Their favor was not to be held in light esteem.
It was plain that these rumors against Cowperwood in New York, unless offset promptly by favorable events in Chicago, might mean--in the large banking quarters, anyhow--the refusal of all subsequent Cowperwood issues.

It might even close the doors of minor banks and make private investors nervous.
Addison's report of all this annoyed Cowperwood no little.

It made him angry.

He saw in it the work of Schryhart, Hand, and others who were trying their best to discredit him.

"Let them talk," he declared, crossly.