Brisco and Bowler are seemingly contacted by Professor Coles (from The Orb Scholar), but its actually a ploy by John Bly, who is in cahoots with the professor's daughter. She is suffering from an aging disease and needs the Orb's power to heal herself.

Brisco and Bowler run afoul of two orphans, who are being hunted by the New York City mob because of their inheritance. The bounty hunters agree to help get the orphans to San Francisco, while Socrates finds out that the kids' mother is actually alive.