Wells Fargo is shipping $100,000 from Sacramento to Hammond City for a bank with only five people knowing about the shipment. During the robbery one of the three robbers shoots the other two after the stage leaves but one man, Burch, is only wounded. Jim Hardie is called in help investigate the robbery. He finds that Mrs. Andrew Davis, the wife of a bank employee who knew about the shipment, has come in with a letter from her husband which strongly indicates he was behind the robbery. The bank president Cyrus Wilson tells them that Davis was known to have an affair with a local seamstress, Elaine Griffin, who was an actress with very dark hair that was left stranded in the town. Jim decides to start his investigation with her. He enters her business to find a blonde partially undressed who thought he was a client. She tells him that Elaine has sold her business and left. She does give Jim an address where she is to ship the rest of Elaine's belongings. He soon learns he has been taken in by a good actress. He follows her but finds there is someone else following as well.
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