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His
salary
was
only
six
thousand
dollars
a
year
.
His
little
fame
did
not
extend
beyond
the
meager
realm
of
local
lawyers
and
judges
.
But
the
sight
of
his
name
quoted
daily
as
being
about
his
duties
,
or
rendering
such
and
such
a
decision
,
was
a
great
satisfaction
to
him
.
He
thought
it
made
him
a
significant
figure
in
the
world
.
"
Behold
I
am
not
as
other
men
,
"
he
often
thought
,
and
this
comforted
him
.
He
was
very
much
flattered
when
a
prominent
case
came
to
his
calendar
;
and
as
he
sat
enthroned
before
the
various
litigants
and
lawyers
he
felt
,
as
a
rule
,
very
significant
indeed
.
Now
and
then
some
subtlety
of
life
would
confuse
his
really
limited
intellect
;
but
in
all
such
cases
there
was
the
letter
of
the
law
.
He
could
hunt
in
the
reports
to
find
out
what
really
thinking
men
had
decided
.
Besides
,
lawyers
everywhere
are
so
subtle
.
They
put
the
rules
of
law
,
favorable
or
unfavorable
,
under
the
judge
's
thumb
and
nose
.
"
Your
honor
,
in
the
thirty-second
volume
of
the
Revised
Reports
of
Massachusetts
,
page
so
and
so
,
line
so
and
so
,
in
Arundel
versus
Bannerman
,
you
will
find
,
etc.
"
How
often
have
you
heard
that
in
a
court
of
law
?
The
reasoning
that
is
left
to
do
in
most
cases
is
not
much
.
And
the
sanctity
of
the
law
is
raised
like
a
great
banner
by
which
the
pride
of
the
incumbent
is
strengthened
.
Payderson
,
as
Steger
had
indicated
,
could
scarcely
be
pointed
to
as
an
unjust
judge
.
He
was
a
party
judge
--
Republican
in
principle
,
or
rather
belief
,
beholden
to
the
dominant
party
councils
for
his
personal
continuance
in
office
,
and
as
such
willing
and
anxious
to
do
whatever
he
considered
that
he
reasonably
could
do
to
further
the
party
welfare
and
the
private
interests
of
his
masters
.
Most
people
never
trouble
to
look
into
the
mechanics
of
the
thing
they
call
their
conscience
too
closely
.
Where
they
do
,
too
often
they
lack
the
skill
to
disentangle
the
tangled
threads
of
ethics
and
morals
.
Whatever
the
opinion
of
the
time
is
,
whatever
the
weight
of
great
interests
dictates
,
that
they
conscientiously
believe
.
Some
one
has
since
invented
the
phrase
"
a
corporation-minded
judge
.
"
There
are
many
such
.
Payderson
was
one
.
He
fairly
revered
property
and
power
.
To
him
Butler
and
Mollenhauer
and
Simpson
were
great
men
--
reasonably
sure
to
be
right
always
because
they
were
so
powerful
.
This
matter
of
Cowperwood
's
and
Stener
's
defalcation
he
had
long
heard
of
.
He
knew
by
associating
with
one
political
light
and
another
just
what
the
situation
was
.
The
party
,
as
the
leaders
saw
it
,
had
been
put
in
a
very
bad
position
by
Cowperwood
's
subtlety
.
He
had
led
Stener
astray
--
more
than
an
ordinary
city
treasurer
should
have
been
led
astray
--
and
,
although
Stener
was
primarily
guilty
as
the
original
mover
in
the
scheme
,
Cowperwood
was
more
so
for
having
led
him
imaginatively
to
such
disastrous
lengths
.
Besides
,
the
party
needed
a
scapegoat
--
that
was
enough
for
Payderson
,
in
the
first
place
Of
course
,
after
the
election
had
been
won
,
and
it
appeared
that
the
party
had
not
suffered
so
much
,
he
did
not
understand
quite
why
it
was
that
Cowperwood
was
still
so
carefully
included
in
the
Proceedings
;
but
he
had
faith
to
believe
that
the
leaders
had
some
just
grounds
for
not
letting
him
off
.
From
one
source
and
another
he
learned
that
Butler
had
some
private
grudge
against
Cowperwood
.
What
it
was
no
one
seemed
to
know
exactly
.
The
general
impression
was
that
Cowperwood
had
led
Butler
into
some
unwholesome
financial
transactions
.
Anyhow
,
it
was
generally
understood
that
for
the
good
of
the
party
,
and
in
order
to
teach
a
wholesome
lesson
to
dangerous
subordinates
--
it
had
been
decided
to
allow
these
several
indictments
to
take
their
course
.
Cowperwood
was
to
be
punished
quite
as
severely
as
Stener
for
the
moral
effect
on
the
community
.
Stener
was
to
be
sentenced
the
maximum
sentence
for
his
crime
in
order
that
the
party
and
the
courts
should
appear
properly
righteous
.
Beyond
that
he
was
to
be
left
to
the
mercy
of
the
governor
,
who
could
ease
things
up
for
him
if
he
chose
,
and
if
the
leaders
wished
.
In
the
silly
mind
of
the
general
public
the
various
judges
of
Quarter
Sessions
,
like
girls
incarcerated
in
boarding-schools
,
were
supposed
in
their
serene
aloofness
from
life
not
to
know
what
was
going
on
in
the
subterranean
realm
of
politics
;
but
they
knew
well
enough
,
and
,
knowing
particularly
well
from
whence
came
their
continued
position
and
authority
,
they
were
duly
grateful
.
When
Cowperwood
came
into
the
crowded
courtroom
with
his
father
and
Steger
,
quite
fresh
and
jaunty
(
looking
the
part
of
the
shrewd
financier
,
the
man
of
affairs
)
,
every
one
stared
.
It
was
really
too
much
to
expect
,
most
of
them
thought
,
that
a
man
like
this
would
be
convicted
.
He
was
,
no
doubt
,
guilty
;
but
,
also
,
no
doubt
,
he
had
ways
and
means
of
evading
the
law
.
His
lawyer
,
Harper
Steger
,
looked
very
shrewd
and
canny
to
them
.
It
was
very
cold
,
and
both
men
wore
long
,
dark
,
bluish-gray
overcoats
,
cut
in
the
latest
mode
.
Cowperwood
was
given
to
small
boutonnieres
in
fair
weather
,
but
to-day
he
wore
none
.
His
tie
,
however
,
was
of
heavy
,
impressive
silk
,
of
lavender
hue
,
set
with
a
large
,
clear
,
green
emerald
.
He
wore
only
the
thinnest
of
watch-chains
,
and
no
other
ornament
of
any
kind
.
He
always
looked
jaunty
and
yet
reserved
,
good-natured
,
and
yet
capable
and
self-sufficient
.
Never
had
he
looked
more
so
than
he
did
to-day
.
He
at
once
took
in
the
nature
of
the
scene
,
which
had
a
peculiar
interest
for
him
.
Before
him
was
the
as
yet
empty
judge
's
rostrum
,
and
at
its
right
the
empty
jury-box
,
between
which
,
and
to
the
judge
's
left
,
as
he
sat
facing
the
audience
,
stood
the
witness-chair
where
he
must
presently
sit
and
testify
.
Behind
it
,
already
awaiting
the
arrival
of
the
court
,
stood
a
fat
bailiff
,
one
John
Sparkheaver
whose
business
it
was
to
present
the
aged
,
greasy
Bible
to
be
touched
by
the
witnesses
in
making
oath
,
and
to
say
,
"
Step
this
way
,
"
when
the
testimony
was
over
.
There
were
other
bailiffs
--
one
at
the
gate
giving
into
the
railed
space
before
the
judge
's
desk
,
where
prisoners
were
arraigned
,
lawyers
sat
or
pleaded
,
the
defendant
had
a
chair
,
and
so
on
;
another
in
the
aisle
leading
to
the
jury-room
,
and
still
another
guarding
the
door
by
which
the
public
entered
.
Cowperwood
surveyed
Stener
,
who
was
one
of
the
witnesses
,
and
who
now
,
in
his
helpless
fright
over
his
own
fate
,
was
without
malice
toward
any
one
.
He
had
really
never
borne
any
.
He
wished
if
anything
now
that
he
had
followed
Cowperwood
's
advice
,
seeing
where
he
now
was
,
though
he
still
had
faith
that
Mollenhauer
and
the
political
powers
represented
by
him
would
do
something
for
him
with
the
governor
,
once
he
was
sentenced
.
He
was
very
pale
and
comparatively
thin
.
Already
he
had
lost
that
ruddy
bulk
which
had
been
added
during
the
days
of
his
prosperity
.
He
wore
a
new
gray
suit
and
a
brown
tie
,
and
was
clean-shaven
.
When
his
eye
caught
Cowperwood
's
steady
beam
,
it
faltered
and
drooped
.
He
rubbed
his
ear
foolishly
.
Cowperwood
nodded
.
"
You
know
,
"
he
said
to
Steger
,
"
I
feel
sorry
for
George
.
He
's
such
a
fool
.
Still
I
did
all
I
could
.
"
Cowperwood
also
watched
Mrs.
Stener
out
of
the
tail
of
his
eye
--
an
undersized
,
peaked
,
and
sallow
little
woman
,
whose
clothes
fitted
her
abominably
.
It
was
just
like
Stener
to
marry
a
woman
like
that
,
he
thought
.
The
scrubby
matches
of
the
socially
unelect
or
unfit
always
interested
,
though
they
did
not
always
amuse
,
him
.
Mrs.
