West of Wisdom

Many years ago Blake Bernard married Ethyl,the daughter of a missionary couple, on a South Pacific island. Ontheir honeymoon cruise they were captured by pirates and the piratecaptain attempted to ravish the bride. In the fight, Blake was shot andthe pirate's boat caught fire and sank. Ethyl and the pirate escaped,but his treasure chest was lost. Ethyl was a grandmother when shereceived a mysterious riddle, West of Wisdom, found in a floatingbottle. Astarte, her granddaughter, takes aninter-island freighter to find the island where her grandmother wasmarried. When she recites the riddle to the ship's captain, who happensto be the same now much older pirate, he decides she knows thewhereabouts of his long lost treasure. She is kidnaped bound and gaggedand stuffed in a sail bag. The story startswhen a man with a glass eye puts the sack on the deck of Timothy Tyler'ssailboat and threatens to take over. Tim refuses to let the man comeaboard and sails out into the boundless South Pacific Ocean. When thebag falls into the sea, he looks back and sees a small white handreaching from the sinking sack. And then...