Three men, pointlessly killing a girl's dog, are discovered to have robbed the bank at Broadman's Bend, Arizona, and become the target for a scratch posse. A miner, the girl's brother, the old marshal, the banker's weakling son, and the yellow skinned laundry man endure three nights of search, see a new turn to the story, watch the weakling evince a kind of courage, save a hostage--and are changed. Human.