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Now
it
would
n't
be
advisable
for
me
to
go
in
on
this
personally
--
not
openly
,
anyhow
--
but
I
'll
promise
to
see
that
you
get
some
of
the
money
you
want
.
I
like
your
idea
of
a
central
holding
company
,
or
pool
,
with
you
in
charge
as
trustee
,
and
I
'm
perfectly
willing
that
you
should
manage
it
,
for
I
think
you
can
do
it
.
Anyhow
,
that
leaves
me
out
,
apparently
,
except
as
an
Investor
.
But
you
will
have
to
get
two
or
three
others
to
help
carry
this
guarantee
with
me
.
Have
you
any
one
in
mind
?
"
"
Oh
yes
,
"
replied
Cowperwood
.
"
Certainly
.
I
merely
came
to
you
first
.
"
He
mentioned
Rambaud
,
Videra
,
Bailey
,
and
others
.
"
They
're
all
right
,
"
said
Addison
,
"
if
you
can
get
them
.
But
I
'm
not
sure
,
even
then
,
that
you
can
induce
these
other
fellows
to
sell
out
.
They
're
not
investors
in
the
ordinary
sense
.
They
're
people
who
look
on
this
gas
business
as
their
private
business
.
They
started
it
.
They
like
it
.
They
built
the
gas-tanks
and
laid
the
mains
.
It
wo
n't
be
easy
.
"
Cowperwood
found
,
as
Addison
predicted
,
that
it
was
not
such
an
easy
matter
to
induce
the
various
stock-holders
and
directors
in
the
old
companies
to
come
in
on
any
such
scheme
of
reorganization
.
A
closer
,
more
unresponsive
set
of
men
he
was
satisfied
he
had
never
met
.
His
offer
to
buy
outright
at
three
or
four
for
one
they
refused
absolutely
.
The
stock
in
each
case
was
selling
from
one
hundred
and
seventy
to
two
hundred
and
ten
,
and
intrinsically
was
worth
more
every
year
,
as
the
city
was
growing
larger
and
its
need
of
gas
greater
.
At
the
same
time
they
were
suspicious
--
one
and
all
--
of
any
combination
scheme
by
an
outsider
.
Who
was
he
?
Whom
did
he
represent
?
He
could
make
it
clear
that
he
had
ample
capital
,
but
not
who
his
backers
were
.
The
old
officers
and
directors
fancied
that
it
was
a
scheme
on
the
part
of
some
of
the
officers
and
directors
of
one
of
the
other
companies
to
get
control
and
oust
them
.
Why
should
they
sell
?
Why
be
tempted
by
greater
profits
from
their
stock
when
they
were
doing
very
well
as
it
was
?
Because
of
his
newness
to
Chicago
and
his
lack
of
connection
as
yet
with
large
affairs
Cowperwood
was
eventually
compelled
to
turn
to
another
scheme
--
that
of
organizing
new
companies
in
the
suburbs
as
an
entering-wedge
of
attack
upon
the
city
proper
.
Suburbs
such
as
Lake
View
and
Hyde
Park
,
having
town
or
village
councils
of
their
own
,
were
permitted
to
grant
franchises
to
water
,
gas
,
and
street-railway
companies
duly
incorporated
under
the
laws
of
the
state
.
Cowperwood
calculated
that
if
he
could
form
separate
and
seemingly
distinct
companies
for
each
of
the
villages
and
towns
,
and
one
general
company
for
the
city
later
,
he
would
be
in
a
position
to
dictate
terms
to
the
older
organizations
.
It
was
simply
a
question
of
obtaining
his
charters
and
franchises
before
his
rivals
had
awakened
to
the
situation
.
The
one
difficulty
was
that
he
knew
absolutely
nothing
of
the
business
of
gas
--
its
practical
manufacture
and
distribution
--
and
had
never
been
particularly
interested
init
.
Street-railroading
,
his
favorite
form
of
municipal
profit-seeking
,
and
one
upon
which
he
had
acquired
an
almost
endless
fund
of
specialized
information
,
offered
no
present
practical
opportunity
for
him
here
in
Chicago
.
He
meditated
on
the
situation
,
did
some
reading
on
the
manufacture
of
gas
,
and
then
suddenly
,
as
was
his
luck
,
found
an
implement
ready
to
his
hand
.
It
appeared
that
in
the
course
of
the
life
and
growth
of
the
South
Side
company
there
had
once
been
a
smaller
organization
founded
by
a
man
by
the
name
of
Sippens
--
Henry
De
Soto
Sippens
--
who
had
entered
and
actually
secured
,
by
some
hocus-pocus
,
a
franchise
to
manufacture
and
sell
gas
in
the
down-town
districts
,
but
who
had
been
annoyed
by
all
sorts
of
legal
processes
until
he
had
finally
been
driven
out
or
persuaded
to
get
out
.
He
was
now
in
the
real-estate
business
in
Lake
View
.
Old
Peter
Laughlin
knew
him
.
"
He
's
a
smart
little
cuss
,
"
Laughlin
told
Cowperwood
.
"
I
thort
onct
he
'd
make
a
go
of
it
,
but
they
ketched
him
where
his
hair
was
short
,
and
he
had
to
let
go
.
There
was
an
explosion
in
his
tank
over
here
near
the
river
onct
,
an
I
think
he
thort
them
fellers
blew
him
up
.
Anyhow
,
he
got
out
.
I
ai
n't
seen
ner
heard
sight
of
him
fer
years
.
"
Cowperwood
sent
old
Peter
to
look
up
Mr.
Sippens
and
find
out
what
he
was
really
doing
,
and
whether
he
would
be
interested
to
get
back
in
the
gas
business
.
Enter
,
then
,
a
few
days
later
into
the
office
of
Peter
Laughlin
&
Co.
.
Henry
De
Soto
Sippens
.
