“No, Biff. He’s going to stay here until I send back word about his brother. I talked to Moti. I feel sure we can straighten things out in Curaçao.”
“Tell Crunch and Moti they can count on that,” Brom Zook said.
The run down the coast was a pleasant one. Biff steered the cruiser over the spot where they had located the pearls.
“Does this look like the place, sir?” Biff asked.
Brom Zook took a sight on an island to the cruiser’s portside.
“This is it, all right. And there should be thousands of dollars’ worth of pearls beneath us.”
As Biff, Derek, and his father were approaching the harbor in Baie du Trésor, they saw Dietz and Specks in their boat, heading in the direction of the pearl fishery.
“Won’t do them any good now,” Brom Zook said. “The injunction he obtained has been cancelled.”
They watched the boat until it was nearly out of sight.
Brom Zook and Biff looked in the direction Derek was pointing. They saw the ugly, menacing clouds, forerunners of a _chabasco_.
“It’ll strike in a few moments,” Brom Zook said.
“And right at the spot we last saw Dietz,” Biff shouted. The winds were already getting heavier in the harbor.
“We can do nothing to help them. We’re too far away.” Derek’s father said soberly.
The _chabasco_ struck. Dietz’s boat was right in the center of its fury. There was little chance that he and Specks would escape the storm’s vengeance.
_A Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure_ MYSTERY OF THE CARIBBEAN PEARLS
A mirror-image “twin” with a Continental accent, a pair of matched _black_ pearls coveted by a sinister would-be claim-jumper, and a mammoth Carib Indian who refrains from crushing a man at the command of “voodoo” spirits confront Biff Brewster when he leaves his Indianapolis home to answer an urgent SOS from his uncle, Charles Keene.
Keene, on a trouble-shooting assignment in the Netherlands, Antilles, sends the SOS in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save a valuable pearl fishery, belonging to his friend, Brom Zook, from being “staked” by thieves. Zook, who must prove his right to the pearl fishery claim within the set time limit, has mysteriously disappeared.
Biff and Derek, Brom Zook’s seventeen-year-old son, accidentally board the same plane in Miami and innocently exchange “identities” to play a joke. However, the joke backfires when Biff is kidnapped at the Willemstad Airport by the unscrupulous adventurers who want the pearl fishery.