What happens
In 1853 on the Mississippi, young gambler Mark Fallon meets Angelique Duro, daughter of a wealthy New Orleans family, after a carriage incident on the dock in St. Louis. Mark wins a necklace from her brother Laurent in a card game, and Angelique is furious until her father settles the debt. Mark is invited into the Duro home despite Angelique's coldness toward him, and he and Angelique are drawn together as he tries to win her favor. The story is a romantic drama in the Lux Radio Theatre series, adapted from the Universal International film, first broadcast on 1 March 1954 and starring Tyrone Power and Linda Christian.
Mississippi River towns, St. Louis and New Orleans, in the 1850s
Characters: Mark Fallon, Angelique Duro, Laurent Duro, Kansas John Pollock, Laura Duro, Mr. Duro, George Elwood, Anne Conant
Listen for: Mark's card trick and the bet with the traveling man, and the scene where Angelique confronts Mark about the necklace
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.