What happens
Zachary Peyton, a former Confederate officer, has challenged Ben Rawls to a duel over a slap given years earlier. Peyton's old comrade Jim Stockwell tries to talk him out of it, while Peyton reflects on the wartime quarrel that divided them. Peyton then confronts Rawls at his home and insists on settling the matter with pistols. The episode is part of the CBS radio series Suspense; the transcript supplied no original air date or cast beyond the lead actor.
A Southern town after the American Civil War
Characters: Zachary Peyton, Ben Rawls, Jim Stockwell, Quincy Talbot, Paul Gager, Willis Temple, Rose, Marsha Pemberton
Listen for: Peyton's insistence on the duel despite his friends' pleading, and the tension of the back-to-back count at dawn
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.