His emissaries for good and evil were tireless.

In the end--and it was not long in coming--the directors and chief stockholders of the Chicago West Division Company succumbed; and then, ho! the sudden leasing by the Chicago West Division Company of all its property--to the North Chicago Street Railway Company, lessee in turn of the Chicago City Passenger Railway, a line which Cowperwood had organized to take over the Washington Street tunnel.

How had he accomplished it?
The question was on the tip of every financial tongue.

Who were the men or the organization providing the enormous sums necessary to pay six hundred dollars per share for six hundred and fifty shares of the twelve hundred and fifty belonging to the old West Division company, and thirty per cent.

per year on all the remainder?
Where was the money coming from to cable all these lines?
It was simple enough if they had only thought.