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"
Well
,
we
wo
n't
bother
about
that
now
.
I
'm
willing
to
be
as
liberal
as
necessary
.
I
've
sent
for
Mr.
Sippens
,
the
president
of
the
Lake
View
Gas
and
Fuel
Company
,
and
he
'll
be
here
in
a
little
while
.
You
will
want
to
work
with
him
as
closely
as
you
can
.
The
energetic
Sippens
came
after
a
few
moments
,
and
he
and
Van
Sickle
,
after
being
instructed
to
be
mutually
helpful
and
to
keep
Cowperwood
's
name
out
of
all
matters
relating
to
this
work
,
departed
together
.
They
were
an
odd
pair
--
the
dusty
old
General
phlegmatic
,
disillusioned
,
useful
,
but
not
inclined
to
feel
so
;
and
the
smart
,
chipper
Sippens
,
determined
to
wreak
a
kind
of
poetic
vengeance
on
his
old-time
enemy
,
the
South
Side
Gas
Company
,
via
this
seemingly
remote
Northside
conspiracy
.
In
ten
minutes
they
were
hand
in
glove
,
the
General
describing
to
Sippens
the
penurious
and
unscrupulous
brand
of
Councilman
Duniway
's
politics
and
the
friendly
but
expensive
character
of
Jacob
Gerecht
.
Such
is
life
.
In
the
organization
of
the
Hyde
Park
company
Cowperwood
,
because
he
never
cared
to
put
all
his
eggs
in
one
basket
,
decided
to
secure
a
second
lawyer
and
a
second
dummy
president
,
although
he
proposed
to
keep
De
Soto
Sippens
as
general
practical
adviser
for
all
three
or
four
companies
.
He
was
thinking
this
matter
over
when
there
appeared
on
the
scene
a
very
much
younger
man
than
the
old
General
,
one
Kent
Barrows
McKibben
,
the
only
son
of
ex-Judge
Marshall
Scammon
McKibben
,
of
the
State
Supreme
Court
.
Kent
McKibben
was
thirty-three
years
old
,
tall
,
athletic
,
and
,
after
a
fashion
,
handsome
.
He
was
not
at
all
vague
intellectually
--
that
is
,
in
the
matter
of
the
conduct
of
his
business
--
but
dandified
and
at
times
remote
.
He
had
an
office
in
one
of
the
best
blocks
in
Dearborn
Street
,
which
he
reached
in
a
reserved
,
speculative
mood
every
morning
at
nine
,
unless
something
important
called
him
down-town
earlier
.
It
so
happened
that
he
had
drawn
up
the
deeds
and
agreements
for
the
real-estate
company
that
sold
Cowperwood
his
lots
at
Thirty-seventh
Street
and
Michigan
Avenue
,
and
when
they
were
ready
he
journeyed
to
the
latter
's
office
to
ask
if
there
were
any
additional
details
which
Cowperwood
might
want
to
have
taken
into
consideration
.
When
he
was
ushered
in
,
Cowperwood
turned
to
him
his
keen
,
analytical
eyes
and
saw
at
once
a
personality
he
liked
.
McKibben
was
just
remote
and
artistic
enough
to
suit
him
.
He
liked
his
clothes
,
his
agnostic
unreadableness
,
his
social
air
.
McKibben
,
on
his
part
,
caught
the
significance
of
the
superior
financial
atmosphere
at
once
.
He
noted
Cowperwood
's
light-brown
suit
picked
out
with
strands
of
red
,
his
maroon
tie
,
and
small
cameo
cuff-links
.
His
desk
,
glass-covered
,
looked
clean
and
official
.
The
woodwork
of
the
rooms
was
all
cherry
,
hand-rubbed
and
oiled
,
the
pictures
interesting
steel-engravings
of
American
life
,
appropriately
framed
.
The
typewriter
--
at
that
time
just
introduced
--
was
in
evidence
,
and
the
stock-ticker
--
also
new
--
was
ticking
volubly
the
prices
current
.
The
secretary
who
waited
on
Cowperwood
was
a
young
Polish
girl
named
Antoinette
Nowak
,
reserved
,
seemingly
astute
,
dark
,
and
very
attractive
.
"
What
sort
of
business
is
it
you
handle
,
Mr.
McKibben
?
"
asked
Cowperwood
,
quite
casually
,
in
the
course
of
the
conversation
.
And
after
listening
to
McKibben
's
explanation
he
added
,
idly
:
"
You
might
come
and
see
me
some
time
next
week
.
It
is
just
possible
that
I
may
have
something
in
your
line
.
"
In
another
man
McKibben
would
have
resented
this
remote
suggestion
of
future
aid
.
Now
,
instead
,
he
was
intensely
pleased
.
The
man
before
him
gripped
his
imagination
.
His
remote
intellectuality
relaxed
.
When
he
came
again
and
Cowperwood
indicated
the
nature
of
the
work
he
might
wish
to
have
done
McKibben
rose
to
the
bait
like
a
fish
to
a
fly
.
"
I
wish
you
would
let
me
undertake
that
,
Mr.
Cowperwood
,
"
he
said
,
quite
eagerly
.
"
It
's
something
I
've
never
done
,
but
I
'm
satisfied
I
can
do
it
.
I
live
out
in
Hyde
Park
and
know
most
of
the
councilmen
.
I
can
bring
considerable
influence
to
bear
for
you
.
"
Cowperwood
smiled
pleasantly
.
So
a
second
company
,
officered
by
dummies
of
McKibben
's
selection
,
was
organized
.
De
Soto
Sippens
,
without
old
General
Van
Sickle
's
knowledge
,
was
taken
in
as
practical
adviser
.
An
application
for
a
franchise
was
drawn
up
,
and
Kent
Barrows
McKibben
began
silent
,
polite
work
on
the
South
Side
,
coming
into
the
confidence
,
by
degrees
,
of
the
various
councilmen
.
There
was
still
a
third
lawyer
,
Burton
Stimson
,
the
youngest
but
assuredly
not
the
least
able
of
the
three
,
a
pale
,
dark-haired
Romeoish
youth
with
burning
eyes
,
whom
Cowperwood
had
encountered
doing
some
little
work
for
Laughlin
,
and
who
was
engaged
to
work
on
the
West
Side
with
old
Laughlin
as
ostensible
organizer
and
the
sprightly
De
Soto
Sippens
as
practical
adviser
.
Stimson
was
no
mooning
Romeo
,
however
,
but
an
eager
,
incisive
soul
,
born
very
poor
,
eager
to
advance
himself
.
Cowperwood
detected
that
pliability
of
intellect
which
,
while
it
might
spell
disaster
to
some
,
spelled
success
for
him
.
He
wanted
the
intellectual
servants
.
He
was
willing
to
pay
them
handsomely
,
to
keep
them
busy
,
to
treat
them
with
almost
princely
courtesy
,
but
he
must
have
the
utmost
loyalty
.
Stimson
,
while
maintaining
his
calm
and
reserve
,
could
have
kissed
the
arch-episcopal
hand
.
Such
is
the
subtlety
of
contact
.
