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"
Yes
,
there
is
one
point
in
all
legal
procedure
of
the
kind
,
"
replied
Steger
,
cautiously
,
now
rubbing
his
ear
and
trying
to
put
the
matter
as
delicately
as
possible
.
"
You
can
avoid
jail
sentences
all
through
the
earlier
parts
of
a
case
like
this
;
but
if
you
are
once
tried
and
convicted
it
's
pretty
hard
to
do
anything
--
as
a
matter
of
fact
,
it
becomes
absolutely
necessary
then
to
go
to
jail
for
a
few
days
,
five
or
so
,
pending
the
motion
for
a
new
trial
and
the
obtaining
of
a
certificate
of
reasonable
doubt
.
It
usually
takes
that
long
.
"
The
young
banker
sat
there
staring
out
of
the
window
,
and
Steger
observed
,
"
It
is
a
bit
complicated
,
is
n't
it
?
"
"
Well
,
I
should
say
so
,
"
returned
Frank
,
and
he
added
to
himself
:
"
Jail
!
Five
days
in
prison
!
"
That
would
be
a
terrific
slap
,
all
things
considered
.
Five
days
in
jail
pending
the
obtaining
of
a
certificate
of
reasonable
doubt
,
if
one
could
be
obtained
!
He
must
avoid
this
!
Jail
!
The
penitentiary
!
His
commercial
reputation
would
never
survive
that
.
The
necessity
of
a
final
conferencee
between
Butler
,
Mollenhauer
,
and
Simpson
was
speedily
reached
,
for
this
situation
was
hourly
growing
more
serious
.
Rumors
were
floating
about
in
Third
Street
that
in
addition
to
having
failed
for
so
large
an
amount
as
to
have
further
unsettled
the
already
panicky
financial
situation
induced
by
the
Chicago
fire
,
Cowperwood
and
Stener
,
or
Stener
working
with
Cowperwood
,
or
the
other
way
round
,
had
involved
the
city
treasury
to
the
extent
of
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
.
And
the
question
was
how
was
the
matter
to
be
kept
quiet
until
after
election
,
which
was
still
three
weeks
away
.
Bankers
and
brokers
were
communicating
odd
rumors
to
each
other
about
a
check
that
had
been
taken
from
the
city
treasury
after
Cowperwood
knew
he
was
to
fail
,
and
without
Stener
's
consent
.
Also
that
there
was
danger
that
it
would
come
to
the
ears
of
that
very
uncomfortable
political
organization
known
as
the
Citizens
'
Municipal
Reform
Association
,
of
which
a
well-known
iron-manufacturer
of
great
probity
and
moral
rectitude
,
one
Skelton
C.
Wheat
,
was
president
.
Wheat
had
for
years
been
following
on
the
trail
of
the
dominant
Republican
administration
in
a
vain
attempt
to
bring
it
to
a
sense
of
some
of
its
political
iniquities
.
He
was
a
serious
and
austere
man
--
-
one
of
those
solemn
,
self-righteous
souls
who
see
life
through
a
peculiar
veil
of
duty
,
and
who
,
undisturbed
by
notable
animal
passions
of
any
kind
,
go
their
way
of
upholding
the
theory
of
the
Ten
Commandments
over
the
order
of
things
as
they
are
.
The
committee
in
question
had
originally
been
organized
to
protest
against
some
abuses
in
the
tax
department
;
but
since
then
,
from
election
to
election
,
it
had
been
drifting
from
one
subject
to
another
,
finding
an
occasional
evidence
of
its
worthwhileness
in
some
newspaper
comment
and
the
frightened
reformation
of
some
minor
political
official
who
ended
,
usually
,
by
taking
refuge
behind
the
skirts
of
some
higher
political
power
--
in
the
last
reaches
,
Messrs.
Butler
,
Mollenhauer
,
and
Simpson
.
Just
now
it
was
without
important
fuel
or
ammunition
;
and
this
assignment
of
Cowperwood
,
with
its
attendant
crime
,
so
far
as
the
city
treasury
was
concerned
,
threatened
,
as
some
politicians
and
bankers
saw
it
,
to
give
it
just
the
club
it
was
looking
for
.
However
,
the
decisive
conference
took
place
between
Cowperwood
and
the
reigning
political
powers
some
five
days
after
Cowperwood
's
failure
,
at
the
home
of
Senator
Simpson
,
which
was
located
in
Rittenhouse
Square
--
a
region
central
for
the
older
order
of
wealth
in
Philadelphia
.
Simpson
was
a
man
of
no
little
refinement
artistically
,
of
Quaker
extraction
,
and
of
great
wealth-breeding
judgment
which
he
used
largely
to
satisfy
his
craving
for
political
predominance
.
He
was
most
liberal
where
money
would
bring
him
a
powerful
or
necessary
political
adherent
.
He
fairly
showered
offices
--
commissionerships
,
trusteeships
,
judgeships
,
political
nominations
,
and
executive
positions
generally
--
on
those
who
did
his
bidding
faithfully
and
without
question
.
Compared
with
Butler
and
Mollenhauer
he
was
more
powerful
than
either
,
for
he
represented
the
State
and
the
nation
.
When
the
political
authorities
who
were
trying
to
swing
a
national
election
were
anxious
to
discover
what
the
State
of
Pennsylvania
would
do
,
so
far
as
the
Republican
party
was
concerned
,
it
was
to
Senator
Simpson
that
they
appealed
.
In
the
literal
sense
of
the
word
,
he
knew
.
The
Senator
had
long
since
graduated
from
State
to
national
politics
,
and
was
an
interesting
figure
in
the
United
States
Senate
at
Washington
,
where
his
voice
in
all
the
conservative
and
moneyed
councils
of
the
nation
was
of
great
weight
.
The
house
that
he
occupied
,
of
Venetian
design
,
and
four
stories
in
height
,
bore
many
architectural
marks
of
distinction
,
such
as
the
floriated
window
,
the
door
with
the
semipointed
arch
,
and
medallions
of
colored
marble
set
in
the
walls
.
The
Senator
was
a
great
admirer
of
Venice
.
He
had
been
there
often
,
as
he
had
to
Athens
and
Rome
,
and
had
brought
back
many
artistic
objects
representative
of
the
civilizations
and
refinements
of
older
days
.
He
was
fond
,
for
one
thing
,
of
the
stern
,
sculptured
heads
of
the
Roman
emperors
,
and
the
fragments
of
gods
and
goddesses
which
are
the
best
testimony
of
the
artistic
aspirations
of
Greece
.
In
the
entresol
of
this
house
was
one
of
his
finest
treasures
--
a
carved
and
floriated
base
bearing
a
tapering
monolith
some
four
feet
high
,
crowned
by
the
head
of
a
peculiarly
goatish
Pan
,
by
the
side
of
which
were
the
problematic
remains
of
a
lovely
nude
nymph
--
just
the
little
feet
broken
off
at
the
ankles
.
The
base
on
which
the
feet
of
the
nymph
and
the
monolith
stood
was
ornamented
with
carved
ox-skulls
intertwined
with
roses
.
In
his
reception
hall
were
replicas
of
Caligula
,
Nero
,
and
other
Roman
emperors
;
and
on
his
stair-walls
reliefs
of
dancing
nymphs
in
procession
,
and
priests
bearing
offerings
of
sheep
and
swine
to
the
sacrificial
altars
.
There
was
a
clock
in
some
corner
of
the
house
which
chimed
the
quarter
,
the
half
,
the
three-quarters
,
and
the
hour
in
strange
,
euphonious
,
and
pathetic
notes
.
On
the
walls
of
the
rooms
were
tapestries
of
Flemish
origin
,
and
in
the
reception-hall
,
the
library
,
the
living-room
,
and
the
drawing-room
,
richly
carved
furniture
after
the
standards
of
the
Italian
Renaissance
.
The
Senator
's
taste
in
the
matter
of
paintings
was
inadequate
,
and
he
mistrusted
it
;
but
such
as
he
had
were
of
distinguished
origin
and
authentic
.
He
cared
more
for
his
curio-cases
filled
with
smaller
imported
bronzes
,
Venetian
glass
,
and
Chinese
jade
.
He
was
not
a
collector
of
these
in
any
notable
sense
--
merely
a
lover
of
a
few
choice
examples
.
Handsome
tiger
and
leopard
skin
rugs
,
the
fur
of
a
musk-ox
for
his
divan
,
and
tanned
and
brown-stained
goat
and
kid
skins
for
his
tables
,
gave
a
sense
of
elegance
and
reserved
profusion
.
In
addition
the
Senator
had
a
dining-room
done
after
the
Jacobean
idea
of
artistic
excellence
,
and
a
wine-cellar
which
the
best
of
the
local
vintners
looked
after
with
extreme
care
.
He
was
a
man
who
loved
to
entertain
lavishly
;
and
when
his
residence
was
thrown
open
for
a
dinner
,
a
reception
,
or
a
ball
,
the
best
of
local
society
was
to
be
found
there
.
