He instantly rated him as an enemy dangerous in more ways than one.
After the first jumbled speeches of surprise, Ellsworth introduced the two.

Maugre his coatless costume, Dan Anderson was Princeton man upon the moment, and Barkley promptly hated him for it, feeling that in the nature of things the stranger should have been awkward and constrained.
Yet this man must, for business reasons, be handled carefully.

He must be the business friend, if the personal enemy, of Hon.

Porter Barkley, general counsel for the A.P.and S.E.Railway.
The States had come to Sky Top, as Tom Osby had said, and this group, gathered around a mountain fireside, became suddenly as conventional as though they had met in a drawing-room.

"Who could have suspected that you were here, of all places, Mr.Anderson ?" Constance remarked with polite surprise.
"Why, now, Dolly," blundered Mr.Ellsworth, "didn't the hotel fellow tell you that some one had come down from Heart's Desire to hear the latest from grand opera--private session--chartered the hall, eh?
You might have guessed it would be Mr.Anderson, for I'll warrant he's the only man in Heart's Desire that ever heard an opera singer before, or who would ride a hundred miles--that is--anyhow, Mr.Anderson, you are precisely the man we want to see." He finished his sentence lamely, for he understood in some mysterious fashion that he had not said quite the right thing.
"I am very glad to hear that," replied Dan Anderson, gravely, "I was just sitting here waiting for you to come along." "Now, Mr.Anderson," resumed Ellsworth, "Mr.Barkley, here, is our general counsel for the railroad.