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Stener
was
just
about
to
make
another
weak
rejoinder
when
the
door
from
the
outer
office
opened
,
and
Albert
Stires
,
Stener
's
chief
clerk
,
entered
.
Stener
was
too
flustered
to
really
pay
any
attention
to
Stires
for
the
moment
;
but
Cowperwood
took
matters
in
his
own
hands
.
"
What
is
it
,
Albert
?
"
he
asked
,
familiarly
.
"
Mr.
Sengstack
from
Mr.
Mollenhauer
to
see
Mr.
Stener
.
"
At
the
sound
of
this
dreadful
name
Stener
wilted
like
a
leaf
.
Cowperwood
saw
it
.
He
realized
that
his
last
hope
of
getting
the
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
was
now
probably
gone
.
Still
he
did
not
propose
to
give
up
as
yet
.
"
Well
,
George
,
"
he
said
,
after
Albert
had
gone
out
with
instructions
that
Stener
would
see
Sengstack
in
a
moment
.
"
I
see
how
it
is
.
This
man
has
got
you
mesmerized
.
You
ca
n't
act
for
yourself
now
--
you
're
too
frightened
.
I
'll
let
it
rest
for
the
present
;
I
'll
come
back
.
But
for
Heaven
's
sake
pull
yourself
together
.
Think
what
it
means
.
I
'm
telling
you
exactly
what
's
going
to
happen
if
you
do
n't
.
You
'll
be
independently
rich
if
you
do
.
You
'll
be
a
convict
if
you
do
n't
.
"
And
deciding
he
would
make
one
more
effort
in
the
street
before
seeing
Butler
again
,
he
walked
out
briskly
,
jumped
into
his
light
spring
runabout
waiting
outside
--
a
handsome
little
yellow-glazed
vehicle
,
with
a
yellow
leather
cushion
seat
,
drawn
by
a
young
,
high-stepping
bay
mare
--
and
sent
her
scudding
from
door
to
door
,
throwing
down
the
lines
indifferently
and
bounding
up
the
steps
of
banks
and
into
office
doors
.
But
all
without
avail
.
All
were
interested
,
considerate
;
but
things
were
very
uncertain
.
The
Girard
National
Bank
refused
an
hour
's
grace
,
and
he
had
to
send
a
large
bundle
of
his
most
valuable
securities
to
cover
his
stock
shrinkage
there
.
Word
came
from
his
father
at
two
that
as
president
of
the
Third
National
he
would
have
to
call
for
his
one
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
due
there
.
The
directors
were
suspicious
of
his
stocks
He
at
once
wrote
a
check
against
fifty
thousand
dollars
of
his
deposits
in
that
bank
,
took
twenty-five
thousand
of
his
available
office
funds
,
called
a
loan
of
fifty
thousand
against
Tighe
&
Co.
,
and
sold
sixty
thousand
Green
&
Coates
,
a
line
he
had
been
tentatively
dabbling
in
,
for
one-third
their
value
--
and
,
combining
the
general
results
,
sent
them
all
to
the
Third
National
.
His
father
was
immensely
relieved
from
one
point
of
view
,
but
sadly
depressed
from
another
.
He
hurried
out
at
the
noon-hour
to
see
what
his
own
holdings
would
bring
.
He
was
compromising
himself
in
a
way
by
doing
it
,
but
his
parental
heart
,
as
well
as
is
own
financial
interests
,
were
involved
.
By
mortgaging
his
house
and
securing
loans
on
his
furniture
,
carriages
,
lots
,
and
stocks
,
he
managed
to
raise
one
hundred
thousand
in
cash
,
and
deposited
it
in
his
own
bank
to
Frank
's
credit
;
but
it
was
a
very
light
anchor
to
windward
in
this
swirling
storm
,
at
that
.
Frank
had
been
counting
on
getting
all
of
his
loans
extended
three
or
four
days
at
least
.
Reviewing
his
situation
at
two
o'clock
of
this
Monday
afternoon
,
he
said
to
himself
thoughtfully
but
grimly
:
"
Well
,
Stener
has
to
loan
me
three
hundred
thousand
--
that
's
all
there
is
to
it
.
And
I
'll
have
to
see
Butler
now
,
or
he
'll
be
calling
his
loan
before
three
.
"
He
hurried
out
,
and
was
off
to
Butler
's
house
,
driving
like
mad
.
Things
had
changed
greatly
since
last
Cowperwood
had
talked
with
Butler
.
Although
most
friendly
at
the
time
the
proposition
was
made
that
he
should
combine
with
Mollenhauer
and
Simpson
to
sustain
the
market
,
alas
,
now
on
this
Monday
morning
at
nine
o'clock
,
an
additional
complication
had
been
added
to
the
already
tangled
situation
which
had
changed
Butler
's
attitude
completely
.
As
he
was
leaving
his
home
to
enter
his
runabout
,
at
nine
o'clock
in
the
morning
of
this
same
day
in
which
Cowperwood
was
seeking
Stener
's
aid
,
the
postman
,
coming
up
,
had
handed
Butler
four
letters
,
all
of
which
he
paused
for
a
moment
to
glance
at
.
One
was
from
a
sub-contractor
by
the
name
of
O'Higgins
,
the
second
was
from
Father
Michel
,
his
confessor
,
of
St.
Timothy
's
,
thanking
him
for
a
contribution
to
the
parish
poor
fund
;
a
third
was
from
Drexel
&
Co.
relating
to
a
deposit
,
and
the
fourth
was
an
anonymous
communication
,
on
cheap
stationery
from
some
one
who
was
apparently
not
very
literate
--
a
woman
most
likely
--
written
in
a
scrawling
hand
,
which
read
:
