While Troop is asleep in the office, Herm Forrest enters and waits for Troop to awaken. He tells Troop he is a cattleman introducing himself. He asks if Troop has seen Lee Darragh. Troop stops by the Birdcage where Herm is drinking after stopping in the general store to ask about Lee. Lily tells Dan she has bad feelings about Herm and another in the street also with a rifle. Troop is not alarmed until he sees the other man and one in a hotel window with a rifle. When Troop asks, Harm tells Troop the four of them are there to kill a man. They hear gunfire and find one of the four men dead in the street. Troop questions Herm in the office. He tells Troop they are after a 20 year old who has killed eight people. Troop makes them deputies with the promise to let him try to take Lee alive for trial. Lee breaks into the Birdcage and then leaves. Lily warns Troop who starts a search for Lee with the deputies. Lee knocks a deputy out in the stable and Troop is forced to kill Lee. Herm then asks Troop if he can take his brother's body.
—Anonymous