041- The Match

Escape! Who are fighting your way through a frozen wilderness? Torn by the icy blast of an arctic blizzard, and driving you on towards certain death is a man with a gun, from whom you cannot escape.

Escape! Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure! Tonight we escape to the Canadian North Woods, To a lonely wilderness where justice pines strange paths, as James Oliver Kerr would told it in his famous story, The Match.

Just below the Arctic Circle, where Blizzard scream in the winter and tear frozen branches from the pine trees, where the driven sleep cuts human skin like flying glass, there men know and fear the eternal spirit of the icy north, the great cold spirit that weaves the patterns of human destiny, both weaves and destroys.

Forever and again the spirit throws out strange swirls of chance and coincidence that meet eventually in a terrible whirlpool which swallows up the old pattern and creates some new and different one for men to wonder and marvel at.

One such swirl in time and space began months ago and far to the south. In a logging camp near the southern border of Canada, where two men faced each other on a narrow trail in the light of a full moon.

It began in violence and hatred. What, Lauren? Lauren? I've been talking to Jeannie. She told me what you did. Well, what about it? She told me all of it the whole thing. Mmm, too bad, Loying.

But if you can't keep your wife from casting her eye around... Then that's your tough luck. Then when O.I.'s cast around and you know it. All right then, what are you gonna do about it?