Four Color #479

In a dusty frontier town soaked by rain, Dale runs her café when a daring robbery leaves her with a missing $16 and a trail of suspects lingering in town. As a charity dance approaches and the famed diamond collection of Mrs. William Van Dusen becomes the talk of the town, a pair of former inmates—now on the run—see their chance to strike. But when Dale shows up at the dance, her presence throws a wrench into their plans, setting the stage for a tense showdown where loyalty, justice, and old secrets collide.

In "Bandit Bait," neighbor Lulu Hanks thwarts a jewelry store heist, but the masked thieves vanish into the frontier dusk. When Lulu and Dale recall the unusual fabric of the masks, they follow a trail of clues during a door-to-door charity drive—where a single overlooked detail might finally expose the culprits.