Men who had been connected with the old gas war--Jordan Jules, for instance, president of the old North Chicago Gas Company, and Hudson Baker, president of the old West Chicago Gas Company--had denounced him long before as a bucaneer who had pirated them out of very comfortable sinecures.

Here he was now invading the North Chicago street-railway field and coming with startling schemes for the reorganization of the down-town business heart.

Why shouldn't the city have something in return; or, better yet, those who helped to formulate the public opinion, so influential in the success of Cowperwood's plans?
Truman Leslie MacDonald, as has been said, did not see life from his father's point of view at all.

He had in mind a sharp bargain, which he could drive with Cowperwood during the old gentleman's absence.

The General need never know.
"I understand your point of view, Mr.Cowperwood," he commented, loftily, "but where does the city come in?
I see very clearly how important this is to the people of the North Side, and even to the merchants and real-estate owners in the down-town section; but that simply means that it is ten times as important to you.