The professor gets down to business, "I would like to hire you to protect myself and Frank here on our continuing journeys to the carrion swamp ruins. It is around 100 miles away and I am willing give you anything magical we find along the way as well as half of any precious artifacts that we may find. The only thing you have no share in is any and all Hetepkan cultural artifacts. I will also buy anything you find at 50% of the appraised value of the item.
The ruins may be overgrown and probably we won't be able to recognise it but we'll do the best we can."