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At
this
time
Cowperwood
,
once
more
a
broker
--
ostensibly
a
broker
's
agent
--
was
doing
business
in
South
Third
Street
,
and
representing
Wingate
&
Co.
on
'
change
.
During
the
six
months
which
had
elapsed
since
he
had
emerged
from
the
Eastern
Penitentiary
he
had
been
quietly
resuming
financial
,
if
not
social
,
relations
with
those
who
had
known
him
before
.
Furthermore
,
Wingate
&
Co.
were
prospering
,
and
had
been
for
some
time
,
a
fact
which
redounded
to
his
credit
with
those
who
knew
.
Ostensibly
he
lived
with
his
wife
in
a
small
house
on
North
Twenty-first
Street
.
In
reality
he
occupied
a
bachelor
apartment
on
North
Fifteenth
Street
,
to
which
Aileen
occasionally
repaired
.
The
difference
between
himself
and
his
wife
had
now
become
a
matter
of
common
knowledge
in
the
family
,
and
,
although
there
were
some
faint
efforts
made
to
smooth
the
matter
over
,
no
good
resulted
.
The
difficulties
of
the
past
two
years
had
so
inured
his
parents
to
expect
the
untoward
and
exceptional
that
,
astonishing
as
this
was
,
it
did
not
shock
them
so
much
as
it
would
have
years
before
.
They
were
too
much
frightened
by
life
to
quarrel
with
its
weird
developments
.
They
could
only
hope
and
pray
for
the
best
.
The
Butler
family
,
on
the
other
hand
,
what
there
was
of
it
,
had
become
indifferent
to
Aileen
's
conduct
.
She
was
ignored
by
her
brothers
and
Norah
,
who
now
knew
all
;
and
her
mother
was
so
taken
up
with
religious
devotions
and
brooding
contemplation
of
her
loss
that
she
was
not
as
active
in
her
observation
of
Aileen
's
life
as
she
might
have
been
.
Besides
,
Cowperwood
and
his
mistress
were
more
circumspect
in
their
conduct
than
they
had
ever
been
before
.
Their
movements
were
more
carefully
guarded
,
though
the
result
was
the
same
.
Cowperwood
was
thinking
of
the
West
--
of
reaching
some
slight
local
standing
here
in
Philadelphia
,
and
then
,
with
perhaps
one
hundred
thousand
dollars
in
capital
,
removing
to
the
boundless
prairies
of
which
he
had
heard
so
much
--
Chicago
,
Fargo
,
Duluth
,
Sioux
City
,
places
then
heralded
in
Philadelphia
and
the
East
as
coming
centers
of
great
life
--
and
taking
Aileen
with
him
.
Although
the
problem
of
marriage
with
her
was
insoluble
unless
Mrs.
Cowperwood
should
formally
agree
to
give
him
up
--
a
possibility
which
was
not
manifest
at
this
time
,
neither
he
nor
Aileen
were
deterred
by
that
thought
.
They
were
going
to
build
a
future
together
--
or
so
they
thought
,
marriage
or
no
marriage
.
The
only
thing
which
Cowperwood
could
see
to
do
was
to
take
Aileen
away
with
him
,
and
to
trust
to
time
and
absence
to
modify
his
wife
's
point
of
view
.
This
particular
panic
,
which
was
destined
to
mark
a
notable
change
in
Cowperwood
's
career
,
was
one
of
those
peculiar
things
which
spring
naturally
out
of
the
optimism
of
the
American
people
and
the
irrepressible
progress
of
the
country
.
It
was
the
result
,
to
be
accurate
,
of
the
prestige
and
ambition
of
Jay
Cooke
,
whose
early
training
and
subsequent
success
had
all
been
acquired
in
Philadelphia
,
and
who
had
since
become
the
foremost
financial
figure
of
his
day
.
It
would
be
useless
to
attempt
to
trace
here
the
rise
of
this
man
to
distinction
;
it
need
only
be
said
that
by
suggestions
which
he
made
and
methods
which
he
devised
the
Union
government
,
in
its
darkest
hours
,
was
able
to
raise
the
money
wherewith
to
continue
the
struggle
against
the
South
.
After
the
Civil
War
this
man
,
who
had
built
up
a
tremendous
banking
business
in
Philadelphia
,
with
great
branches
in
New
York
and
Washington
,
was
at
a
loss
for
some
time
for
some
significant
thing
to
do
,
some
constructive
work
which
would
be
worthy
of
his
genius
.
The
war
was
over
;
the
only
thing
which
remained
was
the
finances
of
peace
,
and
the
greatest
things
in
American
financial
enterprise
were
those
related
to
the
construction
of
transcontinental
railway
lines
.
The
Union
Pacific
,
authorized
in
1860
,
was
already
building
;
the
Northern
Pacific
and
the
Southern
Pacific
were
already
dreams
in
various
pioneer
minds
.
The
great
thing
was
to
connect
the
Atlantic
and
the
Pacific
by
steel
,
to
bind
up
the
territorially
perfected
and
newly
solidified
Union
,
or
to
enter
upon
some
vast
project
of
mining
,
of
which
gold
and
silver
were
the
most
important
.
Actually
railway-building
was
the
most
significant
of
all
,
and
railroad
stocks
were
far
and
away
the
most
valuable
and
important
on
every
exchange
in
America
.
Here
in
Philadelphia
,
New
York
Central
,
Rock
Island
,
Wabash
,
Central
Pacific
,
St.
Paul
,
Hannibal
&
St.
Joseph
,
Union
Pacific
,
and
Ohio
&
Mississippi
were
freely
traded
in
.
There
were
men
who
were
getting
rich
and
famous
out
of
handling
these
things
;
and
such
towering
figures
as
Cornelius
Vanderbilt
,
Jay
Gould
,
Daniel
Drew
,
James
Fish
,
and
others
in
the
East
,
and
Fair
,
Crocker
,
W.
R.
Hearst
,
and
Collis
P.
Huntington
,
in
the
West
,
were
already
raising
their
heads
like
vast
mountains
in
connection
with
these
enterprises
.
Among
those
who
dreamed
most
ardently
on
this
score
was
Jay
Cooke
,
who
without
the
wolfish
cunning
of
a
Gould
or
the
practical
knowledge
of
a
Vanderbilt
,
was
ambitious
to
thread
the
northern
reaches
of
America
with
a
band
of
steel
which
should
be
a
permanent
memorial
to
his
name
.
The
project
which
fascinated
him
most
was
one
that
related
to
the
development
of
the
territory
then
lying
almost
unexplored
between
the
extreme
western
shore
of
Lake
Superior
,
where
Duluth
now
stands
,
and
that
portion
of
the
Pacific
Ocean
into
which
the
Columbia
River
empties
--
the
extreme
northern
one-third
of
the
United
States
.
Here
,
if
a
railroad
were
built
,
would
spring
up
great
cities
and
prosperous
towns
.
There
were
,
it
was
suspected
,
mines
of
various
metals
in
the
region
of
the
Rockies
which
this
railroad
would
traverse
,
and
untold
wealth
to
be
reaped
from
the
fertile
corn
and
wheat
lands
.
Products
brought
only
so
far
east
as
Duluth
could
then
be
shipped
to
the
Atlantic
,
via
the
Great
Lakes
and
the
Erie
Canal
,
at
a
greatly
reduced
cost
.
It
was
a
vision
of
empire
,
not
unlike
the
Panama
Canal
project
of
the
same
period
,
and
one
that
bade
fair
apparently
to
be
as
useful
to
humanity
.
It
had
aroused
the
interest
and
enthusiasm
of
Cooke
.
Because
of
the
fact
that
the
government
had
made
a
grant
of
vast
areas
of
land
on
either
side
of
the
proposed
track
to
the
corporation
that
should
seriously
undertake
it
and
complete
it
within
a
reasonable
number
of
years
,
and
because
of
the
opportunity
it
gave
him
of
remaining
a
distinguished
public
figure
,
he
had
eventually
shouldered
the
project
.
It
was
open
to
many
objections
and
criticisms
;
but
the
genius
which
had
been
sufficient
to
finance
the
Civil
War
was
considered
sufficient
to
finance
the
Northern
Pacific
Railroad
.
Cooke
undertook
it
with
the
idea
of
being
able
to
put
the
merits
of
the
proposition
before
the
people
direct
--
not
through
the
agency
of
any
great
financial
corporation
--
and
of
selling
to
the
butcher
,
the
baker
,
and
the
candlestick-maker
the
stock
or
shares
that
he
wished
to
dispose
of
.
It
was
a
brilliant
chance
.
His
genius
had
worked
out
the
sale
of
great
government
loans
during
the
Civil
War
to
the
people
direct
in
this
fashion
.
Why
not
Northern
Pacific
certificates
?
For
several
years
he
conducted
a
pyrotechnic
campaign
,
surveying
the
territory
in
question
,
organizing
great
railway-construction
corps
,
building
hundreds
of
miles
of
track
under
most
trying
conditions
,
and
selling
great
blocks
of
his
stock
,
on
which
interest
of
a
certain
percentage
was
guaranteed
.
If
it
had
not
been
that
he
knew
little
of
railroad-building
,
personally
,
and
that
the
project
was
so
vast
that
it
could
not
well
be
encompassed
by
one
man
,
even
so
great
a
man
it
might
have
proved
successful
,
as
under
subsequent
management
it
did
.
However
,
hard
times
,
the
war
between
France
and
Germany
,
which
tied
up
European
capital
for
the
time
being
and
made
it
indifferent
to
American
projects
,
envy
,
calumny
,
a
certain
percentage
of
mismanagement
,
all
conspired
to
wreck
it
.
On
September
18
,
1873
,
at
twelve-fifteen
noon
,
Jay
Cooke
&
Co.
failed
for
approximately
eight
million
dollars
and
the
Northern
Pacific
for
all
that
had
been
invested
in
it
--
some
fifty
million
dollars
more
.
