Passin' Through

"Passin' Through" is the nickname Mrs Holyrood bestows on the stranger who stops by the ranch she inherited from admirer Mr Phillips in Denver. The narrator likes the alias, and stays to make repairs in return for the blue roan he had to ride out on quick when cut down from a noose by a Ute squaw and youth after he stopped in a small town bar for a meal. Shooting bully Burrrows in self-defense brings down a mighty passel of trouble on the plain- speaking hard-living rider, culminating in six against one.

Beautiful twentyish blonde Matty warns him away from the former actress with mighty few face lines under perfect grey hair, especially a last meal. A Pinkerton man seeks a thirtyish blonde who served an older gentleman a fine meal, his last ever. Mrs Holyrood wants to cook up a fine supper for her new hand. She directs him to the drawer of papers for the cattle tally, but he finds Phillips' will, bequeathing his half-share to niece Janet Le Caudy, who already owns the other half from her father. Yet another female enters the fray. With everyone against him, can Mr Passin survive?