Christy.

Well, sure, I know.

How are you, Jackson?

Pretty good, pretty good.

You're all upset over some insurance problem.

Well, no, not really.

Don't tell me you called up just to pass the time of day and on the company's phone bill.

No, not that either.

Well, then?

Tell me, Johnny, do you ever hear of the Padre Island treasure?

I never even heard of Padre Island.

Wait a minute.

Sure. Are you talking about that long strip of sand and stuff out there in the Gulf?

That's it. Runs down the coastline from Corpus almost all the way down to Mexico. That's Padra Island. All 115 miles of it.

I didn't realize it was that long. It sure is. And like you said, that narrow finger of land, sometimes a couple, sometimes 10 or 12 miles off the coast,

goes all away from here down to the northeast corner of Mexico.

Uh-huh.

And that's why it's going to be so hard to find that old Spanish ship.

Uh, what remains of it.

What are you talking about?

Loaded with Spanish doubloons.

A lot of solid gold bullion and heaven knows what else.

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