1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,920 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. J. Carroll Nash. 2 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,020 In tonight's presentation of... 3 00:00:14,020 --> 00:00:16,020 Suspense. 4 00:00:16,020 --> 00:00:25,740 Tonight, Auto Light presents a story about buried treasure, a real buried treasure and 5 00:00:25,740 --> 00:00:41,000 a curse, a tale we call The Treasure Chest of Don Jose, starring Mr. J. Carroll Nash. 6 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,800 Hey, Hap, what are you doing? 7 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,000 Well, getting a fast start with my Auto Light stay full battery, Harlow. 8 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,200 Ah, you bet, fast and dependable. 9 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,600 And best of all, that Auto Light stay full needs water only three times a year in normal 10 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:54,600 car use. 11 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:55,600 I know why, Harlow. 12 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:56,600 Sure you do, Hap. 13 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,680 It's because the Auto Light stay full has over three times the liquid reserve of batteries 14 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,200 without stay full features. 15 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:03,200 Right, Harlow. 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,820 So friends, visit your nearby Auto Light battery dealer soon. 17 00:01:06,820 --> 00:01:11,000 He services all makes of batteries and has an Auto Light stay full for your car if a 18 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,520 replacement is needed. 19 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,240 To quickly learn his location, just phone Western Union by number... 20 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:20,840 And ask me, Operator 25, and I'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest Auto Light 21 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:22,320 battery dealer. 22 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:28,120 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 23 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:34,600 And now with The Treasure Chest of Don Jose and the performance of Mr. J. Carroll Nash, 24 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:43,880 Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 25 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,120 This is not a pretty story. 26 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,440 There is blood in it, the blood of men and women. 27 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,440 There is a curse in it and gold. 28 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,400 But it is a funny story. 29 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,640 It is a joke, a great joke I cannot laugh at. 30 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:08,280 It is a joke on me. 31 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,240 In matters of this sort, secrecy is of the most importance. 32 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,280 In matters of this sort, no man is your friend. 33 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,340 Once I had a friend. 34 00:02:17,340 --> 00:02:21,360 We lived together in my little house on Black Cay down in the Gulf of Mexico. 35 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,720 But then the hurricane struck and everything was different. 36 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,440 The wind blew for two nights and a day and when the waves piled up on the cay and swept 37 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,640 away the house, it was my friend Pedro who dragged me away unconscious and lashed me 38 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:38,680 to a ring bolt on our little dock and saved my life. 39 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:43,320 Next day the sun was shining again, but there was nothing left on my little island. 40 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,800 The splintered planks that once had been the house of my father were scattered among the 41 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:52,200 stripped palm trees and even the big chimney that was built by my great grandfather was 42 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,640 a pile of broken bricks. 43 00:02:54,640 --> 00:03:02,800 There was nothing but blue sea and a bright sun and heaviness in my heart. 44 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:03,960 Even the chimney. 45 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:05,720 What would you expect from such a wind? 46 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:07,280 Ay, my friend. 47 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:10,520 So now at last the curse of the Gasparillas has fallen on you. 48 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:11,520 Curse? 49 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:12,520 You speak foolishness. 50 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:13,680 It was a hurricane. 51 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,520 So it was, but a hurricane sent especially to destroy you. 52 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,320 You cannot believe that silly tale. 53 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,840 Did not your father perish from a bolt of lightning that struck him from a cloudless 54 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:25,840 sky? 55 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:26,840 The doctor said it was a heart attack. 56 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,440 And your grandfather pulled into the sea by a giant octopus. 57 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,560 He was washed overboard during a squall. 58 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:37,880 And all because of his father Don Jose, the king of the pirates, and the curse put upon 59 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:42,160 him and all the Gasparillas by the beautiful Dona Margarita who preferred death. 60 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,320 Oh, you frat like a schoolboy, you who have never been one day to school. 61 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:56,080 Come, come, we will clear up this mess and build a house over again. 62 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:00,960 You should know that I endured a certain local notoriety since I bore the same name and was 63 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:06,000 the great-great-grandson of Don Jose Gasparilla, one of the last and one of the fiercest of 64 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,960 the pirates of the Spanish main. 65 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:13,320 This was much less interest and concern to me than it was to my friends and acquaintances 66 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,600 among the Florida Keys. 67 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:20,200 Neither my father nor his father before him had ever profited by a single doubloon from 68 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,880 the legendary treasure of our pirate forebear. 69 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:29,160 As to the curse pronounced on Don Jose by the proud and virtuous Dona Margarita, I gave 70 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:34,280 it as little credence as I did the recurrent tales of Gasparilla's buried treasure. 71 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:39,400 But that was before Pedro and I set about clearing up the hurricane's mess. 72 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:43,920 We were stacking brick from the Demala's chimney when Pedro made a discovery. 73 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,240 Jose, look at this. 74 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:47,240 What is it? 75 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:53,040 Seems to be a box, little iron box, the size and shape of a brick. 76 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:54,040 Let me see it. 77 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:57,200 There was a lot there but it's rusted away. 78 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:04,200 Hand me that pinch bar. 79 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:05,920 There's a paper inside. 80 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,040 Yes, it's very old. 81 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:10,520 What does it say Jose? 82 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:14,640 Oh nothing, it's just an old paper. 83 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:15,640 Looks like a... 84 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:16,640 Looks like a poem. 85 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:17,640 Yes, yes. 86 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,640 I remember now. 87 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,720 It is a nursery rhyme from my father and then he copied it for me when I was a little boy. 88 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,240 But what's he doing in this old iron box? 89 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,440 Oh, I must have hidden it away once when I was playing. 90 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,520 Well, well amigo, come. 91 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:29,520 We shall get back to work. 92 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:38,480 It was a lucky thing Pedro could not read. 93 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,680 Nursery rhyme. 94 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:47,280 That rotting piece of parchment said, on Dog Buddies Island you could fare worse if dare 95 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:49,760 you will Don Jose's curse. 96 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:56,040 For there, three and thirty yards south-southeast of the Rocky Guards, you'll find a pleasantly 97 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:00,960 fulsome measure of Gasparia's earthly treasure. 98 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,560 There could be no question about it. 99 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,280 Here was at last a tangible clue to the hidden goal of my ancestor. 100 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:10,200 It was mine if I could find it. 101 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,760 And why should I share it with anyone, even Pedro? 102 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,160 I was the rightful heir and I would claim it all. 103 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,960 So that night I took our only boat and rode to the mainland. 104 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:23,000 I spent two days in the public library in Key West searching the old charts before I 105 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,320 found Dog Buddies Island. 106 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,880 It was a tiny sand spit near the tip of Cape Cod. 107 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,320 I withdrew all of my money from the bank, bought a suit of city clothes and an airplane 108 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,320 ticket north. 109 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:38,360 And the next day I was standing on a cold, windy Massachusetts beach talking to a suspicious 110 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:39,760 real estate agent. 111 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:45,560 No sir, I ain't heard this called Dog Buddies Island since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. 112 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,120 Where'd you hear it called Dog Buddies Island? 113 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:49,440 Well, I really don't know. 114 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,280 Some friend of mine down south maybe. 115 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:53,880 Well, it's called Sprague Spit now. 116 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,840 Ever since old Captain Sprague bought her up. 117 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:59,520 Of course, she always was connected with the mainland at low tide. 118 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,280 You can see the sandbar over yonder. 119 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:03,040 Yes, yes, I see her. 120 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,040 Now about the house. 121 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:08,160 Well, there she is, just above that point of rocks. 122 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,760 Just a summer cottage. 123 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,920 Too dang uncomfortable this time of the year. 124 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,320 Well, it looks all right to me. 125 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,800 I can find you something heapsite better in town. 126 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,920 Got a nice little house just back of a gas station. 127 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:19,880 Well, I'm looking for solitude. 128 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:21,680 You'll find plenty of that out here. 129 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,280 Ain't a neighbor more than a mile and a half. 130 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,640 That point of rocks, is that the only one on the island? 131 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:28,640 Yeah. 132 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,840 Pirate's Point, folks call it hereabouts. 133 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,920 A fella says the buccaneers used to put in here for water in the old days. 134 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,040 Me, I don't put much stock in them stories myself. 135 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,640 Eh, you sure you want to rent this place? 136 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,440 It is just what I am looking for. 137 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,600 I wish you wouldn't. 138 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,440 It said there's a curse on it. 139 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:53,680 I wish you wouldn't. 140 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,040 It was perfect, my little rented cottage on the beach. 141 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,480 Quiet, secluded, and yet within view of that rocky point, which must be the same one that 142 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,400 Jose called the Rocky Guards. 143 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:08,400 There was a stack of firewood beside the kitchen door, and in a shed back of the house there 144 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,160 was even a long handle shovel. 145 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:14,800 A most fortunate circumstance, since I did not want to create any suspicion in town by 146 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,360 purchasing one. 147 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,000 I can tell you I scarcely slept that first night. 148 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,920 So great was my eagerness to be up in the morning, pace the three and thirty yards south-southeast 149 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:28,560 of the Rocky Guards, and begin digging for my treasure. 150 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,960 Twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two. 151 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:33,960 Morning. 152 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:38,760 Oh, oh, good morning. 153 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:40,560 Looks like it's going to be a nice day. 154 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:41,560 Yes, yes it does. 155 00:08:41,560 --> 00:08:43,560 Going to do some digging? 156 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:45,120 I beg your pardon? 157 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,160 I see you've got a shovel. 158 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:48,760 Looks like you're going to do some digging. 159 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:50,400 Oh, yes, yes, clams. 160 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,240 I'm going to dig for clams. 161 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:53,760 No clams in the surf. 162 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:54,760 Oh, there aren't? 163 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:55,760 No. 164 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:56,760 Find them on the bay side. 165 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:58,720 Oh, then I'll look over there. 166 00:08:58,720 --> 00:08:59,720 Don't dig them with a shovel. 167 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:00,720 Got to use a rake. 168 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:01,720 Oh, is that so? 169 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:02,720 Yeah. 170 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,160 It's too late now, anyway. 171 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:06,160 Tides coming in. 172 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,240 Another low tide at five this afternoon. 173 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:09,240 Oh, I didn't know. 174 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:10,960 I'm a stranger here. 175 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:11,960 Yeah, I know. 176 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,560 Heard you'd rented the Davis place. 177 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:16,760 I'm chief of police of Quikasset. 178 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:18,840 Oh, anything wrong? 179 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:19,840 No. 180 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,280 Town limits come all the way out here, though. 181 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,440 Going to stay here long? 182 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:26,440 I don't know. 183 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:27,440 A few weeks. 184 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:28,440 Maybe all winter. 185 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,480 Are you a writing fellow? 186 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:31,480 No. 187 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:32,480 Painting fellow? 188 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:33,480 No. 189 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:34,480 Just taking a vacation? 190 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:35,480 Yes, yes. 191 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,520 You might call it that. 192 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:38,520 Beats me. 193 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,480 Well, nice to have this talk with you. 194 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:54,480 Everything you need in the way of police protection is let me know. 195 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,200 He couldn't know. 196 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:57,680 How could he know? 197 00:09:57,680 --> 00:09:59,720 Nobody knew about the treasure clue but me. 198 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:04,520 Yet he seemed so suspicious and they asked me so many questions. 199 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:09,160 Well, I went back to the house set by the window until he was out of sight up the beach. 200 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:14,080 But by that time the tide had come in and the treasure was buried by the ocean. 201 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:19,000 So I waited until five o'clock when the tide was low and then carrying a gasoline lantern 202 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:25,680 I paced off the 33 yard south southeast of the Rocky Guards and set to work. 203 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:30,420 Although the evening was chilled with a brisk breeze blowing in from the sea, I soon had 204 00:10:30,420 --> 00:10:32,520 shed my coat and was dripping with perspiration. 205 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,520 I lost all track of time and place and my own identity. 206 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:40,320 I was a machine attacking the wet sliding sand with huge bites of my shovel, widening 207 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:44,760 the hole as it grew deeper until my lantern threw long shadows across the opening that 208 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,800 had now become large enough for a coffin. 209 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,680 Then my shovel hit something solid. 210 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:54,240 I reached for my lantern and there under its lifeless green glare was a section of rotting 211 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:55,240 wood. 212 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:56,880 I shoveled wet sand to one side. 213 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,360 There was a rusted iron strap. 214 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:00,800 I had found it. 215 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:02,460 An iron bound chest. 216 00:11:02,460 --> 00:11:06,240 The treasure chest of Don Jose Gasparilla. 217 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:10,240 It was almost too much to bear. 218 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,520 Suddenly my dampened shirt chilled me and I was seized with a fit of shivering. 219 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,960 Then I began crying like a frightened child. 220 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,080 How long I crouched there in this agony of relief and joy I cannot tell but suddenly 221 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:31,160 above the sound of my own sobs and the pounding surf and the sighing wind I heard voices. 222 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:35,720 Who came now to violate my supreme moment? 223 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,280 Who now threatened to deprive me of what was rightfully mine? 224 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,640 I turned the lantern out, scrambled from the hole. 225 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,160 A few yards away I could see the beam of a flashlight slowly approaching. 226 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:49,600 I ran, hid behind a ledge of rocks, my heart drumming in my ears, my held breath screaming 227 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,320 in my tightened throat, trying to listen, trying to see. 228 00:11:53,320 --> 00:12:09,760 What were they doing? 229 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:10,760 Did they know? 230 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,280 At last it was quiet. 231 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,640 I watched their light as they made their way across the island toward the bay. 232 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,160 And then after a long time I heard the cough of a motorboat. 233 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:23,440 And I waited until the sound of the receding motor was lost in the sighing wind and the 234 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:24,760 hiss of the nearby surf. 235 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:32,080 Then I lit my lantern and went back to my diggings. 236 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,000 The hole, the hole it was half filled and suddenly my terror turned to rage. 237 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,440 What, what had they done? 238 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,360 I began digging savagely. 239 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,440 But almost at once my shovel hit something, something that was softer than the chest and 240 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:44,940 yielded to the pressure. 241 00:12:44,940 --> 00:12:50,880 I seized my lantern, crouched over for a closer examination and found myself looking into the 242 00:12:50,880 --> 00:13:11,520 still, open and vacantly staring eyes of a corpse. 243 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:17,480 Radio Light is bringing you Mr. J. 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Carroll Nash in Elliot 267 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,720 Lewis's production of The Treasure Chest of Don Jose. 268 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:59,480 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 269 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:00,480 Suspense! 270 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:19,520 For a moment as I stared into the open eyes of the corpse, I had a strange feeling that 271 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:24,200 he was one of Don Jose Gasparrio's men buried with the treasure chest to guard it through 272 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:25,200 eternity. 273 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:26,880 But this was ridiculous. 274 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,600 The man was only recently dead, no 100 year old skeleton. 275 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,800 He was young and well dressed, yet he stood between me and my treasure. 276 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:40,600 Was this then the curse laid upon Don Jose come to rest at my feet? 277 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,000 With the greatest effort, I covered the grizzly garden of my fortune. 278 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,160 By then it must have been close to midnight. 279 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:47,760 The tide was coming in. 280 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:57,680 I dragged myself back to the house tormented by a thousand anxieties. 281 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,280 Sometime toward dawn I must have fallen asleep. 282 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:04,600 For the next thing I knew it was past noon and someone was pounding on my door. 283 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:05,600 Hey! 284 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:06,600 Anybody home? 285 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:08,480 Just, just a minute. 286 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:09,480 I'm coming. 287 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:11,680 Oh, it's you, Chief. 288 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:12,680 Good morning. 289 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:13,680 Afternoon now. 290 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:14,680 What? 291 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,120 I'm sorry, I was sleeping. 292 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,120 Thought you was dead. 293 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,120 Dead? 294 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,240 Took long enough to waken you. 295 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:26,640 Excuse me, I had insomnia most of the night. 296 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:27,640 Insomnia, huh? 297 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:28,640 You mean you was awake? 298 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:29,640 Yes. 299 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:30,640 Most of the night, you say? 300 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:31,640 Why, why yes. 301 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:33,640 Hear anything peculiar out here? 302 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:34,640 No, no, no. 303 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:35,640 What do you mean? 304 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,240 Prowlers or such. 305 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:38,680 Why should anyone be prowling out here? 306 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:39,680 Didn't say there was. 307 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,360 I asked if you heard anyone. 308 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:42,360 No, no, no, I didn't. 309 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:43,360 Got a check. 310 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,400 It's been in the town limit. 311 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:46,400 Why? 312 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,400 Is anything the matter? 313 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:48,400 Yeah, kidnapping. 314 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:49,400 Murder, maybe. 315 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,400 What? 316 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:51,400 Yeah. 317 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,400 Ain't you heard it on the radio? 318 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:55,400 I haven't got a radio. 319 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,200 Sure, great consolation for a man living alone. 320 00:16:58,200 --> 00:16:59,200 What, what, what, what happened? 321 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:00,200 Tell me. 322 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:04,640 Young Harvard fellow, sinful rich, his father paid the ransom $20,000. 323 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,360 But the kidnappers didn't deliver the boy. 324 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:09,800 Got a three-state alarm out for him. 325 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,600 Think they're on the Cape somewheres? 326 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:12,600 Well, just checking. 327 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:14,640 What makes you think they come out here? 328 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:15,640 I don't know. 329 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:20,040 Hunched partly, partly because somebody borrowed one of Jen Chantry's boats last night. 330 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:23,120 Found a blood stain in the cockpit this morning. 331 00:17:23,120 --> 00:17:24,120 Didn't see him. 332 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:26,120 No, no, I told you I didn't. 333 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:27,120 Yeah, so you did. 334 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:30,120 Well, we'll catch them, course, if they're on the Cape. 335 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:32,800 Sooner or later, we'll catch them. 336 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:34,960 Ransom money's in small bills, all marked. 337 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,600 They'll get hungry sooner or later and spend some. 338 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,000 Besides, we've got a pretty good description of them. 339 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,160 Let me know if you see or hear anything. 340 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:43,160 Yes, yes, of course. 341 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:44,160 I'll be glad to. 342 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,160 Yeah, just checking. 343 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:55,600 Now there was no time to lose. 344 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,800 I had already missed one low tide. 345 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,440 I had to get my gold and get it away from this island of suspicion and debt. 346 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:05,600 I waited until five o'clock and returned to my diggings. 347 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:09,320 The low, scurrying clouds packed the sand with sudden gusts of icy rain. 348 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:13,080 There was little likelihood that I would have one welcome visitors on such a forbidding 349 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:14,080 evening. 350 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,680 I quickly disinterred the body from my treasure hole. 351 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,600 Unquestionably, he was the kidnapped victim, a young man dressed in flannel slacks and 352 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,400 saddle shoes of a college boy. 353 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:28,640 I dragged him to one side, out of sight behind some rocks where I couldn't see his empty 354 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:29,640 death stare. 355 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,320 Then I went back to my digging. 356 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,920 By seven o'clock, I had uncovered the chest and was prepared to lift it out of its grave. 357 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:37,920 The curse? 358 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:38,920 No, no, no, no. 359 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,560 The curse for here was the treasure and it was mine. 360 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,920 I better give you a hand with that. 361 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:47,920 What? 362 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:49,840 He wants to know, do you need a hand with that? 363 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:50,840 Who are you? 364 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:51,840 What are you doing here? 365 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:52,840 How did you get here? 366 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:53,840 Low tide. 367 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:54,840 I walked. 368 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,840 Get out of the hole, Pop. 369 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:58,840 Answer me. 370 00:18:58,840 --> 00:18:59,840 Help Pop out of the hole. 371 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:00,840 Yeah. 372 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:01,840 Come on, Pop. 373 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,840 All right, where is it? 374 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:04,840 What? 375 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:05,840 It's gone. 376 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:06,840 He got rid of it. 377 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:07,840 Get him out of there. 378 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:08,840 Okay, Pop, come on. 379 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:09,840 No, no, let me go, please. 380 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:10,840 Let me go. 381 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,840 Where is it, Pop? 382 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:12,840 What did you do with him? 383 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:13,840 Do? 384 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:14,840 Where's the kid? 385 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:15,840 There. 386 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:16,840 I put him there. 387 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:17,840 Steve? 388 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:18,840 Yeah. 389 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:19,840 He's here. 390 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:20,840 What are you trying to do, Pop? 391 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:21,840 Why did you move him? 392 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:22,840 What's he trying to do? 393 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:23,840 He... he was... 394 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:24,840 Was? 395 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:25,840 Was what? 396 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:26,840 Look in the hole. 397 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:27,840 Yeah. 398 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:28,840 No, no, no, don't. 399 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:29,840 Don't move him. 400 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:30,840 He's not moving. 401 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:31,840 He's not moving. 402 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:32,840 He's not moving. 403 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:33,840 He's not moving. 404 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:34,840 He's not moving. 405 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:35,840 He's not moving. 406 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:36,840 He's not moving. 407 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:37,840 No, no, don't. 408 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,840 There's a box in here. 409 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,840 That's why you moved him, Pop, to get to the box. 410 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:44,840 Give me a hand with this. 411 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:45,840 Leave it alone. 412 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:46,840 It's mine. 413 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:47,840 Don't touch it. 414 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:48,840 Shut up. 415 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:49,840 Yeah. 416 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:50,840 Sit. 417 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,840 What do you got, Pop? 418 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:54,840 Treasure? 419 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:55,840 Buried treasure? 420 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:56,840 Don't laugh. 421 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:57,840 Maybe that's what it is. 422 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:58,840 Let's get it out of there. 423 00:19:58,840 --> 00:19:59,840 Leave it alone. 424 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:00,840 Leave it alone. 425 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:05,840 I told you to shut up. 426 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:12,840 All right, Steve, let's get it out of there. 427 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:18,440 There it was, my treasure, in the sand-covered iron-bound box. 428 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,720 Only it wasn't mine. 429 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,640 Not while these two hoodlums stood over me with clenched fists and poised boots. 430 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,240 At gun's point, they made me grasp one of the rusty handles, and one of them lifted 431 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,560 the other, and they forced me to help carry it toward the house. 432 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:33,560 My treasure. 433 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,600 It was mine, and nobody could take it from me now. 434 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,840 I must find a way to rescue it. 435 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:43,400 When we got inside the house, they yanked open the chest and emptied one of the canvas 436 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:48,560 sacks, its contents cascading onto the table in a golden stream of doubloons. 437 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,560 Well, what do you know? 438 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:51,560 Gold. 439 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:52,560 It's mine. 440 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:53,560 It belongs to me. 441 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:54,560 It's my inheritance. 442 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:55,560 Yeah, I know, Pop. 443 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,560 Only you're going to pay a high inheritance tax, 100%. 444 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:02,560 Okay, now, Pop, I'll tell you what we're going to do. 445 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,560 My friend and me are in a little trouble, and you're going to give us a hand, aren't 446 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:07,560 you, Pop? 447 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:08,560 What are you talking about? 448 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:09,560 Go away. 449 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:10,560 Leave me alone. 450 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,560 That's just what we're going to do. 451 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:17,560 We're leaving, and we're taking that bright, shiny stuff with us. 452 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,560 The treasure is mine. 453 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,560 But we're going to be fair, more than fair. 454 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:27,560 We're going to give you $20,000 in nice, up-to-date American money. 455 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:28,560 How do we know? 456 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,560 Maybe that junk of yours ain't worth half that much. 457 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:31,560 Your money's marked. 458 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:32,560 It's ransom money. 459 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,560 That's beside the point. 460 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,560 This dough of yours won't work in a cigarette machine, you know. 461 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,560 You're going to have to go to a lot of trouble to cash it. 462 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:41,560 What was that? 463 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,560 When the blue opens, rain like the devil outside. 464 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:45,560 Better get started. 465 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:46,560 No, no, no, no. 466 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,560 I won't let you. 467 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,560 Just take it easy, old man. 468 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,560 You got no complaints. 469 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:58,560 You're 20 grand ahead of the game. 470 00:21:58,560 --> 00:21:59,560 Look at this, Jeff. 471 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:01,560 Wind blew a piece of driftwood through the window. 472 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:02,560 Come on, we got to get out of here. 473 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:03,560 All right, let's go. 474 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:04,560 Grab one end of that chair. 475 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:05,560 Wait a minute, you forgetting something? 476 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:06,560 What? 477 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:07,560 The sack fell on the table. 478 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,560 Oh, yeah. 479 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,560 Here, Pop. 480 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:15,560 Here's one for you as a souvenir. 481 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:16,560 Come on, come on, Jeff. 482 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,560 We got to get this thing across the sand spit before the tide comes in. 483 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,560 Yeah, we're all finished here. 484 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,560 So long, Pop. 485 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,560 Oh, my treasure, my treasure. 486 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:26,560 Thanks, Pop. 487 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,560 Thanks a million. 488 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:34,560 Thanks a million. 489 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,560 And they were gone, walking slowly across the dunes with their heavy burden. 490 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:42,560 I watched them, unaware of the sheets of rain driving through the open door of the cottage, 491 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,560 unaware that the house itself was shuddering from the impact of the storm, 492 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,560 unaware that the wind had shifted from northeast to southeast. 493 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,560 And suddenly I became conscious of my great danger. 494 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,560 The thin frame cottage was creaking and shaking. 495 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:00,560 It was shaking from the relentless wind, and the sound of the storms had a familiar tone, 496 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,560 a tone I had heard once before, and then I realized the wind had shifted. 497 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:06,560 I realized this was no ordinary storm. 498 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,560 This was a hurricane. 499 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,560 Outside, the waves were piling up, coming closer and closer to the cottage. 500 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,560 Over my head, there was an ominous crunching, ripping, and the eaves. 501 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,560 I could see the great daylight through the eaves. 502 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,560 The roof would blow loose any moment. 503 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:25,560 I threw myself against the kitchen door and, crouching low, ran away from the sea. 504 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:34,560 Down behind the shelter of a high dune, 505 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,560 I stumbled against the cranberry bush and fell flat, spread eagles on the sand. 506 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:43,560 And suddenly, suddenly the wind stopped, the rain stopped, and there was the calm of death. 507 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:49,560 It was the center of the hurricane, the eye, the moment of respite before the final fury of the storm. 508 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,560 And I remembered the curse and wished aloud for its fulfillment. 509 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,560 And there was no sound but the booming of the furious surf. 510 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,560 And then, then there seemed to be a distant human cry. 511 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,560 I looked, I looked toward the rocky gods. 512 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:07,560 Far in the distance, for an instant, I could see the tiny, struggling figures of my tormentors. 513 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:14,560 And then a giant wave crashed down on them, and they, and the spit, disappeared in boiling, angry water. 514 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:41,560 And the wet heavens descended again, hurled upon me by the tail of the hurricane. 515 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:47,560 I woke with a light in my eyes, a light brighter and bigger and closer than the sun. 516 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,560 And I heard a voice. 517 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:50,560 You all right, Mr. Gaspar? 518 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:51,560 Who? 519 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,560 It's me, Tris Weatherby. 520 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,560 Got out here as soon as I could. 521 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,560 We was worried about you. Out here with no radio, you couldn't get the storm warnings. 522 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,560 You come up so fast, wasn't time to get you off. 523 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,560 Oh, thanks. That's very kind of you. 524 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,560 Lucky you got out of the house. 525 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:07,560 Why? 526 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,560 Ain't there no more. 527 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:15,560 The ocean came plumb through, carried the house right out into the bay, made two islands out of spreg spit. 528 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,560 The house is gone? 529 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,560 Not a stick of it left. Ten-foot channel where it stood. 530 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:26,560 Storms play funny tricks. That, uh, kidnappin' I told you about. 531 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,560 Tris, what about it? 532 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:34,560 Found three bodies out near those rocks, the kidnappers and their victim. 533 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,560 What do you know about that? 534 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,560 Nothing at all. 535 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,560 It is a very funny story, no? 536 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,560 But I cannot laugh. 537 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,560 The joke is on me. 538 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,560 You don't believe me? 539 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,560 But look, here is the gold doubloon. 540 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,560 All that is left of the treasure chest of Danosay. 541 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,560 Yet I know this to be true. 542 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,560 There is a treasure. I saw it, held it. 543 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,560 And that treasure still exists. 544 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,560 Only now there is no map. 545 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:21,560 But I can tell you, in the rocky surf near the two islands called Spreg Spit, 546 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:49,560 if you will dare to curse, is the treasure chest of Danosay. 547 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,560 Suspense! 548 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,560 The story of a true buried treasure presented by Auto Light. 549 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:00,560 Tonight's star, Mr. J. 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