"No."
"All right; neither have I. He's gone back to his people probably; Indians come and go. Now that will be all about Willy Tiger," he said in a tone of finality.
"Payne, if you're going to stay here we'd better talk like business men. I'm a business man."
"I try to be."
"Sure. No sense wasting any energy fighting. You're going to develop your tract here?"
"Going to try to; yes."
Garman studied him with new intentness for a moment.
"And yet you look like you had business sense, too."
Payne made no reply.
"You know what a poor business proposition you've got, of course," continued Garman. "Even assuming that things are as you think they are?"