WEST: I can’t give it all to you now. You know I gotta leverage it with my other property. It’s liable to be two or three years before I get my money. I’m fighting with the insurance company now about my two places that burned down. I got to wait and see how all that turns out. I’ll give you the fifteen now and five later.

MEMPHIS: That’s alright. I see what you doing. You gonna use me to leverage your property and string me out for five thousand while you collect the interest and settle up on your insurance till you get big money and then after you get it in your pocket in two or three years then you kick me out my little five thousand dollars. That ain’t right. That ain’t the way to do business.

WEST: That’s the only way to do business. I’m trying to help you and quite naturally I got to look for every little advantage that I can get. You ought to be able to understand that.

MEMPHIS: I understand it. That’s why I’m going downtown to the city and get my twenty-five thousand dollars. Just like I’m going back to Jackson and get my land one of these days. I still got the deed. They ran me out of there but I’m going back. I got me a piece of farm down there. Everybody said I was crazy to buy it cause it didn’t have no water on it. They didn’t know my grandaddy knew how to find water. If there was water anywhere under the ground he’d find it. He told me where to dig and I dug a well. Dug sixty feet down. You ain’t got no idea how far that is. Took me six months hauling dirt out this little hole. Found me some water and made me a nice little crop.