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He
paused
to
reflect
.
"
I
could
n't
get
them
to
call
a
conference
with
any
of
the
big
moneyed
men
as
yet
,
"
he
added
,
warily
.
"
They
'd
rather
wait
and
see
what
happens
in
the
mornin
'
.
Still
,
I
would
n't
be
down-hearted
if
I
were
you
.
If
things
turn
out
very
bad
they
may
change
their
minds
.
I
had
to
tell
them
about
Stener
.
It
's
pretty
bad
,
but
they
're
hopin
'
you
'll
come
through
and
straighten
that
out
.
I
hope
so
.
About
my
own
loan
--
well
,
I
'll
see
how
things
are
in
the
mornin
'
.
If
I
raisonably
can
I
'll
lave
it
with
you
.
You
'd
better
see
me
again
about
it
.
I
would
n't
try
to
get
any
more
money
out
of
Stener
if
I
were
you
.
It
's
pretty
bad
as
it
is
.
"
Cowperwood
saw
at
once
that
he
was
to
get
no
aid
from
the
politicians
.
The
one
thing
that
disturbed
him
was
this
reference
to
Stener
.
Had
they
already
communicated
with
him
--
warned
him
?
If
so
,
his
own
coming
to
Butler
had
been
a
bad
move
;
and
yet
from
the
point
of
view
of
his
possible
failure
on
the
morrow
it
had
been
advisable
.
At
least
now
the
politicians
knew
where
he
stood
.
If
he
got
in
a
very
tight
corner
he
would
come
to
Butler
again
--
the
politicians
could
assist
him
or
not
,
as
they
chose
.
If
they
did
not
help
him
and
he
failed
,
and
the
election
were
lost
,
it
was
their
own
fault
.
Anyhow
,
if
he
could
see
Stener
first
the
latter
would
not
be
such
a
fool
as
to
stand
in
his
own
light
in
a
crisis
like
this
.
"
Things
look
rather
dark
to-night
,
Mr.
Butler
,
"
he
said
,
smartly
,
"
but
I
still
think
I
'll
come
through
.
I
hope
so
,
anyhow
.
I
'm
sorry
to
have
put
you
to
so
much
trouble
.
I
wish
,
of
course
,
that
you
gentlemen
could
see
your
way
clear
to
assist
me
,
but
if
you
ca
n't
,
you
ca
n't
.
I
have
a
number
of
things
that
I
can
do
.
I
hope
that
you
will
leave
your
loan
as
long
as
you
can
.
"
He
went
briskly
out
,
and
Butler
meditated
.
"
A
clever
young
chap
that
,
"
he
said
.
"
It
's
too
bad
.
But
he
may
come
out
all
right
at
that
.
"
Cowperwood
hurried
to
his
own
home
only
to
find
his
father
awake
and
brooding
.
To
him
he
talked
with
that
strong
vein
of
sympathy
and
understanding
which
is
usually
characteristic
of
those
drawn
by
ties
of
flesh
and
blood
.
He
liked
his
father
.
He
sympathized
with
his
painstaking
effort
to
get
up
in
the
world
.
He
could
not
forget
that
as
a
boy
he
had
had
the
loving
sympathy
and
interest
of
his
father
.
The
loan
which
he
had
from
the
Third
National
,
on
somewhat
weak
Union
Street
Railway
shares
he
could
probably
replace
if
stocks
did
not
drop
too
tremendously
.
He
must
replace
this
at
all
costs
.
But
his
father
's
investments
in
street-railways
,
which
had
risen
with
his
own
ventures
,
and
which
now
involved
an
additional
two
hundred
thousand
--
how
could
he
protect
those
?
The
shares
were
hypothecated
and
the
money
was
used
for
other
things
.
Additional
collateral
would
have
to
be
furnished
the
several
banks
carrying
them
.
It
was
nothing
except
loans
,
loans
,
loans
,
and
the
need
of
protecting
them
.
If
he
could
only
get
an
additional
deposit
of
two
or
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
from
Stener
.
But
that
,
in
the
face
of
possible
financial
difficulties
,
was
rank
criminality
.
All
depended
on
the
morrow
.
Monday
,
the
ninth
,
dawned
gray
and
cheerless
.
He
was
up
with
the
first
ray
of
light
,
shaved
and
dressed
,
and
went
over
,
under
the
gray-green
pergola
,
to
his
father
's
house
.
He
was
up
,
also
,
and
stirring
about
,
for
he
had
not
been
able
to
sleep
.
His
gray
eyebrows
and
gray
hair
looked
rather
shaggy
and
disheveled
,
and
his
side-whiskers
anything
but
decorative
.
The
old
gentleman
's
eyes
were
tired
,
and
his
face
was
gray
.
Cowperwood
could
see
that
he
was
worrying
.
He
looked
up
from
a
small
,
ornate
escritoire
of
buhl
,
which
Ellsworth
had
found
somewhere
,
and
where
he
was
quietly
tabulating
a
list
of
his
resources
and
liabilities
.
Cowperwood
winced
.
He
hated
to
see
his
father
worried
,
but
he
could
not
help
it
.
He
had
hoped
sincerely
,
when
they
built
their
houses
together
,
that
the
days
of
worry
for
his
father
had
gone
forever
.
