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"
If
I
get
out
of
this
safely
,
"
he
said
to
himself
,
"
this
is
the
end
.
I
am
going
West
,
and
going
into
some
other
line
of
business
.
"
He
thought
of
street-railways
,
land
speculation
,
some
great
manufacturing
project
of
some
kind
,
even
mining
,
on
a
legitimate
basis
.
"
I
have
had
my
lesson
,
"
he
said
to
himself
,
finally
getting
up
and
preparing
to
leave
.
"
I
am
as
rich
as
I
was
,
and
only
a
little
older
.
They
caught
me
once
,
but
they
will
not
catch
me
again
.
"
He
talked
to
Wingate
about
following
up
the
campaign
on
the
lines
in
which
he
had
started
,
and
he
himself
intended
to
follow
it
up
with
great
energy
;
but
all
the
while
his
mind
was
running
with
this
one
rich
thought
:
"
I
am
a
millionaire
.
I
am
a
free
man
.
I
am
only
thirty-six
,
and
my
future
is
all
before
me
.
"
It
was
with
this
thought
that
he
went
to
visit
Aileen
,
and
to
plan
for
the
future
.
It
was
only
three
months
later
that
a
train
,
speeding
through
the
mountains
of
Pennsylvania
and
over
the
plains
of
Ohio
and
Indiana
,
bore
to
Chicago
and
the
West
the
young
financial
aspirant
who
,
in
spite
of
youth
and
wealth
and
a
notable
vigor
of
body
,
was
a
solemn
,
conservative
speculator
as
to
what
his
future
might
be
.
The
West
,
as
he
had
carefully
calculated
before
leaving
,
held
much
.
He
had
studied
the
receipts
of
the
New
York
Clearing
House
recently
and
the
disposition
of
bank-balances
and
the
shipment
of
gold
,
and
had
seen
that
vast
quantities
of
the
latter
metal
were
going
to
Chicago
.
He
understood
finance
accurately
.
The
meaning
of
gold
shipments
was
clear
.
Where
money
was
going
trade
was
--
a
thriving
,
developing
life
.
He
wished
to
see
clearly
for
himself
what
this
world
had
to
offer
.
Two
years
later
,
following
the
meteoric
appearance
of
a
young
speculator
in
Duluth
,
and
after
Chicago
had
seen
the
tentative
opening
of
a
grain
and
commission
company
labeled
Frank
A.
Cowperwood
&
Co.
,
which
ostensibly
dealt
in
the
great
wheat
crops
of
the
West
,
a
quiet
divorce
was
granted
Mrs.
Frank
A.
Cowperwood
in
Philadelphia
,
because
apparently
she
wished
it
.
Time
had
not
seemingly
dealt
badly
with
her
.
Her
financial
affairs
,
once
so
bad
,
were
now
apparently
all
straightened
out
,
and
she
occupied
in
West
Philadelphia
,
near
one
of
her
sisters
,
a
new
and
interesting
home
which
was
fitted
with
all
the
comforts
of
an
excellent
middle-class
residence
.
She
was
now
quite
religious
once
more
.
The
two
children
,
Frank
and
Lillian
,
were
in
private
schools
,
returning
evenings
to
their
mother
.
"
Wash
"
Sims
was
once
more
the
negro
general
factotum
.
Frequent
visitors
on
Sundays
were
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Henry
Worthington
Cowperwood
,
no
longer
distressed
financially
,
but
subdued
and
wearied
,
the
wind
completely
gone
from
their
once
much-favored
sails
.
Cowperwood
,
senior
,
had
sufficient
money
wherewith
to
sustain
himself
,
and
that
without
slaving
as
a
petty
clerk
,
but
his
social
joy
in
life
was
gone
.
He
was
old
,
disappointed
,
sad
.
He
could
feel
that
with
his
quondam
honor
and
financial
glory
,
he
was
the
same
--
and
he
was
not
.
His
courage
and
his
dreams
were
gone
,
and
he
awaited
death
.
Here
,
too
,
came
Anna
Adelaide
Cowperwood
on
occasion
,
a
clerk
in
the
city
water
office
,
who
speculated
much
as
to
the
strange
vicissitudes
of
life
.
She
had
great
interest
in
her
brother
,
who
seemed
destined
by
fate
to
play
a
conspicuous
part
in
the
world
;
but
she
could
not
understand
him
.
Seeing
that
all
those
who
were
near
to
him
in
any
way
seemed
to
rise
or
fall
with
his
prosperity
,
she
did
not
understand
how
justice
and
morals
were
arranged
in
this
world
There
seemed
to
be
certain
general
principles
--
or
people
assumed
there
were
--
but
apparently
there
were
exceptions
.
Assuredly
her
brother
abided
by
no
known
rule
,
and
yet
he
seemed
to
be
doing
fairly
well
once
more
.
What
did
this
mean
?
Mrs.
Cowperwood
,
his
former
wife
,
condemned
his
actions
,
and
yet
accepted
of
his
prosperity
as
her
due
.
What
were
the
ethics
of
that
?
Cowperwood
's
every
action
was
known
to
Aileen
Butler
,
his
present
whereabouts
and
prospects
.
Not
long
after
his
wife
's
divorce
,
and
after
many
trips
to
and
from
this
new
world
in
which
he
was
now
living
,
these
two
left
Philadelphia
together
one
afternoon
in
the
winter
.
Aileen
explained
to
her
mother
,
who
was
willing
to
go
and
live
with
Norah
,
that
she
had
fallen
in
love
with
the
former
banker
and
wished
to
marry
him
.
The
old
lady
,
gathering
only
a
garbled
version
of
it
at
first
,
consented
.
