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"Oh, nothing much," replied Cowperwood, evading the matter for the present. "I was wondering whether they were in such condition that they couldn't be used for anything. I see occasional references in the papers to their uselessness." "They're in pretty bad shape, I'm afraid," replied McKenty. "I haven't been through either of them in years and years.
McKenty, now that the matter had been called to his attention, was interested to learn about this gas situation from all sides whether it might not be more profitable to deal with the Schryhart end of the argument, and so on.
Then, when he would reach for her with seeking hands, she would sigh, "Oh yes, oh yes!" Those were delightful days with Stephanie. In the matter of young MacDonald's request for fifty thousand dollars in securities, as well as the attitude of the other editors Hyssop, Braxton, Ricketts, and so on who had proved subtly critical, Cowperwood conferred with Addison and McKenty.
No party could survive such a record of political trickery and financial jugglery. McKenty, Dowling, Cowperwood, and others were characterized as unreasonable obstructionists and debasing influences. But Cowperwood merely smiled. These were the caterwaulings of the enemy.
With them came a Republican mayor and all his Republican associates on the ticket, who were now supposed to carry out the theories of the respectable and the virtuous. Cowperwood knew what it meant and prepared at once to make overtures to the enemy. From McKenty and others he learned by degrees the full story of Tiernan's and Kerrigan's treachery, but he did not store it up bitterly against them.
McKenty had only met two or three of the officers of the South Side Gas Company, and that quite casually. He did not like them very well. The truth was that the old companies were officered by men who considered politicians of the McKenty and Dowling stripe as very evil men; if they paid them and did other such wicked things it was because they were forced to do so.
By Jove! he's everywhere. He's got no end of stay, confound him! I tell you he's a winner. He can get a thousand men in a week to back him for anything he says." McKenty thought deeply for some moments. "Well," he said, finally, "something has got to be done. We can't afford, you and I, at this stage to get out of the game. What about 'Mexico'?"
If you could have looked into the capacious but balanced temperament of John J. McKenty you would have seen a strange wisdom there and stranger memories whole worlds of brutalities, tendernesses, errors, immoralities suffered, endured, even rejoiced in the hardy, eager life of the animal that has nothing but its perceptions, instincts, appetites to guide it.
On his arrival he was offered a drink, a cigar, introduced to Mrs. McKenty who, lacking an organized social life of any kind, was always pleased to meet these celebrities of the upper world, if only for a moment and shown eventually into the library. Mrs.
I might better be called their promoter and guardian; but I am that for other people and myself." Mr. McKenty nodded. "Now, Mr. McKenty, it was not very long after I started out to get franchises to do business in Lake View and Hyde Park before I found myself confronted by the interests which control the three old city gas companies.
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