Luke was going to set up a new company with Chris to run the gold mine.
Boom Town's gold mine would be up and running again with Luke's capital investment, and he would get 25% of the shares.
Samantha, Elizabeth's mother, invested some of her money too, and had a 5% share.
The rest of the shares belonged to Chris.
That was the basic situation. Jenny had negotiated the details; she was better at contracts than Chris was, and wouldn't cut a losing deal.
Chris also didn't really hesitate to make the deal.
The mines he currently had were already dry. He hadn't shut them down yet only because they were his father's lifelong work.
He didn't have the money to get them running again. Even if there really were new mother lodes, he could only helplessly watch the mines go bankrupt if no investments came in.
Now that Luke had expressed interest and was willing to take the risk, it was impossible for Chris to say no.
