Shooting Match

By Philip McCormac

In the area around Ayli Valley, Leonard Duke has been seizing all the cattle ranching land, bullying and stealing to get what he wants.  Oliver Lismore has fallen in with a bad crowd, and when Owen, his brother, confronts and humiliates him and his gunslinger sidekick, he decides to have his brother killed in revenge. Owen enters a boxing tournament not knowing that it has been fixed so that he won’t leave the ring alive.
When he makes a narrow escape, the beautiful Rosalind Pond and feisty Celia help conceal him from the law. Duke bans Celia from seeing Rosalind, causing the women to run away together, disguised as husband and wife. They quickly fall into the clutches of a dangerous group of outcasts, who take them prisoner. Owen, hearing of Rosalind’s abduction, rides to attempt her rescue, not knowing that his brother is now under orders from the crooked Duke and in hot pursuit.