- Jason meets up with an old friend, and together they must deal with Jason's reputation as a coward if they are to put an end to a bank robbery.
- Jason finds that his old friend Rufus I. Pitkin (R.I.P.) is now working as a "dignified undertaker." They discover that a coffin contains more than a dead body, and is the centerpiece of a ruse for hiding booty from a bank robbery. Jason is confronted by one of the robbers who mocks him for his past cowardice. Somehow Jason and Rufus must deal with his past in order to deal with the challenges of the present.—Charles Delacroix
- In the words of Jason McCord:
I was just travelling along one day minding my own business when I met up with a friend of mine, Old Rufus I. Pitkin. Now, you remember all the trouble he got me in after my Alaska job, and you'd think I learned my lesson, but here I go again!
It was all innocent enough. One of his horse's died, and he needed another to pull the hearse to the town called Cutbank. I'm not sure how he did it, but somehow my dear old friend talked me into hitching MY personal horse to the hearse. That was a mistake I'd live to regret!
You see, the harness rubbed a raw spot on my horse, so I had to stay in town overnight while the livery man took care of my horse.
There were three men in town. the Stater brothers were there to rob the bank. And the coffin we had just transported in town actually held a man who was very much alive. His name was Roy Barlow. He had to sneak into town because he was a wanted man. They planned on causing a distraction, one I would be a part of, and then rob the gold from the bank while the town watched. The gold would go into the coffin and buried on Boot Hill. Then after everyone was gone, they would dig it up, steal the gold, and leave town without anyone noticing.
Well, it went really well. Fred Slater came into the saloon and called me a coward. That got me to fighting, and soon there was a big fight in the saloon. Afterwards, when Pitkin and I went back to his office, we noticed one of the coffins had been moved. That's when I noticed something strange about the coffin we had brought in while ago. After lifting the lid, I discovered the gold.
I was going to turn it into the Sheriff, but Pitkin had it in his head that we would be blamed. I knew he was right, and we would have to catch the robbers if we were to get out of this mess. So, I stayed in the hearse at the graveyard, and when Pitkin started performing the ceremony, I jumped out and surprised them. I let Pitkin take them all in.
He was deemed a hero, and I got out of there...FAST!
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