In a little while I became dissatisfied with my deal, and actually approached the seller and asked him if he would cancel it.
He too had regretted parting with the property, and to my relief assented.

Once more I spent nearly a year ranging about the whole western country, looking into different propositions, and again I came back to Amarillo, again was impressed with the desirability of the same lots, and actually demanded of the still more astonished owner if he would sell them to me.

No! no! he did not want to part with them; and I knew he spoke the truth.

Again I forced him, and so hard that at last he put on what he considered a prohibitory price, a much higher one than before asked, but I snapped him up at once.

The news soon got all over town, it could not be kept quiet.