I would do that, except that there are certain other elements--individuals--who might come to you.

It won't offend you, I know, when I say that I have always understood that you are a sort of clearing-house for political troubles in Chicago." Mr.McKenty smiled.

"That's flattering," he replied, dryly.
"Now, I am rather new myself to Chicago," went on Cowperwood, softly.
"I have been here only a year or two.

I come from Philadelphia.

I have been interested as a fiscal agent and an investor in several gas companies that have been organized in Lake View, Hyde Park, and elsewhere outside the city limits, as you may possibly have seen by the papers lately.