Plot summary
Fifteen years earlier, Trafford arrives in Wyoming with his brutal and ambitious bookkeeper, David Melmont. They meet Corporal Jerome McClintock and soldiers Flynn and Myers, seeking revenge for the death of Myers's brother at the hands of Running Hawk. Melmont joins them in massacring a Cheyenne settlement at Chalk River with a stolen Gatling gun, while Trafford and Whipp, a member of the soldiers' company, are unable to intervene. Melmont returns to England and lies to Locke, Trafford's fiancée, that it was Trafford who took part in the massacre.
He claims that Trafford and the soldiers were found at a brothel, for which the soldiers were dishonorably discharged while Trafford has been imprisoned, awaiting payment of a £2,000 fine. When Melmont comes to collect the money, Locke has received a farewell letter from Trafford revealing the truth, but Melmont rapes her and takes the money, using it to make his fortune in Colorado, while Locke becomes pregnant. In 1890, Kills On Water reveals that his family was killed at Chalk River, and asks Whipp what became of the men responsible.
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