This last job was not an easy one. Lewis, the Jew, had been making
constant headway in that company just as Sam had made headway in the
Rainey Company. He was a money maker, a sales manager of rare ability,
and, as Sam knew, a planner and executor of business coups of the first
class.
Sam did not want to deal with Lewis. He had respect for the man's ability
in driving sharp bargains and felt that he would like to have the whip in
his own hands when it came to the point of dealing with him. To this end
he began visiting bankers and the men who were head of big western trust
companies in Chicago and St. Louis. He went about his work slowly, feeling
his way and trying to get at each man by some effective appeal, buying the
use of vast sums of money by a promise of common stock, the bait of a big
active bank account, and, here and there, by the hint of a directorship in
the big new consolidated company.
For a time the project moved slowly; indeed there were weeks and months
when it did not appear to move at all. Working in secret and with extreme
caution Sam encountered many discouragements and went home in the evening
day after day to sit among Sue's guests with a mind filled with his own
plans and with an indifferent ear turned to the talk of revolution, social
unrest, and the new class consciousness of the masses, that rattled and
crackled up and down his dinner table.
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