Rebel Gold by Warren Getler & Bob Brewer

Author:Warren Getler & Bob Brewer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2018-01-08T05:00:00+00:00

10

The Wolf Emerges

IT was with a mix of pride and dread that Bob readied himself to tell Griffith about breaking the Wolf Map. The pride came from a quiet satisfaction at having delivered on the task: unlocking the seemingly indecipherable code and arriving at a precise location in the vast United States of America. No one other than Linda knew that he had taken on such a challenge. Having succeeded, he wanted to share his victory with someone who could appreciate the effort in this highly confidential, and thus lonely, pursuit. Griffith, whatever his faults, was one such person—someone who knew something of the diabolical ingenuity of the KGC and the background to its hidden riches.

Still, Griffith had his clear shortcomings as a “partner.” Bob believed that Griffith had misled him about having the owners’ permission to be on the Wapanucka property—and then had apparently circled back to the site shortly after eviction. Moreover, Griffith had denied him any claim to the ill-gotten gold and silver coins found during the Oklahoman’s secret return trip to what appeared to be the Gillespie property. Not that Bob would have wanted treasure obtained that way, but the point was, Griffith simply had claimed it as his own.

Nevertheless, Bob felt morally obligated to tell Griffith that he had solved the Wolf Map because Griffith had provided the map as a starting point for the investigation. But precautions were in order. To protect his claim to any cash that might be found, he resolved to tell Griffith about the map’s solution in front of witnesses. This way, Griffith could make no plausible assertion that he had independently discovered this out-of-nowhere spot—culled from the 3,678,890 square miles that constitute the United States.

Bob decided to set his plan in motion at a treasure-hunting conference in Wear’s Corner, a small town in the Smoky Mountain region of Tennessee. He had been invited to speak on treasure-sign interpretation and the possible connection between the KGC and suspected treasure sites in the South and Southwest.1 He would attend this once-in-a-lifetime conference with his friends, John London and Stan Vickery. They could serve, he thought, as witnesses to the revelation that had to be made to Griffith.

Bob invited Griffith to the show, and the history teacher wrote back to say that his classes would be over by May 26 and that he eagerly awaited the trip to Tennessee in June.2 In the letter, Griffith mentioned that he wanted to sell a booklet at the show—a collection largely of photo copied published references that he had put together on the KGC—that, he hoped, would offset the expenses of attending.

With London and Vickery present on the eve of the conference, Bob told Griffith that he had solved the Wolf Map after putting in more than a thousand hours on the job. Griffith, caught off guard, was all ears as Bob announced that he knew the precise location of the Wolf Map treasure. “Linda and I have been to the general area and seen

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