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Then
the
old
man
was
direct
,
plain-spoken
,
simple-appearing
,
and
wholly
unpretentious
--
qualities
which
Cowperwood
deemed
invaluable
.
Once
or
twice
in
the
last
three
years
Laughlin
had
lost
heavily
on
private
"
corners
"
that
he
had
attempted
to
engineer
,
and
the
general
feeling
was
that
he
was
now
becoming
cautious
,
or
,
in
other
words
,
afraid
.
"
Just
the
man
,
"
Cowperwood
thought
.
So
one
morning
he
called
upon
Laughlin
,
intending
to
open
a
small
account
with
him
.
"
Henry
,
"
he
heard
the
old
man
say
,
as
he
entered
Laughlin
's
fair-sized
but
rather
dusty
office
,
to
a
young
,
preternaturally
solemn-looking
clerk
,
a
fit
assistant
for
Peter
Laughlin
,
"
git
me
them
there
Pittsburg
and
Lake
Erie
sheers
,
will
you
?
"
Seeing
Cowperwood
waiting
,
he
added
,
"
What
kin
I
do
for
ye
?
"
Cowperwood
smiled
.
"
So
he
calls
them
'
sheers
,
'
does
he
?
"
he
thought
.
"
Good
!
I
think
I
'll
like
him
.
"
He
introduced
himself
as
coming
from
Philadelphia
,
and
went
on
to
say
that
he
was
interested
in
various
Chicago
ventures
,
inclined
to
invest
in
any
good
stock
which
would
rise
,
and
particularly
desirous
to
buy
into
some
corporation
--
public
utility
preferred
--
which
would
be
certain
to
grow
with
the
expansion
of
the
city
.
Old
Laughlin
,
who
was
now
all
of
sixty
years
of
age
,
owned
a
seat
on
the
Board
,
and
was
worth
in
the
neighborhood
of
two
hundred
thousand
dollars
,
looked
at
Cowperwood
quizzically
.
"
Well
,
now
,
if
you
'd
'
a
'
come
along
here
ten
or
fifteen
years
ago
you
might
'
a
'
got
in
on
the
ground
floor
of
a
lot
of
things
,
"
he
observed
.
"
There
was
these
here
gas
companies
,
now
,
that
them
Otway
and
Apperson
boys
got
in
on
,
and
then
all
these
here
street-railways
.
Why
,
I
'm
the
feller
that
told
Eddie
Parkinson
what
a
fine
thing
he
could
make
out
of
it
if
he
would
go
and
organize
that
North
State
Street
line
.
He
promised
me
a
bunch
of
sheers
if
he
ever
worked
it
out
,
but
he
never
give
'em
to
me
.
I
did
n't
expect
him
to
,
though
,
"
he
added
,
wisely
,
and
with
a
glint
.
"
I
'm
too
old
a
trader
for
that
.
He
's
out
of
it
now
,
anyway
.
That
Michaels
--
Kennelly
crowd
skinned
him
.
Yep
,
if
you
'd
'
a
'
been
here
ten
or
fifteen
years
ago
you
might
'
a
'
got
in
on
that
.
'
Tai
n't
no
use
a-thinkin
'
about
that
,
though
,
any
more
.
Them
sheers
is
sellin
'
fer
clost
onto
a
hundred
and
sixty
.
"
Cowperwood
smiled
.
"
Well
,
Mr.
Laughlin
,
"
he
observed
,
"
you
must
have
been
on
'
change
a
long
time
here
.
You
seem
to
know
a
good
deal
of
what
has
gone
on
in
the
past
.
"
Yep
,
ever
since
1852
,
"
replied
the
old
man
.
He
had
a
thick
growth
of
upstanding
hair
looking
not
unlike
a
rooster
's
comb
,
a
long
and
what
threatened
eventually
to
become
a
Punch-and-Judy
chin
,
a
slightly
aquiline
nose
,
high
cheek-bones
,
and
hollow
,
brown-skinned
cheeks
.
His
eyes
were
as
clear
and
sharp
as
those
of
a
lynx
.
"
To
tell
you
the
truth
,
Mr.
