A lifetime of sweat and blood goes into a hardrock mine like the Sweet Betsy. But a lifetime in the Arizona Territory can be awfully short. Bill Croft was one of those miners who'd been crippled when a mine cable snapped. Now there was just Bill and his daughter Drusilla, and the only mining he was doing was the illegal variety. Bill Croft knew mining and had recommended a mine to some wealthy business interests. There would be all hell to pay if the mine didn't produce--and all hell to pay if it did!