 He and his family lived in the largest mansion in Frenchman's Bend.However, problems arose in Varner's orderly world when Ben Quick (Roy Thinnes), a young man whose father Varner destroyed some years prior, returns to town after thirteen years away to reclaim his family's farm and to challenge Varner's absolute authority over the town and its people.Ben's aim was to settle the score against the wicked Varner in the fight his father ran from.