A posse is pursuing two men who have hid due to winded horses. The posse misses them but the men know they need fresh horses as the posse will be back. They come upon Charlie using a horse to collect firewood but he refuses to trade and is backed up by Bill Hawks. The men decide to spend the night with the wagon train so their horses can recover. Bill and Duke recognize the leader as Jud Steele who is a wanted gunfighter. That night Bill catches them trying to steal two fresh horses. He confronts Steele who for some reason doesn't cock and pull the trigger letting Bill kill him. They bury the body and Bill decides to ride to the nearest town to report the shooting. Upon riding into town he finds a monument and gravestone for the man he killed. The sheriff and the town say Steele was killed five years earlier while sheriff during a payroll robbery but Bill isn't convinced and knows they are hiding something.
—Anonymous