When Ulysses Grant, his wife Julia, and his family travel on to Bethel, Ohio, to visit some friends from his West Point days, Grant finds them dying off at an alarming rate. In spite of the poverty and need brought on by the Great War, Grant's friends seem to have discovered the Midas touch. Grant (along with Julia and his father) have to get to the bottom of a golden mystery to find out why people in this small town are dying.