As Jim Hardie and the Sheriff come out of the Sheriff's office, there is a disturbance at the general store. The storekeeper is throwing a young Choctaw brave out of his store. The boy appearing to be eighteen or nineteen says Wells Fargo and gives the Sheriff a piece of paper. It is a Wells Fargo bill of lading for a four year old boy named Tommy McCrea being shipped by his grandmother in St. Louis to his parents out west fourteen years ago. Hardie takes the boy who speaks no English under his protection. He finds the people in the hotel and restaurant unwilling to serve the boy so he must force them. When the boy runs away, Hardie finds him at the local Choctaw encampment. He learns that the boy was found by a stage and raised by the tribe but the tribe no longer wants him as they hate whites. After sending some telegrams and talking to Niles Larson, he learns the boy's mother may be Mrs. Lawson but she doesn't recognize him leaving Hardie in a quandary.
—Anonymous