Sid Morgan hires Paladin to protect him from someone who is trying to kill him. After killing the gunfighter who was following them, Paladin finds out the real reason Morgan hired him. He then hands out his own brand of justice.

Paladin stops to ask a stranger for directions and is invited to share his campsite. Later, when a posse arrives, the man announces that Paladin is the murderer they have been looking for.

Paladin is hired to find Colonel Celine in order to get him to sign an important document.

When a calf is found dead, a rancher seeks revenge on another.

A puppeteer gives Paladin a wagon ride to an Army fort commanded by a general with presidential aspirations.