- Matt tries to quell rumors of a planned Pawnee attack.
- Matt and Chester are returning to Dodge after spending a week delivering a prisoner to Hays City. They runn into a local hill family who have a wagon packed with all their possesions. They tell Matt and Chester that the Pawnee are on the warpath and they're heading to Dodge for safety and other hill folk are doing the same. This puzzles Matt and Chester since the Pawnee have been peaceable for some time. When they return to Dodge they find the town's citizens scrambling to arm themselves for the rumored indian attack. A fellow named Tewksbury, who claims to have lived with the Pawnees, is telling stories of the vicious nature of the Pawnees when they are on the warpath. Matt tries to settle the panicked town folk to no avail. They demand Matt take action and organize a strategy for the impending attack. At the edge of town, a fire breaks out at a rooming house with Pawnee arrows near by which further strengthens the believe that a Pawnee attack is on it's way.. Matt suspects Tewksbury may be the one starting the rumors and stirring up trouble. Another fire breaks out near by. Chester sees that Tewksbury had set it and tells Matt. Matt arrests him in front of the town folk. The enraged town folk want to hang him, especially after finding out two cowboys burned to death in the first fire. While they prepare for the lynching a Pawnee woman comes to town to see Matt, claiming to be Tewksbury's daugther. She brings him his medicine bag and gives him his strong medicine. Soon after, he dies with the woman acknowledging to Matt that the strong medicine allowed her father to die on his own terms.The woman takes her father out of Dodge down the main street with everyone watching.
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