HOMECOMING

Chapter 23

Sitting in my chair with one leg draped over the arm, I tried to pick up where I left off in my book, Inca Gold by Clive Cussler. I found the book's plot riveting. It certainly showed a lot of imagination on the part of the author.

I smiled to myself, remembering the old manuscript I found in our pack archives. It was written in 1578 by a well-known British world explorer and privateer. How our pack obtained it was not common knowledge, but it did detail the capture of a fleet of Spanish Galleons containing a horde of Inca Gold. World history has no record of what happened to the gold. Our private pack history knows exactly what happened to it, but even that knowledge is restricted to only the leadership. I found out because I was probably the only pack member who read every book and pape