Hidden Gold of Mu

by Milton Brown

Grab your compass and come along with the crew of the motor ketch the Lady Dance. Be with them as they unravel the mystery of the lost continent of MU for a great adventure.

ISBN 978-1-61386-105-9 Action Adventure / Thriller

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CHAPTER ONE

Professor Harris, a short obese man with a receding hair line, smiled as he examined the small gold sculpture of a whale.

“Do you still live on that garbage scowl over at Port Orchard?”

“I live on a fine motor ketch, but you wouldn’t know a ketch from a tugboat, so what has that got to do with the sculpture?

“Have you ever sailed that thing or, whatever you call it to Tahiti?“

“No, I have not.”

“Well this is a fake. What barroom did you pick this up in? This is something you see in the local shops in Tahiti. They have all kinds of trinkets for sale. Of course they are all alleged to be articles from the mythical land of Mu. Mu or Lomuria as some call it, supposedly slipped to the bottom of the ocean some twelve thousand years ago. It does appear to be solid gold however. I will give you one thousand dollars for it.”

“Well professor I didn’t pick it up in a barroom, I bought it at an estate sale. It’s not for sale to you or any of your whore house buddies. The writings on it don’t appear like anything I can identify. Because of that, I was checking with you to see if it was Polynesian hieroglyphics. I should have known you would be a prick.”

“I really don’t have time to fight with you Mr. Spiker. Get out of my office.”

“Well so much for your credibility asshole.”

Jess left, leaving the door open intently and went out to his truck. What a creep the professor was Jess thought. He knew him from the community college where he had attended some geology classes. He was supposedly an expert on Polynesian Hieroglyphics. This was not his first encounter with the professor.

Two years ago he had enrolled in a geology class at the college. Professor Harris taught both archeology and geology.

From the start, Jess and he had many disagreements.

They argued over everything from plate tectonics to global warming. Jess could spot a phony a mile off and almost instantly had figured him for a pompous blowhard. He knew he should have dropped out of class and gone to a different college, but thought he might be able to gain some reliable information from the class.

Jess Spiker was a retired Senior Chief of the Navy. He was a tall lean man with dark hair. He had handsome rugged features about him that appealed to the opposite sex He had always been fascinated by ancient history, and archaeology. After Jess retired he moved to Port Orchard Washington. He got a job at the Navy shipyard and was attending the local community colleges using his GI Bill.

His main subjects were archeology and geology.

He had discovered an old motor ketch at a Seattle salvage yard in 1985. It looked like a real tramp, but on a closer look, he could see that it was a real lady that had been used hard and put away dirty.