The wagon delivering the Mountie payroll and the Bordertown mail is discovered with covered with bloodstains and bristling with arrows. Clive and Jack quickly realize that the "clues" are planted to throw the law off the scent - since the route was secret and the bodies of the escort never found, the robbery had to be committed by deserters. While the Mountie and the marshal search for the thieves, Marie entertains a cousin newly arrived from France.
