The characters in this story are the figment of my imagination, the places and events are real, the church at Noord is there, Lago was at one time the largest refinery in the world, Aruba was attacked by a German U-Boat early on in World War II, the Scott Highlanders were sent to protect the island before the U. S entered the war. The Scotts were replaced by U. S. Troops. When I lived in Barbados the native's spoke of the Black Heard Man and Hess has a large refinery on St. Croix. The gold found in the cave is not real and to my knowledge there never was any gold stashed in the caves of Aruba by the early Indians who settled the island. However, Aruba did enjoy a Gold Rush in the 1800's and two gold smelters were built on the island. Also, in the past, much alluvial gold was found and probably, with luck, some could be found today.