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100	1		_aTuttle, W. C. _q(Wilbur C.), _d1883-1969
245	1	0	_aHis brother's keeper
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aProduced from the January 25, 1928 issue of Short Stories Magazine.
500			_aRelease date is 2025-05-31
508			_aRoger Frank and Sue Clark
520			_a"His brother's keeper by W. C. Tuttle" is a Western short story written in the early 20th century. Set in a scorched desert valley, it examines a hard-bitten sheriff’s absolute devotion to the law and how that zeal collides with fate, family, and frontier justice. Sheriff “Duty” Deming alienates his wife and drives away his children by enforcing the law without mercy, even sending his own son to prison on dubious evidence. After arresting a sick hobo for train-hopping, Deming contracts a fever and still rides alone into the lava beds to capture Red Cowan, accused of murdering rancher Al Mitchell. Collapsing in the wasteland, he is found and nursed by Cowan—who is innocent and keeps the sheriff alive at an abandoned ranch. Delirious and obsessed with duty, Deming tries to arrest Cowan and fires wildly, only to die as his former deputy arrives with the truth: the real killer, Slim Delong, confessed before dying, and Mitchell had framed Deming’s son. The story closes on the bitter irony that Deming’s worship of his badge—his “other god”—ultimately destroys him, even as justice belatedly clears his boy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1928
653			_aShort stories
653			_aWestern stories
653			_aSheriffs -- Fiction
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76208
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