Candy and roses and yellow canaries, too.

But "-- the speaker rose, briskly--"I didn't come here to talk about them; I came here to sell you an oil well.

Sorry you can't take it." When she had gone Nelson sat in a frowning study for some time.

So, it was not all a bad dream.

What could be Gray's object in buying acreage adjoining his?
Was it faith in his, Nelson's, judgment, a desire to ride to success on the tail of his enemy's kite, or did it mean a war of offsets, drilling operations the instant a well came in?
More likely the latter, if the maniac really meant what he had said.