I shrug, but inside I’m smiling. Sharp kid. He got the point immediately. He thinks I’m angling to finesse Ranger, and that I’m after some kind of leverage. Let him think that. He also thinks he’s in my debt, and probably figures he can pay it off by finding out what Ranger’s percentage was in the Sioux deal. A win-win deal: he frees himself of a debt to me, and I learn what I want to know with no risk to my personal skin. I wish it always worked that way.