"Nonsense!" The jeweler did not like to have fun poked at him. For some time he refused to take the offer seriously, and even when his host insisted that he would enjoy the lark, he expostulated: "Why, the idea is ridiculous! You—Calvin Gray, the financier, peddling jewelry? Ha! Outside of the fact that you
wouldn't, couldn't do it, it's not the safest thing in the world to carry a small fortune in stones through the oil fields."
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"Of course you insure it against theft?"
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"That's the point. We can't. Have you ever heard of 'high-jackers'? That's the Texas term for hold-up men, robbers. Well, the country is full of them."
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"Excellent! There no longer is any question about my going," Gray announced, firmly. "I am bored; I am stale; a
