After an argument with Major Adams, an exhausted Flint leaves the wagon train. He cools off at a bar in the nearby town of Silver Creek, not telling Adams or anyone else where he was headed. Unknown to him, locals are shanghaiing strangers for slave labor in the mine. Amos Gibbon makes an escape, only to be captured and returned to the mine.

Iver's wife Leslie appears to provide testimony that may clear the defendant's name.