Chapter Twenty-Four
Jim was still steaming when they reached the forest.
He was so angry that he almost couldn’t speak after the initial meeting to plan the search for the gold.
But this had been part of Tom’s deal with Rebecca. He would help her and Jim sow the seeds of discontent, stir up trouble, muddy the waters, cause great confusion and doubt about the sale of the forest, and he would do it for free, pro bono, largely to stick a proverbial knife in the flabby belly of the feckless university president, in exchange for what was starting today.
Tom wanted a chance to find the gold, and he knew just the guys who could do it, and they were here today.
Tom outlined the terms of the deal. The fortune hunters would get fifty percent of whatever they found, the tribe would get twenty, a
