That fellow McKibben," added Gilgan, with a grin, "a likely chap, him.

He always walked as if he had on rubber shoes.

He's with you yet, I suppose ?" "Yes, he's around here somewhere," replied Cowperwood, loftily.

"But to go back to this other matter, most of the men that are behind this General Electric ordinance and this 'L' road franchise were in the gas business--Blackman, Jules, Baker, Schryhart, and others--and they are angry because I came into their field, and angrier still because they had eventually to buy me out.

They're angry because I reorganized these old-fashioned street-railway companies here and put them on their feet.