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Cowperwood
stared
at
his
boy
.
Never
was
there
such
a
defiant
,
daring
manipulator
.
"
You
need
n't
worry
about
me
,
father
.
If
you
are
going
to
do
that
,
call
my
loans
.
Other
banks
will
loan
on
my
stocks
.
I
'd
like
to
see
your
bank
have
the
interest
.
"
So
Cowperwood
,
Sr.
,
was
convinced
.
There
was
no
gainsaying
this
argument
.
His
bank
was
loaning
Frank
heavily
,
but
not
more
so
than
any
other
.
And
as
for
the
great
blocks
of
stocks
he
was
carrying
in
his
son
's
companies
,
he
was
to
be
told
when
to
get
out
should
that
prove
necessary
.
Frank
's
brothers
were
being
aided
in
the
same
way
to
make
money
on
the
side
,
and
their
interests
were
also
now
bound
up
indissolubly
with
his
own
.
With
his
growing
financial
opportunities
,
however
,
Cowperwood
had
also
grown
very
liberal
in
what
might
be
termed
his
standard
of
living
.
Certain
young
art
dealers
in
Philadelphia
,
learning
of
his
artistic
inclinations
and
his
growing
wealth
,
had
followed
him
up
with
suggestions
as
to
furniture
,
tapestries
,
rugs
,
objects
of
art
,
and
paintings
--
at
first
the
American
and
later
the
foreign
masters
exclusively
.
His
own
and
his
father
's
house
had
not
been
furnished
fully
in
these
matters
,
and
there
was
that
other
house
in
North
Tenth
Street
,
which
he
desired
to
make
beautiful
.
Aileen
had
always
objected
to
the
condition
of
her
own
home
.
Love
of
distinguished
surroundings
was
a
basic
longing
with
her
,
though
she
had
not
the
gift
of
interpreting
her
longings
.
But
this
place
where
they
were
secretly
meeting
must
be
beautiful
.
She
was
as
keen
for
that
as
he
was
.
So
it
became
a
veritable
treasure-trove
,
more
distinguished
in
furnishings
than
some
of
the
rooms
of
his
own
home
.
He
began
to
gather
here
some
rare
examples
of
altar
cloths
,
rugs
,
and
tapestries
of
the
Middle
Ages
.
He
bought
furniture
after
the
Georgian
theory
--
a
combination
of
Chippendale
,
Sheraton
,
and
Heppelwhite
modified
by
the
Italian
Renaissance
and
the
French
Louis
.
He
learned
of
handsome
examples
of
porcelain
,
statuary
,
Greek
vase
forms
,
lovely
collections
of
Japanese
ivories
and
netsukes
.
Fletcher
Gray
,
a
partner
in
Cable
&
Gray
,
a
local
firm
of
importers
of
art
objects
,
called
on
him
in
connection
with
a
tapestry
of
the
fourteenth
century
weaving
.
Gray
was
an
enthusiast
and
almost
instantly
he
conveyed
some
of
his
suppressed
and
yet
fiery
love
of
the
beautiful
to
Cowperwood
.
"
There
are
fifty
periods
of
one
shade
of
blue
porcelain
alone
,
Mr.
Cowperwood
,
"
Gray
informed
him
.
"
There
are
at
least
seven
distinct
schools
or
periods
of
rugs
--
Persian
,
Armenian
,
Arabian
,
Flemish
,
Modern
Polish
,
Hungarian
,
and
so
on
.
If
you
ever
went
into
that
,
it
would
be
a
distinguished
thing
to
get
a
complete
--
I
mean
a
representative
--
collection
of
some
one
period
,
or
of
all
these
periods
.
They
are
beautiful
.
I
have
seen
some
of
them
,
others
I
've
read
about
.
"
"
You
'll
make
a
convert
of
me
yet
,
Fletcher
,
"
replied
Cowperwood
.
"
You
or
art
will
be
the
ruin
of
me
.
I
'm
inclined
that
way
temperamentally
as
it
is
,
I
think
,
and
between
you
and
Ellsworth
and
Gordon
Strake
"
--
another
young
man
intensely
interested
in
painting
--
"
you
'll
complete
my
downfall
.
Strake
has
a
splendid
idea
.
He
wants
me
to
begin
right
now
--
I
'm
using
that
word
'
right
'
in
the
sense
of
'
properly
,
'
"
he
commented
--
"
and
get
what
examples
I
can
of
just
the
few
rare
things
in
each
school
or
period
of
art
which
would
properly
illustrate
each
.
He
tells
me
the
great
pictures
are
going
to
increase
in
value
,
and
what
I
could
get
for
a
few
hundred
thousand
now
will
be
worth
millions
later
.
He
does
n't
want
me
to
bother
with
American
art
.
"
"
He
's
right
,
"
exclaimed
Gray
,
"
although
it
is
n't
good
business
for
me
to
praise
another
art
man
.
It
would
take
a
great
deal
of
money
,
though
.
"
"
Not
so
very
much
.
At
least
,
not
all
at
once
.
It
would
be
a
matter
of
years
,
of
course
.
Strake
thinks
that
some
excellent
examples
of
different
periods
could
be
picked
up
now
and
later
replaced
if
anything
better
in
the
same
held
showed
up
.
"
