Major Baldwin, was the commander of Fort Boon on the upper Chalk River, and right now was reprimanding one of his men, Sergeant Boyle, who had years of experience as an Indian fighter, but who was now being accused of carelessness and neglect of duty in guarding an army shipment of gold. Sergeant Boyle had taken his detail, during sundown, into the kind of a trap that a greenhorn should have been looking out for. During this small window of the day, Indians with bows and arrows have all the advantage over the best sharpshooters who ever fired a carbine. The sergeant was as surprised as anyone that they had been ambushed, and reasoned that they had scouted and were certain there was no sign of any redskins in the area. Yet then had been ambushed and he had lost two men, and $12,000 of gold. The indians had been hidden behind rocks on an island, and his men had been out in the open. It's a wonder any of them survived! Now, a scouting party were about to head out and try to find the very heavy safe - weighing around 700lb - which the Major believed the Indians wouldn't have been able to lug very far...