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Several of Favor's men are sick with a mysterious illness. Favor and the sick men make it to the abandoned Gray Rock Hotel where they are protected from the cold and wind. They find a beautiful but strange woman with dangerous past.

After Favor hired two drovers, several of the men became sick and one of the new men died. Unsure what the illness is, Favor and the sick men reach the Gray Rock Hotel in an abandoned town. It provides protection from the cold and wind. They find a beautiful woman Lottie stranded there due to an accident with her horse. Favor convinces her to help tend the men while he sends the sick Quince to the next town for help. Lottie soon becomes popular with all the men but especially Marty, one of the two new hands. After making a failed pass at Lottie and mentioning he has heard of her, she tries twice to kill him succeeding the second time. Quince falls off his horse but is found later by a group of men looking for Lottie. One man goes with Quince while the other three go to Gray Rock. Favor and the men have learned Lottie is in trouble with men chasing her. When the three men arrive, Favor wants to talk to them but Lottie opens fire with the rest of the drovers following suit. After people are wounded on both sides, Favor finally forces the truth out of Lottie. She has been a battered woman and wife murdering multiple men including Marty. She runs out of the hotel where she meets her fate.—Anonymous

Some drovers come down with a sickness, one of them having died already. Favor leads a half dozen of them on a 30-mile trip for doctoring at Gold Ridge. Along the way, they stop at a ghost town temporarily occupied by Lottie (Lola Albright), the only person it town. Lottie's horse had gone lame. She is skittish and fearful, but nurses the men under Favor's supervision. Alluring, the men (except Favor) take to her, and she plays up to them and bad-mouths Gil Favor. One of the drovers, Marty Brown, seems to recognize her or at least correctly assesses her as a vamp and manipulative lying woman. So she sees to it that he succumbs to his illness. The others recover. Finally she tells Favor that her husband became violently jealous of her innocent meeting with his partner, resulting in her accidentally shooting her husband. The law thinks otherwise, and a posse is closing in on her at the ghost town, and she starts firing at the posse and encourages the drovers, over Favor's objections, to join in the shoot-out. It soon becomes clear, though, that Lottie is mentally ill and has violent feelings toward all men, possibly due to abuse.—chipe