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either,” added Miller, referring to a reply received to the Supervisors’ earlier letter asking for help from other agencies in paying for bear damage.

The letter was read. There was some further discussion around the table. Walter Horton still sat silently.

‘‘I’m sorry, Mr. Hbrton; I really am,” said Newbill Miller.

Horton got up and left.

AFTERWARD, as the Board moved to other matters, the sound of angry voices, raised in debate, rose from the courthouse hall below. One of the voices clearly belonged to Walter Horton.

After awhile, he came back and sat silently in the back of the room for the duration of the Supervisors’ meeting. As the Supervisors left, following adjournment, he was standing in the courthouse yard.

He had trimmed a willow switch, and he slapped it against a trouser leg as he continued to talk to individual Board members about his conviction that his sheep had really been done

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