Five gangsters hold up and rob a stagecoach, shooting the guard Tex, (Bill Williams) who falls from the coach which travels on a distance before it's stopped. The gangsters take the strong box and send the coach on. They open the box and start taking the contents out then there's a shot of Tex looking at the gangsters.
Suzanne, the maid, is seen on the seat of the wagon when it gets to the river. However, when Pecos arms Colonel Lambeth and Rill prior to the gun battle, she has disappeared.
Pecos (Robert Mitchum) rescues Bill (Barbara Hale, disguised as a young man) from drowning in a river and carries her to the bank. In a close up of him kneeling of her, they are both dry and particularly her hair when he takes her hat off.
When Rill gets up from under the wagon after the gun battle, she uses the gun to assist her, pushing its barrel into the mud. Pecos puts the gun back into its holster without cleaning it when it is returned to him.