One day Nick and Gatsby travel to town and there Nick meets Meyer Wolfshiem, one of Gatsby's associates and Gatsby's connection to organized crime. That same day, while having tea with Jordan Baker, Nick learns the extraordinary story that Gatsby told her the night of his party. Gatsby, it seems, is in love with Daisy Buchanan. They had met years before when he was in the army but they couldn't be together because he didn't yet have the means to support her. Over the next few years, Gatsby made his fortune, all with the goal of winning Daisy back. He bought his house so it would be across the Sound from her and hosted elaborate parties in hopes she would notice. The time has come for Gatsby to meet Daisy again, face to face, and so, through the intermediation of Jordan Baker, Gatsby asks Nick to invite Daisy to his cabin where Gatsby will introduce himself.