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Learn more- Dick McKnight, a deputy sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Ariz., receives a telephone message from Sheriff Wheeler, of the adjoining county, to the effect that Pedro Aquilla and his band of cattle rustlers and outlaws are in San Luis Canyon. His brother, Bill McKnight, the sheriff, being away, the young deputy determines to go out alone and corral some of the gang. He leaves a note to that effect for his brother and starts upon his mission. After getting into the mountains he runs across a note fastened to a tree, which reads: "Go Back or You Die With the Sun." Dick is not an impressionable young man, but the words make him think and he gives it more weight than is usually given to anonymous communications. He continues on his journey, but cannot get the note out of his mind. As he goes forward the words burn into his brain and every little noise in the mountains startles him until fear grabs him in its deadly grasp and drives him, a frightened thing, into an old abandoned adobe hut, where his nerve is worn to a raw edge by the fear which the words signified to him. He places his pistol to his head, the revolver explodes and we leave him in darkness. His brother Bill, the sheriff of Santa Cruz County, coming home after a hard ride finds the note that the youngster has left for him and knowing the difficult task that Dick has taken upon himself, he determines to follow his brother. He trails him to the cabin and entering same finds all that is left of a once brave, light-hearted boy. He takes the cursed note from his brother's clenched hand and receives the same fatal suggestion of fear that his brother had felt and when his innocent horse inadvertently rubs his head, against the door of the adobe, he is more startled than he has ever been before. He clutches his revolver, running from what seems to him to be a haunted place. He mounts his horse and rides from that which he had loved most, his brother. Continuing madly along divers trails not knowing just what to do, the insidious note causing that destroying thought, fear ever augmenting and increasing until from a brave man. Known throughout the territory for his loyalty and bravery, he becomes a cringing, incapable child trying to hide from that thing which is seizing him in its grasp. He attempts to hide in an old abandoned monastery, going back further into the depths of the broken walls until he eventually sinks into a deep crevice, almost an imbecile, firing his revolver at unseen things. The last cartridge of his revolver loosens the old clay and they tumble down upon him, burying him in the tomb. The sun breaks through as we see his hand twitching as he smothers, paying the penalty of the suggestion offered by the piece of paper clenched in his hand even unto the end in the agony of fear. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
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