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(Our road atlas does not list a town called Decatur in either North or South Dakota, nor any town or city of 12,000, for that matter. Jane suggests that since Decatur sounds similar to Dakota I might have confused the two names. We will try to clear up the mystery next we meet Malba.)

(She grew up with an aunt, and had an older brother. She was married at 18. She worked in a dress or textile plant of some vague definition in Decatur, South Dakota. She could not describe her duties.

(We had great trouble with the place of Decatur. This is my interpretation of what Malba said, and I believe now it is wrong. Malba’s pronunciation was something like Deka-tur, with the accent on the first syllable.

(While her husband worked in the factory he also owned a farm outside Decatur. After marriage the couple moved to the farm. It was poor ground for farming and the husband was a poor farmer. Malba mentioned this several times in a rather derogatory way.

[...] She grew up with an aunt and older brother, married at eighteen and worked in a dress or textile plant in Decatur, South Dakota. [...] We had great trouble with the name ‘Decatur.’ This is my interpretation of what she said, and now I wonder if I made a mistake. [...]

[...] While her husband worked in the factory, he also owned a farm outside of Decatur, and after marriage the couple moved there. [...]

[...] She did tell me, when asked, that Decatur had a population of about twelve thousand.

“Our road map does not list a town called Decatur in either North or South Dakota, nor any town with that high a population in that area. [...]