Blackbeard's Ghost Page #4

---

- Sure.

He can tear down the inn,

put up a big, modern casino...

- and the law can't bother him.

- Mm-hmm.

Oh, uh, well, I'd like to thank you

for what you did tonight.

You know, without you, we wouldn't

have had much of an auction.

Well, I just kept bidding

because it made you smile.

I like that smile.

Jo Anne, aren't you re...

I've been waiting to drive you home.

Excuse me. Good night.

Good night.

I'm going to put you in his room.

I'm sure he won't mind.

- He?

- Captain Blackbeard.

- Oh.

This looks out to the river

and to the upper bay.

Oh, the captain used to stand here

for hours with his spyglass...

studying the ships

moving in and out.

He'd pick out the one he liked...

then he'd come here

to this very table...

and with his men,

he'd plan how to seize it.

Well, thank you, Miss Stowecroft.

I know how anxious you must be

to get to bed, so...

Sometimes when he's in a bad mood

or feeling lonely...

we hear him thumping around,

breaking glasses and bottles...

trying so hard

to communicate with us.

I suppose we should all be very angry

with him for all that noise.

But, you know,

it isn't his fault, poor man.

Then, whose fault is it?

- Aldetha's, of course.

- Who?

Number ten.

The captain's last wife, but one.

Oh, the one your warming pan

belonged to.

- Oh. Well, good...

- Aldetha was a witch, you know.

She never forgave the captain

for denouncing her to the authorities.

When they were burning

Aldetha at the stake...

she put a terrible curse on him.

As the flames

crept higher and higher...

she screeched her dying words:

"Edward Teach, sometimes known

as Captain Blackbeard...

"when you come to die,

may your body and soul...

"be racked between this world

and the next...

"always to be alone.

"May this curse hold fast and true.

"May you dwell

forevermore in limbo...

"or until such time

as there be found in you...

"most wicked of all villains...

some spark of human goodness".

Well, good night, Mr Walker.

Sleep well.

The dining room will be open

for breakfast at 7:30 am.

Oh, please be prompt.

Oh, no.

Two hundred bucks.

"Aldetha Teach".

Well, so the thing

did belong to her.

"Her book of spells

and conjurations".

Well, now.

"A spell to turn your enemy

into a spotted toad".

"A spell to turn mercury

into gold".

I wonder if there's a spell to make

a track team out of a pig's ear.

"A spell to bring

to your eyes and ears...

one who is bound in limbo".

Well, how about that? Limbo.

Curses. Pirates. Malarky.

Blackbeard himself was a phony.

He was probably some chicken-livered

little pipsqueak...

that built up a reputation

scaring old women and children.

Chicken-livered pipsqueak, is it?

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes