Fifty of old Andy Pickett's sixty-six years had been spent in the business of raising cattle, and for the last thirty of those years, he'd been successfully a top hand, then foreman, and finally resident manager at the great Diamond X ranch, owned by eastern interests. But there came a day shortly after the round-up one fall, when a short, fat, but dignified stranger entered Andy's office, introducing himself as a representative of Andy's employers. He's there with bad news...