Paladin goes to inform a calvary corporal that he has won $600,000 in a lottery. But they may not live to cash in the ticket, they are trapped by several dozen hostile Indians.

Paladin is hired by the wife of a weak man who's terrorized by his hometown. The Southerner is hated because of his role in the Lincoln assassination.

A desert town hires Paladin to deal with three brothers who have been poisoning the municipal water supply.

Paladin is invited to best man at Rivka Shotness' wedding. When he arrives he finds that Billy Buckstone, the man the bride's family helped to convict, has been freed from prison and is on his way back.