Lon Pike hauled the body of a murdered deputy into town, then tackled a gun-wielding drunk who was out to shoot Marshal Everson. Council chairman Orville Tuft, whose bank has been robbed, wanted to make Lon Marshal instead of Everson, and Lon, inveigled by Tuft's pretty daughter Zinnia, agreed. However, on reflection, he decided it was smarter to take the deputy's job instead. But Everson looked increasingly likely to be in cahoots with the robbers – and he might just have sent the previous deputy to his death when he learned too much.