The Houston Story Page #3

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This way, gentlemen.

Well there it is, Mr Atlas.

That's the whole thing.

Every move laid out to the last detail.

The racket has been right under

your noses and you didn't see it.

Well it's good, Mr Duncan.

It's an ingenious thing.

Stolen oil, right from the oilfield.

But what are we going to do

with the oil after we've stolen it?

There are half a dozen independent

distributors in this country.

Who would grab at it right now

without asking any questions.

And if we want ..

A half dozen countries who'd

buy it without any questions.

Big, Gordy. Real big.

I tell you another thing.

I've lined up twenty foremen

right now who can be bought.

They won't be looking when we

tie into their oil lines with our line.

Thirty percent of their oil

production will go into our tanks.

I've studied the layout of ..

Every pipeline and storage tank in

three of the eleven Houston fields.

And when we feel that

we're ready to spread out.

We'll move in to the other eight.

Now if we do that.

We'll go over five million

dollars net profit a year.

You can do all this?

I can start it rolling tomorrow.

That sounds very good Mr Duncan but

it seems to me I'd be a bit worried ..

For fear that we might just do

it ourselves and count you out.

I went to a lot of trouble

getting to you, Mr Atlas.

Oh, you mean the incident in the morgue?

That was a delightful thing,

wasn't it, Gordy.

Hilarious.

You know, I'd always

heard that .. Paul Atlas.

Deals square with anyone

who deals square with him.

Ha .. ha, I'm a gambler.

If people don't respect my

integrity, they don't play with me.

That's why I came to you, Mr Atlas.

Besides, you couldn't handle it

without first getting an oilman ..

Who knew the fields from the bottom up.

That's why I thought Frank Duncan

could handle it as well as anyone else.

Yes surely, surely.

Is there anything else you

think we should know?

One important thing

to keep us in the clear.

We must form a dummy

corporation as a front.

I see.

With a man at the top who can sign

papers so that if anything goes wrong ..

I don't take the rap and neither do you.

Well, have you such a man in mind?

Yes I do.

A nice guy .. not too smart.

His name is Louis Phelan.

Louis Phelan.

He thinks of everything, doesn't he.

Would you trust me with those

papers? Say for about a week?

Sure.

- Fine.

You will have your

answer a week from today.

Now the boys will drive

you back to Houston.

And thank you for coming.

Goodbye.

- Thank you.

I don't like him.

Well, he's a pretty outspoken young man.

But he's got something, Gordy.

Something I think the

boys in St Louis will like.

Yeah .. if it works.

Do you know what it would mean ..

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