Maurice Wells

While sailing home on a cruise ship, Perry and Della briefly meet an accountant who is later pushed overboard. His wife is accused of killing him, and his daughter has mysteriously disappeared.

After serving a prison sentence, a young ex-con is returning home on the Wells Fargo stage.

Kathy decides that she wants to be an adult.

Slade unwittingly serves as a messenger of death, delivering a booby-trapped Spanish Box to a beloved banker, and must quickly clear himself by finding the real killers before the town's lynch mob musters its courage.