Roy, his friends, and a pair of children Pat are babysitting are taken hostage by the Wolf gang. When one of the kids comes down with the mumps, all of them are forced to be quarantined together for 24 hours to see of any symptoms appear in the adults.

Dale and Roy are worried about when Dale's nephew Bob, who just arrived in town, starts hero-worshiping a local and notorious gunfighter. However, when Bob finds out that his hero is the leader of a gang who plans to hold up the local mine owner, he sees the man in a new light.