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Updated: June 8, 2025
If he should chance to like your looks he might support you forever and forever until you crossed his conscience in some way. He's a fine old walrus. I like him. Neither Schryhart nor Merrill nor any one else can get anything out of him unless he wants to give it. He may not live so many years, however, and I don't trust that son of his.
"Well, Hosmer," said Schryhart the next day, when they met at their favorite club the Union League "it looks as though we were making some little progress, after all, doesn't it? Our friend didn't succeed in turning that little trick, did he?" He beamed almost ecstatically upon his solid companion. "Not this time. I wonder what move he will decide to make next."
Fishel vill haff his friends pick up all de local shares he can, unt mit dees tree ve control de board. Schryhart iss out. He sess he vill resign. Very goot. I don't subbose dot vill make you veep any. It all hintges now on vether you can get dot fifty-year-franchise ordinance troo de city council or not. Haeckelheimer sess he prefers you to all utters to run t'ings.
Schryhart very able very able indeed!" or, "You may depend on it these men are not going to allow anything serious to overtake the affairs of the city at this time," were heard on every hand. The fact that immense quantities of cash or paper were involved in behalf of one or other of these four was secretly admitted by one banker to another.
"It would be only just if he could be made to pay for this," commented Mr. Blackman to Mr. Sledd. "He has been allowed to play fast and loose long enough. It is time some one called a halt on him." "Well, it looks to me as though it would be done tonight," Mr. Sledd returned. Meanwhile Mr. Schryhart was again rising to his feet.
The thing that he suspected was really true. Schryhart, Hand, and Arneel, watching him through their agents and brokers, had soon discovered in the very earliest phases of the silver agitation and before the real storm broke that he was borrowing in New York, in London, in certain quarters of Chicago, and elsewhere.
Already in Chicago Schryhart, Hand, Arneel, Merrill, and a score of others were seeing their way to amazing profits by underwriting these ventures which required ready cash, and to which lesser magnates, content with a portion of the leavings of Dives's table, were glad to bring to their attention.
"I tell you how it is, Frank," remarked Addison, on one occasion. "You will have to do all this business on cotton heels, practically. You know that old gas crowd are still down on you, in spite of the fact that you are one of their largest stockholders. Schryhart isn't at all friendly, and he practically owns the Chronicle. Ricketts will just about say what he wants him to say.
He decided to invite Cowperwood to visit the Schryhart office and talk matters over. Accordingly, he had his secretary pen a note, which in rather lofty phrases invited Cowperwood to call "on a matter of importance."
I might allow you one-fourth, possibly I can't tell yet." "One-half or nothing," said Cowperwood, definitely. Schryhart got up. "That's the best you will do, is it?" he inquired. "The very best." "I'm afraid then," he said, "we can't come to terms. I'm sorry. You may find this a rather long and expensive fight." "I have fully anticipated that," replied the financier. A New Retainer
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