Beyond that--well, ask Rivers to show you the ropes.

Don't you ever lose for me, though.

That's the cardinal sin in this office." He grinned maliciously, even if kindly, at that.
Cowperwood understood--none better.

This subtle world appealed to him.
It answered to his temperament.
There were rumors, rumors, rumors--of great railway and street-car undertakings, land developments, government revision of the tariff, war between France and Turkey, famine in Russia or Ireland, and so on.

The first Atlantic cable had not been laid as yet, and news of any kind from abroad was slow and meager.