 Gerald Clarke interrupts a robbery when he stops at a liquor store while en route to a friends house to play cards. He s quite terrified when the young hoodlum pokes the gun in his back but recovers and shoots the robber with the liquor store owner s gun. He subsequently learns that that the robber s gun wasn t loaded and tries to make amends for what he has done by paying part of the boy s funeral. When Gerald is visited by the boy s mother, tragedy results.