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Within
a
week
Alderson
learned
that
Aileen
and
Cowperwood
were
visiting
an
apparently
private
residence
,
which
was
anything
but
that
.
The
house
on
South
Sixth
Street
was
one
of
assignation
purely
;
but
in
its
way
it
was
superior
to
the
average
establishment
of
its
kind
--
of
red
brick
,
white-stone
trimmings
,
four
stories
high
,
and
all
the
rooms
,
some
eighteen
in
number
,
furnished
in
a
showy
but
cleanly
way
.
It
's
patronage
was
highly
exclusive
,
only
those
being
admitted
who
were
known
to
the
mistress
,
having
been
introduced
by
others
.
This
guaranteed
that
privacy
which
the
illicit
affairs
of
this
world
so
greatly
required
.
The
mere
phrase
,
"
I
have
an
appointment
,
"
was
sufficient
,
where
either
of
the
parties
was
known
,
to
cause
them
to
be
shown
to
a
private
suite
.
Cowperwood
had
known
of
the
place
from
previous
experiences
,
and
when
it
became
necessary
to
abandon
the
North
Tenth
Street
house
,
he
had
directed
Aileen
to
meet
him
here
.
The
matter
of
entering
a
place
of
this
kind
and
trying
to
find
any
one
was
,
as
Alderson
informed
Butler
on
hearing
of
its
character
,
exceedingly
difficult
.
It
involved
the
right
of
search
,
which
was
difficult
to
get
.
To
enter
by
sheer
force
was
easy
enough
in
most
instances
where
the
business
conducted
was
in
contradistinction
to
the
moral
sentiment
of
the
community
;
but
sometimes
one
encountered
violent
opposition
from
the
tenants
themselves
.
It
might
be
so
in
this
case
.
The
only
sure
way
of
avoiding
such
opposition
would
be
to
take
the
woman
who
ran
the
place
into
one
's
confidence
,
and
by
paying
her
sufficiently
insure
silence
.
"
But
I
do
not
advise
that
in
this
instance
,
"
Alderson
had
told
Butler
,
"
for
I
believe
this
woman
is
particularly
friendly
to
your
man
.
It
might
be
better
,
in
spite
of
the
risk
,
to
take
it
by
surprise
.
"
To
do
that
,
he
explained
,
it
would
be
necessary
to
have
at
least
three
men
in
addition
to
the
leader
--
perhaps
four
,
who
,
once
one
man
had
been
able
to
make
his
entrance
into
the
hallway
,
on
the
door
being
opened
in
response
to
a
ring
,
would
appear
quickly
and
enter
with
and
sustain
him
.
Quickness
of
search
was
the
next
thing
--
the
prompt
opening
of
all
doors
.
The
servants
,
if
any
,
would
have
to
be
overpowered
and
silenced
in
some
way
.
Money
sometimes
did
this
;
force
accomplished
it
at
other
times
.
Then
one
of
the
detectives
simulating
a
servant
could
tap
gently
at
the
different
doors
--
Butler
and
the
others
standing
by
--
and
in
case
a
face
appeared
identify
it
or
not
,
as
the
case
might
be
.
If
the
door
was
not
opened
and
the
room
was
not
empty
,
it
could
eventually
be
forced
.
The
house
was
one
of
a
solid
block
,
so
that
there
was
no
chance
of
escape
save
by
the
front
and
rear
doors
,
which
were
to
be
safe-guarded
.
It
was
a
daringly
conceived
scheme
.
In
spite
of
all
this
,
secrecy
in
the
matter
of
removing
Aileen
was
to
be
preserved
.
When
Butler
heard
of
this
he
was
nervous
about
the
whole
terrible
procedure
.
He
thought
once
that
without
going
to
the
house
he
would
merely
talk
to
his
daughter
declaring
that
he
knew
and
that
she
could
not
possibly
deny
it
.
He
would
then
give
her
her
choice
between
going
to
Europe
or
going
to
a
reformatory
.
But
a
sense
of
the
raw
brutality
of
Aileen
's
disposition
,
and
something
essentially
coarse
in
himself
,
made
him
eventually
adopt
the
other
method
.
He
ordered
Alderson
to
perfect
his
plan
,
and
once
he
found
Aileen
or
Cowperwood
entering
the
house
to
inform
him
quickly
.
He
would
then
drive
there
,
and
with
the
assistance
of
these
men
confront
her
.
It
was
a
foolish
scheme
,
a
brutalizing
thing
to
do
,
both
from
the
point
of
view
of
affection
and
any
corrective
theory
he
might
have
had
.
No
good
ever
springs
from
violence
.
But
Butler
did
not
see
that
.
He
wanted
to
frighten
Aileen
,
to
bring
her
by
shock
to
a
realization
of
the
enormity
of
the
offense
she
was
committing
.
He
waited
fully
a
week
after
his
word
had
been
given
;
and
then
,
one
afternoon
,
when
his
nerves
were
worn
almost
thin
from
fretting
,
the
climax
came
.
Cowperwood
had
already
been
indicted
,
and
was
now
awaiting
trial
.
Aileen
had
been
bringing
him
news
,
from
time
to
time
,
of
just
how
she
thought
her
father
was
feeling
toward
him
.
She
did
not
get
this
evidence
direct
from
Butler
,
of
course
--
he
was
too
secretive
,
in
so
far
as
she
was
concerned
,
to
let
her
know
how
relentlessly
he
was
engineering
Cowperwood
's
final
downfall
--
but
from
odd
bits
confided
to
Owen
,
who
confided
them
to
Callum
,
who
in
turn
,
innocently
enough
,
confided
them
to
Aileen
.
For
one
thing
,
she
had
learned
in
this
way
of
the
new
district
attorney
elect
--
his
probable
attitude
--
for
he
was
a
constant
caller
at
the
Butler
house
or
office
.
Owen
had
told
Callum
that
he
thought
Shannon
was
going
to
do
his
best
to
send
Cowperwood
"
up
"
--
that
the
old
man
thought
he
deserved
it
.
In
the
next
place
she
had
learned
that
her
father
did
not
want
Cowperwood
to
resume
business
--
did
not
feel
he
deserved
to
be
allowed
to
.
"
It
would
be
a
God
's
blessing
if
the
community
were
shut
of
him
,
"
he
had
said
to
Owen
one
morning
,
apropos
of
a
notice
in
the
papers
of
Cowperwood
's
legal
struggles
;
and
Owen
had
asked
Callum
why
he
thought
the
old
man
was
so
bitter
.
The
two
sons
could
not
understand
it
.
Cowperwood
heard
all
this
from
her
,
and
more
--
bits
about
Judge
Payderson
,
the
judge
who
was
to
try
him
,
who
was
a
friend
of
Butler
's
--
also
about
the
fact
that
Stener
might
be
sent
up
for
the
full
term
of
his
crime
,
but
that
be
would
be
pardoned
soon
afterward
.
Apparently
Cowperwood
was
not
very
much
frightened
.
He
told
her
that
he
had
powerful
financial
friends
who
would
appeal
to
the
governor
to
pardon
him
in
case
he
was
convicted
;
and
,
anyhow
,
that
he
did
not
think
that
the
evidence
was
strong
enough
to
convict
him
.
He
was
merely
a
political
scapegoat
through
public
clamor
and
her
father
's
influence
;
since
the
latter
's
receipt
of
the
letter
about
them
he
had
been
the
victim
of
Butler
's
enmity
,
and
nothing
more
.
"
If
it
were
n't
for
your
father
,
honey
,
"
he
declared
,
"
I
could
have
this
indictment
quashed
in
no
time
.
Neither
Mollenhauer
nor
Simpson
has
anything
against
me
personally
,
I
am
sure
.
