He very soon knew everybody, from the governor of the state down to the waiters at the hotel.

He had the Wall street slang at his tongue's end; he always talked like a capitalist, and entered with enthusiasm into all the land and railway schemes with which the air was thick.
Col.

Sellers and Harry talked together by the hour and by the day.

Harry informed his new friend that he was going out with the engineer corps of the Salt Lick Pacific Extension, but that wasn't his real business.
"I'm to have, with another party," said Harry, "a big contract in the road, as soon as it is let; and, meantime, I'm with the engineers to spy out the best land and the depot sites." "It's everything," suggested' the Colonel, "in knowing where to invest.
I've known people throwaway their money because they were too consequential to take Sellers' advice.

Others, again, have made their pile on taking it.