Broadcast: 14th September 1942

Starring: Don MacLaughlin

Added: Sep 12 2011

Forty-two years ago Liza Gott married. Marc Gott her husband sailed away and was drowned. For forty-one years Liza Gott has kept a little kerosene lantern lit on her front porch so just in case marc should return he’d see the lighted lantern from the sea and know she was waiting. Now as she walks along the narrow rocky path, which runs on top of a high cliff looking out over the sea on the northern coast of Maine, towards her home she sees something on her front porch. She approaches to find an exhausted man asleep who has rowed there in a lifeboat…