As Jim Hardie enters a stable in Bentonville late at night after riding all day all he wants is food and a bed a gunshot rings out. Jim runs toward the Wells Fargo office. Agent Sam Riddle runs out of the office with a gun as one of the two holdup men shoots Sam and he falls to the ground. A second agent then gets a shot off wounding one outlaw who also dropped his gun. Jim runs up identifying himself so he isn't shot and tells the agent to get a posse as he takes off after the outlaws who stole $6,000. Being night he has no luck tracking them so the next day he checks with the local doctor, Wm. C/ Forrester, who it turns out Jim knows as he had to testify against him for being in a duel while in the Army. Forrester stills holds a grudge although he got off lightly for killing a man. He knows about the robbery from treating Sam Riddle but has heard nothing else until as they talk young Leroy Haggerty rides up for help. His older brother Ollie has shot himself accidentally which intrigues Jim who goes with them. He meets Leroy's pretty wife Tina. The doctor soon realizes Ollie has lied about how he was shot plus Leroy and Tina tell Jim Ollie has been with Vince Garner, the shooter. Ollie convinces the doctor to help him but Leroy lies for his brother giving him an alibi which ties Jim's hands for now.
—Anonymous