Colton was camping outside a railroad town one day. That morning, a strange man showed up in his town and held a gun on him. He disappeared just as quietly as he had appeared. Later, Colton met up with a sheriff's posse who said they were looking for a man named Siedry. When Colton announced he was on his way to town to look for work, the sheriff told him he had a job: $5 a day to look for Siedry. Colton made it clear that he didn't ride on a posse where men planned on killing the wanted man. The sheriff said he wanted the man brought in alive, but Colton wondered if that's what Shaftoe wanted. That evening, he began to understand that Shaftoe may indeed have reasons to kill his childhood friend.
—Michelle