Utterly Mad

Ice rattled in the lawman's tea glass, putting it back on the table and wiping the beads of left over tea off his bushy mustache. "No time for introductions I presume? Bah, that was rude of me to say-" He stopped as the other lawmen lifted up his oddly-soft looking hand. Both of them were odd looking, one of them looked like your stereotypical "rugged sheriff" while the other looked more like some city-slicker from the East Coast. "What my partner meant to say," he started in his 'official' tone. "was that there is evidence that the people whom raided your farm, are linked to the people we're currently after." They both took another sip of tea. "You see the people that killed your Ma' and Pa' are apart of a large group that have been raising nine-kinds-a-Hell all over the frontier. Originally there were four of-em' but now there's so doggone many of them that we can't keep them all in check."

"They go by the name: "Red River Riders". Its believed that they're a group of claim-jumpers looking for the next plot of land to pan gold out of. And it just so happens that the river your property is built on, is one of many untouched gold veins-", ironically he was cut off by his partner.

"Did you get the land deed before coming out here?" He said taking a long drink of ice tea.

>When looking through the papers from earlier, you never found the deed to your property

Your nephew came into the kitchen holding a large glass pitcher, filled to the rim with tea. Quietly he refilled the lawmen's glasses, and left out of the room without saying a word.