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"
That
looks
rather
serious
,
"
he
said
,
calmly
,
to
his
companions
,
a
cold
,
commanding
force
coming
into
his
eyes
and
voice
.
To
his
father
he
said
a
little
later
,
"
It
's
panic
,
unless
the
majority
of
the
banks
and
brokerage
firms
stand
together
.
"
He
was
thinking
quickly
,
brilliantly
,
resourcefully
of
his
own
outstanding
obligations
.
His
father
's
bank
was
carrying
one
hundred
thousand
dollars
'
worth
of
his
street-railway
securities
at
sixty
,
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
'
worth
of
city
loan
at
seventy
.
His
father
had
"
up
with
him
"
over
forty
thousand
dollars
in
cash
covering
market
manipulations
in
these
stocks
.
The
banking
house
of
Drexel
&
Co.
was
on
his
books
as
a
creditor
for
one
hundred
thousand
,
and
that
loan
would
be
called
unless
they
were
especially
merciful
,
which
was
not
likely
.
Jay
Cooke
&
Co.
were
his
creditors
for
another
one
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
.
They
would
want
their
money
.
At
four
smaller
banks
and
three
brokerage
companies
he
was
debtor
for
sums
ranging
from
fifty
thousand
dollars
down
.
The
city
treasurer
was
involved
with
him
to
the
extent
of
nearly
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
,
and
exposure
of
that
would
create
a
scandal
;
the
State
treasurer
for
two
hundred
thousand
.
There
were
small
accounts
,
hundreds
of
them
,
ranging
from
one
hundred
dollars
up
to
five
and
ten
thousand
.
A
panic
would
mean
not
only
a
withdrawal
of
deposits
and
a
calling
of
loans
,
but
a
heavy
depression
of
securities
.
How
could
he
realize
on
his
securities
?
--
that
was
the
question
--
how
without
selling
so
many
points
off
that
his
fortune
would
be
swept
away
and
he
would
be
ruined
?
He
figured
briskly
the
while
he
waved
adieu
to
his
friends
,
who
hurried
away
,
struck
with
their
own
predicament
.
"
You
had
better
go
on
out
to
the
house
,
father
,
and
I
'll
send
some
telegrams
.
"
(
The
telephone
had
not
yet
been
invented
.
)
"
I
'll
be
right
out
and
we
'll
go
into
this
thing
together
.
It
looks
like
black
weather
to
me
.
Do
n't
say
anything
to
any
one
until
after
we
have
had
our
talk
;
then
we
can
decide
what
to
do
.
"
Cowperwood
,
Sr.
,
was
already
plucking
at
his
side-whiskers
in
a
confused
and
troubled
way
.
He
was
cogitating
as
to
what
might
happen
to
him
in
case
his
son
failed
,
for
he
was
deeply
involved
with
him
.
He
was
a
little
gray
in
his
complexion
now
,
frightened
,
for
he
had
already
strained
many
points
in
his
affairs
to
accommodate
his
son
.
If
Frank
should
not
be
able
promptly
on
the
morrow
to
meet
the
call
which
the
bank
might
have
to
make
for
one
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
,
the
onus
and
scandal
of
the
situation
would
be
on
him
.
On
the
other
hand
,
his
son
was
meditating
on
the
tangled
relation
in
which
he
now
found
himself
in
connection
with
the
city
treasurer
and
the
fact
that
it
was
not
possible
for
him
to
support
the
market
alone
.
Those
who
should
have
been
in
a
position
to
help
him
were
now
as
bad
off
as
himself
.
There
were
many
unfavorable
points
in
the
whole
situation
.
Drexel
&
Co.
had
been
booming
railway
stocks
--
loaning
heavily
on
them
.
Jay
Cooke
&
Co.
had
been
backing
Northern
Pacific
--
were
practically
doing
their
best
to
build
that
immense
transcontinental
system
alone
.
Naturally
,
they
were
long
on
that
and
hence
in
a
ticklish
position
.
At
the
first
word
they
would
throw
over
their
surest
securities
--
government
bonds
,
and
the
like
--
in
order
to
protect
their
more
speculative
holdings
.
The
bears
would
see
the
point
.
They
would
hammer
and
hammer
,
selling
short
all
along
the
line
.
But
he
did
not
dare
to
do
that
.
He
would
be
breaking
his
own
back
quickly
,
and
what
he
needed
was
time
.
If
he
could
only
get
time
--
three
days
,
a
week
,
ten
days
--
this
storm
would
surely
blow
over
.
The
thing
that
was
troubling
him
most
was
the
matter
of
the
half-million
invested
with
him
by
Stener
.
A
fall
election
was
drawing
near
.
Stener
,
although
he
had
served
two
terms
,
was
slated
for
reelection
.
A
scandal
in
connection
with
the
city
treasury
would
be
a
very
bad
thing
.
It
would
end
Stener
's
career
as
an
official
--
would
very
likely
send
him
to
the
penitentiary
.
It
might
wreck
the
Republican
party
's
chances
to
win
.
It
would
certainly
involve
himself
as
having
much
to
do
with
it
.
If
that
happened
,
he
would
have
the
politicians
to
reckon
with
.
For
,
if
he
were
hard
pressed
,
as
he
would
be
,
and
failed
,
the
fact
that
he
had
been
trying
to
invade
the
city
street-railway
preserves
which
they
held
sacred
to
themselves
,
with
borrowed
city
money
,
and
that
this
borrowing
was
liable
to
cost
them
the
city
election
,
would
all
come
out
.
They
would
not
view
all
that
with
a
kindly
eye
.
It
would
be
useless
to
say
,
as
he
could
,
that
he
had
borrowed
the
money
at
two
per
cent
.
(
most
of
it
,
to
save
himself
,
had
been
covered
by
a
protective
clause
of
that
kind
)
,
or
that
he
had
merely
acted
as
an
agent
for
Stener
.
That
might
go
down
with
the
unsophisticated
of
the
outer
world
,
but
it
would
never
be
swallowed
by
the
politicians
.
They
knew
better
than
that
.
