A feverish old man and his grown son find an abandoned mine dubbed "Lucifer's Pit." They're trying to fight off a gang, led by Dirks, that wants the mine for themselves, thinking it rich in gold. When things look their worst, the old man says he would sell their souls to the devil. Just then, Paladin appears in a puff of sulfur smoke as the smell of brimstone is in the air.—Bill Koenig