The Navajos who have allied themselves with Cruzado are disgusted and demotivated... and the enraged Paiute, on the march towards the north, has two of them slain to give the example! While Tex and Tiger Jack are hunting down the rebels, following the tracks of death and destruction, Kit Willer and Carson are arrested at Fort Defiance, after a vain attempt to oppose the soldiers reaction. So Tex and Tiger Jack are the first to reach the Mayre Walker garrison in the Rocky Mountains: relying only on his own presence, Aquila della Notte induces the rebel Navajos to have second thoughts and shake off the Paiutes And Cruzado is finally captured!