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Still
another
was
a
Mr.
Rambaud
,
pioneer
railroad
man
,
to
whom
Addison
,
smiling
jocosely
,
observed
:
"
Mr.
Cowperwood
is
on
from
Philadelphia
,
Mr.
Rambaud
,
trying
to
find
out
whether
he
wants
to
lose
any
money
out
here
.
Ca
n't
you
sell
him
some
of
that
bad
land
you
have
up
in
the
Northwest
?
"
Rambaud
--
a
spare
,
pale
,
black-bearded
man
of
much
force
and
exactness
,
dressed
,
as
Cowperwood
observed
,
in
much
better
taste
than
some
of
the
others
--
looked
at
Cowperwood
shrewdly
but
in
a
gentlemanly
,
retiring
way
,
with
a
gracious
,
enigmatic
smile
.
He
caught
a
glance
in
return
which
he
could
not
possibly
forget
.
The
eyes
of
Cowperwood
said
more
than
any
words
ever
could
.
Instead
of
jesting
faintly
Mr.
Rambaud
decided
to
explain
some
things
about
the
Northwest
.
Perhaps
this
Philadelphian
might
be
interested
.
To
a
man
who
has
gone
through
a
great
life
struggle
in
one
metropolis
and
tested
all
the
phases
of
human
duplicity
,
decency
,
sympathy
,
and
chicanery
in
the
controlling
group
of
men
that
one
invariably
finds
in
every
American
city
at
least
,
the
temperament
and
significance
of
another
group
in
another
city
is
not
so
much
,
and
yet
it
is
.
Long
since
Cowperwood
had
parted
company
with
the
idea
that
humanity
at
any
angle
or
under
any
circumstances
,
climatic
or
otherwise
,
is
in
any
way
different
.
To
him
the
most
noteworthy
characteristic
of
the
human
race
was
that
it
was
strangely
chemic
,
being
anything
or
nothing
,
as
the
hour
and
the
condition
afforded
.
In
his
leisure
moments
--
those
free
from
practical
calculation
,
which
were
not
many
--
he
often
speculated
as
to
what
life
really
was
.
If
he
had
not
been
a
great
financier
and
,
above
all
,
a
marvelous
organizer
he
might
have
become
a
highly
individualistic
philosopher
--
a
calling
which
,
if
he
had
thought
anything
about
it
at
all
at
this
time
,
would
have
seemed
rather
trivial
.
His
business
as
he
saw
it
was
with
the
material
facts
of
life
,
or
,
rather
,
with
those
third
and
fourth
degree
theorems
and
syllogisms
which
control
material
things
and
so
represent
wealth
.
He
was
here
to
deal
with
the
great
general
needs
of
the
Middle
West
--
to
seize
upon
,
if
he
might
,
certain
well-springs
of
wealth
and
power
and
rise
to
recognized
authority
.
In
his
morning
talks
he
had
learned
of
the
extent
and
character
of
the
stock-yards
'
enterprises
,
of
the
great
railroad
and
ship
interests
,
of
the
tremendous
rising
importance
of
real
estate
,
grain
speculation
,
the
hotel
business
,
the
hardware
business
.
He
had
learned
of
universal
manufacturing
companies
--
one
that
made
cars
,
another
elevators
,
another
binders
,
another
windmills
,
another
engines
.
Apparently
,
any
new
industry
seemed
to
do
well
in
Chicago
.
In
his
talk
with
the
one
director
of
the
Board
of
Trade
to
whom
he
had
a
letter
he
had
learned
that
few
,
if
any
,
local
stocks
were
dealt
in
on
'
change
.
Wheat
,
corn
,
and
grains
of
all
kinds
were
principally
speculated
in
.
The
big
stocks
of
the
East
were
gambled
in
by
way
of
leased
wires
on
the
New
York
Stock
Exchange
--
not
otherwise
.
As
he
looked
at
these
men
,
all
pleasantly
civil
,
all
general
in
their
remarks
,
each
safely
keeping
his
vast
plans
under
his
vest
,
Cowperwood
wondered
how
he
would
fare
in
this
community
.
There
were
such
difficult
things
ahead
of
him
to
do
.
No
one
of
these
men
,
all
of
whom
were
in
their
commercial-social
way
agreeable
,
knew
that
he
had
only
recently
been
in
the
penitentiary
.
How
much
difference
would
that
make
in
their
attitude
?
No
one
of
them
knew
that
,
although
he
was
married
and
had
two
children
,
he
was
planning
to
divorce
his
wife
and
marry
the
girl
who
had
appropriated
to
herself
the
role
which
his
wife
had
once
played
.
"
Are
you
seriously
contemplating
looking
into
the
Northwest
?
"
asked
Mr.
Rambaud
,
interestedly
,
toward
the
close
of
the
luncheon
"
That
is
my
present
plan
after
I
finish
here
.
I
thought
I
'd
take
a
short
run
up
there
.
"
"
Let
me
put
you
in
touch
with
an
interesting
party
that
is
going
as
far
as
Fargo
and
Duluth
.
There
is
a
private
car
leaving
Thursday
,
most
of
them
citizens
of
Chicago
,
but
some
Easterners
.
I
would
be
glad
to
have
you
join
us
.
I
am
going
as
far
as
Minneapolis
.
"
Cowperwood
thanked
him
and
accepted
.
A
long
conversation
followed
about
the
Northwest
,
its
timber
,
wheat
,
land
sales
,
cattle
,
and
possible
manufacturing
plants
.
What
Fargo
,
Minneapolis
,
and
Duluth
were
to
be
civically
and
financially
were
the
chief
topics
of
conversation
.
Naturally
,
Mr.
Rambaud
,
having
under
his
direction
vast
railroad
lines
which
penetrated
this
region
,
was
confident
of
the
future
of
it
.
Cowperwood
gathered
it
all
,
almost
by
instinct
.
Gas
,
street-railways
,
land
speculations
,
banks
,
wherever
located
,
were
his
chief
thoughts
.
