"You'll be paying a pretty fair price for that stud when you get it.

It will cost considerable more to extend the line.
It's too much, I think." Cowperwood was thinking how easy it would be to combine this line with his dreamed-of Seventeenth and Nineteenth Street line, and after a time and with this in view he added: "Say, George, why do you work all your schemes through Strobik and Harmon and Wycroft?
Couldn't you and I manage some of these things for ourselves alone instead of for three or four?
It seems to me that plan would be much more profitable to you." "It would, it would!" exclaimed Stener, his round eyes fixed on Cowperwood in a rather helpless, appealing way.

He liked Cowperwood and had always been hoping that mentally as well as financially he could get close to him.

"I've thought of that.

But these fellows have had more experience in these matters than I have had, Frank.