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"
Let
me
take
this
,
"
he
said
.
"
I
'll
see
you
next
Monday
again
if
you
wish
.
Come
Monday
.
"
Cowperwood
got
up
.
"
I
thought
I
'd
come
and
talk
to
you
direct
,
Mr.
McKenty
,
"
he
said
,
"
and
now
I
'm
glad
that
I
did
.
You
will
find
,
if
you
will
take
the
trouble
to
look
into
this
matter
,
that
it
is
just
as
I
represent
it
.
There
is
a
very
great
deal
of
money
here
in
one
way
and
another
,
though
it
will
take
some
little
time
to
work
it
out
.
"
Mr.
McKenty
saw
the
point
.
"
Yes
,
"
he
said
,
sweetly
,
"
to
be
sure
.
"
They
looked
into
each
other
's
eyes
as
they
shook
hands
.
"
I
'm
not
sure
but
you
have
n't
hit
upon
a
very
good
idea
here
,
"
concluded
McKenty
,
sympathetically
.
"
A
very
good
idea
,
indeed
.
Come
and
see
me
again
next
Monday
,
or
about
that
time
,
and
I
'll
let
you
know
what
I
think
.
Come
any
time
you
have
anything
else
you
want
of
me
.
I
'll
always
be
glad
to
see
you
.
It
's
a
fine
night
,
is
n't
it
?
"
he
added
,
looking
out
as
they
neared
the
door
.
"
A
nice
moon
that
!
"
he
added
.
A
sickle
moon
was
in
the
sky
.
"
Good
night
.
"
The
significance
of
this
visit
was
not
long
in
manifesting
itself
.
At
the
top
,
in
large
affairs
,
life
goes
off
into
almost
inexplicable
tangles
of
personalities
.
Mr.
McKenty
,
now
that
the
matter
had
been
called
to
his
attention
,
was
interested
to
learn
about
this
gas
situation
from
all
sides
--
whether
it
might
not
be
more
profitable
to
deal
with
the
Schryhart
end
of
the
argument
,
and
so
on
.
But
his
eventual
conclusion
was
that
Cowperwood
's
plan
,
as
he
had
outlined
it
,
was
the
most
feasible
for
political
purposes
,
largely
because
the
Schryhart
faction
,
not
being
in
a
position
where
they
needed
to
ask
the
city
council
for
anything
at
present
,
were
so
obtuse
as
to
forget
to
make
overtures
of
any
kind
to
the
bucaneering
forces
at
the
City
Hall
.
When
Cowperwood
next
came
to
McKenty
's
house
the
latter
was
in
a
receptive
frame
of
mind
.
"
Well
,
"
he
said
,
after
a
few
genial
preliminary
remarks
,
"
I
've
been
learning
what
's
going
on
.
Your
proposition
is
fair
enough
.
Organize
your
company
,
and
arrange
your
plan
conditionally
.
Then
introduce
your
ordinance
,
and
we
'll
see
what
can
be
done
.
"
They
went
into
a
long
,
intimate
discussion
as
to
how
the
forthcoming
stock
should
be
divided
,
how
it
was
to
be
held
in
escrow
by
a
favorite
bank
of
Mr.
McKenty
's
until
the
terms
of
the
agreement
under
the
eventual
affiliation
with
the
old
companies
or
the
new
union
company
should
be
fulfilled
,
and
details
of
that
sort
.
It
was
rather
a
complicated
arrangement
,
not
as
satisfactory
to
Cowperwood
as
it
might
have
been
,
but
satisfactory
in
that
it
permitted
him
to
win
.
It
required
the
undivided
services
of
General
Van
Sickle
,
Henry
De
Soto
Sippens
,
Kent
Barrows
McKibben
,
and
Alderman
Dowling
for
some
little
time
.
But
finally
all
was
in
readiness
for
the
coup
.
On
a
certain
Monday
night
,
therefore
,
following
the
Thursday
on
which
,
according
to
the
rules
of
the
city
council
,
an
ordinance
of
this
character
would
have
to
be
introduced
,
the
plan
,
after
being
publicly
broached
but
this
very
little
while
,
was
quickly
considered
by
the
city
council
and
passed
.
There
had
been
really
no
time
for
public
discussion
.
This
was
just
the
thing
,
of
course
,
that
Cowperwood
and
McKenty
were
trying
to
avoid
.
On
the
day
following
the
particular
Thursday
on
which
the
ordinance
had
been
broached
in
council
as
certain
to
be
brought
up
for
passage
,
Schryhart
,
through
his
lawyers
and
the
officers
of
the
old
individual
gas
companies
,
had
run
to
the
newspapers
and
denounced
the
whole
thing
as
plain
robbery
;
but
what
were
they
to
do
?
There
was
so
little
time
for
agitation
.
True
the
newspapers
,
obedient
to
this
larger
financial
influence
,
began
to
talk
of
"
fair
play
to
the
old
companies
,
"
and
the
uselessness
of
two
large
rival
companies
in
the
field
when
one
would
serve
as
well
.
Still
the
public
,
instructed
or
urged
by
the
McKenty
agents
to
the
contrary
,
were
not
prepared
to
believe
it
.
They
had
not
been
so
well
treated
by
the
old
companies
as
to
make
any
outcry
on
their
behalf
.
Standing
outside
the
city
council
door
,
on
the
Monday
evening
when
the
bill
was
finally
passed
,
Mr.
