The Lady or the Tiger? (Short story audio)

The king of an ancient land uses a unique form of trial by ordeal for those in his realm accused of crimes significant enough to interest him. The man is placed alone in an arena before two curtain-draped doors. Behind one door is a woman appropriate to the accused's station and approved for him by the king; behind the other is a fierce tiger. The accused then must choose a door. If he picks the door with the woman behind it, he is declared innocent and required to marry her. If he picks the door with the tiger behind it, the hungry beast immediately pounces upon him.