“You don’t look like one.”

“That’s what makes me a good one.”

He chuckled, and I saw his teeth were long and yellow. He seemed to like that crack. “Go on,” he said.

“An oil proposition,” I told him.

“What’s the nature of it?”

“There’s a lot of nice oil land.”

He nodded.

“I haven’t got title to it — yet.”

“How do you intend to get title?”

“With the money that’s paid in for stock.”