What happens
Carl Maxson, a collector for gambler Marty Randall, skims money from his boss and is rewarded with a sixty thousand dollar race win, which he keeps by fleeing to South America. Years later, under the name Carl Baylor, he runs a hotel in the quiet resort town of Ridgely, where he courts a wealthy widow, Claire Underwood. When a former associate, Joe Roach, turns up in town and demands payment to keep quiet about Carl's past, Carl's secure life begins to unravel. This episode of The Whistler, a Signal Oil program, was broadcast in 1950.
Marty Randall's gambling and collection business in an unnamed city, a racetrack, and the small resort town of Ridgely.
Characters: Carl Maxson / Carl Baylor, Marty Randall, Joe Roach, Claire Underwood, Ed Hawthorne
Listen for: Carl's conversation with Joe Roach in the hotel office, when Joe names his price for silence.
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.