A Tonsorial Palace or barber shop acts as a front for a brothel run by Lily Langford. On their posted price list is $1 for a shave and $30 for "miscellaneous," or prostitute. The protagonist takes a liking to the brothel madam, knocks on her door late at night, and it's implied they have sex.

Violence begins with a late-night lynching of an accused card cheat and continues throughout sporadically. A man is knocked out and dumped on the street. One by one, the men from the card game are murdered by some sort of strangulation or suffocation. Some blood is seen. A group of miners then becomes violent after a confrontation with the sheriff, ending with killing a deputy and wounding the sheriff.

8 uses of 'Damn' 6 uses of 'Hell' 1 use of 'God' and 1 use of 'Bastard'