We run all the risks; we spend our coin, and when we strike a new pool they burgle us over again." Stoner was speaking with a good deal of heat.

"Big business, eh?
Well, here's some little business--dam' little.

The Atlantic leased a lot of scattered acreage I know about and drilled it.

Pulled off their crews at the top of the sand and drilled in with men they could trust.

It turned out good, but they capped their wells, wrecked their rigs, and, of course, that condemned the whole territory.