With the Army occupation of Apache lands ended, Yellow Boy, Juanita, their new baby daughter, and Yellow Boy's Mescalero band return to the reservation. Better days come with the arrival of a strong but fair Indian agent, W.H.H. Llewellyn, who the Mescaleros call "Tata Crooked Nose." Yellow Boy joins Llewellyn's tribal police, and for a time becomes an Army Scout participating in General Crook's Sierra Madre Campaign, returning Apaches to the San Carlos Reservation. But his old nemesis Blood of the Devil, the terrifying witch, has not finished with Yellow Boy, and the outcome of their next confrontation is by no means certain.