What happens
Mark Naylor is unhappily married to Emma, an older, wealthy woman whose asthma has brought them to a dry desert town. Mark has fallen in love with Ardis Mayo, Emma's companion, and the two of them soon discuss a way out of the marriage. The story tells of their growing desperation and of the plan that follows. The Whistler series aired this episode on January 7, 1946, with the program presented as a dramatic anthology.
A dry, dusty desert town in the American West, where Emma Naylor has taken a lease for her health.
Characters: Mark Naylor, Emma Naylor, Ardis Mayo, Otis
Listen for: The growing tension between Mark and Ardis as their feelings for each other and their frustration with the desert take hold.
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.