After a holdup by Eli Fisher, Jim Hardie is on his trail but finds there is a second strange and dirty man on his own trail. He tries to sneak upon the other man’s camp taking the man’s rifle, but when he takes it the other man calmly tells him to come on in which he does. After asking for his rifle back, the other man offers coffee and introduces himself as Wade Cather. Cather is also after Fisher and he believes following Jim is the quickest way to find him given Jim’s success. Upon hearing Cather is not after Jim himself, he leaves to travel at night. He tracks Fisher to an abandoned town where Cather has followed him. Although Cather shoots a partner of Fisher saving Jim’s life, he is still leery of Cather who it turns out was a prisoner under Fisher during the war and wants revenge. Fisher has a girlfriend, Verna, as well who tries to mediate a surrender but Fisher is afraid of Cather.