When a young man comes to kill Paladin to pay off his gambling IOUs, Paladin stops him and tells him the story of how he faced a similar dilemma ten years earlier... and became the man known as Paladin.

When Paladin convinces a man to turn himself in after promising him a fair trial, the man gets railroaded and spends eight years in prison. When he gets out, he finds Paladin waiting to escort him home.