 That's the theme from the Sears Radio Theatre. Tonight, a program of adventure with Richard Whitmark as your host. Here's a preview. Fire at treasure. Don't tell me. You're going looking for it. Yes, we are, and we're going to find it. But there's a treasure map, too. Yes, there is. Wish you bought 450 bucks from a down-and-out sailor with a wooden leg and a patch over one eye. The Sears Radio Theatre will begin after this message from your local station. Dear Abby, a listener writes, Now that my husband's gone, I've tried to open my own charge accounts and have been turned down. It seems all our credit was listed in his name. Now I'm told I have no credit record in my own name. Find stuck. You're stuck. This is a real problem for many women. Four out of five of you will one day be on your own. But if you know your rights, you can help protect yourself against any rejection. So take some advice from dear Abby. Call our rights stores for you and your husband to share charge accounts. 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You might as well start learning how to sail. Oh, it's so exciting. What a candy, isn't it? Don't you have power steering? Darling, a 30 foot flue doesn't exactly handle like a Cadillac. Keep your eyes on the sails and if they begin to spill, you turn just a mile away from the wind until they fill again. Hey, what's that over there? Where? Starboard, where I'm pointing. Two points to port, actually. And that's a porpoise. These waters are full of... No, it's not a porpoise. Hey, that's a man. Give me the helm. Hold tight, we're going to jive. We're going to jive? Whatever's for. Darling, the light's out there. Torse it overboard as soon as I come into the wind. Close to him as you can. Well, how will I know when you come into the wind? I'll yell. Hold on there. What do you mean, hold on there? I'm coming. What do you think I'm doing? Get ready, Queenie. Now, throw it to him. Thank you, man. That was a real kind thing to do. Now, if you wouldn't mind throwing me a line. He means a rope. Well, where? What kind of rope? A coil right there at your feet, darling. Well, let me do it. Thank you, sir. Scholar and a gentleman. Been treading water for a long, long time. Hoping the current might carry me to some sort of landform. My name's Harry Bennett. Is there a... Quince. Ralph Quince, Mr. Bennett. Quince. And Mrs. Quince. Queenie Quince. We're on our honeymoon. Honeymoon. My condolences. I'm not an amen. My congratulations to both of you. It's always nice to meet beautiful young people enjoying that first fine careless rapture. I... I don't suppose you happen to have a drink aboard, Mr. Quince. Would you? Oh, yes. Never sail out unprepared is my motto. There is coke, ginger ale and diet root beer. What would be? Well, never mind. It's not that important. Darling, there is a bottle of bourbon in the galley. There is? Where on earth did that come from? I put it there. A glass, Mr. Bennett? Don't bother with a glass, honey. Save the washing up. Oh, that's what I figured. Trim little craft you got here, Mr. Quince. Oh, thank you. Yeah, she's nice. Oh, please call me Ralph, Harry. I never did like my surname too much. It always makes me think of some kind of marmalade. I... I don't suppose you'd like to tell me what you were doing in the water there. I mean, more than 20 miles from the nearest land. I was afraid you're going to ask me that. Here we are. Well, thank you, Mr. Quince. I don't know what a godsend a good-looking bottle can be. Cheers. You really ought to get all those wet clothes. Darling, don't be so eager. Well, they'll dry out soon enough. Nice day like this, bright blue sky, dark green sea, and as sun does sizzle the marrow in your bones. Makes a man feel good to be alive. Queen, Harry was about to tell us how he came to be where he was. I mean, it's not too often you find a man nonchalantly floating about so many miles out to sea. Not nonchalantly, I assure you. I was real worried there for a while. You folks saved my life. I'm deeply grateful. The only one I've got, and I'm kind of fond of it. But what happened, Mr. Bennett? I had my boat shot out from under me. Shot out from under you? Nice little 20-footer, blown out from under me with a bazooka. Just got through painting her, too. A bazooka? The shell hit way below the water line, or I'd have been killed. He's got a few splinters in the backside. It's okay with you. I'll ask Mrs. Quintz to take some of the longer ones out for me before the day is over. Makes sitting down kind of uncomfortable. But who would do such a terrible thing? And why? You know who it was? I know who it was, all right. It was a prank who caused himself skippers' stamps, and as for why, I'm not too sure about that. And I'll admit, it would be kind of interesting to find out. You know an island called Desiderati? Just a little pin prick in the ocean, a million miles from nowhere. Desiderati? Yeah, that's who we're headed. You are? How about that? 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How about there's a treasure map, too? Yes, there is. Which you bought for 50 bucks from a down-and-out sailor with a wooden leg and a patch over one eye. He was not a sailor. He was not down-and-out. And he had two good legs and two good eyes. Well, I think one eye was glass. He had a kind of squint. But there was definitely no patch over it. That's good. Ralph, you sure you want to have some of this bourbon before I finish it off? Seems a pity to waste it all and I'll have as jaded as mine. Thank you, no, I don't imbibe. What about you, honey? Do you imbibe? On occasion, Mr. Bennett, I have been known to, yes. Here. Thank you. Oh, that's good, isn't it? And Ralph didn't pay any 50 dollars for the map. He paid 2,000. Oh, well, a guy once said that a man's follies are sometimes the most interesting things he has, Ralph. We've met this kind of skepticism before, Harry, but I'm not the babe in the woods you'd seem to take me for. If so happens, I'm an expert in this field. And you think there's buried treasure on Dezita Ronnie? Oh, I know there is. I've studied the map, analyzed it, dated it. It's genuine. And I'll admit, that's very rare. Harry, have you ever heard of a woman named Anne Bonny? There was a two-year-old filly named Anne Bonny once. I lost my shirt on her. It's not a need to... This Anne Bonny was a professional pirate, right here in the Caribbean, 18th century. Mistress of her own ship and good at her job. She buried three treasure chests at Dezita Ronnie some place. And now I have a map showing precisely where. A con game, Ralph. You got suckered. No, you have to know that this kind of map is not that easy to read. The directions are always in very recondite code. And to try and break that code, that's the hardest part. This one has a poem that seems to make no sense at all. You want to hear a poem, Harry? Why not? Mind if I sit down to enjoy it? Nope, nope. I won't sit down. Read it, Queenie. Would you do that? Only an eagle sees the twisted thread. The tree still lives, although the man be dead. Those two clues are easy. Go on. Four hundred pages as the soldiers kept when Antony with Cleopatra slept. It's another easy one, but calculated to throw a lot of people way off court. Though Nath and Cloyster both might well be found, the pipe does not give off the organ sound. The way is right, although it be not so, a false step now will lead to not but woe. A shelter here to wait for early bells, a hawk six footed. Now the story tells. That's a very nice poem, isn't it? Well, I got the last clue there. A hawk six footed has to be a rock that looks like a hawk and a six feet high, right? No, wrong. And Bonnie was writing about the sun, actually. The sun? Yeah, crossword puzzle stuff, and pretty amateurish as a matter of fact. The Egyptian sunguard, Rah, was usually depicted with the head of a hawk, but the really tough one is that bit about the bells. Uh, tell me, though, no one has ever gone looking for Ann, Bonnie's, the Boons? Oh, eight expeditions in the last 50 years. All of them way off pinpoint. You sound very sure of yourself, Rah. I am. I spent two days on the island last week. I started off looking for the twisted thread that only an eagle could see and found it in the first couple of hours. A thin geological fault running clear across the top of the bluff. Oh, believe me, Harry, I know exactly where to dig. I know. That's very interesting. You mind if I help out? Looks like you're stuck with me now, anyway. It would be very nice to have you along, Mr. Bennett. All right. You tell me about the guy who sold you the map. Oh, Mr. Wentworth, a charming man. But sad, really, really very sad. He was sure he had something of immense value, and he didn't know what to do with it. I rather liked him. That's because he was big, and well, in spite of that glass eye, very handsome. Ralphie, unkind again. How big? Six foot four. Cute little black moustache, funny chance. Well, yes, you know him. Yeah. I know him. That's the prank who blew up my boat and nearly blew me up with it. Here, Mr. Wentworth is also my skipper, Samson. A very dangerous man who doesn't think people should live too long if they get in his way. Mr. Quint's sad is not the right word. I'll take a considerable bet that right now he's one of the happiest men around. Yeah. Well, I'm really glad you're so happy, skipper. Blake, we got plenty to laugh at. All the man has to do is use his whip and he's gone and he's got it made. We'll be rich. Yeah. Now this should be high enough. We got us a good view of the beach here. We better keep an eye on the other side of the island, too, just in case a stray fisherman out there on the water. What stray fisherman? Nobody ever comes here. Oh, you're an idiot, Blake. Harry Bennett was coming here, wasn't he? Okay, skipper, okay. 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Mr. Sampson, hey, sorry, I wasn't ever going to find you. We got any beer up here? In the pack there. It's a real shame we have to waste it on you. Heart disease like this ain't nothing like a canine beer to make a man feel good. Now, ain't that a real pretty view along the beach there? Tell me about the launch, Charlie. No, I got the launch hit real good, Mr. Sampson, sir. Hell, I don't think I'm ever going to find it again myself. It's real good in Wonder Rocks, sir. It's okay with you. I think I'll stretch out and have me a snooze while we're waiting. You get back over on the other side of the island, Jackass. Watch out for any boats. You see anything at all? Get on your blower fast. There ain't going to be no boats out there. You know that? Good moving, Charlie. I'm on the way, sir. Yes, sir. Charlie doesn't find himself a new song. I'm going to wrap it up for him and shove it down his throat. Listen, Skipper. What if Ralph Quintz isn't as good as he's cracked up to be? He's the best. Make all money with his treasure. I'll be in the next 10 minutes in line. Where'd you get that map, Skipper? Can't be too many of the genuine article lying around. I got it from a down-and-out sailor with a wooden leg and a parrot on his shoulder. My lips are out of museum on Barbados. Hey. Hey, a ship. Is that him? Hand me the glasses. Yeah, that's him. Run them with the wind and make it good speed to be here in 5, 10 minutes. Well, I'll be. What is it, Skipper? He's got Harry Bennett on board. Bennett? Take a look. Yeah, that's Harry Bennett all right. How the hell did that happen? He just seemed to have a knack for survival. Great. My trigger finger's itching already. Soon as they start digging. Are you crazy? No, we wait. We wait until they bring up the treasure. Make damn sure we've got what they came here for. Then and not before we start firing. We just topple them down into the hole they're going to dig. Their own grave. Nice, neat, and tidy. And all those golden doubloons are ours. Ralphie, do we have any iodine on board? Oh, the first aid kit we need. Oh, which I forgot to pack. Oh, could I please have the ribbon bottle, Mr. Bennett? Yeah, you bet. There's a couple of drinks left in it. Oh, honey, that burns. The bad disinfectant there is. There. It should be in good shape now. And could I please have the bottle back? Oh, yes, of course. Thank you, ma'am. A human condition, Mrs. Queens, gets battered about once in a while, doesn't it? Are you feeling better, Harry? Yeah. With applications of sour mash of both ends, man just has to feel better. You have binoculars on board, Ralph. Oh, sure, in the chest there. Pretty little place to sit around, isn't it? Ben, why don't we sail clear around it, Ralph? What? I don't know. You really want to? Won't take that long. Hell, the whole island isn't much bigger than a man-sized hamburger. Well... It'd be nice to know if there's not another boat anchored in the lee of the cliffs there. Well, I don't mind if there is. We're legal. I was just wondering, why is Skipper Samson doesn't want any strangers like me hanging around Desiderade when you're going pressure hunting there? Oh, Harry, if you think there's going to be any trouble, I mean, we could easily haul off and come back in two or three months' time. I mean, well, with Queenie here, it's not as if there were just the two of us. Well, if that doesn't take the male chauvinist case... What do you mean, haul off, you crazy? The first thing you learn in my business, Ralph, is that you don't run away until you see something worth running from. That's when you haul out real fast. Time hasn't come yet. What is your business, Mr. Bennett? Anything that'll turn a fair honest dollar into a squint so we have to recognize that honesty is an argumentative quality. You nervous? You've got to be kidding. If you get nervous, Mr. Bennett, just hold on to my hand. You'll be okay. That's my gal. Take her around, Ralph. Close in. We've got lots of water here. Hey, Mr. Samson, come in. Come in, Mr. Samson, sir. This is Charlie. Do you read me? Over? I read you, Charlie. You've got a boat heading your way, right? Right, Mr. Samson. Through. Real close in. Three people aboard. Two guys. Real nice-looking female. Oh, you won't believe the bikini she's got on. Hey, one of them guys is Bennett. I thought we knocked him off. Is he anywhere near the launch? Any chance he'll see it? No way, Mr. Samson, sir. He's hit real good. No. No, he's sailing right past the ravine now. He hasn't seen it. He's diving. Taking her around the headland. Geez, that's a real nice-looking brawler. Keep your mind on your work, Charlie. Over and out. Yes, sir, but that ain't easy. I ain't that old. Yes, sir. Over and out. Yes, sir. I was thinking about the pipe that doesn't give off the organ's sound. Now, that has to be a tunnel, right? Yeah, it's absolutely right. There were two that were close to the rock that looked like the name of a church, so I took the one that wasn't right. In other words, the left. And when it split up two ways, I followed the right again and found it was wrong. It was too easy going. No woe at all. So I went back and tried the other branch. And I have to tell you, Harry, that fall step business was right. I nearly fell 200 feet a couple of times. Anybody want a sandwich? We've got a great picnic basket here. Harry? Well, no mind if I do, Mrs. Quince. I came to a cave at last, right on the beach. Oh, a huge cave, more than 600 yards long and half as wide. Like the whole of the island's mountain had been hollowed out. The floor was granite. It dispersed with silted sand. You know, I worried about those early bells. I knew I hadn't yet been able to work out, so I looked for rock formations again. Nothing remotely like bells. Mustard, Mr. Bennett. Onion? The works, honey. All right, thank you. I was just going to climb down the rock to the water and swim out to the boat for breakfast when a tiny circle of sunlight came in through a borehole on the top of the cave and fell on a patch of silted sand. And I knew, Harry, I knew. It came to me in a flash. And Bonnie was brought up on a farm in the Carolinas. And the first sound of the day she would have heard, the bells of the cows being taken out the pasture. What that couplet meant was the first ray of the sun in the very early morning where it first strikes. I marked that spot with a can. And that's where we have to dig, Harry, and bring up a million bucks or more in gold doubloons. Okay. Oh, we're at low tide. And I'm going to ram the beach. All right, hold tight, everyone. Queenie, get ready to toss the anchor overboard. Anchor? Oh, ah, yes. Oh, it's heavy, isn't it? Mainzle down. Shake plate. I bring in the gib. Gib plate. Reef the mainsail. What do you mean, reef the mainsail? 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They're heading for that cave. We're gonna lose them. They gotta come out again when they find the loop. I make the range to be 100 to 50 yards. Like shooting fish in a barrel. It's a crazy place, Ralph. When I was in here last week, I got this wild idea. I shouted a single four-letter word at the top of my voice. I swear to you, it came reverberating back at me for all of three minutes. Shall I demonstrate? No! Let's get out of here. We'll go over and dig right in the entrance. We can talk without having our words of wisdom flung back in our teeth. Ah, here. In the early morning, it's still heavy shade here, and that little circle of light fell right there. Well then, let's start digging. Give me a beer, Blake. I keep thinking they ought to be inside that cave, not outside it. Now, wouldn't that make more sense? Why? I don't know. Well, Quint knows what he's doing. They've shifted a lot of sand in three hours. It looks to me like they're down five and a half feet. How deep do we have to go, Ralph? Oh, you mean you haven't figured that out? Huh? Well, the six-foot hawk, remember? The sun galore had only two feet. Oh, and he was a lot more than six feet tall. So, that figure is to tell us the depth. Whoo! Let's take a rest. Yeah, yeah. I think I'll wander over and pick up one of my lobster traps. There's not much of the day left. We'll finish it off with a good dinner. Oh, you bet. Yeah. You didn't have to hit me like that, Mr. Bennett. Bennett? No. I'll come you know my name. Oh, ho, ho, ho. Don't tell me. You're one of the guys off that lawn. I don't know your name, sir. I don't know what lawns you're talking about. And what's your name? Charlie, sir. I just come over here to pick up some lobsters. Yeah. I see you found one of my lobster traps. Oh, sir. See, you have a walkie-talkie. Hand it over, Charlie. Yes, sir. Mr. Bennett, sir. Yeah. That's a $200 radio you just stepped on. It's obsolete, Charlie. This is the age of obsolescence. It is? Uh, mind if I get to my feet, Mr. Bennett? I'm not going to hurt you, nun. I'm an old man. Where's Skipper Samson, Charlie? Well, uh, I don't rightly know, Mr. Bennett. I ain't seen him in quite a while. Charlie. Uh, did the Skipper step on top of the bluff, Mr. Bennett? And who's with him, Charlie? Just one man, sir. A fellow named Oblique. I never liked him too much. Always makes fun of me. Where's the launch, Charlie? Oh, he just out of the side of them rocks, Mr. Bennett. I got her hit real good, just like Mr. Samson told me. Close in, sure. He don't like to get wet. Well, let's you and me take a walk, Charlie. Yes, sir. And, uh... Charlie. Yes, Mr. Bennett? I'm really am sorry I hit you. I feel real bad about it. Oh, that's okay. I've been hit before. There she is, Mr. Bennett. Good. Let's get aboard. Okay. Only watch out for that gang flexor. I didn't mash it down the way I'm supposed to. You'll just tell me where the Seacocks are. The Seacocks? Well, they're down in the hole, Mr. Bennett. Where else would they be? Lead on, Charlie. Yes, sir. Open them up for me, Charlie. Will you do that? Open them up. I can't do that, Mr. Bennett. It sure sinks. That's the general idea, Charlie. Open them up. Oh, yes, sir. Open them up, my man says. And we're gonna sink a $40,000 and launch it in 12 columns more. Oh. Open, Mr. Bennett, sir. That means we got about two minutes to get off this ship. Just one more thing, Charlie. Yes, sir. We don't have no time now. I can't swim. Just show me where the bar is. Oh, that's different. Up to the companionway, Mr. Bennett, sir. Charlie. Charlie, you'll have to sit down, stretch your legs out and give me your bootlaces. Oh, Mr. Bennett, sir. You don't have to time me up. Not any. You can trust me. Charlie. The only time in my life I ever trusted anyone. I ended up having to marry her. I have a drink while I fix your ankles. Oh, yes, sir. There. Is that too tight? Yeah, that's it. That's right on my varicose veins. Oh, all right. There. Is that better? Yeah, that's better. Only, um... Only what, Charlie? If you were to hide my hands in front instead of behind, you could leave me one of them bottles you got and I could put it to real good use. Yeah, all you got to do is take the cork out from me. Charlie, you're a thinking man. I like that. Cheers, Charlie. Good health, Mr. Bennett, sir. Yep. Oh. Only, um... Don't try to leave this island with them treasure chests. That's what they're waiting up there for. We'll do high-powered rifles. Yeah, I already figured that one out, Charlie. Oh, and when Mr. Samson finds you, will you give him a message for me? Yes, sir. Anything you say, sir. Just tell him that my considered opinion is that he's a number one prank. Yeah. Yes, sir. Uh, a prank? Oh, Queenie. Something went wrong. No. No, darling. We just have to persevere. We have to keep on digging. Oh, but I see down and nothing. Charlie, I goofed. Somewhere along the line, I goofed. It's back to the drawing board all over again. Ah, hi there. Hey, you guys have been going down pretty good. Look at Ibrone. Lobsters, hey, it's a bourbon. Well, it's getting dark. I think we might mosey back to the sloop and take her out to sea. And have us a really good dinner. I'm a genius with lobsters. Ah, something went wrong, Harry. Somewhere along the way, I lost up a clue. Throw us a line. You bet. Oh, but Mr. Bennett, where'd you find the bourbon? Honey, if you live right the way I do, the good Lord always comes to your rescue in times of stress. It's axiomatic. Right now, we have to get out of here with reasonable dispatch because there's a very nasty man sitting on top with a clip there with a couple of high-powered rifles waiting to pick us off just as soon as we dig up that treasure chest for him. Hey, there's a what? Ralph, you don't look so good when your face is wide. Hold your breath. They'll get red again. My old friend and enemy, Skipper Samson. So what we do is we leave everything here like we're working again in the morning and we go home. There was a nice fryer out. I'm sorry it didn't work out. What happened, Skipper? They're leaving. They left their equipment behind, and that means they're going back to the soup for dinner and a nice rest. They'll continue again in the morning. Fair enough. Patience is all we need. We'll go back to the lodge. We'll have dinner, too. Maybe we'll even get a little licked up because things are going great like this. Watch those lobsters. You're close to scorching them. I am not scorching the lobster. I am sick to death. I lost it up. Don't feel bad, Ralph. Win a few, lose a few. The world still keeps on turning, right? Mind if I take a look at your map? Now Mr. Bennett is going to solve the problem with one quick look. Ralphie, you're being untied again. I'm sure that is not what Mr. Bennett had in mind. Here you are, Henry. This is a work of art itself, isn't it? The poem is in Anne Bonney's own handwriting. Of course it is. And that's her signature? Yes. And the date, July 22, 1718. Hey, that was the date Captain Woods Rogers became governor of the Bahamas and the real crackdown on Caribbean pirates began. Did you know that? Yes, I know that. Ralph, Ralph, I just threw you with a missing clue. Your mind's not working anymore. What missing clue? The world keeps on turning. On July 22 of any given year, that little circle of light sent by the Sun God Ra was exactly where it was on July 22 in 1718. And that is not where we were digging today in this month of February, Ralph. Right now, that circle of light will be 200, 300 feet away, who knows, in any direction. My God, that's it? Now we come back here on July 22 and start over? That's what we have to do, yeah. That's it. I'm turning men. By then someone will have found them marooned on a desert island. 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