1. It only cost us a pack of smokes per man. 2. I made my usual 20 percent, of course. 3. So this big-shot lawyer calls me long-distance from Texas. 4. I say, "Yeah?" 5. He says, "Sorry to inform you, but your brother just died." 6. Oh, damn, Byron, I'm sorry to hear that. 7. I'm not. He was an asshole. 8. Ran off years ago. 9. Figured him for dead, anyway. 10. So this lawyer fellow says to me: "Your brother died a rich man." 11. Oil wells and shit. 12. Close to a million bucks. 13. A million bucks?