Ed Morgan was a law-abiding rancher, a widower who had lost both his wife and his child to childbirth. Summoned by his younger brother, Ben, who has just been released from prison, Ed hopes for a reconciliation between them. But he finds his brother near death, with a final request. He wants Ed to find the money he buried before his capture and imprisonment, half of which belongs to Honey Travers, the girl whom Ben loved then and loves now, who has been waiting years for his release. But there are at least six others who feel they have a claim to that fifty thousand dollars...