It bore a message written in pencil with a firm hand.

4 seconds sound clip from the The Outcasts of Poker Flat classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:26:52.761 in the radio play.

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- They slept all that day and the next.

- Nor did they waken when voices and footsteps broke the silence of the camp.

- And when pitying fingers brushed the snow from their worn faces, you could scarcely have told from the equal peace that dwelt upon them which was she that had sinned.

- Even the law of Poker Flat felt this, and turned away, leaving them still locked in each other's arms.

- But at the head of the gulch, on one of the largest pine trees, they found the deuce of clubs pinned to the bark with a bowie knife.

- It bore a message written in pencil with a firm hand.

- Beneath this tree lies the body of John Oakhurst who struck a streak of bad luck on the 23rd of November, 1850, and handed in his checks on the 7th of December, 1850.

- And pulseless and cold, with a derringer by his side, and a bullet in his heart, lay he who had been at once the strongest, and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat.

- This is Laurence Olivier again.

- I should like to thank our cast who appeared in this week's adaptation of Bret Harte's story The Outcasts of Poker Flat.

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