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"
Well
,
what
about
them
?
"
"
Well
,
he
owes
me
,
or
the
city
treasury
rather
,
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
,
and
I
understand
that
he
is
going
to
fail
and
that
he
ca
n't
pay
it
back
.
"
"
Who
told
you
that
?
"
"
Mr.
Sengstack
,
and
since
then
Mr.
Cowperwood
has
been
to
see
me
.
He
tells
me
he
must
have
more
money
or
he
will
fail
and
he
wants
to
borrow
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
more
.
He
says
he
must
have
it
.
"
"
So
!
"
said
Mr.
Mollenhauer
,
impressively
,
and
with
an
air
of
astonishment
which
he
did
not
feel
.
"
You
would
not
think
of
doing
that
,
of
course
.
You
're
too
badly
involved
as
it
is
.
If
he
wants
to
know
why
,
refer
him
to
me
.
Do
n't
advance
him
another
dollar
.
If
you
do
,
and
this
case
comes
to
trial
,
no
court
would
have
any
mercy
on
you
.
It
's
going
to
be
difficult
enough
to
do
anything
for
you
as
it
is
.
However
,
if
you
do
n't
advance
him
any
more
--
we
will
see
.
It
may
be
possible
,
I
ca
n't
say
,
but
at
any
rate
,
no
more
money
must
leave
the
treasury
to
bolster
up
this
bad
business
.
It
's
much
too
difficult
as
it
now
is
.
"
He
stared
at
Stener
warningly
.
And
he
,
shaken
and
sick
,
yet
because
of
the
faint
suggestion
of
mercy
involved
somewhere
in
Mollenhauer
's
remarks
,
now
slipped
from
his
chair
to
his
knees
and
folded
his
hands
in
the
uplifted
attitude
of
a
devotee
before
a
sacred
image
.
"
Oh
,
Mr.
Mollenhauer
,
"
he
choked
,
beginning
to
cry
,
"
I
did
n't
mean
to
do
anything
wrong
.
Strobik
and
Wycroft
told
me
it
was
all
right
.
You
sent
me
to
Cowperwood
in
the
first
place
.
I
only
did
what
I
thought
the
others
had
been
doing
.
Mr.
Bode
did
it
,
just
like
I
have
been
doing
.
He
dealt
with
Tighe
and
Company
.
I
have
a
wife
and
four
children
,
Mr.
Mollenhauer
.
My
youngest
boy
is
only
seven
years
old
.
Think
of
them
,
Mr.
Mollenhauer
!
Think
of
what
my
arrest
will
mean
to
them
!
I
do
n't
want
to
go
to
jail
.
I
did
n't
think
I
was
doing
anything
very
wrong
--
honestly
I
did
n't
.
I
'll
give
up
all
I
've
got
.
You
can
have
all
my
stocks
and
houses
and
lots
--
anything
--
if
you
'll
only
get
me
out
of
this
.
You
wo
n't
let
'em
send
me
to
jail
,
will
you
?
"
His
fat
,
white
lips
were
trembling
--
wabbling
nervously
--
and
big
hot
tears
were
coursing
down
his
previously
pale
but
now
flushed
cheeks
.
He
presented
one
of
those
almost
unbelievable
pictures
which
are
yet
so
intensely
human
and
so
true
.
If
only
the
great
financial
and
political
giants
would
for
once
accurately
reveal
the
details
of
their
lives
!
Mollenhauer
looked
at
him
calmly
,
meditatively
.
How
often
had
he
seen
weaklings
no
more
dishonest
than
himself
,
but
without
his
courage
and
subtlety
,
pleading
to
him
in
this
fashion
,
not
on
their
knees
exactly
,
but
intellectually
so
!
Life
to
him
,
as
to
every
other
man
of
large
practical
knowledge
and
insight
,
was
an
inexplicable
tangle
.
What
were
you
going
to
do
about
the
so-called
morals
and
precepts
of
the
world
?
This
man
Stener
fancied
that
he
was
dishonest
,
and
that
he
,
Mollenhauer
,
was
honest
.
He
was
here
,
self-convicted
of
sin
,
pleading
to
him
,
Mollenhauer
,
as
he
would
to
a
righteous
,
unstained
saint
.
As
a
matter
of
fact
,
Mollenhauer
knew
that
he
was
simply
shrewder
,
more
far-seeing
,
more
calculating
,
not
less
dishonest
.
Stener
was
lacking
in
force
and
brains
--
not
morals
.
This
lack
was
his
principal
crime
.
There
were
people
who
believed
in
some
esoteric
standard
of
right
--
some
ideal
of
conduct
absolutely
and
very
far
removed
from
practical
life
;
but
he
had
never
seen
them
practice
it
save
to
their
own
financial
(
not
moral
--
he
would
not
say
that
)
destruction
.
They
were
never
significant
,
practical
men
who
clung
to
these
fatuous
ideals
.
They
were
always
poor
,
nondescript
,
negligible
dreamers
.
He
could
not
have
made
Stener
understand
all
this
if
he
had
wanted
to
,
and
he
certainly
did
not
want
to
.
It
was
too
bad
about
Mrs.
