A wealthy woman hires Mason to buy stock in her husband's land company, hoping to force his mistress out. But her plan goes awry when she is charged with murder.
Andy tries to counsel the constantly bickering couple, Fred and Jennie Boone, with mixed results.
Beaver is invited to an all-girl party.
Andy's eager-beaver deputy jails Aunt Bee and her friends for gambling at their charity bazaar.
Prosperity seems to be imminent for the Walton family when disaster strikes as John Walton is felled by pneumonia, and the family may lose all for which they have worked so hard.
