“He said you wanted the money given to him so you wouldn’t have to deal with the property.”

“I didn’t know you were on this land until August,” I said.

“He took four thousand cash from you this year, four thousand last year, and four thousand the year before.

He put every dollar right into his private credit union account and left me open to personal injury suits if one of you fell out of a box stand.”

Kurt ran his bare hand through his short graying hair and looked up at the oak canopy overhead.