It is my peculiar weakness that I demand an audience for what I do; I must share my triumphs with some one, else they taste flat, and since you are perhaps the one man in Texas who knows me best, or has the slightest interest in my doings, it is natural that I come to you." This guileless confession evoked a positive scowl.

"What have you done," the banker sneered, "except get your name in the papers ?" "I have made a large amount of money, for one thing, and I am having a glorious time.

Now that Evans lease, for instance--" "Oh! You've come to crow about that." "Not loudly, but a little.

I turned the greater part of that land for as much as five thousand dollars an acre.

Odd that we should have come into competition with each other on my very first undertaking, isn't it?
Fascinating business, this oil.