Young Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, filled with portraits of his ancestors. We hear that the house has gone all to sixes and sevens since we left it, but that’s going to be remedied now’ Well, if you want to know how Kay turns up the treasure, you will have to read the book.‘Don’t you have any fear, Kay. Luckily for Kay, he has some helpers on his side! All his beloved toys who were locked away with the arrival of his miserable governess are following up a clue to the Harker treasure. It seems that anyone who ever had anything to do with the treasure all those years ago, now has a descendant carrying on the search. Now, how did witches get into the house, and why? It isn't long before Kay realizes that they are looking for the Harker treasure, and they aren't the only ones either. They were very piggy in their eating (picking the bones with their fingers, etc.) and they had almost finished the Marsala. There were seven old witches in tall black hats and long scarlet cloaks sitting round the table at a very good supper: the cold goose and chine which had been hot at middle-day dinner, and the plum cake which had been new for tea. Nibbins takes him through a door that never used to be there, through a secret passage to a place where they can spy on the dining room: It's just that his rather pompous guardian asks him about it, and then his rather mean governess sends him to bed without any supper, and then in the night, his old black cat Nibbins appears. Kay doesn't really mean to set off on a treasure hunt. But there were plenty in the village who believed that Kay's great-grandfather had brought the treasure home with him and hidden it away secretly somewhere. What happened to the treasure, Captain Harker never discovered. And the treasure passed from hand to hand as accident and treachery played a part. The crew mutinied and stole the treasure, leaving Captain Harker alone on a remote shore. Unfortunately, Captain Harker lost the treasure.

Many years ago, when revolution broke out in Santa Barbara, the Archbishop asked Kay's great-grandfather to take care of the treasure in his ship, the Plunderer, to keep it from the rebels. Actually, the treasure belongs to the churches of Santa Barbara. Kay is searching for the long-lost family treasure. Or, sometimes, the magic is very strong during the day as well! But it's a special kind of hunt because it can only happen at night when Kay Harker is dreaming in his bed.

The Midnight Folk by John Masefield