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"
Counting
up
?
"
he
asked
,
familiarly
,
with
a
smile
.
He
wanted
to
hearten
the
old
gentleman
as
much
as
possible
.
"
I
was
just
running
over
my
affairs
again
to
see
where
I
stood
in
case
--
"
He
looked
quizzically
at
his
son
,
and
Frank
smiled
again
.
"
I
would
n't
worry
,
father
.
I
told
you
how
I
fixed
it
so
that
Butler
and
that
crowd
will
support
the
market
.
I
have
Rivers
and
Targool
and
Harry
Eltinge
on
'
change
helping
me
sell
out
,
and
they
are
the
best
men
there
.
They
'll
handle
the
situation
carefully
.
I
could
n't
trust
Ed
or
Joe
in
this
case
,
for
the
moment
they
began
to
sell
everybody
would
know
what
was
going
on
with
me
.
This
way
my
men
will
seem
like
bears
hammering
the
market
,
but
not
hammering
too
hard
.
I
ought
to
be
able
to
unload
enough
at
ten
points
off
to
raise
five
hundred
thousand
.
The
market
may
not
go
lower
than
that
.
You
ca
n't
tell
.
It
is
n't
going
to
sink
indefinitely
.
If
I
just
knew
what
the
big
insurance
companies
were
going
to
do
!
The
morning
paper
has
n't
come
yet
,
has
it
?
"
He
was
going
to
pull
a
bell
,
but
remembered
that
the
servants
would
scarcely
be
up
as
yet
.
He
went
to
the
front
door
himself
.
There
were
the
Press
and
the
Public
Ledger
lying
damp
from
the
presses
.
He
picked
them
up
and
glanced
at
the
front
pages
.
His
countenance
fell
.
On
one
,
the
Press
,
was
spread
a
great
black
map
of
Chicago
,
a
most
funereal-looking
thing
,
the
black
portion
indicating
the
burned
section
.
He
had
never
seen
a
map
of
Chicago
before
in
just
this
clear
,
definite
way
.
That
white
portion
was
Lake
Michigan
,
and
there
was
the
Chicago
River
dividing
the
city
into
three
almost
equal
portions
--
the
north
side
,
the
west
side
,
the
south
side
.
He
saw
at
once
that
the
city
was
curiously
arranged
,
somewhat
like
Philadelphia
,
and
that
the
business
section
was
probably
an
area
of
two
or
three
miles
square
,
set
at
the
juncture
of
the
three
sides
,
and
lying
south
of
the
main
stem
of
the
river
,
where
it
flowed
into
the
lake
after
the
southwest
and
northwest
branches
had
united
to
form
it
.
This
was
a
significant
central
area
;
but
,
according
to
this
map
,
it
was
all
burned
out
.
"
Chicago
in
Ashes
"
ran
a
great
side-heading
set
in
heavily
leaded
black
type
.
It
went
on
to
detail
the
sufferings
of
the
homeless
,
the
number
of
the
dead
,
the
number
of
those
whose
fortunes
had
been
destroyed
.
Then
it
descanted
upon
the
probable
effect
in
the
East
.
Insurance
companies
and
manufacturers
might
not
be
able
to
meet
the
great
strain
of
all
this
.
"
Damn
!
"
said
Cowperwood
gloomily
.
"
I
wish
I
were
out
of
this
stock-jobbing
business
.
I
wish
I
had
never
gotten
into
it
.
"
He
returned
to
his
drawing-room
and
scanned
both
accounts
most
carefully
.
Then
,
though
it
was
still
early
,
he
and
his
father
drove
to
his
office
.
There
were
already
messages
awaiting
him
,
a
dozen
or
more
,
to
cancel
or
sell
.
While
he
was
standing
there
a
messenger-boy
brought
him
three
more
.
One
was
from
Stener
and
said
that
he
would
be
back
by
twelve
o'clock
,
the
very
earliest
he
could
make
it
.
Cowperwood
was
relieved
and
yet
distressed
.
He
would
need
large
sums
of
money
to
meet
various
loans
before
three
.
Every
hour
was
precious
.
He
must
arrange
to
meet
Stener
at
the
station
and
talk
to
him
before
any
one
else
should
see
him
.
Clearly
this
was
going
to
be
a
hard
,
dreary
,
strenuous
day
.
Third
Street
,
by
the
time
he
reached
there
,
was
stirring
with
other
bankers
and
brokers
called
forth
by
the
exigencies
of
the
occasion
.
There
was
a
suspicious
hurrying
of
feet
--
that
intensity
which
makes
all
the
difference
in
the
world
between
a
hundred
people
placid
and
a
hundred
people
disturbed
.
At
the
exchange
,
the
atmosphere
was
feverish
.
At
the
sound
of
the
gong
,
the
staccato
uproar
began
.
Its
metallic
vibrations
were
still
in
the
air
when
the
two
hundred
men
who
composed
this
local
organization
at
its
utmost
stress
of
calculation
,
threw
themselves
upon
each
other
in
a
gibbering
struggle
to
dispose
of
or
seize
bargains
of
the
hour
.
The
interests
were
so
varied
that
it
was
impossible
to
say
at
which
pole
it
was
best
to
sell
or
buy
.
Targool
and
Rivers
had
been
delegated
to
stay
at
the
center
of
things
,
Joseph
and
Edward
to
hover
around
on
the
outside
and
to
pick
up
such
opportunities
of
selling
as
might
offer
a
reasonable
return
on
the
stock
.
The
"
bears
"
were
determined
to
jam
things
down
,
and
it
all
depended
on
how
well
the
agents
of
Mollenhauer
,
Simpson
,
Butler
,
and
others
supported
things
in
the
street-railway
world
whether
those
stocks
retained
any
strength
or
not
.
The
last
thing
Butler
had
said
the
night
before
was
that
they
would
do
the
best
they
could
.
They
would
buy
up
to
a
certain
point
.
Whether
they
would
support
the
market
indefinitely
he
would
not
say
.
He
could
not
vouch
for
Mollenhauer
and
Simpson
.
Nor
did
he
know
the
condition
of
their
affairs
.
While
the
excitement
was
at
its
highest
Cowperwood
came
in
.
As
he
stood
in
the
door
looking
to
catch
the
eye
of
Rivers
,
the
'
change
gong
sounded
,
and
trading
stopped
.
All
the
brokers
and
traders
faced
about
to
the
little
balcony
,
where
the
secretary
of
the
'
change
made
his
announcements
;
and
there
he
stood
,
the
door
open
behind
him
,
a
small
,
dark
,
clerkly
man
of
thirty-eight
or
forty
,
whose
spare
figure
and
pale
face
bespoke
the
methodic
mind
that
knows
no
venturous
thought
.
In
his
right
hand
he
held
a
slip
of
white
paper
.
