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The
conference
was
in
the
Senator
's
library
,
and
he
received
his
colleagues
with
the
genial
air
of
one
who
has
much
to
gain
and
little
to
lose
.
There
were
whiskies
,
wines
,
cigars
on
the
table
,
and
while
Mollenhauer
and
Simpson
exchanged
the
commonplaces
of
the
day
awaiting
the
arrival
of
Butler
,
they
lighted
cigars
and
kept
their
inmost
thoughts
to
themselves
.
It
so
happened
that
upon
the
previous
afternoon
Butler
had
learned
from
Mr.
David
Pettie
,
the
district
attorney
,
of
the
sixty-thousand-dollar-check
transaction
.
At
the
same
time
the
matter
had
been
brought
to
Mollenhauer
's
attention
by
Stener
himself
.
It
was
Mollenhauer
,
not
Butler
who
saw
that
by
taking
advantage
of
Cowperwood
's
situation
,
he
might
save
the
local
party
from
blame
,
and
at
the
same
time
most
likely
fleece
Cowperwood
out
of
his
street-railway
shares
without
letting
Butler
or
Simpson
know
anything
about
it
.
The
thing
to
do
was
to
terrorize
him
with
a
private
threat
of
prosecution
.
Butler
was
not
long
in
arriving
,
and
apologized
for
the
delay
.
Concealing
his
recent
grief
behind
as
jaunty
an
air
as
possible
,
he
began
with
:
"
It
's
a
lively
life
I
'm
leadin
'
,
what
with
every
bank
in
the
city
wantin
'
to
know
how
their
loans
are
goin
'
to
be
taken
care
of
.
"
He
took
a
cigar
and
struck
a
match
.
"
It
does
look
a
little
threatening
,
"
said
Senator
Simpson
,
smiling
.
"
Sit
down
.
I
have
just
been
talking
with
Avery
Stone
,
of
Jay
Cooke
&
Company
,
and
he
tells
me
that
the
talk
in
Third
Street
about
Stener
's
connection
with
this
Cowperwood
failure
is
growing
very
strong
,
and
that
the
newspapers
are
bound
to
take
up
the
matter
shortly
,
unless
something
is
done
about
it
.
I
am
sure
that
the
news
will
also
reach
Mr.
Wheat
,
of
the
Citizens
'
Reform
Association
,
very
shortly
.
We
ought
to
decide
now
,
gentlemen
,
what
we
propose
to
do
.
One
thing
,
I
am
sure
,
is
to
eliminate
Stener
from
the
ticket
as
quietly
as
possible
.
This
really
looks
to
me
as
if
it
might
become
a
very
serious
issue
,
and
we
ought
to
be
doing
what
we
can
now
to
offset
its
effect
later
.
"
Mollenhauer
pulled
a
long
breath
through
his
cigar
,
and
blew
it
out
in
a
rolling
steel-blue
cloud
.
He
studied
the
tapestry
on
the
opposite
wall
but
said
nothing
.
"
There
is
one
thing
sure
,
"
continued
Senator
Simpson
,
after
a
time
,
seeing
that
no
one
else
spoke
,
"
and
that
is
,
if
we
do
not
begin
a
prosecution
on
our
own
account
within
a
reasonable
time
,
some
one
else
is
apt
to
;
and
that
would
put
rather
a
bad
face
on
the
matter
.
My
own
opinion
would
be
that
we
wait
until
it
is
very
plain
that
prosecution
is
going
to
be
undertaken
by
some
one
else
--
possibly
the
Municipal
Reform
Association
--
but
that
we
stand
ready
to
step
in
and
act
in
such
a
way
as
to
make
it
look
as
though
we
had
been
planning
to
do
it
all
the
time
.
The
thing
to
do
is
to
gain
time
;
and
so
I
would
suggest
that
it
be
made
as
difficult
as
possible
to
get
at
the
treasurer
's
books
.
An
investigation
there
,
if
it
begins
at
all
--
as
I
think
is
very
likely
--
should
be
very
slow
in
producing
the
facts
.
"
The
Senator
was
not
at
all
for
mincing
words
with
his
important
confreres
,
when
it
came
to
vital
issues
.
He
preferred
,
in
his
grandiloquent
way
,
to
call
a
spade
a
spade
.
