to myself I'll square things by givin' him a chance to make some money." Gray stirred slightly in his chair and regarded the speaker more keenly.
"When oil come in at Ranger, nobody thought it would get out our way, but Ma had a dream—a lot of dreams—about oil on our farm, so I got an outfit to come there an' drill. Folks thought we was crazy, and we didn't expect they'd find much, ourselves—a few bar'l a day would of looked big
—but I allus had ambitions to be good an' rich, so I got options on quite a bit of acreage. It didn't take no money at the time, 'cause land was what people had most of. Along with the rest, there's a hundred an' sixty right next to ours— hill stuff that wouldn't feed a goat. It's wuth a lot of money now, but the option's 'most run out."
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