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Tom Yancey was the eighth person to go out in gunsmoke as murder multiplied in the gold-rush town of Rock Creek. Maybe Yancey knew who was fingering the lucky prospectors in the diggings at Rustlers' Bend. Maybe he aimed to tell who was running cattle off the ranches around Rock Creek. But he wasn't going to be identifying anyone now. It was Sheriff Kize Farraday's guess that one gang of blacklegs was responsible for all the killings and rustling, and that someone well-known and trusted in the community was in on it and feeding them information. But hunches weren't enough. He needed proof. He had hoped that Yancey would give him the information he needed, but Yancey was dead now and Farraday was reminded that dead men don't talk and warned that goes for dead sheriffs, too.