Risk a hundred thousand bushels.

I think New York Central is going to drop a point or two in a few days.

We'd better go short a point." Laughlin could never figure out quite how it was that Cowperwood always seemed to know and was ready to act quite as quickly in local matters as he was himself.

He understood his wisdom concerning Eastern shares and things dealt in on the Eastern exchange, but these Chicago matters?
"Whut makes you think that ?" he asked Cowperwood, one day, quite curiously.
"Why, Peter," Cowperwood replied, quite simply, "Anton Videra" (one of the directors of the Wheat and Corn Bank) "was in here yesterday while you were on 'change, and he was telling me." He described a situation which Videra had outlined.
Laughlin knew Videra as a strong, wealthy Pole who had come up in the last few years.

It was strange how Cowperwood naturally got in with these wealthy men and won their confidence so quickly.