Trouble at the Redstone

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>JOHN D. NESBITT</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>FOUR - TIME WINNER OF THE SPUR AWARD</strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Will Dryden is let out of jail a woman named Mrs. Welles tells him her husband Al Vetch is missing and she needs someone to try to find him.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dryden hears there might be a job at a ranch called the Redstone where a young cowhand was found dead. Dryden meets Ingram the foreman; Max Aden a troublemaker; Donovan the owner; Blanche who runs the kitchen; and Pearl an Indian girl who works in the kitchen. Donovan seems to have a proprietary interest in Pearl.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dryden will find out that Donovan has a scheme to grab up land for the oil beneath and that Donovan hired Al Vetch to snuff the young cowhand for getting too close to Pearl and for trying to know too much.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mrs. Welles sends for Dryden. She says she thinks her husband came here to be with Blanche and to do some kind of dirty work. Dryden has a fling with Mrs. Welles.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dryden sees Blanche taking food and water to a hideout in a stone building near the house. He deduces that Al Vetch is inside.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dryden shoots Vetch Ingram and Aden. Then he shoots Donovan who is holding Pearl hostage.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dryden tells Pearl that if she would like to get out of this place she can go with him. They ride away together.</span></p><p><br></p>