While on the trail of the outlaw Flaherty who stole $10,000, Jim Hardie hears a gun shot. He finds Gabe Adams also an outlaw in the past going through the dead Flaherty's belongings. Jim pulls his pistol on Gabe but Gabe tells Jim he has changed sides and is now working as a bounty hunter. Jim has Gabe finish the search but no money is found. Jim tells Gabe to bring the body into Blazing Rock where he will arrange for Gabe to get the $500 reward for Flaherty alone. In Blazing Rock Jim learns that Marshal Dan Gillette's daughter Libby is engaged to an Englishman, Noel Briggs. Furthermore, Briggs won over $10,000 from Flaherty playing craps the day before. However, Briggs refuses to return the money as he needs it to pay off gambling debts in England leaving Jim few choices and others may have eyes for the money.
—Anonymous