The Duchess Alice Fleming, living in Las Vegas, Nevada promises to help the local schoolteacher Ann Carter ''(Peggy Stewart (actress))'' with her “wild” boyfriend, Tom Blackwell ''(Jay Kirby)''. Red Ryder is asked to lend a hand by the Duchess but when he does, he discovers Tom drunk in the saloon owned by Dan Sedley ''(William Haade)''. Red is interrupted however, by an attempted bank robbery. He foils the heist and retrieves the money, which he returns to Arthur Stanton ''(Selmer Jackson)'', the bank president. What Red doesn’t know is that Stanton has embezzled over $40,000 from his bank and afterwards, had his bank robbed to cover the crime.