We'll have lunch together." The State treasurer, for some odd reason, felt that Mr.Cowperwood was a man who could make him some money.

His eye was so keen; his expression was so alert, and yet so subtle.

He told the governor and some other of his associates about him.
So the award was finally made; Cowperwood, after some private negotiations in which he met the officers of Drexel & Co., was paid his twenty thousand dollars and turned his share of the award over to them.
New faces showed up in his office now from time to time--among them that of Van Nostrand and one Terrence Relihan, a representative of some other political forces at Harrisburg.

He was introduced to the governor one day at lunch.

His name was mentioned in the papers, and his prestige grew rapidly.
Immediately he began working on plans with young Ellsworth for his new house.