So more and more I got to thinking of those who were everything to me.

I knew that all of them had checked in but a sister, and her I hadn't seen for twenty years and more; though I believed she was still living.
"It was down in Texas a few months ago that I had a little sick spell, and while I lay there convalescing strange fancies came into my head.

I made up my mind the time had come for me to quit this foolish roaming all about the world.

I couldn't expect to live a great many years more, and why not settle down to being decent and respectable, as well as do some good with my money before I cashed in?
"That idea kept gripping me until I finally made up my mind to sell all my big holdings in the new oil wells.

This I did, and banked the cash in New York---I won't tell you what it was, lad, but six figures would be needed to cover it, and maybe seven, if all goes well with my last sale.
"But somehow an old distrust of human nature began to get a hold on me.