Gold (River Sunday Romance Mysteries Book 4) by Hollyday Thomas

Author:Hollyday, Thomas [Hollyday, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Solar Sipper Publishing
Published: 2013-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Sunday, July 14 9AM

On the morning of the seventh day, the river in front of the priest’s property was crowded with anchored small boats, some still arriving. John remarked to the Captain that a person could cross the river by climbing from boat to boat and have a good chance of never getting wet.

Some of these were media boats with antennas aboard to beam back news as it happened, their personnel including Peterson and some of the other better known television personalities. They would beach their boats from time to time but on the other side of Andy’s home or beyond the Tolman farm and then walk back up the road. The media found no one to talk with at Tolman’s, nothing but a closed board gate, and John and his team did not grant interviews. They contented themselves with videos of wilderness protected by briars and vines and a long steel link fence. Most of the reporters spent endless film on interviews with the homeless, getting opinions on poverty matters and politics as well as dreams of what they would do with riches if they dug up the money.

Demonstrators mixed with the others both on land and sea. Some people were in smaller crafts such as kayaks and rowboats and ganged together in rafts where they held up placards and other type signs advertising their displeasure at the pollution of the river, the current state of American foreign policy or rights of women and other minorities. Reverend Blue’s fans were on the water of course with their American flags. John expected but saw nothing so far complaining about the treatment of Native American sites.

The hole at Father Tom’s site was beginning to take on the appearance of a vertical mine shaft. Mouse said that the structure was slightly different from those he had built for wells in that it was built into the side of the mound.

The shaft itself had been topped with a crude pulley system mounted on two struts, which allowed material and workers to be raised and lowered into the hole. Mouse said it would do until they got deeper. Then he had another idea. The structure of the walls going down had been designed by Mouse to hold back any water seepage as well as give strength against a cave-in. He had found large pieces of corrugated steel and secured them to match the outlines of the hole. Three were joined and overlapped every five feet of depth as the hole progressed. At the same time wooden braces were constructed so that each new five-foot section of the walls was not only fitted with the corrugated steel but also braced into place. By now the hole depth was approaching fifteen feet, close to sea level, that is, the water level of the river, and Mouse had overbuilt everything, wanting to make sure that ground water seeping through from the river would not create enough force to cave in the hole.

Andy said, with excitement in her voice, “You won’t believe what’s out on the highway in front of here.

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