Incident of the Slavemaster

Gil Favors Trail stößt auf einen halb verhungerten Mann. Der Fremde erzählt eine unglaubliche Geschichte: Er behauptet, er sei von einem ehemaligen Offizier der Südstaaten gefangen gehalten worden und habe auf dessen Plantage unter Sklavenbedingungen arbeiten müssen. Der Trailboss und Rowdy gehen der Sache auf den Grund.

Mrs. Bradley pulls a gun on Victor Laurier and wants to know where her husband is. She knows he isn't dead. Victor was in charge of a POW camp. At the end of the war Victor says he sent 27 union soldiers and three guards, one his son east, but they never reached their destination. Mrs. Bradley got a letter from her husband four years after he was supposed to have died.