Sunny Corner
Copyright© 2017 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 11
We took the A32 through the mountains; very scenic. At Lithgow we had the opportunity to take either the B59 or stay on the A32.
I really wanted to visit the Arms Museum and the Armory.
“No time!” exclaimed Abbie ... the rat.
We sailed by ... spitting distance ... I pouted.
Then the road got ... interesting. (The Chinese have a saying: May you live in interesting times.) The road got like that.
After awhile ... the 32 changes to the M4, it’s sorta the same road ... just re-numbered. Then it’s a right turn onto the A3, which is King Georges Road, to Hurstville; Sydney’s Chinatown. Hurstville is more than half Chinese ... not Asian ... Chinese.
Left turn on Ruby, right on Carrington and Abbie said, “Park.”
Jim did.
“You won’t need to lock up, Revered Grandfather has his people watching,” Abbie suggested.
We entered through a private entrance and were escorted to the top floor. Plenty of incense and tobacco smoke.
“No weapons,” said a young lady in response to a look from our escort.
We were led through a hall and into a huge room. The figure propped up with many pillows beckoned Abbie forward. He was very old ... very very old. Abbie knelt and put her forehead on the floor.
A foreign language spoken and Abbie jumped up and embraced the man in the bed.
She waved us forward and I felt a most intense scrutiny ... without a doubt this man could read me.
His gaze took in Jim.
Our escort bent and whispered in the old mans ear.
“How did you come by two hundred seventy four kilos of 24 karat gold?” The accent was pure upper class English mixed with a Sandhurst tone of command.
Jim said, “Prospecting upper Mitchell’s Creek.”
“Surely there’s more to it?”
“Indeed ... but I prefer to keep the exact location private.”
“I can respect that,” the old man said. “Mining claim and all that.”
“No sir,” said Jim. “It’s State land and cannot be claimed.”
“Oh ... I see,” the bedridden old man said, “You mean ... anyone can prospect the creek.”
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