This bucaneer! This upstart! What a shrewd, quick, forceful move he had made! It irritated Mr.Schryhart greatly.
The end of all this was a compromise in which Cowperwood accepted one-half of the surplus stock of the new general issue, and two for one of every share of stock for which his new companies had been organized, at the same time selling out to the old companies--clearing out completely.

It was a most profitable deal, and he was enabled to provide handsomely not only for Mr.McKenty and Addison, but for all the others connected with him.

It was a splendid coup, as McKenty and Addison assured him.

Having now done so much, he began to turn his eyes elsewhere for other fields to conquer.
But this victory in one direction brought with it corresponding reverses in another: the social future of Cowperwood and Aileen was now in great jeopardy.

Schryhart, who was a force socially, having met with defeat at the hands of Cowperwood, was now bitterly opposed to him.