Excerpt: ...these were busy days, what with a couple of new wildcat promotions and a well going down on semiproven ground-that lease which cornered into the Nelson holdings, and to which Stoner had called attention. It had been easy to sell stock in the latter enterprise, and now the deeper went the hole, the higher rose the hopes of the promoters. Stoner himself was directing operations, and he had named the well "Avenger Number One." To-day he and his partner had been listening to Mallow, who concluded an earnest ...
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Excerpt: ...these were busy days, what with a couple of new wildcat promotions and a well going down on semiproven ground-that lease which cornered into the Nelson holdings, and to which Stoner had called attention. It had been easy to sell stock in the latter enterprise, and now the deeper went the hole, the higher rose the hopes of the promoters. Stoner himself was directing operations, and he had named the well "Avenger Number One." To-day he and his partner had been listening to Mallow, who concluded an earnest discourse with these words: "Nelson and her are pardners in one deal and he's stuck on her. If anybody can put it over, she's the one." "If he buys that well it'll be the biggest laugh this town ever had," McWade declared. "Buy it? A hundred and fifty barrels in the heart of settled production for seventy-five thousand? I bet he'll buy it." "Think the boss will stand for that kind of a deal?" "Why not? They can't hang it on him, and Heaven knows I'm honest." "He said 'nothing crooked'-" Mallow snorted. "Say, I bet you believe in Santa Claus! Gray's a great man, and what makes him great is that he does his own crooked work." Stoner was inclined to agree with Mallow's measure of their associate. "That's how I got him figgered. His honesty talk didn't go far with me, and I don't believe he'll kick at anything. He's willing to pay any price to break this banker, but you can't bankrupt a feller unless you rip his coin loose; you can't ask him to please loosen. If we make a well of the Avenger we'll force him to shoot maybe a hundred thousand right away, and that may cramp him for a while; but suppose he makes the turn and hits it like we do? We've made him that much stronger, haven't we? Gray plans to keep him spending faster than he can get it in, and that's all right-if it works, but if Mallow can bilk him for seventy-five thousand at one fell swipe-Well, I'll bet my best gold tooth that the boss will stand the shock like a man." "I think you've...
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