Summary
Buchanan Atkinson, baron of Eastern steel and steam, dispatches his feckless progeny Timothy—equal parts champagne swagger and silk-spined ennui—into the sun-cracked furnace of Calm City, Arizona, a whistle-stop where the rails creak like penitent sinners. The iron superintendent, Spencer, governs the yards under a cloud of banditry; masked phantoms bleed the trains until the timetables weep crimson ink. Timothy, gambling on redemption, vaults from upholstered exile into the dust-choked sublime, heart snared by Spencer’s daughter Alice—her gaze a shot of frontier ether. In a limestone cathedral veined with outlaw shadows, he uncovers a plot to spirit Alice southward across the vanishing line of the Rio Bravo. Astride a storm-lit stallion, he smashes the kidnappers’ covenant, reclaims the bullion, and rides the horizon until the town bell clangs his name. Father and prodigal lock eyes under Gotham’s vaulted ceilings; the ledger of shame is balanced in one mute handshake.
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Wealthy Eastern railroad magnate Buchanan Atkinson sends his wayward son Timothy to Calm City, Arizona for safe keeping. Once there, Timothy falls in love with Alice Spencer whose father, the superintendent of the railroad in Calm City, is threatened with the loss of his position because of the great number of recent train robberies. To prove his love for Alice, Timothy decides to track down the bandits. Locating their hideout in a cave, he discovers that they are about to abduct Alice and escape across the Mexican border. Timothy rescues Alice, saves the loot and becomes the town hero. Accompanied by Alice, he returns East and is redeemed in his father's eyes.
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