In the old west, most men who evaded the law, did so to get money. Not so for Walter berger, who was wealthy. He evaded the law because he hated the law, and because despite his soft speech and educated ways, there was a killer streak in him. As our story opens, Berger and one of his men, Phil Snaithe, are standing by a heavy gate built across a road that winds into a high-walled canyon...