“Columbus, as in Columbus the explorer?” asked Guy thinking back to his father’s words. “Yes, that Columbus.” Blackie looked surprised at Guy’s obvious interest. “Trouble is no one knows where it is, only that it’s here in the Caribbean.” “Big place, so where are you going to start looking?”
“Here in this house, there has to be a veritable cornucopia of information. That’s the interesting thing in all this.”
“What is?” Guy said sharply.
“I vividly remember talk of this treasure in my childhood. It always seemed very romantic and appealed to me as a boy. Your mother and I come from an illustrious line of Silvers, going all the way back to Jack Silver in the nineteenth century. He and his son Vincent Silver were responsible for bringing this Cross to the Americas, or so I’ve been told. Th
