"But as for Cowperwood, he can't get away with this sort of thing very long.

He's going too fast.
He wants too much." Mr.Du Bois smiled quite secretly.

It amused him to see how Cowperwood had brushed MacDonald and his objections aside--dispensed for the time being with the services of the Inquirer.

Du Bois confidently believed that if the old General had been at home he would have supported the financier.
Within eight months after seizing the La Salle Street tunnel and gobbling four of the principal down-town streets for his loop, Cowperwood turned his eyes toward the completion of the second part of the programme--that of taking over the Washington Street tunnel and the Chicago West Division Company, which was still drifting along under its old horse-car regime.

It was the story of the North Side company all over again.