Incest Justin Thyme by Callicious

[Ramesh_Rocky]

"Now, along with all of the railroad stock you also have a handful of bearer bonds. These are all over one hundred years old. Some of them are from defunct railroads, and will be worthless. Some are from lines that were taken over and will still be good. Some have specific dates on them and will have a cap on interest paid, but others are open ended, meaning you have had interest compounding on them for over a hundred years, which is going to be very significant. Before we are done here I fully expect your net worth to be in the lower to mid nine figure range. Of course, taxes are going to eat into that very heavily, but you are going to be an extremely wealthy young man."

I sat there for a little bit trying to get my head around all he had told me. Nine figures? Then it hit me. He was talking over a hundred million dollars! I thought four million in gold was a lot of money, and it is, but what was I to do with a hundred million dollars?

"Now I see why you were worried," I said to Grandpa. "Well, to start off, this isn't just my problem, because as far as I'm concerned this is Thyme and Thyme Again Properties problem. I can deal with the gold, but you were here when Charlie showed me the compartment, so you are in on the find as well as I."

Grandpa nodded. "Leaving it in the company might be helpful as far as taxes are concerned, but I'm not so sure you should split it up. It's yours."

"No. To be honest, I'm kind of numb to it right now, but I don't believe it would be right for me to claim it all, especially since Michael took himself out of any part of things. Leave it all in the company name." I thought Grandpa looked relieved, and I saw Dad visibly relax.

"I would suggest we keep this as quiet as possible for as long as possible. Once word gets out on this you will find we have more relatives and friends than we ever knew about, and they will all be needing loans."

"If we leave everything in the company name we don't have to let people know what kind of money we have, either, which will make going to school a lot easier."

"I'd suggest we call it a night," Grandpa said. "I'll take these certificates with me and try to get some research done on them within the next week to ten days. Pete, you did bring your gun with you, didn't you?"

"It's in the car."

Grandpa nodded. "I really don't think we'll need it. Nobody knows what we have, but with this kind of money I don't want to take chances. The gold is going to have to sit there for a bit until we decide what to do with it. I don't know about you folks, but I'm worn out. This has been a tough day."