Stone: Bounty Hunter and Special Deputy U. S. Marshal

"An Eye for an Eye"

By: Jeff Breland

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Stone is headed into the Rocky Mountains and to a mining camp to escort a federal prisoner back to Denver. Aboard the same train he notes a destitute mother and her five year old daughter. Hearing the child say she is hungry, Stone manages to obtain a little food from the brakeman who he happens to know from previous trips..
When all the passengers disembark at the their destination, he is surprised that the mother and child is going to the same destination as himself. There one problem. The woman's finance, who is to meet them at the station, is nowhere around. After seeing to it that the woman and child has food and lodging for the night. Stone heads for the only place where he might find a bed for himself. That is the local sheriff office.
Sleeping like the exhausted traveler he is, he is awaken to find the deputy sheriff on duty being overpower by his prisoner and two of his compatriots.
The outlaws are long gone by the time Stone and the county lawman free themselves from the sheriff's office. Due to the snowfall obliterating the tracks, the sheriff elects not to pursue the escapees. The next morning when Stone go to check on the mother and daughter he has befriended the night before, this situation takes on a bizarre twist that will leave Stone not knowing what move to make next. Be that as it may, he will play the hand that's dealt and hope to come out a winner..