The Stranger Author:Max Brand aka Frederick Faust Riverside National Bank — Mr. H. A. Copley — Dear Mr. Copley: If I am alive ten days from this date, please pay ten thousand dollars to Lew Sherry. If I am dead, destroy this letter. — Yours very truly, — Oliver Wilton — Oliver Wilton was scared stiff that he'd be murdered. So he hired Lew Sherry and Pete Lang to protect him--at $1,000 a day. Tha... more »t sounded like a get-rich-quick heaven to the cowpokes. Two guys to protect one. A cinch! But they didn't know The Stranger.« less