Books asks Gillom to tell three townsmen with violent reputations, Mike Sweeney, Jack Pulford, and Cobb that he will be at the Metropole Saloon at 11 am on January 29, Books' birthday. Sweeney seeks revenge for Books' killing of his brother, Pulford is a gambler known to be a deadly crack shot. On January 29, the headstone arrives, which includes Books' death year as "1901", but no day carved. Books gives Gillom his horse, bids farewell to Bond and then boards a trolley for the saloon.