Assuming his wife had left town, Brother goes home to find the gun his father had left him and quietly makes his way through the backwoods to Andy's house. On the way there he notices a set of footprints leading to and from the house, but they are too small to have been made by Andy. Arriving at the back door, Brother finds Andy inside lying dead on the floor from a gunshot. In a panic, he fires a shot in the air to get the attention of the police, only to find himself arrested for Andy's murder. In a show trial, the judge wastes little time declaring Brother guilty and sentences him to death by hanging, which is carried out in short order.