"Texas is booming," he said, at the conclusion of the story.

"I'm told the new oil towns are something like our old mining camps." "Except that they are more so.

The same excitement, the same quick fortunes, only quicker and larger.

Believe me, it's fine for the jewelry business.

Look here." Coverly drew from his pocket a letter written in a painfully cramped hand upon cheap note paper, and this he spread out for his companion to read.