No one killed Jubal Locke's partner and got away with it. After squaring the account in blood, Locke figured he owed his partner's father the courtesy of giving him the bad news in person. But he rode into a wall of hostility and came within an ace of dying himself. He moved out to Kiowa Canyon, where he turned to face the enemy. He was ready to go down fighting and to take as many of the killers with him as he could.