Highly respected Kurt Davos is badly injured while trying to save Florence Hastings on a runaway wagon. Florence, who's scared of dogs and had tried to kill Kurt's dog, volunteers to live with and care for Kurt, now paralyzed.

A Bible quoting marshal joins the wagon train with his prisoner, a young bank robber whom he claims to be trying to reform. He wants the prisoner to atone for his sins by telling the location of the money he hid from his last holdup.