After recovering from the wounds sustained in his encounter with the Black-Jack Demon, Silas asks Dorothy to return with him to the Wichita Mountains and dig for the Demon's treasure. Back in Oklahoma Territory, they find Sheriff Mills and his brothers prospecting in his mine and a harrowing shootout follows, leaving one dead. Later, at the Christmas dance Silas and Dorothy incur the wrath of the true power in town, the local madam.