Train's Trust: A Western Story

Steven Train is and has long been a thief and card sharp. He has gone by other names. He is<br>sought out by another crook, John Ranier, with a proposal. Rainer saved a rich rancher, Patrick<br>Comstock, from serious injury and was rewarded with an easy job, working for Comstock. Rainer<br>tells Steve Train that Comstock is looking for an honest man who is also adept with firearms to<br>undertake a very dangerous and responsible mission. Comstock has asked Ranier to help find<br>such a man. Rainier wants Train to apply for the job with the understanding that they will split<br>evenly the money Ranier is certain will be entrusted to Train. Train agrees to make the attempt<br>and his interview with Comstock is successful. Many years ago Comstock convinced a friend<br>named James Nair Cartwright to invest all of his money in oil stocks, only for the stocks to fail.<br>Cartwright lost his investment and disappeared. Subsequently one of the oil stocks prospered<br>and earned Cartwright $50,000. Comstock believes that Cartwright became the notorious outlaw<br>now known as James Nair, who is a killer and almost impossible to reach. Train s job will be to<br>find Nair and pay him the $50,000. Train is pleased to accept the assignment, but a detective<br>shows up who has been long trying to capture Train for crimes committed by him under various<br>aliases. Train now must persuade Comstock that he is not the man the detective is pursuing and<br>that he should be trusted with the mission to find James Nair. Oddly, there is the impulse in Steve<br>Train, that should Comstock trust him, despite the detective s accusations, he will double-cross<br>Rainier and actually try to execute faithfully what Comstock wants of him.