Joiner wanted $50,000 up front, plus more on the back end. They began to talk, about life, about their families, about East Texas, about the Daisy Bradford No. 3. Lunch came. They ate in the suite. At breaks Hunt would call for whispered updates on the Deep Rock well. By nightfall they were still negotiating. Dinner came. At midnight they were still talking. By dawn they had the outlines of an agreement, and Hunt telephoned his attorney, J. B. McEntire, and two stenographers. When they arrived, he and Joiner began dictating the terms. In return for all four thousand acres of Joiner’s leases,
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