They're willing to be friendly with you now--just long enough to get something out of you and club me to death.

But after that how long do you think they will have any use for you--how long ?" "Not very long, maybe," replied Gilgan, simply and contemplatively, "but the world is the world, and we have to take it as we find it." "Quite so," replied Cowperwood, undismayed; "but Chicago is Chicago, and I will be here as long as they will.

Fighting me in this fashion--building elevated roads to cut into my profits and giving franchises to rival companies--isn't going to get me out or seriously injure me, either.

I'm here to stay, and the political situation as it is to-day isn't going to remain the same forever and ever.

Now, you are an ambitious man; I can see that.