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I
believe
it
was
for
nothing
really
criminal
,
though
.
There
appears
to
have
been
some
political-financial
mix-up
,
from
all
I
can
learn
.
"
"
And
is
he
only
forty
,
as
the
papers
say
?
"
"
About
that
,
I
should
judge
.
Why
?
"
"
Oh
,
this
scheme
of
his
looks
rather
pretentious
to
me
--
holding
up
the
old
gas
companies
here
.
Do
you
suppose
he
'll
manage
to
do
it
?
"
"
I
do
n't
know
that
.
All
I
know
is
what
I
have
read
in
the
papers
,
"
replied
Addison
,
cautiously
.
As
a
matter
of
fact
,
he
did
not
care
to
talk
about
this
business
at
all
.
Cowperwood
was
busy
at
this
very
time
,
through
an
agent
,
attempting
to
effect
a
compromise
and
union
of
all
interests
concerned
.
It
was
not
going
very
well
.
"
Humph
!
"
commented
Schryhart
.
He
was
wondering
why
men
like
himself
,
Merrill
,
Arneel
,
and
others
had
not
worked
into
this
field
long
ago
or
bought
out
the
old
companies
.
He
went
away
interested
,
and
a
day
or
two
later
--
even
the
next
morning
--
had
formulated
a
scheme
.
Not
unlike
Cowperwood
,
he
was
a
shrewd
,
hard
,
cold
man
.
He
believed
in
Chicago
implicitly
and
in
all
that
related
to
its
future
.
This
gas
situation
,
now
that
Cowperwood
had
seen
the
point
,
was
very
clear
to
him
.
Even
yet
it
might
not
be
impossible
for
a
third
party
to
step
in
and
by
intricate
manipulation
secure
the
much
coveted
rewards
.
Perhaps
Cowperwood
himself
could
be
taken
over
--
who
could
tell
?
Mr.
Schryhart
,
being
a
very
dominating
type
of
person
,
did
not
believe
in
minor
partnerships
or
investments
.
If
he
went
into
a
thing
of
this
kind
it
was
his
preference
to
rule
.
He
decided
to
invite
Cowperwood
to
visit
the
Schryhart
office
and
talk
matters
over
.
Accordingly
,
he
had
his
secretary
pen
a
note
,
which
in
rather
lofty
phrases
invited
Cowperwood
to
call
"
on
a
matter
of
importance
.
"
Now
just
at
this
time
,
it
so
chanced
,
Cowperwood
was
feeling
rather
secure
as
to
his
place
in
the
Chicago
financial
world
,
although
he
was
still
smarting
from
the
bitterness
of
the
aspersions
recently
cast
upon
him
from
various
quarters
.
Under
such
circumstances
it
was
his
temperament
to
evince
a
rugged
contempt
for
humanity
,
rich
and
poor
alike
.
He
was
well
aware
that
Schryhart
,
although
introduced
,
had
never
previously
troubled
to
notice
him
.
"
Mr.
Cowperwood
begs
me
to
say
,
"
wrote
Miss
Antoinette
Nowak
,
at
his
dictation
,
"
that
he
finds
himself
very
much
pressed
for
time
at
present
,
but
he
would
be
glad
to
see
Mr.
Schryhart
at
his
office
at
any
time
.
"
