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The Titan

CHAPTER XXVI
19/29

"This row will all blow over.

It would be the same whenever we asked.

The air will clear up.

We'll give them such a fine service that they'll forget all about this, and be glad they gave us the tunnel." Just the same, the morning after the enabling ordinances had passed, there was much derogatory comment in influential quarters.

Mr.Norman Schryhart, who, through his publisher, had been fulminating defensively against Cowperwood, stared solemnly at Mr.Ricketts when they met.
"Well," said the magnate, who imagined he foresaw a threatened attack on his Chicago City Street Railway preserves, "I see our friend Mr.
Cowperwood has managed to get his own way with the council.


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