"Here it is." McKenty took it, surprised and yet pleased at this evidence of business proficiency.

He liked a strong manipulator of this kind--the more since he was not one himself, and most of those that he did know were thin-blooded and squeamish.
"Let me take this," he said.

"I'll see you next Monday again if you wish.

Come Monday." Cowperwood got up.

"I thought I'd come and talk to you direct, Mr.
McKenty," he said, "and now I'm glad that I did.