- Claire Armory comes to Virginia City to live with her brother Carl, an invalid neighbor of the Cartwrights. Carl encourages Claire to see Ben, and soon Claire and Ben fall in love with each other. But Carl is a manipulative man who uses his condition in order to get Claire to do what he wants, and tries to use her now to get money from Ben. Claire struggles with whether or not to break free from her brother and marry Ben.—rbecker28
- The Cartrights have some new neighbors, Carl Armory and his sister Claire. Carl's not in good shape medically as his lungs were damaged from smoke as a child that took his parents' lives. He also has a gambling and scheming problem which his sister feels she has to keep paying for. Ben also has had an injury in his eye for which he has an eye patch. He explains it as having a hunting accident where a cartridge exploded while still in the gun chamber. With Carl's encouragement, Claire meets with Ben and love is in the air. Joe and Hoss are busy repairing the neighbors house with Laurel-and-Hardy-like comedy results. Clearing the chimney leaves the boys with soot to wash out of their eyes while talking about their father and whether his pre-occupation with Claire is love. Claire is convinced that Carl is up to another of his schemes to swindle Ben out of money as they are broke and need money to get to warmer climate. Claire has to decide if she's going to continue to be 'her brother's keeper' or if she can finally have a dream and build a 'castle' and a future of her own.
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