Also in the love triangle was an amoral, smooth-talking, flirtatious, already-married cattle salesman from Fort Worth named Roddy Wirt (Montagu Love) who first met her on the train journey." He plans to desert the town, but is persuaded to stay by "frontier gibberish" from an old bearded prospector type named GabbyJohnson(Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr.The wind rifled the pages back to Monday, October 24, 1955, a year earlier, to flash-back to events that led up to the tragedy.He dissolved or disintegrated into a puddle of water, as he told Storm: "I think you""ve got one less person to - to be afraid of.