Dan Reid, the fourteen-year-old nephew of the Lone Ranger, was returning to the town of Cold Rock from a trip to Corpus Christi where he had been visiting friends. As he sat on the stage coach, Dan noticed that a woman and a little boy sat on the seat facing him were watching him intently, before realizing he was fingering a metal object he had taken from his pocket. He grinned momentarily and started to put the object back into his pocket, when the little boy asked what it was...