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It is on record that subsequently he borrowed one hundred thousand dollars from Cowperwood to stay him from ruin. The Ordeal of Berenice At the news that Swanson had refused to sign the bill and that the legislature lacked sufficient courage to pass it over his veto both Schryhart and Hand literally rubbed their hands in comfortable satisfaction.
Hosmer Hand, who had given a chemical laboratory, and Schryhart, who had presented a dormitory, were depressed to think that a benefaction less costly than theirs should create, because of the distinction of the idea, so much more notable comment. It was merely another example of the brilliant fortune which seemed to pursue the man, the star that set all their plans at defiance.
"Oh, possibly thirty-five or forty per cent. of the whole," replied Schryhart, ingratiatingly. "The laborer is worthy of his hire." "Quite so," replied Cowperwood, smiling, "but, seeing that I am the man who has been cutting the pole to knock this persimmon it seems to me that a pretty good share of that should come to me; don't you think so?" "Just what do you mean?" "Just what I have said.
Schryhart," remarked Cowperwood, cheerfully, waving the new-comer to a chair. "I'm pleased to see you again. No, I'm no more anxious for a rate war than you are. As a matter of fact, I hope to avoid it; but, as you see, things have changed somewhat since I saw you.
"It's a pity he should be allowed to go on bedeviling the town in this fashion," observed Mr. Sunderland Sledd to his neighbor, Mr. Duane Kingsland, who was a director in a bank controlled by Mr. Hand. The latter, as well as Schryhart, observed with satisfaction the effect of Mr. Arneel's words on the company. Mr.
Meeting Schryhart at a directors' meeting one day not long after his difficulty had come upon him, he remarked: "I thought a few years ago, Norman, when you talked to me about this man Cowperwood that you were merely jealous a dissatisfied business rival. Recently a few things have come to my notice which cause me to think differently.
Arneel, clad in yellowish linen, with a white silk shirt of lavender stripe, and carrying a palm-leaf fan, seemed quite refreshed; his fine expanse of neck and bosom looked most paternal, and even Abrahamesque. His round, glistening pate exuded beads of moisture. Mr. Schryhart, on the contrary, for all the heat, appeared quite hard and solid, as though he might be carved out of some dark wood. Mr.
A newsboy's strident voice was heard here and there calling an extra, mingled with the sound of homing feet and street-cars Cowperwood's street-cars. "I'll tell you what it is," said Schryhart, finally. "It seems to me we have stood just about enough of this man's beggarly interference. I'll admit that neither Hull nor Stackpole had any right to go to him.
Then the old gas companies could go along and do business in their old-fashioned way without being disturbed. This bucaneer! This upstart! What a shrewd, quick, forceful move he had made! It irritated Mr. Schryhart greatly.
Do I understand that you have really been appealed to by stockholders of the old companies to come in and help adjust this matter?" "Exactly," said Schryhart. "And you think you can get them to combine? On what basis?" "Oh, I should say it would be a simple matter to give each of them two or three shares of a new company for one in each of the old.
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