You got this this mornin' ?" "Yes." "I expect you'd sell the prop'ty if you got a good chance, wouldn't ye ?" "With the utmost pleasure," said John emphatically.
"Wa'al, I've got a notion they'll buy it of ye," said David, "if it's handled right.

I wouldn't lease it if it was mine an' I wanted to sell it, an' yet, in the long run, you might git more out of it--an' then agin you mightn't," he added.
"I don't know anything about it," said John, putting his handkerchief to his mouth in a fit of coughing.

David looked at him with a frown.
"I ben aware fer some time that the' was a movement on foot in your direction," he said.

"You know I told ye that I'd ben int'ristid in the oil bus'nis once on a time; an' I hain't never quite lost my int'rist, though it hain't ben a very active one lately, an' some fellers down there have kep' me posted some.

The' 's ben oil found near where you're located, an' the prospectin' points your way.