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A Reconnoiter

           Inhismorningtalkshehadlearnedoftheextentandcharacterofthestock-yards’enterprises,ofthegreatrailroadandshipinterests,ofthetremendousrisingimportanceofrealestate,grainspeculation,thehotelbusiness,thehardwarebusiness.Hehadlearnedofuniversalmanufacturingcompaniesonethatmadecars,anotherelevators,anotherbinders,anotherwindmills,anotherengines.Apparently,anynewindustryseemedtodowellinChicago.InhistalkwiththeonedirectoroftheBoardofTradetowhomhehadaletterhehadlearnedthatfew,ifany,localstocksweredealtinon‘change.Wheat,corn,andgrainsofallkindswereprincipallyspeculatedin.ThebigstocksoftheEastweregambledinbywayofleasedwiresontheNewYorkStockExchangenototherwise.

           Ashelookedatthesemen,allpleasantlycivil,allgeneralintheirremarks,eachsafelykeepinghisvastplansunderhisvest,Cowperwoodwonderedhowhewouldfareinthiscommunity.Thereweresuchdifficultthingsaheadofhimtodo.Nooneofthesemen,allofwhomwereintheircommercial-socialwayagreeable,knewthathehadonlyrecentlybeeninthepenitentiary.Howmuchdifferencewouldthatmakeintheirattitude?Nooneofthemknewthat,althoughhewasmarriedandhadtwochildren,hewasplanningtodivorcehiswifeandmarrythegirlwhohadappropriatedtoherselftherolewhichhiswifehadonceplayed.

           "AreyouseriouslycontemplatinglookingintotheNorthwest?"askedMr.Rambaud,interestedly,towardthecloseoftheluncheon

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