Ten days after fleeing his reservation, a Native American man named Willis finds himself weak and dehydrated. After finally stumbling across a seemingly abandoned house, Willis realizes something is off and discovers a white woman and baby sick in bed, asleep. With a hunch of what sickness may be plaguing them, Willis decides to nurse the woman and her baby back to health using old remedies from the reservation. While doing so, Willis reflects on the misfortune that has befallen him since leaving the reservation; although he didn’t want to stab the deputy instructed to capture him, the man is now dead, and Willis is wanted for his murder. Nonetheless, Willis stays to take care of the woman and her baby, feeding them soup and bathing them with hot cloths. Eventually, the woman wakes up and asks who Willis is but is ultimately thankful that he saved her life. Willis decides to stay with the woman until her husband comes back from work, and he makes up a story about who he is, claiming that he is on the way to a job in Mexican gold fields. Willis thinks to himself that despite the destruction white people have caused to his people, he feels a strange sense of camaraderie with this woman. She offers him payment before he leaves, and after some going back and forth, Willis eventually accepts her spare horse. When the woman’s husband returns, he thanks Willis but later reveals that he knows who Willis is and what he has done. The husband says he will let Willis take his horse and leave, and he will wait twenty-four hours before coming after him and making his arrest.