It was a new experience for him.

Cowperwood merely curled his mustaches and smiled sardonically.
"Well, never mind," he said.

"Will you go down to New York, or shall I ?" It was decided, after some talk, that Addison should go.

When he reached New York he found, to his surprise, that the local opposition to Cowperwood had, for some mysterious reason, begun to take root in the East.
"I'll tell you how it is," observed Joseph Haeckelheimer, to whom Addison applied--a short, smug, pussy person who was the head of Haeckelheimer, Gotloeb & Co., international bankers.

"We hear odd things concerning Mr.Cowperwood out in Chicago.