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The
next
day
,
however
,
she
wrote
him
just
the
same
,
describing
the
drive
she
had
taken
on
the
stormy
afternoon
before
--
the
terror
of
the
thought
that
he
was
behind
those
grim
gray
walls
--
and
declaring
her
determination
to
see
him
soon
.
And
this
letter
,
under
the
new
arrangement
,
he
received
at
once
.
He
wrote
her
in
reply
,
giving
the
letter
to
Wingate
to
mail
.
It
ran
:
My
sweet
girl
:
--
I
fancy
you
are
a
little
downhearted
to
think
I
can
not
be
with
you
any
more
soon
,
but
you
must
n't
be
.
I
suppose
you
read
all
about
the
sentence
in
the
paper
.
I
came
out
here
the
same
morning
--
nearly
noon
.
If
I
had
time
,
dearest
,
I
'd
write
you
a
long
letter
describing
the
situation
so
as
to
ease
your
mind
;
but
I
have
n't
.
It
's
against
the
rules
,
and
I
am
really
doing
this
secretly
.
I
'm
here
,
though
,
safe
enough
,
and
wish
I
were
out
,
of
course
.
Sweetest
,
you
must
be
careful
how
you
try
to
see
me
at
first
.
You
ca
n't
do
me
much
service
outside
of
cheering
me
up
,
and
you
may
do
yourself
great
harm
.
Besides
,
I
think
I
have
done
you
far
more
harm
than
I
can
ever
make
up
to
you
and
that
you
had
best
give
me
up
,
although
I
know
you
do
not
think
so
,
and
I
would
be
sad
,
if
you
did
.
I
am
to
be
in
the
Court
of
Special
Pleas
,
Sixth
and
Chestnut
,
on
Friday
at
two
o'clock
;
but
you
can
not
see
me
there
.
I
'll
be
out
in
charge
of
my
counsel
.
You
must
be
careful
.
Perhaps
you
'll
think
better
,
and
not
come
here
.
This
last
touch
was
one
of
pure
gloom
,
the
first
Cowperwood
had
ever
introduced
into
their
relationship
but
conditions
had
changed
him
.
Hitherto
he
had
been
in
the
position
of
the
superior
being
,
the
one
who
was
being
sought
--
although
Aileen
was
and
had
been
well
worth
seeking
--
and
he
had
thought
that
he
might
escape
unscathed
,
and
so
grow
in
dignity
and
power
until
she
might
not
possibly
be
worthy
of
him
any
longer
.
He
had
had
that
thought
.
But
here
,
in
stripes
,
it
was
a
different
matter
.
Aileen
's
position
,
reduced
in
value
as
it
was
by
her
long
,
ardent
relationship
with
him
,
was
now
,
nevertheless
,
superior
to
his
--
apparently
so
.
For
after
all
,
was
she
not
Edward
Butler
's
daughter
,
and
might
she
,
after
she
had
been
away
from
him
a
while
,
wish
to
become
a
convict
's
bride
.
She
ought
not
to
want
to
,
and
she
might
not
want
to
,
for
all
he
knew
;
she
might
change
her
mind
.
She
ought
not
to
wait
for
him
.
Her
life
was
not
yet
ruined
.
The
public
did
not
know
,
so
he
thought
--
not
generally
anyhow
--
that
she
had
been
his
mistress
.
She
might
marry
.
Why
not
,
and
so
pass
out
of
his
life
forever
.
And
would
not
that
be
sad
for
him
?
And
yet
did
he
not
owe
it
to
her
,
to
a
sense
of
fair
play
in
himself
to
ask
her
to
give
him
up
,
or
at
least
think
over
the
wisdom
of
doing
so
?
He
did
her
the
justice
to
believe
that
she
would
not
want
to
give
him
up
;
and
in
his
position
,
however
harmful
it
might
be
to
her
,
it
was
an
advantage
,
a
connecting
link
with
the
finest
period
of
his
past
life
,
to
have
her
continue
to
love
him
.
He
could
not
,
however
,
scribbling
this
note
in
his
cell
in
Wingate
's
presence
,
and
giving
it
to
him
to
mail
(
Overseer
Chapin
was
kindly
keeping
a
respectful
distance
,
though
he
was
supposed
to
be
present
)
,
refrain
from
adding
,
at
the
last
moment
,
this
little
touch
of
doubt
which
,
when
she
read
it
,
struck
Aileen
to
the
heart
.
She
read
it
as
gloom
on
his
part
--
as
great
depression
.
Perhaps
,
after
all
,
the
penitentiary
and
so
soon
,
was
really
breaking
his
spirit
,
and
he
had
held
up
so
courageously
so
long
.
Because
of
this
,
now
she
was
madly
eager
to
get
to
him
,
to
console
him
,
even
though
it
was
difficult
,
perilous
.
She
must
,
she
said
.
In
regard
to
visits
from
the
various
members
of
his
family
--
his
mother
and
father
,
his
brother
,
his
wife
,
and
his
sister
--
Cowperwood
made
it
plain
to
them
on
one
of
the
days
on
which
he
was
out
attending
a
bankruptcy
hearing
,
that
even
providing
it
could
be
arranged
he
did
not
think
they
should
come
oftener
than
once
in
three
months
,
unless
he
wrote
them
or
sent
word
by
Steger
.
The
truth
was
that
he
really
did
not
care
to
see
much
of
any
of
them
at
present
.
He
was
sick
of
the
whole
social
scheme
of
things
.
In
fact
he
wanted
to
be
rid
of
the
turmoil
he
had
been
in
,
seeing
it
had
proved
so
useless
.
He
had
used
nearly
fifteen
thousand
dollars
thus
far
in
defending
himself
--
court
costs
,
family
maintenance
,
Steger
,
etc.
;
but
he
did
not
mind
that
.
He
expected
to
make
some
little
money
working
through
Wingate
.
His
family
were
not
utterly
without
funds
,
sufficient
to
live
on
in
a
small
way
.
He
had
advised
them
to
remove
into
houses
more
in
keeping
with
their
reduced
circumstances
,
which
they
had
done
--
his
mother
and
father
and
brothers
and
sister
to
a
three-story
brick
house
of
about
the
caliber
of
the
old
Buttonwood
Street
house
,
and
his
wife
to
a
smaller
,
less
expensive
two-story
one
on
North
Twenty-first
Street
,
near
the
penitentiary
,
a
portion
of
the
money
saved
out
of
the
thirty-five
thousand
dollars
extracted
from
Stener
under
false
pretenses
aiding
to
sustain
it
.
Of
course
all
this
was
a
terrible
descent
from
the
Girard
Avenue
mansion
for
the
elder
Cowperwood
;
for
here
was
none
of
the
furniture
which
characterized
the
other
somewhat
gorgeous
domicile
--
merely
store-bought
,
ready-made
furniture
,
and
neat
but
cheap
hangings
and
fixtures
generally
.
The
assignees
,
to
whom
all
Cowperwood
's
personal
property
belonged
,
and
to
whom
Cowperwood
,
the
elder
,
had
surrendered
all
his
holdings
,
would
not
permit
anything
of
importance
to
be
removed
.
It
had
all
to
be
sold
for
the
benefit
of
creditors
.
A
few
very
small
things
,
but
only
a
few
,
had
been
kept
,
as
everything
had
been
inventoried
some
time
before
.
One
of
the
things
which
old
Cowperwood
wanted
was
his
own
desk
which
Frank
had
had
designed
for
him
;
but
as
it
was
valued
at
five
hundred
dollars
and
could
not
be
relinquished
by
the
sheriff
except
on
payment
of
that
sum
,
or
by
auction
,
and
as
Henry
Cowperwood
had
no
such
sum
to
spare
,
he
had
to
let
the
desk
go
.
There
were
many
things
they
all
wanted
,
and
Anna
Adelaide
had
literally
purloined
a
few
though
she
did
not
admit
the
fact
to
her
parents
until
long
afterward
.
