two clubbed him (to death) with rocks. His head was just fuU 

 of holes. So then I told the agent: "I am already prepared with my 

 gun. I am going to shoot those two. Three (other) people are 

 already prepared with their guns." And then the agent said to me: 

 "No. Thou shalt not (do) this ! Shouldst thou do this, much trouble 

 will (come) upon thee. (It would be) best if thou shouldst pay atten- 

 tion to what the law wiU say. AU the white people (around here) 

 know thee. The law will assist thee." Thus the agent was saying 

 to me: "Thou shalt just go slowly (about this affair) ; thou shalt take 

 good care of thyself. I like thee very much, because thou knowest 

 the law. Moreover, thou art judge over thy people." Then I took 

 (the body) into the house, and the agent told me, "Thou shalt bury 

 him in the ground to-morrow." And then, verily (I did so). But I 



