When Dave Adams, the young Marshal of San Angelo, was shot down and badly crippled by Swifty Serano, the Lone Ranger set out to bring the gunman to justice. But Serano proved a crafty fugitive, and for months the ashes of his campfires were cold when the masked man and Tonto came upon them. However, time and distance caused Swifty to drop his guard, and as he did, his old spirit of bravado returned...