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The Treasure Chest of Don Jose

Suspense · October 12, 1958 · 19 min · 2,583 words

The transcript of “The Treasure Chest of Don Jose”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast October 12, 1958. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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expense and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. Among other characteristics which separate Homo sapiens from the rest of the animal kingdom is the driving dream of the easy buck. We follow it on the racetracks at Las Vegas in the bingo games at church socials. Out of these phallus,

There is always buried treasure. They say the beaches from the Florida Keys to the New England Capes are loaded with the loot, the pirates parked, and forgot to claim. All you need is a map and the willingness to work ten times as hard as you would for an honest buck.

Of such a buried treasure is our story concerned. Listen, listen then as Raymond Burr stars in the treasure chest of Don Jose. of Don Jose, starring Raymond Burr, circulated to keep you in. I didn't have a map.

I had a poem, a curious bit of dogroll. On Dog Buddy's Island, you could fare worse. If dare you will, Don Jose's curse. For their three and 30 yards southeast of the Rocky gods, you'll find a pleasantly false measure of Gattpuria's earthly treasure.

Know that I endured a certain local notoriety since I was the great great grandson of Don Jose Gattpuria, one of the last and one of the fiercest of the pirates of the Spanish mane. This was of much less interest and concern to me than it was to my friends and acquaintances among the Florida Keys, neither my father nor his father before him had ever

profited by a single doubloom from the legendary treasure of our pirate forbear. But then they lacked the clue which I found one day behind the fireplace bricks of my great grandfather's house. There'd be no question about it. That cryptic verse was as good as it could lead me straight to the hidden gold of my ancestor.

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