When Mantee shows up Squier, who respects his Robin Hood-like nobility, makes an unusual request that Mantee kill him so he can leave his life insurance to Gabby, which Mantee does.
Amidst threats of the presence of the outlaw Mantee a drifter and former author named Alan Squier meets and falls in love with Gabby Maple, and young girl who longs to leave the Arizona desert town where she lives and go to France to be with her mother. When Mantee shows up Squier, who respects his Robin Hood-like nobility, makes an unusual request that Mantee kill him so he can leave his life insurance to Gabby, which Mantee does. This is, FTP, a brief synopsis of what play by Robert Sherwood?
Amidst threats of the presence of the outlaw Mantee a drifter and former author named Alan Squier meets and falls in love with Gabby Maple, and young girl who longs to leave the Arizona desert town where she lives and go to France to be with her mother.
{the Petrified Forest}