It was hot, without the slightest trace of a breeze in the Lone Ranger's camp near the valley town of Garner's Pass. The masked man had planned to stay their with his nephew, Dan Reid, and Tonto, only long enough to rest and graze the horses, but fate had changed his plans. Dan had been struck by illness, chills and an increasing fever failed to respond to Tonto's Indian remedies. Dan's flushed face grew hotter and drier with each passing hour - his parched lips cracked. He murmured almost constantly, but his words had little meaning...