Around 8pm, after sobering up a bit John decided to head home. It was a 2 hour ride to his farm, but the night was warm and the almost full moon was plenty bright enough to ride by. He was feeling almost euphoric after he had talked to the man in the saloon. He had at first looked, to John, like a scary scoundrel, what with his black clothing, two six shooters strapped to his hips, big brimmed hat the color a starless night sky. Then after talking with him a while John had found him to be pleasant, although by the end of the conversation he turned out to be more or less the nefarious criminal john originally .

The plan seemed simple enough. Mathias laid it out for him. Mathis' brother, funnily enough, was Johns closest neighbor, Jeb. Every month a stagecoach carrying money destined for the bank in town passed through Jeb's land. He said that the low crime rate in these parts lulled the bank officials into a false sense of security. It was only guarded by one man on horseback and the man driving the coach. He, Mathias, knew the man who was guarding on horseback, he was no more then a hired gun. He had already bribed the man to not interfere for a cut of the loot. That left only the driver to take care of. Mathias' plan was for John to distract the driver while Mathias came up behind and grabbed a few bags of cash from the carriage. Then they would ride off in seperate directions as fast as they could, to meet up with each other a couple days later to divide the loot. Here is where John had an objection to the plan.

"What's ta stop ya from taking off wit the loot. I mean I barely know you." He said.

"Ah but you do know me, you've seen my face, you know my name. If I ran off you could easily just say you witnessed the heist and turn me in." Mathias had said, which made perfect sense to John.

The thought of the money and saving his farm was enough to drive him to pull this off, but in the back of his mind he wasn't sure. If he did this he could be set, get his equipment and horses back, pay the farm hands, but if he was caught or worse he would shame his family and for sure they would lose the farm. He was desperate to make his family proud and to ensure they're continued happiness. He made up his mind, he was going to do this.