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"
Not
at
all
.
It
is
n't
as
important
as
that
.
Come
as
soon
as
you
can
straighten
things
out
.
I
do
n't
want
to
inconvenience
your
employers
.
"
It
was
only
two
weeks
later
that
Frank
took
his
departure
from
Waterman
&
Company
,
interested
and
yet
in
no
way
flustered
by
his
new
prospects
.
And
great
was
the
grief
of
Mr.
George
Waterman
.
As
for
Mr.
Henry
Waterman
,
he
was
actually
irritated
by
this
defection
.
"
Why
,
I
thought
,
"
he
exclaimed
,
vigorously
,
when
informed
by
Cowperwood
of
his
decision
,
"
that
you
liked
the
business
.
Is
it
a
matter
of
salary
?
"
"
No
,
not
at
all
,
Mr.
Waterman
.
It
's
just
that
I
want
to
get
into
the
straight-out
brokerage
business
.
"
"
Well
,
that
certainly
is
too
bad
.
I
'm
sorry
.
I
do
n't
want
to
urge
you
against
your
own
best
interests
.
You
know
what
you
are
doing
.
But
George
and
I
had
about
agreed
to
offer
you
an
interest
in
this
thing
after
a
bit
.
Now
you
're
picking
up
and
leaving
.
Why
,
damn
it
,
man
,
there
's
good
money
in
this
business
.
"
"
I
know
it
,
"
smiled
Cowperwood
,
"
but
I
do
n't
like
it
.
I
have
other
plans
in
view
.
I
'll
never
be
a
grain
and
commission
man
.
"
Mr.
Henry
Waterman
could
scarcely
understand
why
obvious
success
in
this
field
did
not
interest
him
.
He
feared
the
effect
of
his
departure
on
the
business
.
And
once
the
change
was
made
Cowperwood
was
convinced
that
this
new
work
was
more
suited
to
him
in
every
way
--
as
easy
and
more
profitable
,
of
course
.
In
the
first
place
,
the
firm
of
Tighe
&
Co.
,
unlike
that
of
Waterman
&
Co.
,
was
located
in
a
handsome
green-gray
stone
building
at
66
South
Third
Street
,
in
what
was
then
,
and
for
a
number
of
years
afterward
,
the
heart
of
the
financial
district
.
Great
institutions
of
national
and
international
import
and
repute
were
near
at
hand
--
Drexel
&
Co.
,
Edward
Clark
&
Co.
,
the
Third
National
Bank
,
the
First
National
Bank
,
the
Stock
Exchange
,
and
similar
institutions
.
Almost
a
score
of
smaller
banks
and
brokerage
firms
were
also
in
the
vicinity
.
Edward
Tighe
,
the
head
and
brains
of
this
concern
,
was
a
Boston
Irishman
,
the
son
of
an
immigrant
who
had
flourished
and
done
well
in
that
conservative
city
.
He
had
come
to
Philadelphia
to
interest
himself
in
the
speculative
life
there
.
"
Sure
,
it
's
a
right
good
place
for
those
of
us
who
are
awake
,
"
he
told
his
friends
,
with
a
slight
Irish
accent
,
and
he
considered
himself
very
much
awake
.
He
was
a
medium-tall
man
,
not
very
stout
,
slightly
and
prematurely
gray
,
and
with
a
manner
which
was
as
lively
and
good-natured
as
it
was
combative
and
self-reliant
.
His
upper
lip
was
ornamented
by
a
short
,
gray
mustache
.
"
May
heaven
preserve
me
,
"
he
said
,
not
long
after
he
came
there
,
"
these
Pennsylvanians
never
pay
for
anything
they
can
issue
bonds
for
.
"
It
was
the
period
when
Pennsylvania
's
credit
,
and
for
that
matter
Philadelphia
's
,
was
very
bad
in
spite
of
its
great
wealth
.
"
If
there
's
ever
a
war
there
'll
be
battalions
of
Pennsylvanians
marching
around
offering
notes
for
their
meals
.
If
I
could
just
live
long
enough
I
could
get
rich
buyin
'
up
Pennsylvania
notes
and
bonds
.
I
think
they
'll
pay
some
time
;
but
,
my
God
,
they
're
mortal
slow
!
I
'll
be
dead
before
the
State
government
will
ever
catch
up
on
the
interest
they
owe
me
now
.
"
It
was
true
.
The
condition
of
the
finances
of
the
state
and
city
was
most
reprehensible
.
Both
State
and
city
were
rich
enough
;
but
there
were
so
many
schemes
for
looting
the
treasury
in
both
instances
that
when
any
new
work
had
to
be
undertaken
bonds
were
necessarily
issued
to
raise
the
money
.
These
bonds
,
or
warrants
,
as
they
were
called
,
pledged
interest
at
six
per
cent.
;
but
when
the
interest
fell
due
,
instead
of
paying
it
,
the
city
or
State
treasurer
,
as
the
case
might
be
,
stamped
the
same
with
the
date
of
presentation
,
and
the
warrant
then
bore
interest
for
not
only
its
original
face
value
,
but
the
amount
then
due
in
interest
.
In
other
words
,
it
was
being
slowly
compounded
.
But
this
did
not
help
the
man
who
wanted
to
raise
money
,
for
as
security
they
could
not
be
hypothecated
for
more
than
seventy
per
cent
.
of
their
market
value
,
and
they
were
not
selling
at
par
,
but
at
ninety
.
